Lexicon :: Strong's H319 - 'aḥărîṯ

Then Jacob called for his sons and said, “Assemble yourselves [around me] that I may tell you what will happen to you and your descendants [fn]in the days to come.

“Who can count the dust (the descendants) of Jacob

And the number of even the fourth part of Israel?

Let me die the death of the righteous [those who are upright and in right standing with God],

And let my end be like his!”

Balaam looked at Amalek and took up his [fifth] discourse (oracle) and said:

“Amalek was the first of the [neighboring] nations [to oppose the Israelites after they left Egypt],

But his end shall be [fn]destruction.”

“Then He said, ‘I will hide My face from them,

I will see what their end shall be;

For they are a perverse generation,

Sons in whom there is no faithfulness.

“O that they were wise, that they understood this,

That they could discern their future and ultimate fate!

“Though your beginning was insignificant,

Yet your end will greatly increase.

Mark the blameless man [who is spiritually complete], and behold the upright [who walks in moral integrity];

There is a [good] future for the man of peace [because a life of honor blesses one’s descendants].

Until I came into the sanctuary of God;

Then I understood [for I considered] their end.

Let his descendants be cut off,

And in the following generation let their name be blotted out.

If I take the wings of the dawn,

If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,

But in the end she is bitter like [the extract of] wormwood,

Sharp as a two-edged sword.

And you will groan when your life is ending,

When your flesh and your body are consumed;

There is a way which seems right to a man and appears straight before him,

But its end is the way of death.

There is a way which seems right to a man and appears straight before him,

But its end is the way of death.

Listen to counsel, receive instruction, and accept correction,

That you may be wise in the time to come.

An inheritance hastily gained [by greedy, unjust means] at the beginning

Will not be blessed in the end.

Surely there is a future [and a reward],

And your hope and expectation will not be cut off.

At the last it bites like a serpent

And stings like a viper.

Know that [skillful and godly] wisdom is [so very good] for your life and soul;

If you find wisdom, then there will be a future and a reward,

And your hope and expectation will not be cut off.

For there will be no future for the evil man;

The lamp of the wicked will be put out.

Do not rush out to argue your case [before magistrates or judges];

Otherwise what will you do in the end [when your case is lost and]

When your neighbor (opponent) humiliates you?

He who pampers his slave from childhood

Will find him to be a son in the end.

The end of a matter is better than its beginning;

Patience of spirit is better than haughtiness of spirit (pride).

Now it will come to pass that

In the last days

The mountain of the house of the LORD

Will be [firmly] established as the [fn]highest of the mountains,

And will be exalted above the hills;

And all the nations will stream to it.

Let them bring forward [their evidence] and tell us what is going to happen.

Regarding the former events, tell what they were,

That we may consider them and know their outcome;

Or announce to us the things that are going to come.

Declaring the end and the result from the beginning,

And from ancient times the things which have not [yet] been done,

Saying, ‘My purpose will be established,

And I will do all that pleases Me and fulfills My purpose,’

“And you said, ‘I shall be a queen forevermore.’

You did not consider these things,

Nor did you [seriously] remember the [ultimate] outcome of such conduct.

The prophets prophesy falsely,

And the priests rule [fn]on their own authority;

And My people love [to have] it so!

But what will you do when the end comes?

How long must the land mourn

And the grass of the countryside wither?

Because of the wickedness and hypocrisy of those who live in it,

The beasts and the birds are consumed and are swept away [by the drought],

Because men [mocking me] have said, “He will not [live long enough to] see [what happens at] our final end.”

“Like the partridge that hatches eggs which she has not laid,

So is he who makes a fortune in ways that are unjust.

It will be lost to him before his days are over,

And in the end he will be [nothing but] a fool.”

“The anger of the LORD will not turn back

Until He has set in motion and accomplished the thoughts and intentions of His heart;

In the last days you will clearly understand it.

The fierce (righteous) anger of the LORD will not turn back

Until He has fulfilled and until He has accomplished

The intent of His heart (mind);

In the latter days you will understand this.

“There is [confident] hope for your future,” says the LORD;

“Your children will come back to their own country.

“Yet I will return the captives and restore the fortunes of Moab

In the latter days,” says the LORD.

Thus far is the judgment on Moab.

‘But it will be in the last days (the end of days)

That I will reverse the captivity and restore the fortunes of Elam,’”

Says the LORD.

Your mother [Babylon] shall be greatly shamed;

She who gave you birth will be ashamed.

Behold, she will be the least of the nations,

A wilderness, a parched land and a desert.

Her (ceremonial) uncleanness was on her skirts;

She did not [seriously] consider her future.

Therefore she has come down [from throne to slavery] in an astonishing manner;

She has no comforter.

“O LORD” [cries Jerusalem], “look at my affliction,

For the enemy has magnified himself [in triumph]!”