Lexicon :: Strong's H319 - 'aḥărîṯ

Then Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather around, and I will tell you what will happen to you in the days to come.[fn]

Who has counted the dust of Jacob

or numbered even one-fourth of Israel?

Let me die the death of the upright;

let the end of my life be like theirs.

“Now I am going back to my people, but first, let me warn you what these people will do to your people in the future.”

Then Balaam saw Amalek and proclaimed his poem:

Amalek was first among the nations,

but his future is destruction.

“When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, in the future you will return to the LORD your God and obey him.

“He fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your ancestors had not known, in order to humble and test you, so that in the end he might cause you to prosper.

“It is a land the LORD your God cares for. He is always watching over it from the beginning to the end of the year.

“For I know that after my death you will become completely corrupt and turn from the path I have commanded you. Disaster will come to you in the future, because you will do what is evil in the LORD’s sight, angering him with what your hands have made.”

He said, “I will hide my face from them;

I will see what will become of them,

for they are a perverse generation —

unfaithful children.

If only they were wise, they would comprehend this;

they would understand their fate.

Then, even if your beginnings were modest,

your final days will be full of prosperity.

So the LORD blessed the last part of Job’s life more than the first. He owned fourteen thousand sheep and goats, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.

Watch the blameless and observe the upright,

for the person of peace will have a future.[fn]

until I entered God’s sanctuary.

Then I understood their destiny.

Let the line of his descendants be cut off;

let their name be blotted out in the next generation.

If I fly on the wings of the dawn

and settle down on the western horizon,[fn]

in the end she’s as bitter as wormwood

and as sharp as a double-edged sword.

At the end of your life, you will lament

when your physical body has been consumed,

There is a way that seems right to a person,

but its end is the way to death.

There is a way that seems right to a person,

but its end is the way to death.

Listen to counsel and receive instruction

so that you may be wise later in life.[fn]

An inheritance gained prematurely

will not be blessed ultimately.

For then you will have a future,

and your hope will not be dashed.

In the end it bites like a snake

and stings like a viper.

realize that wisdom is the same for you.

If you find it, you will have a future,

and your hope will never fade.

For the evil have no future;

the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

Don’t take a matter to court hastily.

Otherwise, what will you do afterward

if your opponent[fn] humiliates you?

A servant pampered from his youth

will become arrogant[fn] later on.

The end of a matter is better than its beginning;

a patient spirit is better than a proud spirit.

The beginning of the words from his mouth is folly,

but the end of his speaking is evil madness;

In the last days

the mountain of the LORD’s house will be established

at the top of the mountains

and will be raised above the hills.

All nations will stream to it,

“Let them come and tell us

what will happen.

Tell us the past events,

so that we may reflect on them

and know the outcome,

or tell us the future.

“I declare the end from the beginning,

and from long ago what is not yet done,

saying: my plan will take place,

and I will do all my will.

“You said, ‘I will be the queen forever.’

You did not take these things to heart

or think about their outcome.

“The prophets prophesy falsely,

and the priests rule by their own authority.

My people love it like this.

But what will you do at the end of it?

How long will the land mourn

and the grass of every field wither?

Because of the evil of its residents,

animals and birds have been swept away,

for the people have said,

“He cannot see what our end will be.”[fn]

He who makes a fortune unjustly

is like a partridge that hatches eggs it didn’t lay.

In the middle of his life

his riches will abandon him,

so in the end he will be a fool.

The LORD’s anger will not turn away

until he has completely fulfilled the purposes of his heart.

In time to come you will understand it clearly.

“For I know the plans I have for you” ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​“plans for your well-being, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.

The LORD’s burning anger will not turn back

until he has completely fulfilled the purposes of his heart.

In time to come you will understand it.

There is hope for your future —

this is the LORD’s declaration —

and your children will return to their own territory.

Yet, I will restore the fortunes[fn] of Moab in the last days.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

The judgment on Moab ends here.

Yet, in the last days,

I will restore the fortunes of Elam.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

your mother will be utterly humiliated;

she who bore you will be put to shame.

Look! She will lag behind all[fn] the nations —

an arid wilderness, a desert.

Her uncleanness stains her skirts.

She never considered her end.

Her downfall was astonishing;

there was no one to comfort her.

LORD, look on my affliction,

for the enemy boasts.

“When I vent my jealous fury on you, they will deal with you in wrath. They will cut off your nose and ears, and the rest of you[fn] will fall by the sword. They will seize your sons and daughters, and the rest of you will be consumed by fire.

“After a long time you will be summoned. In the last years you will enter a land that has been restored from war[fn] and regathered from many peoples to the mountains of Israel, which had long been a ruin. They were brought out from the peoples, and all of them now live securely.

“You will advance against my people Israel like a cloud covering the land. It will happen in the last days, Gog, that I will bring you against my land so that the nations may know me, when I demonstrate my holiness through you in their sight.