Lexicon :: Strong's H3341 - yāṣaṯ

Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation that we are in—how Jerusalem is desolate and lies in ruins and its gates have been burned with fire. Come, and let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”

For wickedness burns like a fire;

It consumes briars and thorns,

It even sets the forest thickets ablaze;

And it swirls upward in a column of smoke.

“The peoples will be burned to lime,

Like thorns cut down which are burned in the fire.

“The young lions have roared at him,

They have made their voices heard and roared loudly.

And they have made his land a waste;

His cities have been destroyed and are burned ruins, without inhabitant.

“I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains,

And a [funeral] dirge for the pastures of the wilderness,

Because they are burned up and desolated so that no one passes through [them];

Nor can anyone hear the lowing of cattle.

Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they are gone.

Who is the wise man who may understand this [without any doubt]? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, so that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined, laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?

The LORD [acknowledged you once as worthy and] called your name,

“A green olive tree, fair and beautiful in fruit and form”;

But with the roar of a great tempest

He has set fire to it,

And its branches are worthless.

“But I will punish you in accordance with the [appropriate] consequences of your decisions and your actions,” says the LORD.

“I will kindle a fire in your forest,

And it will devour all that is around you.”’”

“O you daughter who dwells in Egypt and you who dwell with her,

Prepare yourselves [with all you will need] to go into exile,

For Memphis will become desolate;

It will even be burned down and without inhabitant.

“Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD,

“When I will cause an alarm of war to be heard

Against Rabbah of the Ammonites;

And it [along with the high ground on which it stands] will become a desolate heap,

And its villages will be set on fire.

Then will Israel take possession of his possessors,”

Says the LORD.

“I will set fire to the wall of Damascus,

And it will consume the palaces of [fn]Ben-hadad.”

“The arrogant (proud) one will stumble and fall

With no one to raise him up;

And I will set fire to his cities

And it will devour all who are around him.”

The mighty warriors of Babylon have ceased to fight;

They remain in their strongholds.

Their strength and power have failed;

They are becoming [weak and helpless] like women.

Their dwelling places are set on fire;

The [fn]bars on her gates are broken.

Thus says the LORD of hosts,

“The [fn]broad wall of Babylon will be completely overthrown and the foundations razed

And her high gates will be set on fire;

The peoples will labor in vain,

And the nations become exhausted [only] for fire [that will destroy their work].”

The LORD has fulfilled His wrath;

He has poured out His fierce anger

And has kindled a fire in Zion

That has consumed her foundations.

“So I will kindle a fire [of war, conquest, and destruction] on the wall of Rabbah [in Ammon]

And it shall devour its strongholds

Amid war cries and shouts of alarm on the day of battle,

And a tempest on the day of the whirlwind [when the enemy captures the city].