Lexicon :: Strong's H343 - 'êḏ

‘Vengeance is Mine, and retribution,

In due time their foot will slip;

For the day of their disaster is at hand,

And their doom hurries to meet them.’

“They came upon me in the day of my calamity,

But the LORD was my support.

“The strength [of the wicked] is famished and weakened,

And disaster is ready at his side [if he stops].

“How often [then] is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out,

And that their disaster falls on them?

Does God distribute pain and destruction and sorrow [to them] in His anger?

“That evil men are [now] reserved for the day of disaster and destruction,

They will be led away on the day of [God’s] wrath?

“On my right the [rabble] brood rises;

They push my feet away, and they build up their ways of destruction against me [like an advancing army].

“Does not tragedy fall [justly] on the unjust

And disaster to those who work wickedness?

“For tragedy from God is a terror to me,

And because of His majesty and exaltation I can do nothing [nor endure facing Him].

They confronted me in the day of my disaster,

But the LORD was my support.

I also will laugh at your disaster;

I will mock when your dread and panic come,

Therefore [the crushing weight of] his disaster will come suddenly upon him;

Instantly he will be broken, and there will be no healing or remedy [because he has no heart for God].

Whoever mocks the poor taunts his Maker,

And he who rejoices at [another’s] disaster will not go unpunished.

For their tragedy will rise suddenly,

And who knows the punishment that both [the LORD and the king] will bring on the rebellious?

Do not abandon your own friend and your father’s friend,

And do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster.

Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.

‘I will scatter them like an east wind

Before the enemy;

I will show them My back and not My face

In the day of their disaster [says the LORD].’”

“Also her mercenaries in her army

Are like fattened calves,

For they too have turned back and have fled together;

They did not stand [their ground],

Because the day of their disaster has come upon them,

The time of their punishment.

“The destruction of Moab will come soon,

And his disaster hurries quickly.

“Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths [of the desert to escape the judgment of Edom],

O inhabitants of [fn]Dedan,

For I will bring the destruction of [fn]Esau (Edom) upon him

When I inspect and punish him.

“Their camels will become plunder,

And their herds of cattle a spoil;

And I will scatter to all the [four] winds those who cut the corners of their hair [as evidence of their idolatry],

And I will bring their disaster from every side,” says the LORD.

“Because you [descendants of Esau] have had an everlasting hatred [for Jacob (Israel)] and you handed over the sons of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their tragedy, at the time of their final punishment [the Babylonian conquest],

“Do not enter the gate of My people

In the day of their disaster;

Yes, you, do not look [with delight] on their misery

In the day of their ruin,

And do not loot treasures

In the day of their ruin.