Lexicon :: Strong's H3782 - kāšal

“They will stumble over one another as if fleeing from a sword though no one is pursuing them. You will not be able to stand against your enemies.

The bows of the warriors are broken,

but the feeble are clothed with strength.

“But if you go with them, do it! Be strong for battle! But God will make you stumble before the enemy, for God has the power to help or to make one stumble.”

Then the men who were designated by name took charge of the captives and provided clothes for their naked ones from the plunder. They clothed them, gave them sandals, food and drink, dressed their wounds, and provided donkeys for all the feeble. The Israelites brought them to Jericho, the City of Palms, among their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.

He sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which had defeated him; he said, “Since the gods of the kings of Aram are helping them, I will sacrifice to them so that they will help me.” But they were the downfall of him and of all Israel.

In Judah, it was said:[fn]

The strength of the laborer fails,

since there is so much rubble.

We will never be able

to rebuild the wall.

Your words have steadied the one who was stumbling

and braced the knees that were buckling.

When my enemies retreat,

they stumble and perish before you.

When evildoers came against me to devour my flesh,

my foes and my enemies stumbled and fell.

Indeed, my life is consumed with grief

and my years with groaning;

my strength has failed

because of my iniquity,[fn]

and my bones waste away.

They will be made to stumble;

their own tongues work against them.

All who see them will shake their heads.

Then he brought Israel out with silver and gold,

and no one among his tribes stumbled.

He broke their spirits[fn] with hard labor;

they stumbled, and there was no one to help.

My knees are weak from fasting,

and my body is emaciated.[fn]

When you walk, your steps will not be hindered;

when you run, you will not stumble.

For they can’t sleep

unless they have done what is evil;

they are robbed of sleep

unless they make someone stumble.

But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom;

they don’t know what makes them stumble.

Though a righteous person falls seven times,

he will get up,

but the wicked will stumble into ruin.

For Jerusalem has stumbled

and Judah has fallen

because they have spoken and acted against the LORD,

defying his glorious presence.

None of them grows weary or stumbles;

no one slumbers or sleeps.

No belt is loose

and no sandal strap broken.

Many will stumble over these;

they will fall and be broken;

they will be snared and captured.

The word of the LORD will come to them:

“Law after law, law after law,

line after line, line after line,

a little here, a little there,”

so they go stumbling backward,

to be broken, trapped, and captured.

Egyptians are men, not God;

their horses are flesh, not spirit.

When the LORD raises his hand to strike,

the helper will stumble

and the one who is helped will fall;

both will perish together.

Strengthen the weak hands,

steady the shaking knees!

Youths may become faint and weary,

and young men stumble and fall,

We grope along a wall like the blind;

we grope like those without eyes.

We stumble at noon as though it were twilight;

we are like the dead among those who are healthy.

Justice is turned back,

and righteousness stands far off.

For truth has stumbled in the public square,

and honesty cannot enter.

and led them through the depths

like a horse in the wilderness,

so that they did not stumble.

Were they ashamed when they acted so detestably?

They weren’t at all ashamed.

They can no longer feel humiliation.

Therefore, they will fall among the fallen.

When I punish them, they will collapse,

says the LORD.

Therefore, this is what the LORD says:

I am going to place stumbling blocks before these people;

fathers and sons together will stumble over them;

friends and neighbors will also perish.

“Were they ashamed when they acted so detestably?

They weren’t at all ashamed.

They can no longer feel humiliation.

Therefore, they will fall among the fallen.

When I punish them, they will collapse,”

says the LORD.

Yet my people have forgotten me.

They burn incense to worthless idols

that make them stumble in their ways

on the ancient roads,

and make them walk on new paths, not the highway.

But you, LORD, know

all their deadly plots against me.

Do not wipe out their iniquity;

do not blot out their sin before you.

Let them be forced to stumble before you;

deal with them in the time of your anger.

But the LORD is with me like a violent warrior.

Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and not prevail.

Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly shamed,

an everlasting humiliation that will never be forgotten.

They will come weeping,

but I will bring them back with consolation.[fn]

I will lead them to wadis filled with water,

by a smooth way where they will not stumble,

for I am Israel’s Father,

and Ephraim is my firstborn.

The swift cannot flee,

and the warrior cannot escape!

In the north by the bank of the Euphrates River,

they stumble and fall.

The nations have heard of your dishonor,

and your cries fill the earth,

because warrior stumbles against warrior

and together both of them have fallen.

He continues to stumble.

Indeed, each falls over the other.

They say, “Get up! Let’s return to our people

and to our native land,

away from the oppressor’s sword.”

The arrogant will stumble and fall

with no one to pick him up.

I will set fire to his cities,

and it will consume everything around him.

My transgressions have been formed into a yoke,[fn][fn]

fastened together by his hand;

they have been placed on my neck,

and the Lord has broken my strength.

He has handed me over

to those I cannot withstand.

Young men labor at millstones;

boys stumble under loads of wood.

“Now, son of man, say to your people, ‘The righteousness of the righteous person will not save him on the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked person cause him to stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness. The righteous person won’t be able to survive by his righteousness on the day he sins.

therefore, you will no longer devour people and deprive your nation of children.[fn] This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.

“In those times many will rise up against the king of the South. Violent ones among your own people will assert themselves to fulfill a vision, but they will fail.

“He will turn his attention back to the fortresses of his own land, but he will stumble, fall, and be no more.

“Those who have insight among the people will give understanding to many, yet they will fall by the sword and flame, and they will be captured and plundered for a time.