Lexicon :: Strong's H3811 - lā'â

“If we dare to converse with you, will you be impatient [or offended]?

But who can restrain himself from speaking?

“But now [fn]adversity comes upon you, and you are impatient and intolerant;

It touches you, and you are horrified.

“But now God has exhausted me.

You [O Lord] have destroyed all my family and my household.

You, O God, sent abroad plentiful rain;

You confirmed Your inheritance when it was parched and weary.

The lazy person buries his hand in the dish [losing opportunity after opportunity];

It wearies him to bring it back to his mouth.

“I hate [the hypocrisy of] your New Moon festivals and your appointed feasts.

They have become a burden to Me;

I am weary of bearing them.

So it will come to pass when Moab presents himself,

When he wearies himself [worshiping] on his high place [of idolatry]

And comes to his sanctuary [of Chemosh, god of Moab] to pray,

That he will not prevail.

“You [fn]are wearied by your many counsels.

Just let the astrologers,

The stargazers,

Those who predict by the new moons [each month]

Stand up and save you from the things that will come upon you [Babylon].

But I am full of the wrath (judgment) of the LORD;

I am tired of restraining it.

“[I will] pour it out on the children in the street

And on the young men gathered together;

For both the husband and wife shall be taken,

The aged and the very old [though full of days they are not exempt from judgment].

“Everyone deceives and mocks his neighbor

And does not speak the truth.

They have taught their tongue to speak lies;

They exhaust themselves with sin and cruelty.

[The LORD rebukes Jeremiah for his impatience, saying] “If you have raced with men on foot and they have tired you out,

Then how can you compete with horses?

If you fall down in a land of peace [where you feel secure],

Then how will you do [among the lions] in the [flooded] thicket beside the Jordan?

“You have abandoned (rejected) Me,” says the LORD.

“You keep going backward.

Therefore I shall stretch out My hand against you and destroy you;

I am tired of delaying [your punishment]!

If I say, “I will not remember Him

Or speak His name anymore,”

Then my heart becomes a burning fire

Shut up in my bones.

And I am weary of enduring and holding it in;

I cannot endure it [nor contain it any longer].

“She has wearied Me with toil,

Yet her great rust has not left her;

Her thick rust and filth will not be burned away by fire [no matter how hot the flame].

“O My people, what have I done to you [since you have turned away from Me]?

And how have I wearied you? Answer Me.