Lexicon :: Strong's H3885 - lûn

Once or twice the merchants and those who sell all kinds of goods camped outside Jerusalem,

Surely mockers surround[fn] me,

and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.

Even if it is true that I have sinned,

my mistake concerns only[fn] me.

Without clothing, they spend the night naked,

having no covering against the cold.

“My roots will have access to water,

and the dew will rest on my branches all night.

No stranger had to spend the night on the street,

for I opened my door to the traveler.

Would the wild ox be willing to serve you?

Would it spend the night by your feeding trough?

Strength resides in his neck,

and dismay dances before him.

He will live a good life,

and his descendants will inherit the land.[fn]

For his anger lasts only a moment,

but his favor, a lifetime.

Weeping may stay overnight,

but there is joy in the morning.

But despite his assets,[fn] mankind will not last;

he is like the animals that perish.

“How far away I would flee;

I would stay in the wilderness.Selah

They scavenge for food;

they growl if they are not satisfied.

The one who lives under the protection of the Most High

dwells in the shadow of the Almighty.

One who[fn] listens to life-giving rebukes

will be at home among the wise.

The fear of the LORD leads to life;

one will sleep at night[fn] without danger.

The one I love is a sachet of myrrh to me,

spending the night between my breasts.

Come, my love,

let’s go to the field;

let’s spend the night among the henna blossoms.[fn]

The faithful town —

what an adulteress[fn] she has become!

She was once full of justice.

Righteousness once dwelt in her,

but now, murderers!

A pronouncement concerning Arabia:

In the desert[fn] brush

you will camp for the night,

you caravans of Dedanites.

“sitting among the graves,

spending nights in secret places,

eating the meat of pigs,

and putting polluted broth in their bowls.[fn]

Wash the evil from your heart, Jerusalem,

so that you will be delivered.

How long will you harbor

malicious thoughts?

Hope of Israel,

its Savior in time of distress,

why are you like a resident alien in the land,

like a traveler stopping only for the night?

Dress in sackcloth and lament, you priests;

wail, you ministers of the altar.

Come and spend the night in sackcloth,

you ministers of my God,

because grain and drink offerings

are withheld from the house of your God.

Herds will lie down in the middle of it,

every kind of wild animal.[fn]

Both eagle owls[fn] and herons[fn]

will roost in the capitals of its pillars.

Their calls will sound[fn] from the window,

but devastation[fn] will be on the threshold,

for he will expose the cedar work.[fn]

“I will send it out,” ​— ​this is the declaration of the LORD of Armies ​— ​“and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by my name. It will stay inside his house and destroy it along with its timbers and stones.”