Lexicon :: Strong's H4127 - mûḡ

“Then the [tribal] chiefs of Edom were dismayed and horrified;

The [mighty] leaders of Moab, trembling grips them;

All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away [in despair]—

Saul’s watchmen in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and behold, the multitude melted away and they went here and there.

“You lift me up on the wind and cause me to ride [upon it];

And You toss me about in the tempest and dissolve me in the storm.

The nations made an uproar, the kingdoms tottered and were moved;

He raised His voice, the earth melted.

You water its furrows abundantly,

You smooth its ridges;

You soften it with showers,

You bless its growth.

“The earth and all the inhabitants of it melt [in tumultuous times].

It is I who will steady its pillars. Selah.

They went up toward the heavens [on the crest of the wave], they went down again to the depths [of the watery trough];

Their courage melted away in their misery.

“Howl, O gate; cry, O city!

Melt away, O Philistia, all of you;

For smoke comes out of the north,

And there is no straggler in his ranks and no one stands detached [in Hezekiah’s battalions].

There is no one who calls on Your name,

Who awakens and causes himself to take hold of You;

For You have hidden Your face from us

And have handed us over to the [consuming and destructive] power of our wickedness [our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing].

Concerning Damascus [in Syria].

“Hamath and Arpad are perplexed and shamed,

For they have heard bad news;

They are disheartened;

Troubled and anxious like a [storm-tossed] sea

Which cannot be calmed.

The Lord GOD of hosts [the Omnipotent Ruler],

It is He who touches the earth [in judgment] and it melts,

And all who dwell on it mourn [in despair and fear],

And all of it rises up like the Nile

And subsides like the Nile of Egypt;

“Behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD,

“When the plowman shall overtake the one who gathers the harvest,

And the one who treads the grapes [shall overtake] him who sows the seed [for the harvest continues until planting time];

When the mountains will drip sweet wine

And all the hills shall melt [that is, everything that was once barren will overflow with streams of blessing].

The mountains quake before Him

And the hills melt away;

Indeed the earth is shaken by His presence—

Yes, the world and all that dwell in it.

The gates of the rivers [surrounding Nineveh] are opened

And the palace [of sun-dried brick] is dissolved [by the torrents].