Lexicon :: Strong's H4347 - makâ

‘If then, you act with hostility toward Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you seven times in accordance with your sins.

“Now the next generation, your children who come after you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, when they see the plagues of this land and the diseases with which the LORD has afflicted it, will say,

So the Philistines fought; Israel was defeated and every man fled to his tent. It was a very great defeat, for thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell.

The LORD struck down some of the men of Beth-shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the LORD. He struck down 50,070 men among the people, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck the people with a great slaughter.

Then there was war again, and David went out and fought with the Philistines and defeated them with a great slaughter, and they fled before him.

Therefore the LORD his God handed over Ahaz to the king of Aram (Syria), who defeated him and led away a great number [of the people] as captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also handed over to the king of Israel, who struck Judah with a great slaughter.

But God will shoot them with an [unexpected] arrow;

Suddenly they will be wounded.

Blows that wound cleanse away evil,

And strokes reach to the innermost parts.

From the sole of the foot even to the head

There is nothing healthy in the nation’s body,

Only bruises, welts, and raw wounds,

Not pressed out or bandaged,

Nor softened with oil [as a remedy].

Which used to strike the peoples in anger with incessant blows,

Which subdued and ruled the nations in wrath with unrelenting persecution.

Like the striking [fn]by Him who has struck them, has He struck them?

Or like the slaughter of His slain, have they been slain?

“As a fountain springs up and pours out its fresh waters,

So she [continually] pours out her fresh wickedness.

Violence and destruction are heard inside her [walls];

Sickness and wounds are always before Me.

“Woe to me because of my [spiritual] brokenness!” [says Jeremiah, speaking for the nation.]

“My wound is incurable.”

But I said, “Surely this sickness and suffering and grief are mine,

And I must bear it.”

“Therefore [Jeremiah] you will say this word to them,

‘Let my eyes flow with tears night and day,

And let them never cease;

For the virgin daughter of my people has been crushed with a great blow,

With a very serious and severely infected wound.

Why has my pain been perpetual

And my wound incurable, refusing to be healed?

Will you indeed be to me like a deceptive brook

With water that is unreliable?

“For thus says the LORD,

‘Your wound is incurable

And your injury is beyond healing.

‘All your lovers (allies) have forgotten you;

They do not seek and long for you.

For I have injured you with the wound of an enemy,

With the punishment of a cruel and merciless foe,

Because your guilt is great

And your sins are glaring and innumerable.

‘For I will restore health to you

And I will heal your wounds,’ says the LORD,

‘Because they have called you an outcast, saying:

“This is Zion; no one seeks her and no one cares for her.”’

“Edom will become an object of horror; everyone who goes by it will be astonished and shall hiss [scornfully] at all its plagues and disasters.

“Because of the wrath of the LORD she will not be inhabited

But she will be completely desolate;

Everyone who goes by Babylon will be appalled

And will hiss (mock) at all her wounds and plagues.

For Samaria’s wound is incurable,

For it has come to Judah;

The enemy has reached the gate of my people,

Even to Jerusalem.

There is no relief and healing for your hurt;

Your wound is incurable.

All who hear the news about you

Clap their hands over [what has happened to] you.

For on whom has your [unceasing] evil not come continually?