Lexicon :: Strong's H4578 - mēʿê

“[The founders of] two nations are in your womb;

And the separation of two nations has begun in your body;

The one people shall be stronger than the other;

And the older shall serve the younger.”

After all this, the LORD struck Jehoram with an incurable intestinal disease.

Yet his food turns [to poison] in his stomach;

It is the venom of vipers within him.

“I am seething within and my heart is troubled and cannot rest;

Days of affliction come to meet me.

I am poured out like water,

And all my bones are out of joint.

My heart is like wax;

It is melted [by anguish] within me.

“I delight to do Your will, O my God;

Your law is within my heart.”

Upon You have I relied and been sustained from my birth;

You are He who took me from my mother’s womb and You have been my benefactor from that day.

My praise is continually of You.

“My beloved extended his hand through the opening [of the door],

And my feelings were aroused for him.

“His hands are rods of gold

Set with beryl;

His abdomen is a figure of carved ivory

Inlaid with sapphires.

Therefore my heart sounds like a harp [in mournful compassion] for Moab,

And my inner being mourns for Kir-hareseth.

“Your offspring would have been like the sand,

And your descendants [in number] like the grains of sand;

Their name would never be cut off or destroyed from My presence.”

Listen to [fn]Me, O islands and coastlands,

And pay attention, you peoples from far away.

The LORD has called Me from the womb;

From the body of My mother He has named Me.

Look down from heaven and see from Your lofty dwelling place, holy and glorious.

Where are Your zeal and Your mighty acts [Your miracles which you did for Your people]?

The stirring of Your heart and Your compassion are restrained and withheld from me.

My soul, my soul! I writhe in anguish and pain! Oh, the walls of my heart!

My heart is pounding and throbbing within me;

I cannot be silent,

For you have heard, O my soul,

The sound of the trumpet,

The alarm of war.

“Is Ephraim My dear son?

Is he a darling and beloved child?

For as often as I have spoken against him,

I certainly still remember him.

Therefore My affection is renewed and My heart longs for him;

I will surely have mercy on him,” says the LORD.

“See, O LORD, how distressed I am!

My spirit is deeply disturbed;

My heart is overturned within me and cannot rest,

For I have been very rebellious.

In the street the sword kills and bereaves;

In the house there is [famine, disease and] death!

My eyes fail because of tears [mourns Jeremiah],

My spirit is deeply disturbed;

My heart is poured out on the earth [in grief]

Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people [Jerusalem],

When little ones and infants faint

In the streets of the city.

Now the LORD had prepared (appointed, destined) a great [fn]fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was in the stomach of the fish [fn]three days and three nights.

Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the stomach of the fish,