Lexicon :: Strong's H4853 - maśśā'

In those days I saw some in Judah who were treading wine presses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves or sacks of grain and loading them on donkeys, as well as wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I protested and warned them on the day they sold the produce.

Now when it began to get dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath [began], I commanded that the doors be shut and not be opened until after the Sabbath. Then I stationed some of my servants at the gates so that no load [of merchandise] would enter [Jerusalem] on the Sabbath day.

“If I have sinned, what [harm] have I done to You,

O Watcher of mankind?

Why have You set me as a target for You,

So that I am a burden to myself?

For my iniquities have gone over my head [like the waves of a flood];

As a heavy burden they weigh too much for me.

The words of [fn]Agur the son of Jakeh, the oracle:

The man says to Ithiel, to Ithiel and to Ucal:

The words of [fn]King Lemuel, the oracle, which his mother taught him:

The [mournful, inspired] oracle ([fn]a burden to be carried) concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw [in a prophetic vision]:

In the year that King Ahaz [of Judah] died this [mournful, inspired] oracle ([fn]a burden to be carried) came:

The [mournful, inspired] oracle ([fn]a burden to be carried) concerning Moab:

Because in a night Ar of Moab is devastated and ruined;

Because in a night Kir of Moab is devastated and ruined.

The [mournful, inspired] oracle ([fn]a burden to be carried) concerning Damascus [capital of Aram (Syria), and Israel’s defense against Assyria].

“Listen carefully, Damascus will cease to be a city

And will become a fallen ruin.

The [mournful, inspired] oracle ([fn]a burden to be carried) concerning Egypt:

Listen carefully, the LORD is riding on a swift cloud and is about to come to Egypt;

The idols of Egypt will tremble at His presence,

And the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.

The [mournful, inspired] oracle ([fn]a burden to be carried) concerning the Desert of the [fn]Sea (the seasonally flooded plains just south of Babylon):

As windstorms in the Negev (the South) sweep through,

So it (God’s judgment) comes from the desert, from [the hostile armies of] a terrifying land.

The [mournful, inspired] oracle ([fn]a burden to be carried) concerning Dumah (Edom):

Someone keeps calling to me from Seir (Edom),

“Watchman, what is left of the night [of Assyrian oppression]?

Watchman, what is left of the night? [How long until morning?]”

The [mournful, inspired] oracle ([fn]a burden to be carried) concerning Arabia:

In the thickets of Arabia you must spend the night,

Caravans of Dedanites.

The [mournful, inspired] oracle ([fn]a burden to be carried) concerning the Valley of Vision:

What is the matter with you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops,

The [mournful, inspired] oracle ([fn]a burden to be carried) concerning [fn]Tyre:

Wail, O ships of Tarshish,

For Tyre is destroyed, without house, without harbor;

It is reported to them from the land of Cyprus (Kittim).

A [mournful, inspired] oracle ([fn]a burden to be carried) concerning the beasts of the Negev (the South):

Through a land of trouble and anguish,

From [fn]where come lioness and lion, viper and [fiery] flying serpent,

They carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys

And their treasures on the humps of camels,

To a people (Egyptians) who cannot benefit them.

Bel has bowed down, Nebo stoops over;

Their idols are on the beasts [of burden] and on the cattle.

Your burdens [of idols] are loaded [on them],

Burdens on the weary animals.

“But it will come about, if you listen diligently to Me,” says the LORD, “to bring no load in through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but keep the Sabbath day holy by doing no work on it,

“Now when this people or a prophet or a priest asks you [in jest], ‘What is the [fn]oracle of the LORD [the burden to be lifted up and carried]?’ Then you shall say to them, ‘What oracle [besides the one that declares you people to be the burden]!’ The LORD says, ‘I will unburden Myself and I will abandon you.’