Lexicon :: Strong's H5002 - nᵊ'um

“ ‘Return, you faithless children ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​for I am your master,[fn] and I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

“When you multiply and increase in the land, in those days ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​no one will say again, “The ark of the LORD’s covenant.” It will never come to mind, and no one will remember or miss it. Another one will not be made.[fn]

However, as a woman may betray her lover,[fn]

so you have betrayed me, house of Israel.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

“On that day” ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​“the king and the officials will lose their courage. The priests will tremble in fear, and the prophets will be scared speechless.”

They have her surrounded

like those who guard a field,

because she has rebelled against me.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

They, the house of Israel and the house of Judah,

have dealt very treacherously with me.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

I am about to bring a nation

from far away against you,

house of Israel.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

It is an established nation,

an ancient nation,

a nation whose language you do not know

and whose speech you do not understand.

“But even in those days” ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​“I will not finish you off.

“Do you not fear me?

This is the LORD’s declaration.

Do you not tremble before me,

the one who set the sand as the boundary of the sea,

an enduring barrier that it cannot cross?

The waves surge, but they cannot prevail.

They roar but cannot pass over it.

“Should I not punish them for these things?

This is the LORD’s declaration.

Should I not avenge myself

on such a nation as this?

“Now, because you have done all these things ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​and because I have spoken to you time and time again[fn] but you wouldn’t listen, and I have called to you, but you wouldn’t answer,

“But are they really provoking me? ” This is the LORD’s declaration. “Isn’t it they themselves being provoked to disgrace? ”

“For the Judeans have done what is evil in my sight.” This is the LORD’s declaration. “They have set up their abhorrent things in the house that bears my name in order to defile it.

“Therefore, look, the days are coming” ​— ​the LORD’s declaration ​— ​“when this place will no longer be called Topheth and Ben Hinnom Valley, but Slaughter Valley. Topheth will become a cemetery,[fn] because there will be no other burial place.

“Death will be chosen over life by all the survivors of this evil family, those who remain wherever I have banished them.” This is the declaration of the LORD of Armies.

“I will gather them and bring them to an end.”[fn]

This is the LORD’s declaration.

“There will be no grapes on the vine,

no figs on the fig tree,

and even the leaf will wither.

Whatever I have given them will be lost to them.”

Indeed, I am about to send snakes among you,

poisonous vipers that cannot be charmed.

They will bite you.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

You live in a world of deception.[fn]

In their deception they refuse to know me.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

Should I not punish them for these things?

This is the LORD’s declaration.

Should I not avenge myself

on such a nation as this?

“Speak as follows: ‘This is what the LORD declares: Human corpses will fall like manure on the surface of the field, like newly cut grain after the reaper with no one to gather it.

“But the one who boasts should boast in this:

that he understands and knows me —

that I am the LORD, showing faithful love,

justice, and righteousness on the earth,

for I delight in these things.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

“ ‘Look, the days are coming ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​when I will punish all the circumcised yet uncircumcised:

“I will smash them against each other, fathers and sons alike ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration. I will allow no mercy, pity, or compassion to keep me from destroying them.’ ”

This is your lot,

what I have decreed for you —

this is the LORD’s declaration —

because you have forgotten me

and trusted in lies.

“You have left me.”

This is the LORD’s declaration.

“You have turned your back,

so I have stretched out my hand against you

and destroyed you.

I am tired of showing compassion.

“The mother of seven grew faint;

she breathed her last breath.

Her sun set while it was still day;

she was ashamed and humiliated.

The rest of them I will give over to the sword

in the presence of their enemies.”

This is the LORD’s declaration.

Then I will make you a fortified wall of bronze

to this people.

They will fight against you

but will not overcome you,

for I am with you

to save you and rescue you.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

“Then you will answer them, ‘Because your ancestors abandoned me ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​and followed other gods, served them, and bowed in worship to them. Indeed, they abandoned me and did not keep my instruction.

“However, look, the days are coming” ​— ​the LORD’s declaration ​— ​“when it will no longer be said, ‘As the LORD lives who brought the Israelites from the land of Egypt,’

“I am about to send for many fishermen” ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​“and they will fish for them. Then I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and out of the clefts of the rocks,

“That is what I will do to this place ​— ​this is the declaration of the LORD ​— ​and to its residents, making this city like Topheth.

“For I have set my face against this city to bring disaster and not good ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration. It will be handed over to the king of Babylon, who will burn it.’

“Beware! I am against you,

you who sit above the valley,

you atop the rocky plateau —

this is the LORD’s declaration —

you who say, “Who can come down against us?

Who can enter our hiding places? ”

I will punish you according to what you have done —

this is the LORD’s declaration.

I will kindle a fire in your forest

that will consume everything around it.’ ”