Lexicon :: Strong's H5065 - nāḡaś

Then the LORD said, “I have observed the misery of my people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out because of their oppressors. I know about their sufferings,

That day Pharaoh commanded the overseers of the people as well as their foremen,

So the overseers and foremen of the people went out and said to them, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I am not giving you straw.

The overseers insisted, “Finish your assigned work each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”

“This is how to cancel debt: Every creditor[fn] is to cancel what he has lent his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the LORD’s release of debts has been proclaimed.

The men of Israel saw that they were in trouble because the troops were in a difficult situation. They hid in caves, in thickets, among rocks, and in holes and cisterns.

and the men of Israel were worn out that day, for Saul had[fn] placed the troops under an oath: “The man who eats food before evening, before I have taken vengeance on my enemies is cursed.” So none of the troops tasted any food.

So Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but at Pharaoh’s command he taxed the land to give it. He exacted the silver and the gold from the common people, each according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.

The captives are completely at rest;

they do not hear a taskmaster’s voice.

It scoffs at the noise of the village

and never hears the shouts of a driver.

The people will oppress one another,

man against man, neighbor against neighbor;

the young will act arrogantly toward the old,

and the worthless toward the honorable.

Youths oppress my people,

and women rule over them.

My people, your leaders mislead you;

they confuse the direction of your paths.

For you have shattered their oppressive yoke

and the rod on their shoulders,

the staff of their oppressor,

just as you did on the day of Midian.

The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess them as male and female slaves in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and will rule over their oppressors.

you will sing this song of contempt about the king of Babylon and say:

How the oppressor has quieted down,

and how the raging[fn] has become quiet!

He was oppressed and afflicted,

yet he did not open his mouth.

Like a lamb led to the slaughter

and like a sheep silent before her shearers,

he did not open his mouth.

“Why have we fasted, but you have not seen?

We have denied ourselves, but you haven’t noticed! ”[fn]

“Look, you do as you please on the day of your fast,

and oppress all your workers.

I will bring gold instead of bronze;

I will bring silver instead of iron,

bronze instead of wood,

and iron instead of stones.

I will appoint peace as your government

and righteousness as your overseers.

“In his place one will arise who will send out a tax collector for the glory of the kingdom; but within a few days he will be broken, though not in anger[fn] or in battle.

I will encamp at my house as a guard,

against those who march back and forth,

and no oppressor will march against them again,

for now I have seen with my own eyes.

The cornerstone, the tent peg,

the battle bow, and every ruler —

all will go out from him together.