Lexicon :: Strong's H5074 - nāḏaḏ

“But the wicked and worthless are all to be thrown away like thorns,

Because they cannot be taken with the hand;

On that night [fn]the king could not sleep; so he ordered that the book of records and memorable deeds, the chronicles, be brought, and they were read before the king.

“He wanders about for food, saying, ‘Where is it?’

He knows that the day of darkness and destruction is already at hand.

“He is driven and propelled from light into darkness,

And chased from the inhabited world.

“He flies away like a dream and cannot be found;

Yes, he is chased away like a vision of the night.

Because of all my enemies I have become a reproach and disgrace,

Especially to my neighbors,

And an object of dread to my acquaintances;

Those who see me on the street run from me.

“I would wander far away,

I would lodge in the [peace of the] wilderness. Selah.

So they will be caused to stumble;

Their own tongue is against them;

All who gaze at them will shake the head [in scorn].

“The kings of the [enemies’] armies flee, they flee,

And the beautiful woman who remains at home divides the spoil [left behind].”

Like a bird that wanders from her nest [with its comfort and safety],

So is a man who wanders from his home.

“My hand has found the wealth of the people like a nest,

And as one gathers eggs that are abandoned, so I have gathered all the earth;

And there was not one that flapped its wing, or that opened its beak and chirped.”

Madmenah has fled;

The inhabitants of Gebim have fled [with their belongings] to safety.

For like wandering birds or scattered nestlings,

The daughters of Moab will be at the fords of the [river] Arnon.

Bring water for the thirsty [Dedanites],

O inhabitants of the land of Tema [in Arabia];

Meet the fugitive with bread.

All your leaders have fled together [with your king],

And have been captured without the bow [which they had thrown away];

All of you who were found were taken captive together,

Though they had fled far away.

At the sound of the tumult, the peoples flee;

At the lifting up of Yourself nations scatter.

I looked, and behold, there was no man,

And all the birds of the air had fled.

“I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains,

And a [funeral] dirge for the pastures of the wilderness,

Because they are burned up and desolated so that no one passes through [them];

Nor can anyone hear the lowing of cattle.

Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they are gone.

“Behold, I am going to bring terror on you,”

Says the Lord GOD of hosts,

“From all who are around you;

And each of you will be driven out headlong,

And there will be no one to gather the fugitives together.

Woe (judgment is coming) to them, for they have wandered away from Me!

Devastation is theirs, because they have rebelled and trespassed against Me!

I would redeem them, but they speak lies against Me.

My God will reject them and cast them away

Because they did not listen to Him;

And they will be wanderers (fugitives) among the nations.

“And it will come about that all who see you

Will shrink back and run from you and say,

‘Nineveh is completely ruined!

Who will grieve for her?’

Where will I seek comforters for you?”

Your guardsmen are like the swarming locusts.

Your marshals are like the hordes of grasshoppers

Settling in the stone walls on a cold day.

When the sun rises, they fly away,

And no one knows the place where they are.