Lexicon :: Strong's H5081 - nāḏîḇ

The well which the leaders dug,

Which the nobles of the people hollowed out

With the scepter and with their staffs.”

And from the wilderness Israel journeyed to Mattanah,

“He raises up the poor from the dust,

He lifts up the needy from the ash heap

To make them sit with nobles,

And inherit a seat of honor and glory;

For the pillars of the earth are the LORD’S,

And He set the land on them.

Then Hezekiah said, “Now you have consecrated yourselves to the LORD; approach and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the LORD.” And the assembly brought in sacrifices and thank offerings, and all those who were willing brought burnt offerings.

“He pours contempt on princes and nobles

And loosens the belt of the strong [disabling them].

“For you say, ‘Where is the house of the noble man?

And where is the tent, the dwelling place of the wicked?’

“God who says to a king, ‘You are worthless and vile,’

Or to princes and nobles, ‘You are wicked and evil’?

The princes of the people have gathered together as the people of the God of Abraham,

For the shields of the earth belong to God;

He is highly exalted.

Restore to me the joy of Your salvation

And sustain me with a willing spirit.

Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb

And all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

He pours contempt on princes

And makes them wander in a pathless wasteland.

That He may seat them with princes,

With the princes of His people.

It is better to take refuge in the LORD

Than to trust in princes.

Do not trust in princes,

In mortal man, in whom there is no salvation (help).

“By me princes rule, and nobles,

All who judge and govern rightly.

Excellent speech does not benefit a fool [who is spiritually blind],

Much less do lying lips benefit a prince.

It is also not good to fine the righteous,

Nor to strike the noble for their uprightness.

Many will seek the favor of a generous and noble man,

And everyone is a friend to him who gives gifts.

For it is better that it be said to you, “Come up here,”

Than for you to be placed lower in the presence of the prince,

Whom your eyes have seen.

“Before I was aware [of what was happening], my desire had brought me

Into the area of the princes of my people [the king’s retinue].”

“How beautiful are your feet in sandals,

O prince’s daughter!

The curves of your hips are like jewels,

The work of the hands of an artist.

Lift up a signal banner on the bare mountain,

Summon them [the Medes and Persians] with a loud voice,

Wave the [beckoning] hand so that they may enter the doorways of the [Babylonian] nobles.

The fool (the good-for-nothing) will no longer be called noble,

Nor the rogue said to be generous.

But the noble man conceives noble and magnificent things;

And he stands by what is noble and magnificent.