Lexicon :: Strong's H5110 - nûḏ

“The LORD will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and He will uproot Israel from this good land which He gave to their fathers, and He will scatter them beyond the [Euphrates] River, because they have made their [fn]Asherim, provoking the LORD to anger.

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, each one came from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; for they had made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

In the LORD I take refuge [and put my trust];

How can you say to me, “Flee like a bird to your mountain;

Do not let the foot of the proud [person] overtake me,

And do not let the hand of the wicked drive me away.

Reproach and insults have broken my heart and I am so sick.

I looked for sympathy, but there was none,

And for comforters, but I found none.

Like the sparrow in her wandering, like the swallow in her flying,

So the curse without cause does not come and alight [on the undeserving].

The earth reels back and forth like a drunkard

And sways like a shack;

Its transgression lies heavily upon it,

And it will fall and not rise again.

These two tragedies have befallen you;

Who will show sympathy for you and mourn with you?

The desolation and destruction [on the land and city], famine and sword [on the inhabitants];

How shall I comfort you?

“If you will return, O Israel,” says the LORD,

“If you will return to Me,

And if you will put away your detestable things and remove your man-made gods from My sight,

And not stray or waver,

“For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem,

Or who will mourn for you,

Or who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?

For thus says the LORD, “Do not enter a house of mourning, nor go to lament (express grief) or bemoan [the dead], for I have taken My peace away from this people,” says the LORD, “even My lovingkindness and compassion.

Making their land a desolation and a horror,

A thing to be hissed at perpetually;

Everyone who passes by will be astounded

And shake his head [in scorn].

Do not weep for the dead or mourn for him;

But weep bitterly for the one who goes away [into exile],

For he will never return

And see his native country [again].

“I have surely heard Ephraim (Israel) moaning and grieving,

‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised,

Like a bull unaccustomed to the yoke or an untrained calf;

Bring me back that I may be restored,

For You are the LORD my God.

“Show sympathy for him, all you [nations] who are around him,

And all you [distant nations] who know his name;

Say, ‘How has the mighty scepter [of national power] been broken,

And the splendid staff [of glory]!’

“Flee, run far away! Dwell in the depths [of the desert],

O inhabitants of Hazor,” says the LORD,

“For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has planned a course of action against you

And devised a scheme against you.

“For out of the north a nation (Media) has come against her which will make her land desolate, and no one will live there. They have fled, they have gone away—both man and animal.

“Wander away from the midst of Babylon

And go out of the land of the Chaldeans;

Be like the male goats [who serve as leaders] at the head of the flocks.

“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?”