Lexicon :: Strong's H5110 - nûḏ

“If you work the ground, it will never again give you its yield. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”

“Since you are banishing me today from the face of the earth, and I must hide from your presence and become a restless wanderer on the earth, whoever finds me will kill me.”

“For the LORD will strike Israel so that they will[fn] shake as a reed shakes in water. He will uproot Israel from this good soil that he gave to their ancestors. He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates because they made their Asherah poles, angering the LORD.

“I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to wander from the land I gave to their ancestors if only they will be careful to do all I have commanded them ​— ​the whole law that my servant Moses commanded them.”

Now when Job’s three friends ​— ​Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite ​— ​heard about all this adversity that had happened to him, each of them came from his home. They met together to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.

All his brothers, sisters, and former acquaintances came to him and dined with him in his house. They sympathized with him and comforted him concerning all the adversity the LORD had brought on him. Each one gave him a piece of silver[fn] and a gold earring.

I have taken refuge in the LORD.

How can you say to me,

“Escape to the mountains[fn] like a bird!

Do not let the foot of the arrogant come near me

or the hand of the wicked drive me away.

Insults have broken my heart,

and I am in despair.

I waited for sympathy,

but there was none;

for comforters, but found no one.

Like a flitting sparrow or a fluttering swallow,

an undeserved curse goes nowhere.

The earth staggers like a drunkard

and sways like a hut.

Earth’s rebellion weighs it down,

and it falls, never to rise again.

These two things have happened to you:

devastation and destruction,

famine and sword.

Who will grieve for you?

How can I[fn] comfort you?

If you return,[fn] Israel —

this is the LORD’s declaration —

you will return to me,

if you remove your abhorrent idols

from my presence

and do not waver,

“Who will have pity on you, Jerusalem?

Who will show sympathy toward you?

Who will turn aside

to ask about your well-being?

“For this is what the LORD says: Don’t enter a house where a mourning feast is taking place.[fn] Don’t go to lament or sympathize with them, for I have removed my peace from these people as well as my faithful love and compassion.” This is the LORD’s declaration.

They have made their land a horror,

a perpetual object of scorn;[fn]

all who pass by it will be appalled

and shake their heads.

Do not weep for the dead;

do not mourn for him.

Weep bitterly for the one who has gone away,

for he will never return again

and see his native land.

I have surely heard Ephraim moaning,

“You disciplined me, and I have been disciplined

like an untrained calf.

Take me back, so that I can return,

for you, LORD, are my God.

Mourn for him, all you surrounding nations,

everyone who knows his name.

Say, “How the mighty scepter is shattered,

the glorious staff! ”

“Wasn’t Israel a laughingstock to you? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.”

Run! Escape quickly! Lie low,

residents of Hazor —

this is the LORD’s declaration —

for King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon

has drawn up a plan against you;

he has devised a strategy against you.

For a nation from the north will attack her;

it will make her land desolate.

No one will be living in it —

both people and animals will escape.[fn]

Escape from Babylon;

depart from the Chaldeans’ land.

Be like the rams that lead the flock.

Then all who see you will recoil from you, saying,

“Nineveh is devastated;

who will show sympathy to her? ”

Where can I find anyone to comfort you?