Lexicon :: Strong's H5128 - nûaʿ

“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.”

All the people witnessed[fn] the thunder and lightning, the sound of the ram’s horn, and the mountain surrounded by smoke. When the people saw it[fn] they trembled and stood at a distance.

“The LORD’s anger burned against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years until the whole generation that had done what was evil in the LORD’s sight was gone.

But the olive tree said to them,

“Should I stop giving my oil

that people use to honor both God and men,

and rule[fn] over the trees? ”

But the fig tree said to them,

“Should I stop giving

my sweetness and my good fruit,

and rule over trees? ”

But the grapevine said to them,

“Should I stop giving my wine

that cheers both God and man,

and rule over trees? ”

Hannah was praying silently, and though her lips were moving, her voice could not be heard. Eli thought she was drunk

“Besides, you only arrived yesterday; should I make you wander around with us today while I go wherever I can? Go back and take your brothers with you. May the LORD show you[fn] kindness and faithfulness.”

“This is the word the LORD has spoken against him:

Virgin Daughter Zion

despises you and scorns you;

Daughter Jerusalem

shakes her head behind your back.

So he said, “Let him rest. Don’t let anyone disturb his bones.” So they left his bones undisturbed with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria.

If you were in my place I could also talk like you.

I could string words together against you

and shake my head at you.

He cuts a shaft far from human habitation,

in places unknown to those who walk above ground.

Suspended far away from people,

the miners swing back and forth.

Everyone who sees me mocks me;

they sneer[fn] and shake their heads:

Do not kill them; otherwise, my people will forget.

By your power, make them homeless wanderers

and bring them down,

Lord, our shield.

They scavenge for food;

they growl if they are not satisfied.

they reeled and staggered like a drunkard,

and all their skill was useless.

Let his children wander as beggars,

searching for food far[fn] from their demolished homes.

I have become an object of ridicule to my accusers;[fn]

when they see me, they shake their heads in scorn.

She doesn’t consider the path of life;

she doesn’t know that her ways are unstable.

The foundations of the doorways shook at the sound of their voices, and the temple was filled with smoke.

When it became known to the house of David that Aram had occupied Ephraim, the heart of Ahaz[fn] and the hearts of his people trembled like trees of a forest shaking in the wind.

A pronouncement concerning Egypt:

Look, the LORD rides on a swift cloud

and is coming to Egypt.

Egypt’s worthless idols will tremble before him,

and Egypt will lose heart.

The earth staggers like a drunkard

and sways like a hut.

Earth’s rebellion weighs it down,

and it falls, never to rise again.

Stop and be astonished;

blind yourselves and be blind!

They are drunk,[fn] but not with wine;

they stagger,[fn] but not with beer.

“this is the word the LORD has spoken against him:

Virgin Daughter Zion

despises you and scorns you;

Daughter Jerusalem shakes her head

behind your back.

This is what the LORD says concerning these people:

Truly they love to wander;

they never rest their feet.

So the LORD does not accept them.

Now he will remember their iniquity

and punish their sins.

All who pass by

scornfully clap their hands at you.

They hiss and shake their heads

at Daughter Jerusalem:

Is this the city that was called

the perfection of beauty,

the joy of the whole earth?

Blind, they stumbled in the streets,

defiled by this blood,

so that no one dared

to touch their garments.

Suddenly, a hand touched me and set me shaking on my hands and knees.

Two or three cities staggered

to another city to drink water

but were not satisfied,

yet you did not return to me.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

People will stagger from sea to sea

and roam from north to east

seeking the word of the LORD,

but they will not find it.

for I am about to give the command,

and I will shake the house of Israel

among all the nations,

as one shakes a sieve,

but not a pebble will fall to the ground.

All your fortresses are fig trees

with figs that ripened first;

when shaken, they fall —

right into the mouth of the eater!

This is the jubilant city

that lives in security,

that says to herself:

I exist, and there is no one else.

What a desolation she has become,

a place for wild animals to lie down!

Everyone who passes by her

scoffs[fn] and shakes his fist.