Lexicon :: Strong's H5162 - nāḥam

[fn]But quite a while later, Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died; and when the time of mourning was ended, he went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah with his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

So it happened, when Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, even though it was nearer; for God said, “The people might change their minds when they see war [that is, that there will be war], and return to Egypt.”

“God is not a man, that He should lie,

Nor a son of man, that He should repent.

Has He said, and will He not do it?

Or has He spoken and will He not make it good and fulfill it?

“For the LORD will vindicate His people,

And will have compassion on His servants,

When He sees that their strength (hand) is gone,

And none remains, whether bond or free.

David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and went to her and lay with her; and she gave birth to a son, and David named him Solomon. And the LORD loved the child;

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.

“When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,

My couch will ease my complaint,’

“I have heard many such things;

Wearisome and miserable comforters are you all.

“How then can you vainly comfort me with empty words,

Since your answers remain untrue?”

“I chose a way for them and sat as chief,

And dwelt as a king among his soldiers,

As one who comforts mourners.

“Therefore I retract [my words and hate myself]

And I repent in dust and ashes.”

Even though I walk through the [sunless] [fn]valley of the shadow of death,

I fear no evil, for You are with me;

Your rod [to protect] and Your staff [to guide], they comfort and console me.

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.

May You increase my greatness (honor)

And turn to comfort me.

In the day of my trouble I [desperately] sought the Lord;

In the night my hand was [fn]stretched out [in prayer] without weariness;

My soul refused to be comforted.

Show me a sign of [Your] goodwill,

That those who hate me may see it and be ashamed,

Because You, O LORD, helped and comforted me.

Turn, O LORD [from Your fierce anger]; how long will it be?

Be compassionate toward Your servants—revoke Your sentence.

And He remembered His covenant for their sake,

And relented [rescinding their sentence] according to the greatness of His lovingkindness [when they cried out to Him],

The LORD has sworn [an oath] and will not change His mind:

“[fn]You are a priest forever

According to the order of Melchizedek.”

I have remembered [carefully] Your ancient ordinances, O LORD,

And I have taken comfort.

O may Your lovingkindness and graciousness comfort me,

According to Your word (promise) to Your servant.

My eyes fail [with longing, watching] for [the fulfillment of] Your promise,

Saying, “When will You comfort me?”

For the LORD will judge His people

And He will have compassion on His servants [revealing His mercy].

Then I looked again and considered all the acts of oppression that were being practiced under the sun. And behold I saw the tears of the oppressed and they had no one to comfort them; and on the side of their oppressors was power, but they had no one to comfort them.

Therefore the Lord GOD of hosts,

The Mighty One of Israel, declares:

“Ah, I will be freed of My adversaries

And avenge Myself on My enemies.