Lexicon :: Strong's H5331 - neṣaḥ

“Furthermore, the Eternal One of Israel does not lie or change his mind, for he is not man who changes his mind.”

Then Abner called out to Joab, “Must the sword devour forever? Don’t you realize this will only end in bitterness? How long before you tell the troops to stop pursuing their brothers? ”

Yours, LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in the heavens and on earth belongs to you. Yours, LORD, is the kingdom, and you are exalted as head over all.

They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk;

they perish forever while no one notices.

You completely overpower him, and he passes on;

you change his appearance and send him away.

he will vanish forever like his own dung.

Those who know[fn] him will ask, “Where is he? ”

Then an upright man could reason with him,

and I would escape from my Judge[fn] forever.

If only Job were tested to the limit,

because his answers are like those of wicked men.

He does not withdraw his gaze from the righteous,

but he seats them forever with enthroned kings,

and they are exalted.

The enemy has come to eternal ruin;

you have uprooted the cities,

and the very memory of them has perished.

For the needy will not always be forgotten;

the hope of the oppressed[fn] will not perish forever.

He says to himself, “God has forgotten;

he hides his face and will never see.”

How long, LORD? Will you forget me forever?

How long will you hide your face from me?

You reveal the path of life to me;

in your presence is abundant joy;

at your right hand are eternal pleasures.

Wake up, Lord! Why are you sleeping?

Get up! Don’t reject us forever!

so that he may live forever

and not see the Pit.

he will go to the generation of his ancestors;

they will never see the light.

This is why God will bring you down forever.

He will take you, ripping you out of your tent;

he will uproot you from the land of the living.Selah

Why gaze with envy, you mountain peaks,

at the mountain God desired for his abode?

The LORD will dwell there forever!

Why have you rejected us forever, God?

Why does your anger burn

against the sheep of your pasture?

Make your way[fn] to the perpetual ruins,

to all that the enemy has destroyed in the sanctuary.

God, how long will the enemy mock?

Will the foe insult your name forever?

Do not give to beasts the life of your dove;[fn]

do not forget the lives of your poor people forever.

“Has his faithful love ceased forever?

Is his promise at an end for all generations?

How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever?

Will your jealousy keep burning like fire?

How long, LORD? Will you hide forever?

Will your anger keep burning like fire?

He will not always accuse us

or be angry forever.

A lying witness will perish,

but the one who listens will speak successfully.

It will never be inhabited

or lived in from generation to generation;

a nomad will not pitch his tent there,

and shepherds will not let their flocks rest there.

When he has swallowed up death once and for all,

the Lord GOD will wipe away the tears

from every face

and remove his people’s disgrace

from the whole earth,

for the LORD has spoken.

Bread grain is crushed,

but is not threshed endlessly.

Though the wheel of the farmer’s cart rumbles,

his horses do not crush it.

Look at Zion, the city of our festival times.

Your eyes will see Jerusalem,

a peaceful pasture, a tent that does not wander;

its tent pegs will not be pulled up

nor will any of its cords be loosened.

It will never go out ​— ​day or night.

Its smoke will go up forever.

It will be desolate, from generation to generation;

no one will pass through it forever and ever.

“For I will not accuse you forever,

and I will not always be angry;

for then the spirit would grow weak before me,

even the breath, which I have made.

“Will he bear a grudge forever?

Will he be endlessly infuriated? ”

This is what you have said,

but you have done the evil things

you are capable of.

Why has my pain become unending,

my wound incurable,

refusing to be healed?

You truly have become like a mirage to me —

water that is not reliable.

Therefore, desert creatures[fn] will live with hyenas,

and ostriches will also live in her.

It will never again be inhabited

or lived in through all generations.

Then I thought, “My future[fn] is lost,

as well as my hope from the LORD.”

Why do you continually forget us,

abandon us for our entire lives?

The LORD says:

I will not relent from punishing Edom

for three crimes, even four,

because he pursued his brother with the sword.

He stifled his compassion,

his anger tore at him continually,

and he harbored his rage incessantly.

The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob:[fn]

I will never forget all their deeds.

This is why the law is ineffective

and justice never emerges.

For the wicked restrict the righteous;

therefore, justice comes out perverted.