Lexicon :: Strong's H535 - 'āmal

“Those who were full hire themselves out for bread,

But those who were hungry cease [to hunger].

Even the barren [woman] gives birth to seven,

But she who has many children withers away.

For the fields of Heshbon have languished and withered, and the vines of Sibmah as well;

The lords of the nations have trampled down [Moab’s] choice vine branches,

Which reached as far as Jazer and wandered into the wilderness;

Its tendrils stretched out, they passed over [the shores of] the [Dead] Sea.

The fishermen will lament (cry out in grief),

And all those who cast a hook into the Nile will mourn,

And those who spread nets upon the waters will languish.

The new wine mourns,

The vine decays;

All the merry-hearted sigh and groan.

The land mourns and dries out,

Lebanon is shamed and [its lush foliage] withers;

[fn]Sharon is like a desert plain,

And [fn]Bashan and [Mount] Carmel shake off their leaves.

“Judah mourns

And her gates languish;

Her people sit on the ground in mourning clothes

And the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.

“She who has borne seven [sons] languishes;

She has breathed out her soul.

Her sun has set while it was still day;

She has been shamed and humiliated.

So I will hand over [the rest of] the survivors to the sword

Before their enemies,” says the LORD.

The LORD determined to lay in ruins

The [city] wall of the Daughter of Zion.

He has stretched out a line,

He has not stopped His hand from destroying.

He has caused the rampart and the wall to lament (mourn in grief);

They have languished together.

“How weakened by longing and lust is your heart (mind),” says the Lord GOD, “while you do all these things, the actions of a bold and brazen prostitute.

Therefore the land [continually] mourns,

And everyone who lives in it languishes [in tragic suffering]

Together with the animals of the open country and the birds of the heavens;

Even the fish of the sea disappear.

The field is ruined,

The ground mourns;

For the grain is ruined,

The new wine is dried up,

The fresh oil fails.

The vine dries up

And the fig tree fails;

The pomegranate, the palm also, and the apple tree,

All the trees of the field dry up,

Indeed, joy dries up and withdraws

From the sons of men.

He rebukes the sea and dries it up;

He dries up all the rivers [illustrating His judgment].

Bashan [on the east] and [Mount] Carmel [on the west] wither,

And [in the north] the blossoms of Lebanon fade.