Lexicon :: Strong's H5381 - nāśaḡ

Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent on the hill, and Laban with his relatives camped on the same hill of Gilead.

So the steward overtook them and he said these words to them.

“The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil;

My desire shall be satisfied against them;

I will draw my sword, my hand shall dispossess them and drive them out.’

‘But if he cannot afford to bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he shall bring as his offering for his sin the tenth part of an [fn]ephah of fine flour as a sin offering; he shall not put [olive] oil or incense on it, for it is a sin offering.

“But if the cleansed leper is poor and his means are insufficient, then he is to take one lamb as a guilt offering to be waved to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and a log of oil,

‘Now if the financial means of a stranger or temporary resident among you become sufficient, and your fellow countryman becomes poor in comparison to him and sells himself to the stranger who is living among you or to the descendants of the stranger’s family,

“This is the law for the [fn]Nazirite who vows his offering to the LORD for his separation, besides what else [fn]he is able to afford, according to the vow which he has vowed; so shall he do according to the law for his separation and abstinence [as a Nazirite].”

“But it shall come about, if you do not listen to and obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all His commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today, then all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

“So all these curses will come on you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He has commanded you.

“Some remove the landmarks;

They [violently] seize and pasture flocks [appropriating land and flocks openly].

“Terrors overtake him like a [suddenly rising] flood;

A windstorm steals him away in the night.

“The sword that reaches him cannot avail,

Nor [does] the spear, the dart, or the javelin.

Let the enemy pursue me and overtake me;

And let him trample my life to the ground

And lay my honor in the dust. Selah.

I pursued my enemies and overtook them;

And I did not turn back until they were consumed.

For innumerable evils have encompassed me;

My sins have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see.

They are more numerous than the hairs of my head,

And my heart has failed me.

Pour out Your indignation on them,

And let [the fierceness of] Your burning anger overtake them.

None who go to her return again,

Nor do they regain the paths of life—

And the ransomed of the LORD will return

And come to Zion with shouts of jubilation,

And everlasting joy will be upon their heads;

They will find joy and gladness,

And sorrow and sighing will flee away.

So the redeemed of the LORD will return

And come with joyful shouting to Zion;

Everlasting joy will be on their heads.

They will obtain gladness and joy,

And sorrow and sighing will flee away.

Therefore justice is far from us,

And righteousness does not overtake us.

We [expectantly] hope for light, but only see darkness;

We hope for gleam of light, but we walk in darkness and gloom.

Judah has gone into exile under affliction

And under harsh servitude;

She dwells among the [pagan] nations,

But she has found no rest;

All her pursuers have overtaken her

In the midst of [her] distress.

“She will [passionately] pursue her lovers, but she will not overtake them;

And she will seek them, but will not find them.

Then she will say, ‘Let me go and return to my first husband,

For it was better for me then than now!’

O Israel, you have [willfully] sinned since the days of Gibeah;

There they (Israel) stand!

Will not the battle against the sons of wickedness overtake them at Gibeah?