Lexicon :: Strong's H5410 - nāṯîḇ

“In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath,

In the days of Jael, the highways were deserted,

And travelers went by roundabout ways.

“A noose is hidden for him on the ground,

And a trap for him on the path.

“He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,

And He has set darkness upon my paths.

“Others have been with those who rebel against the light;

They do not want to know its ways

Nor stay in its paths.

“The path [deep within] no bird of prey knows,

And the falcon’s eye has not caught sight of it.

“They break up and clutter my path [upsetting my plans],

They profit from my destruction;

No one restrains them.

That you may take it to its territory

And that you may know the paths to its house?

“Behind him he makes a shining wake;

One would think the deep to be gray-haired [with foam].

He leveled a path for His anger [to give it free run];

He did not spare their souls from death,

But turned over their lives to the plague.

Make me walk in the path of Your commandments,

For I delight in it.

Nun.

Your word is a lamp to my feet

And a light to my path.

When my spirit was overwhelmed and weak within me [wrapped in darkness],

You knew my path.

In the way where I walk

They have hidden a trap for me.

My son, do not walk on the road with them;

Keep your foot [far] away from their path,

Her ways are highways of pleasantness and favor,

And all her paths are peace.

Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways,

Do not stray into her [evil, immoral] paths.

On the top of the heights beside the way,

Where the paths meet, wisdom takes her stand;

“I, [Wisdom, continuously] walk in the way of righteousness,

In the midst of the paths of justice,

In the way of righteousness is life,

And in its pathway there is no death [but immortality—eternal life].

“I will lead the blind by a way they do not know;

I will guide them in paths that they do not know.

I will make darkness into light before them

And rugged places into plains.

These things I will do [for them],

And I will not leave them abandoned or undone.”

This is what the LORD says,

He who makes a way through the sea

And a path through the mighty waters,

“And your people will rebuild the ancient ruins;

You will raise up and restore the age-old foundations [of buildings that have been laid waste];

You will be called Repairer of the Breach,

Restorer of Streets [fn]with Dwellings.

They do not know the way of peace,

And there is no justice in their tracks.

They have made them into crooked paths;

Whoever walks on them does not know peace.

Thus says the LORD,

“Stand by the roads and look; ask for the ancient paths,

Where the good way is; then walk in it,

And you will find rest for your souls.

But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’

‘Yet My people have forgotten Me;

They burn incense to worthless gods,

They have stumbled from their ways

From the ancient roads,

To walk in pathways,

Not on a highway,

He has blocked my ways with cut stone;

He has made my paths crooked.

“Therefore, behold, I [the LORD God] will hedge up her way with thorns;

And I will build a wall against her [shutting off her way] so that she cannot find her paths.