Lexicon :: Strong's H5768 - ʿôlēl

“Or like a miscarriage which is hidden and put away, I would not exist,

Like infants who never saw light.

Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babes You have established strength

Because of Your adversaries,

That You might silence the enemy and make the revengeful cease.

From men with Your hand, O LORD,

From men of the world [these moths of the night] whose portion [of enjoyment] is in this life—idle and vain,

And whose belly You fill with Your treasure;

They are satisfied with children,

And they leave what they have left [of wealth] to their children.

How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones

Against the rock.

Their children also will be smashed to pieces

Before their eyes;

Their houses will be looted

And their wives ravished.

But I am full of the wrath (judgment) of the LORD;

I am tired of restraining it.

“[I will] pour it out on the children in the street

And on the young men gathered together;

For both the husband and wife shall be taken,

The aged and the very old [though full of days they are not exempt from judgment].

For death has come up through our windows;

It has entered our palaces,

Cutting off the children from the streets

And the young men from the town squares.

Her adversaries have become her masters,

Her enemies prosper;

For the LORD has caused her grief

Because of the multitude of her transgressions;

Her young children have gone

Into captivity before the enemy.

My eyes fail because of tears [mourns Jeremiah],

My spirit is deeply disturbed;

My heart is poured out on the earth [in grief]

Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people [Jerusalem],

When little ones and infants faint

In the streets of the city.

“Arise, cry aloud in the night,

At the beginning of the night watches;

Pour out your heart like water

Before the presence of the Lord;

Lift up your hands to Him

For the life of your little ones

Who are faint from hunger

At the head of every street.”

The tongue of the infant clings

To the roof of its mouth because of thirst;

The little ones ask for food,

But no one gives it to them.

Samaria will be found guilty [and become desolate],

Because she rebelled against her God;

They will fall by the sword,

Their infants will be dashed in pieces,

And their pregnant women will be ripped open.

Gather the people, sanctify the congregation,

Assemble the elders,

Gather the children and the nursing infants.

Let the bridegroom come out of his room

And the bride out of her bridal chamber. [No one is excused from the assembly.]

“You evict the women (widows) of My people,

Each one from her pleasant house;

From her [young, fatherless] children you take away My splendor and blessing forever [by putting them among the pagans, away from Me].

Yet she became an exile;

She went into captivity.

Her young children were dashed to pieces

At the head of every street;

They cast lots for her honorable men,

And all her great men were bound with chains.