Lexicon :: Strong's H5768 - ʿôlēl

“Now go and attack the Amalekites and completely destroy everything they have. Do not spare them. Kill men and women, infants and nursing babies, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’ ”

He also struck down Nob, the city of the priests, with the sword ​— ​both men and women, infants and nursing babies, oxen, donkeys, and sheep.

and Hazael asked, “Why is my lord weeping? ”

He replied, “Because I know the evil you will do to the people of Israel. You will set their fortresses on fire. You will kill their young men with the sword. You will dash their children to pieces. You will rip open their pregnant women.”

Or why was I not hidden like a miscarried child,

like infants who never see daylight?

From the mouths of infants and nursing babies,

you have established a stronghold[fn]

on account of your adversaries

in order to silence the enemy and the avenger.

With your hand, LORD, save me from men,

from men of the world

whose portion is in this life:

You fill their bellies with what you have in store;

their sons are satisfied,

and they leave their surplus to their children.

Happy is he who takes your little ones

and dashes them against the rocks.

Their children will be dashed to pieces before their eyes;

their houses will be looted,

and their wives raped.

But I am full of the LORD’s wrath;

I am tired of holding it back.

Pour it out on the children in the street,

on the gathering of young men as well.

For both husband and wife will be captured,

the old with the very old.[fn]

for Death has climbed through our windows;

it has entered our fortresses,

cutting off children from the streets,

young men from the squares.

“So now, this is what the LORD, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Why are you doing such terrible harm to yourselves? You are cutting off man and woman, infant and nursing baby from Judah, leaving yourselves without a remnant.

Her adversaries have become her masters;

her enemies are at ease,

for the LORD has made her suffer

because of her many transgressions.

Her children have gone away

as captives before the adversary.

My eyes are worn out from weeping;

I am churning within.

My heart is poured out in grief[fn]

because of the destruction of my dear people,

because infants and nursing babies faint

in the streets of the city.

Arise, cry out in the night

from the first watch of the night.

Pour out your heart like water

before the Lord’s presence.

Lift up your hands to him

for the lives of your children

who are fainting from hunger

at the head of every street.

The nursing baby’s tongue

clings to the roof of his mouth from thirst.

Infants beg for food,

but no one gives them any.

Samaria will bear her guilt

because she has rebelled against her God.

They will fall by the sword;

their children will be dashed to pieces,

and their pregnant women ripped open.

Gather the people;

sanctify the congregation;

assemble the aged;[fn]

gather the infants,

even babies nursing at the breast.

Let the groom leave his bedroom,

and the bride her honeymoon chamber.

You force the women of my people

out of their comfortable homes,

and you take my blessing[fn]

from their children forever.

Yet she became an exile;

she went into captivity.

Her children were also dashed to pieces

at the head of every street.

They cast lots for her dignitaries,

and all her nobles were bound in chains.