Lexicon :: Strong's H6040 - ʿŏnî

“Behold, you are with child,

And you will bear a son;

And you shall name him Ishmael (God hears),

Because the LORD has heard and paid attention to your persecution (suffering).

The LORD said, “I have in fact seen the affliction (suffering, desolation) of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters (oppressors); for I know their pain and suffering.

“You saw our fathers’ affliction in Egypt,

And You heard their cry by the Red Sea (Sea of Reeds).

‘If I am wicked, woe to me [for judgment comes]!

And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head.

For I am sated and filled with disgrace and the sight of my misery.

“And now my soul is poured out within me;

The days of affliction have seized me.

“I am seething within and my heart is troubled and cannot rest;

Days of affliction come to meet me.

“And if they are bound in bonds [of adversity],

And held by cords of affliction,

“He rescues the afflicted in their affliction,

And opens their ears [so that they pay attention to His voice] in times of oppression.

“Take heed and be careful, do not turn to wickedness,

For you have chosen this [the vice of complaining against God] rather than [learning from] affliction.

Have mercy on me and be gracious to me, O LORD;

See how I am afflicted by those who hate me,

You who lift me up from the gates of death,

Look upon my affliction and my trouble,

And forgive all my sins.

I will rejoice and be glad in Your steadfast love,

Because You have seen my affliction;

You have taken note of my life’s distresses,

Why do You hide Your face

And forget our affliction and our oppression?

My eye grows dim with sorrow.

O LORD, I have called on You every day;

I have spread out my hands to You [in prayer].

Some dwelt in darkness and in the deep (deathly) darkness,

Prisoners [bound] in misery and chains,

Yet He sets the needy securely on high, away from affliction,

And makes their families like a flock.

This is my comfort in my affliction,

That Your word has revived me and given me life.

If Your law had not been my delight,

Then I would have perished in my time of trouble.

Resh.

Look upon my agony and rescue me,

For I do not forget Your law.

Otherwise they drink and forget the law and its decrees,

And pervert the rights and justice of all the afflicted.

“Indeed, I have refined you, but not as [fn]silver;

I have tested and chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

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.

In the days of her affliction and homelessness

Jerusalem remembers all her precious things

That she had from the days of old,

When her people fell into the hand of the adversary,

And no one helped her,

The enemy saw her,

They mocked at her downfall.

Her (ceremonial) uncleanness was on her skirts;

She did not [seriously] consider her future.

Therefore she has come down [from throne to slavery] in an astonishing manner;

She has no comforter.

“O LORD” [cries Jerusalem], “look at my affliction,

For the enemy has magnified himself [in triumph]!”

I am [Jeremiah] the man who has seen affliction

Because of the rod of His wrath.

Remember [O LORD] my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall (bitterness).