Lexicon :: Strong's H6099 - ʿāṣûm

Now the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad had very large herds of cattle, and they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead [on the east side of the Jordan River], and indeed, the place was suitable for raising livestock.

“When the LORD your God brings you into the land which you are entering to possess, and has cleared away many nations before you, the Hittite and the Girgashite and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than you,

“Hear, O Israel! You are crossing the Jordan today to go in to dispossess nations greater and more powerful than you, great cities fortified to heaven,

He crushes [his prey] and crouches;

And the unfortunate fall by his mighty claws.

I will give You thanks in the great congregation;

I will praise You among a mighty people.

Who struck many nations

And killed mighty kings,

For she has cast down many [mortally] wounded;

Indeed, all who were killed by her were strong.

[fn]To cast lots puts an end to quarrels

And decides between powerful contenders.

The [fn]shephanim are not a mighty folk,

Yet they make their houses in the rocks;

Now therefore, listen carefully, the Lord is about to bring on them the waters of the [Euphrates] River, strong and abundant—

The king of Assyria and all his glory;

And it will rise over all its channels and canals and go far beyond its banks.

Therefore, I will divide and give Him a portion with the great [kings and rulers],

And He shall divide the spoils with the mighty,

Because He [willingly] poured out His life to death,

And was counted among the transgressors;

Yet He Himself bore and took away the sin of many,

And interceded [with the Father] for the transgressors.

“The smallest one will become a thousand (a clan),

And the least one a mighty nation.

I, the LORD, will quicken it in its [appointed] time.”

“His power will be mighty, but not by his own power;

And he will corrupt and destroy in an astonishing manner

And [he will] prosper and do exactly as he wills;

He shall corrupt and destroy mighty men and the holy people.

For a [pagan and hostile] nation has invaded My land [like locusts],

Mighty and without number;

Its teeth are the teeth of a lion,

And it has the fangs of a lioness.

A day of darkness and gloom,

A day of clouds and of thick [dark] mist,

Like the dawn spread over the mountains;

There is a [pagan, hostile] people numerous and mighty,

The like of which has never been before

Nor will be again afterward

Even for years of many generations.

Like the noise of chariots

They leap on the tops of the mountains,

Like the crackling of a flame of fire devouring the stubble,

Like a mighty people set in battle formation.

The LORD utters His voice before His army,

For His camp is very great,

Because strong and powerful is he who [obediently] carries out His word.

For the day of the LORD is indeed great and very terrible [causing dread];

Who can endure it?

For I know your transgressions are many and your sins are great (shocking, innumerable),

You who distress the righteous and take bribes,

And turn away from the poor in the [court of the city] gate [depriving them of justice].

And He will judge between many peoples

And render decisions for strong and distant nations.

Then they shall hammer their swords into plowshares

And their spears into pruning hooks [so that the implements of war may become the tools of agriculture];

Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,

Nor shall they ever again train for war.

“I shall make the lame a [godly] remnant

And the outcasts a strong nation;

And the LORD shall reign over them in Mount Zion

From this time on and forever.