Lexicon :: Strong's H6106 - ʿeṣem

One person dies in excellent health,[fn]

completely secure[fn] and at ease.

Night pierces my bones,

but my gnawing pains never rest.

A person may be disciplined on his bed with pain

and constant distress in his bones,

His bones are bronze tubes;

his limbs are like iron rods.

Be gracious to me, LORD, for I am weak;[fn]

heal me, LORD, for my bones are shaking;

I am poured out like water,

and all my bones are disjointed;

my heart is like wax,

melting within me.

Indeed, my life is consumed with grief

and my years with groaning;

my strength has failed

because of my iniquity,[fn]

and my bones waste away.

When I kept silent, my bones became brittle

from my groaning all day long.

He protects all his bones;

not one of them is broken.

All my bones will say,

“LORD, who is like you,

rescuing the poor from one too strong for him,

the poor or the needy from one who robs him? ”

There is no soundness in my body

because of your indignation;

there is no health[fn] in my bones

because of my sin.

My adversaries taunt me,

as if crushing my bones,

while all day long they say to me,

“Where is your God? ”

Let me hear joy and gladness;

let the bones you have crushed rejoice.

Then they will be filled with dread —

dread like no other —

because God will scatter

the bones of those who besiege you.

You will put them to shame,

for God has rejected them.

For my days vanish like smoke,

and my bones burn like a furnace.

He wore cursing like his coat —

let it enter his body like water

and go into his bones like oil.

As when one plows and breaks up the soil,

turning up rocks,

so our[fn] bones have been scattered

at the mouth of Sheol.

This will be healing for your body[fn]

and strengthening for your bones.

A wife of noble character[fn] is her husband’s crown,

but a wife who causes shame

is like rottenness in his bones.

A tranquil heart is life to the body,

but jealousy is rottenness to the bones.

Bright eyes cheer the heart;

good news strengthens[fn] the bones.

Pleasant words are a honeycomb:

sweet to the taste[fn] and health to the body.[fn]

Just as you don’t know the path of the wind,

or how bones develop in[fn] the womb of a pregnant woman,

so also you don’t know the work of God who makes everything.

I thought until the morning:

He will break all my bones like a lion.

By nightfall you make an end of me.

“The LORD will always lead you,

satisfy you in a parched land,

and strengthen your bones.

You will be like a watered garden

and like a spring whose water never runs dry.

You will see, you will rejoice,

and you[fn] will flourish like grass;

then the LORD’s power will be revealed to his servants,

but he will show his wrath against his enemies.

“At that time” ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​“the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of her officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the residents of Jerusalem will be brought out of their graves.

I say, “I won’t mention him

or speak any longer in his name.”

But his message becomes a fire burning in my heart,

shut up in my bones.

I become tired of holding it in,

and I cannot prevail.

Concerning the prophets:

My heart is broken within me,

and all my bones tremble.

I have become like a drunkard,

like a man overcome by wine,

because of the LORD,

because of his holy words.

He sent fire from on high into my bones;

he made it descend.[fn]

He spread a net for my feet

and turned me back.

He made me desolate,

sick all day long.

He has worn away my flesh and skin;

he has broken my bones.

Her dignitaries were brighter than snow,

whiter than milk;

their bodies[fn] were more ruddy than coral,

their appearance like lapis lazuli.

He said to me, “Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, to[fn] the rebellious pagans who have rebelled against me. The Israelites and their ancestors have transgressed against me to this day.

“I will lay the corpses of the Israelites in front of their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.

“Son of man, write down today’s date, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day.

“They do not lie down

with the fallen warriors of the uncircumcised,[fn]

who went down to Sheol

with their weapons of war,

whose swords were placed under their heads[fn]

and their shields[fn]

rested on their bones,

although the terror of these warriors

was once in the land of the living.

The hand of the LORD was on me, and he brought me out by his Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones.