Lexicon :: Strong's H6677 - ṣaûā'r

But you shall live by your sword,

And serve your brother;

However it shall come to pass when you break loose [from your anger and hatred],

That you will tear his yoke off your neck [and you will be free of him].”

But Esau ran to meet him and embraced him, and hugged his neck and kissed him, and they wept [for joy].

‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil?

A maiden (concubine) or two for every man;

A spoil of dyed garments for Sisera,

A spoil of dyed garments embroidered,

Two pieces of dyed garments embroidered for the neck of the plunderer?’

Running and charging headlong against Him

With his ornamented and massive shield;

“Have you given the horse his might?

Have you clothed his neck with quivering and a shaking mane?

“In Leviathan’s neck resides strength,

And dismay and terror dance before him.

‘Do not lift up your [defiant and aggressive] horn on high,

Do not speak with a stiff neck.’”

“Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments,

Your neck with strings of jewels.”

“Your neck is like the tower of David,

Built with rows of [glistening] stones,

Whereon hang a thousand shields,

All of them shields of warriors.

“You have ravished my heart and given me courage, my sister, my [promised] bride;

You have ravished my heart and given me courage with a single glance of your eyes,

With one jewel of your necklace.

“Your neck is like a tower of ivory,

Your eyes the [sparkling] pools of Heshbon

By the gate of Bath-rabbim.

Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon

Which looks toward Damascus.

“Then it will [fn]sweep on into Judah; it will overflow and pass through [the hills],

Reaching even to the neck [of which Jerusalem is the head],

And its outstretched wings (the armies of Assyria) will fill the width of Your land, O Immanuel.

His breath is like an overflowing river,

Which reaches to the neck,

To sift the nations back and forth in a sieve [of disaster],

And to put in the jaws of the peoples the bridle which leads to ruin.

Shake yourself from the dust, arise,

O captive Jerusalem;

Rid yourself of the chains around your neck,

O captive Daughter of Zion.

“But any nation or kingdom that will not serve this same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish,” says the LORD, “with the sword, with famine and with pestilence (virulent disease), until I have destroyed it by Nebuchadnezzar’s hand.

Then Hananiah the [false] prophet took the yoke off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah and smashed it.

‘It shall come about on that day,’ says the LORD of hosts, ‘that I will break the yoke off your neck and I will tear off your bonds and force apart your shackles; and strangers will no longer make slaves of the people [of Israel].

“The yoke of my transgressions is bound;

By His hand they are knit and woven together.

They have come upon my neck.

He has made my strength fail;

The Lord has put me into the hand

Of those against whom I cannot stand.

Our pursuers are at our necks;

We are worn out, there is no rest for us.

Therefore, thus says the LORD,

“Behold, I am planning against this family a disaster (exile)

[Like a noose] from which you cannot remove your necks;

Nor will you be able to walk haughtily and erect,

For it will be an evil time [of subjugation to the invaders].

You went forth for the salvation of Your people,

For the salvation and rescue of Your anointed [people Israel].

You struck the [fn]head from the house of the wicked

To lay him open from the thigh to the neck. Selah (pause, and calmly think of that).