Lexicon :: Strong's H6723 - ṣîyâ

“Drought and heat consume the snow waters;

So does Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) [consume] those who have sinned.

“They are gaunt with want and famine;

They gnaw the dry and barren ground by night in [the gloom of] waste and desolation.

A Psalm of David; when he was in the wilderness of Judah.

O God, You are my God; with deepest longing I will seek You;

My [fn]soul [my life, my very self] thirsts for You, my flesh longs and sighs for You,

In a dry and weary land where there is no water.

Yet they still continued to sin against Him

By rebelling against the Most High in the desert.

He opened the rock and water flowed out;

It ran in the dry places like a river.

He turns a wilderness into a pool of water

And a dry land into springs of water;

The wilderness and the dry land will be glad;

The Arabah (desert) will shout in exultation and blossom

Like the [fn]autumn crocus.

“I will open rivers on the barren heights

And springs in the midst of the valleys;

I will make the wilderness a reed-pool of water

And the dry land springs of water.

For He [the Servant of God] grew up before Him like a tender shoot (plant),

And like a root out of dry ground;

He has no stately form or majestic splendor

That we would look at Him,

Nor [handsome] appearance that we would [fn]be attracted to Him.

“They did not say, ‘Where is the LORD

Who brought us up from the land of Egypt,

Who led us through the wilderness,

Through a land of deserts and of pits,

Through a land of drought and of the deep darkness [of the shadow of death],

Through a land that no man passed through

And where no man lived?’

Your mother [Babylon] shall be greatly shamed;

She who gave you birth will be ashamed.

Behold, she will be the least of the nations,

A wilderness, a parched land and a desert.

“Her cities have become an astonishing desolation and an object of horror,

A parched land and a desert,

A land in which no one lives,

And through which no son of man passes.

‘And now it is transplanted in the wilderness,

In a dry and thirsty land [of Babylon].

Or I will strip her naked

And expose her as on the day she was born,

And make her like a wilderness

And make her like a parched land

And slay her with thirst.

“But I will remove the northern army far away from you,

And I will drive it into a parched and desolate land,

With its forward guard into the eastern sea (Dead Sea)

And with its rear guard into the western sea (Mediterranean Sea).

And its stench will arise and its foul odor of decay will come up [this is the fate of the northern army in the final day of the LORD],

For [fn]He has done great things.”

And the LORD will stretch out His hand against the north

And destroy Assyria,

And He will make Nineveh a desolation [a wasteland],

Parched as the desert.