Lexicon :: Strong's H6887 - ṣārar

Then Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” Saul answered, “I am greatly distressed; for the Philistines are making war against me, and God has left me and no longer answers me, either through prophets or by dreams; therefore I have called you to make known to me what I should do.”

“I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan;

You have been a good friend to me.

Your [fn]love toward me was more wonderful

Than the love of women.

Then David came to his house (palace) at Jerusalem, and the king took the ten women, his [fn]concubines whom he had left to take care of the house, and placed them under guard and provided for them, but did not go in to them. So they were confined, and lived as widows until the day of their death.

“If there is famine in the land, or if there is pestilence (plague), blight, mildew, migratory locusts, or grasshoppers, if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities, whatever affliction or plague, whatever sickness [there is],

In the time of his distress, this same King Ahaz became yet more unfaithful to the LORD.

On that day King Ahasuerus (Xerxes) gave the [fn]house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews, to Queen Esther; and Mordecai came before the king, because Esther had disclosed what [[fn]relation] he was to her.

“He wraps the waters in His clouds [which otherwise would spill on earth all at once],

And the cloud does not burst under them.

My eye grows dim with grief;

It grows old because of all my enemies.

If I have done evil to him who was at peace with me,

Or without cause robbed him who was my enemy,

Arise, O LORD, in Your anger;

Lift up Yourself against the rage of my enemies;

Rise up for me; You have commanded judgment and vindication.

Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babes You have established strength

Because of Your adversaries,

That You might silence the enemy and make the revengeful cease.

His ways prosper at all times;

Your judgments [LORD] are on high, out of his sight [so he never thinks about them];

As for all his enemies, he sneers at them.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.

You have anointed and refreshed my head with [fn]oil;

My cup overflows.

Be gracious and compassionate to me, O LORD, for I am in trouble;

My eye is clouded and weakened by grief, my soul and my body also.

Because of all my enemies I have become a reproach and disgrace,

Especially to my neighbors,

And an object of dread to my acquaintances;

Those who see me on the street run from me.

As a crushing of my bones [with a sword], my adversaries taunt me,

While they say continually to me, “Where is your God?”

Do not hide Your face from Your servant,

For I am in distress; answer me quickly.

You know my reproach and my shame and my dishonor [how I am insulted];

My adversaries are all before You [each one fully known].

In the midst of Your meeting place Your enemies have roared [with their battle cry];

They have set up their own emblems for signs [of victory].

Do not forget the [clamoring] voices of Your adversaries,

The uproar of those who rise against You, which ascends continually [to Your ears].

A Song of [fn]Ascents.

“Many times they have persecuted me (Israel) from my youth,”

Let Israel now say,

In your lovingkindness, silence and destroy my enemies

And destroy all those who afflict my life,

For I am Your servant.

Like one who [absurdly] binds a stone in a sling [making it impossible to throw],

So is he who [absurdly] gives honor to a fool.

Who has ascended into heaven and descended?

Who has gathered the wind in His fists?

Who has bound the waters in His garment?

Who has established all the ends of the earth?

What is His name, and what is His Son’s name?

Certainly you know!

Bind up the testimony, seal the law and the teaching among my (Isaiah’s) disciples.

Then the jealousy of [fn]Ephraim will depart,

And those who harass [fn]Judah will be cut off;

Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah,

And Judah will not harass Ephraim.

For the bed is too short to stretch out on,

And the blanket is too narrow to wrap around oneself [and likewise all their preparations are inadequate].

For thus says the LORD;

“Behold, I am slinging out at this time the people of this land,

And will cause them [great] distress,

That they may find it [to be as I have said].”

“Kerioth [and the cities] has been taken

And the strongholds seized;

And the hearts of the warriors of Moab in that day

Shall be like the heart of a woman in childbirth.

“See, O LORD, how distressed I am!

My spirit is deeply disturbed;

My heart is overturned within me and cannot rest,

For I have been very rebellious.

In the street the sword kills and bereaves;

In the house there is [famine, disease and] death!

The wind [of God’s relentless wrath] has wrapped up Israel in its wings,

And [in captivity] they will be ashamed because of their sacrifices [to calves, to sun, to moon, to stars, and to pagan gods].

The wickedness of Ephraim [which is not yet completely punished] is bound up [as in a bag];

His sin is stored up [for judgment and destruction].