Lexicon :: Strong's H7043 - qālal

I am so insignificant. How can I answer you?

I place my hand over my mouth.

Those who are blessed by the LORD will inherit the land,

but those cursed by him will be destroyed.

They only plan to bring him down

from his high position.

They take pleasure in lying;

they bless with their mouths,

but they curse inwardly.Selah

Though they curse, you will bless.

When they rise up, they will be put to shame,

but your servant will rejoice.

A mocker seeks wisdom and doesn’t find it,

but knowledge comes easily to the perceptive.

Whoever curses his father or mother ​— ​

his lamp will go out in deep darkness.

Don’t slander a servant to his master

or he will curse you, and you will become guilty.

Don’t pay attention[fn] to everything people say, or you may hear your servant cursing you,

If the ax is dull, and one does not sharpen its edge,

then one must exert more strength;

however, the advantage of wisdom is that it brings success.

They will wander through the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged, and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God.

Nevertheless, the gloom of the distressed land will not be like that of the former times when he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali. But in the future he will bring honor to the way of the sea, to the land east of the Jordan, and to Galilee of the nations.

The LORD of Armies planned it,

to desecrate all its glorious beauty,

to disgrace all the honored ones of the earth.

You say, “No!

We will escape on horses” —

therefore you will escape! —

and, “We will ride on fast horses” —

but those who pursue you will be faster.

he says,

“It is not enough for you to be my servant

raising up the tribes of Jacob

and restoring the protected ones of Israel.

I will also make you a light for the nations,

to be my salvation to the ends of the earth.”

“In her, a nursing infant will no longer live

only a few days,[fn]

or an old man not live out his days.

Indeed, the one who dies at a hundred years old

will be mourned as a young man,[fn]

and the one who misses a hundred years

will be considered cursed.

Look, he advances like clouds;

his chariots are like a storm.

His horses are swifter than eagles.

Woe to us, for we are ruined!

They have treated my people’s brokenness superficially,

claiming, “Peace, peace,”

when there is no peace.

“They have treated the brokenness

of my dear[fn] people superficially,

claiming, ‘Peace, peace,’

when there is no peace.

Woe is me, my mother,

that you gave birth to me,

a man who incites dispute and conflict

in all the land.

I did not lend or borrow,

yet everyone curses me.

And he said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the detestable acts they are doing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and repeatedly anger me, even putting the branch to their nose?[fn]

“For the king of Babylon stands at the split in the road, at the fork of the two roads, to practice divination: he shakes the arrows, consults the idols, and observes the liver.

“Father and mother are treated with contempt, and the resident alien is exploited within you. The fatherless and widow are oppressed in you.

The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his god. They threw the ship’s cargo into the sea to lighten the load. Meanwhile, Jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel and had stretched out and fallen into a deep sleep.

The LORD has issued an order concerning you:

There will be no offspring

to carry on your name.[fn]

I will eliminate the carved idol and cast image

from the house of your gods;

I will prepare your grave,

for you are contemptible.

Their horses are swifter than leopards

and more fierce[fn] than wolves of the night.

Their horsemen charge ahead;

their horsemen come from distant lands.

They fly like eagles, swooping to devour.