Lexicon :: Strong's H7703 - šāḏaḏ

“He bowed, he fell, he lay [still] at her feet;

At her feet he bowed, he fell;

Where he bowed, there he fell dead.

“The tents of the destroyers prosper;

And those who provoke God are [apparently] secure,

Whom God brings into their power.

“A [dreadful] sound of terrors is in his ears;

While at peace and in a time of prosperity the destroyer comes upon him [the tent of the robber is not at peace].

From the wicked who despoil and deal violently with me,

My deadly enemies who surround me.

O daughter of Babylon, you devastator,

How blessed will be the one

Who repays you [with destruction] as you have repaid us.

The integrity and moral courage of the upright will guide them,

But the crookedness of the treacherous will destroy them.

He who assaults his father and chases away his mother

Is a son who brings shame and disgrace.

Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous;

Do not destroy his resting place;

The [mournful, inspired] oracle ([fn]a burden to be carried) concerning Moab:

Because in a night Ar of Moab is devastated and ruined;

Because in a night Kir of Moab is devastated and ruined.

“Let our outcasts of Moab live among you;

Be a [sheltered] hiding place to them from the destroyer.”

For the extortioner has come to an end, destruction has ceased,

Oppressors [who trample men] have completely disappeared from the land,

A harsh vision has been shown to me;

The treacherous one deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys.

Go up, Elam! Lay siege, Media!

All the groaning [caused by Babylon’s ruthless oppressions] I [the LORD] have brought to an end.

The [mournful, inspired] oracle ([fn]a burden to be carried) concerning [fn]Tyre:

Wail, O ships of Tarshish,

For Tyre is destroyed, without house, without harbor;

It is reported to them from the land of Cyprus (Kittim).

Wail, O ships of Tarshish,

For your stronghold [of Tyre] is destroyed.

Woe (judgment is coming) to you, O destroyer,

You who were not destroyed,

And he who is treacherous, while others did not deal treacherously with him.

As soon as you finish destroying, you will be destroyed;

As soon as you stop dealing treacherously, others will deal treacherously with you.

“Behold, the enemy comes up like clouds,

His chariots like the whirlwind;

His horses are swifter than eagles.

Woe (judgment is coming) to us, for we are ruined!”

News of one [terrible] disaster comes close after another,

For the whole land is devastated;

Suddenly my tents are spoiled and destroyed,

My [tent] curtains [ruined] in a moment.

And you, O desolate one, what will you do?

Though you clothe yourself in scarlet,

Though you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold,

Though you enlarge your eyes with paint,

You make yourself beautiful in vain.

Your lovers (allies) despise you;

They seek your life.

Therefore a lion from the forest will kill them,

A wolf of the deserts will destroy them,

A leopard is watching their cities.

Everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces,

Because their transgressions are many,

Their desertions of faith are countless.

O daughter of my people [says Jeremiah],

Clothe yourself in sackcloth and wallow in ashes;

Mourn [aloud] as for an only son,

A most bitter cry [of sorrow and regret],

For suddenly the destroyer will come upon us [on both prophet and people].

“For a sound of wailing is heard [coming] from Zion:

‘How we are ruined!

We are greatly perplexed and utterly shamed,

Because we have left the land,

Because they have torn down our dwellings.’”

My tent is destroyed,

And all my [tent] cords are broken;

My children have been taken from me [as captives] and are no more.

There is no one to stretch out my tent again

And to set up my [tent] curtains.

“Destroyers have come

On all the caravan roads in the desert,

For the sword of the LORD (Babylon) is devouring

From one end of the land even to the other;

No one has peace or a way of escape.

“I will make their widows more numerous before Me

Than the sand of the seas;

I will bring against them, against the mother of the young men,

A [fn]destroyer at noonday;

I will suddenly cause anguish and terror

To fall on her.

“A voice! The cry of the shepherds

And the wailing of the masters of the flock!

For the LORD is destroying their pasture,

Because of the day that is coming

To destroy all the Philistines

And to cut off from Tyre and Sidon

Every ally who remains.

For the LORD is going to destroy the Philistines,

The remnant [still surviving] of the coastland of [fn]Caphtor.

Concerning [fn]Moab.

Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,

“Woe (judgment is coming) to [the city of] [fn]Nebo, for it has been destroyed!

Kiriathaim has been shamed, it has been captured;

Misgab [the high fortress] has been shamed, broken down and crushed.

“And the destroyer will come upon every city;

No city will escape.

The [Jordan] valley also will be ruined

And the plain will be devastated,

As the LORD has said.

“Moab has been made desolate and his cities have gone up [in smoke and flame];

And his chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter,”

Says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

“Come down from your glory,

O Daughter living in [fn]Dibon,

And sit on the parched ground [among the thirsty]!

For the destroyer of Moab has advanced against you;

He has destroyed your strongholds.

“Moab is shamed, for she has been broken down and shattered.

Wail and cry out!

Tell by [the banks of] the Arnon

That Moab has been destroyed.

“O vines of Sibmah, I will weep for you

More than the weeping of Jazer [over its ruins and wasted vineyards].

Your tendrils [of influence] stretched across the sea,

Reaching [even] to the sea of Jazer.

The destroyer has fallen

On your summer fruits and your [season’s] crop of grapes.

“Wail, O [fn]Heshbon, for Ai [in Ammon] has been destroyed!

Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah!

Wrap yourselves with sackcloth and lament (cry out in grief),

And rush back and forth inside the enclosures;

For Malcam [your powerless god] will go into exile

Together with his priests and his princes.

“But I have stripped Esau (Edom) bare;

I have uncovered his hiding places

And he cannot hide himself.

His descendants have been destroyed along with his brothers (relatives) and his neighbors;

And he is no more.

Concerning [fn]Kedar and concerning the kingdoms of [fn]Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated. Thus says the LORD,

“Arise, go up against Kedar

And destroy the men of the east.

“Then heaven and earth and all that is in them

Will shout and sing for joy over Babylon,

For the [fn]destroyers will come against her from the north,”

Says the LORD.

“Though Babylon should ascend to the heavens,

And though she should fortify her lofty stronghold,

Yet destroyers will come on her from Me,” says the LORD.

For the LORD is going to destroy Babylon and make her a ruin,

And He will still her great voice [that hums with city life].

And the waves [of her conquerors] roar like great waters,

The noise of their voices is raised up [like the marching of an army].

And they will devastate the pride and presumption of Egypt,

And all its hordes will be destroyed.

Their heart is divided (faithless);

Now they must bear their guilt and punishment.

The LORD will break down [the horns of] their altars;

He will destroy their idolatrous pillars.

Therefore an uproar will arise among your people,

And all your fortresses will be destroyed,

As Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle,

When mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.

The field is ruined,

The ground mourns;

For the grain is ruined,

The new wine is dried up,

The fresh oil fails.

“If thieves came to you,

If robbers by night—

How you will be ruined!—

Would they not steal only until they had enough?

If grape gatherers came to you,

Would they not leave some grapes for gleaning?

“On that day they shall take up a [taunting, deriding] parable against you

And wail with a doleful and bitter song of mourning and say,

‘We are completely destroyed!

God exchanges the inheritance of my people;

How He removes it from me!

He divides our fields to the rebellious [our captors].’

“And it will come about that all who see you

Will shrink back and run from you and say,

‘Nineveh is completely ruined!

Who will grieve for her?’

Where will I seek comforters for you?”

Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen,

Because the magnificent trees have been destroyed;

Wail, O oaks of Bashan,

For the inaccessible forest [on the steep mountainside] has come down.