Lexicon :: Strong's H7911 - šāḵaḥ

Though the ropes of the wicked

were wrapped around me,

I did not forget your instruction.

If I forget you, Jerusalem,

may my right hand forget its skill.

who abandons the companion of her youth

and forgets the covenant of her God;

My son, don’t forget my teaching,

but let your heart keep my commands;

“Get wisdom, get understanding;

don’t forget or turn away from the words from my mouth.

Otherwise, he will drink,

forget what is decreed,

and pervert justice for all the oppressed.[fn]

For, just like the fool, there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, since in the days to come both will be forgotten. How is it that the wise person dies just like the fool?

In such circumstances, I saw the wicked buried. They came and went from the holy place, and they were praised[fn] in the city where they did those things. This too is futile.

For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything. There is no longer a reward for them because the memory of them is forgotten.

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation,

and you have failed to remember

the rock of your strength;

therefore you will plant beautiful plants

and set out cuttings from exotic vines.

On that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years ​— ​the life span of one king. At the end of seventy years, what the song says about the prostitute will happen to Tyre:

Zion says, “The LORD has abandoned me;

the Lord has forgotten me! ”

But you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker,

who stretched out the heavens

and laid the foundations of the earth.

You are in constant dread all day long

because of the fury of the oppressor,

who has set himself to destroy.

But where is the fury of the oppressor?

“Do not be afraid, for you will not be put to shame;

don’t be humiliated, for you will not be disgraced.

For you will forget the shame of your youth,

and you will no longer remember

the disgrace of your widowhood.

“Whoever asks for a blessing in the land

will ask for a blessing by the God of truth,

and whoever swears in the land

will swear by the God of truth.

For the former troubles will be forgotten

and hidden from my sight.

Can a young woman forget her jewelry

or a bride her wedding sash?

Yet my people have forgotten me

for countless days.

A sound is heard on the barren heights:

the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy,

for they have perverted their way;

they have forgotten the LORD their God.

This is your lot,

what I have decreed for you —

this is the LORD’s declaration —

because you have forgotten me

and trusted in lies.

Yet my people have forgotten me.

They burn incense to worthless idols

that make them stumble in their ways

on the ancient roads,

and make them walk on new paths, not the highway.

But the LORD is with me like a violent warrior.

Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and not prevail.

Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly shamed,

an everlasting humiliation that will never be forgotten.

“Through their dreams that they tell one another, they plan to cause my people to forget my name as their ancestors forgot my name through Baal worship.

All your lovers have forgotten you;

they no longer look for you,

for I have struck you as an enemy would,

with the discipline of someone cruel,

because of your enormous guilt

and your innumerable sins.

“Have you forgotten the evils of your ancestors, the evils of Judah’s kings, the evils of their wives, your own evils, and the evils of your wives that were committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

They will ask about Zion,

turning their faces to this road.

They will come and join themselves[fn] to the LORD

in a permanent covenant that will never be forgotten.

He has wrecked his temple[fn]

as if it were merely a shack in a field,[fn]

destroying his place of meeting.

The LORD has abolished

appointed festivals and Sabbaths in Zion.

He has despised king and priest

in his fierce anger.

Why do you continually forget us,

abandon us for our entire lives?

“People who live in you accept bribes in order to shed blood. You take interest and profit on a loan and brutally extort your neighbors. You have forgotten me. This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.

Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: “Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, you must bear the consequences of your indecency and promiscuity.”

And I will punish her for the days of the Baals,

to which she burned incense.

She put on her rings and her jewelry

and followed her lovers,

but she forgot me.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

Because you have rejected knowledge,

I will reject you from serving as my priest.

Since you have forgotten the law of your God,

I will also forget your sons.

Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces;

Judah has also multiplied fortified cities.

I will send fire on their cities,

and it will consume their citadels.

When they had pasture,

they became satisfied;

they were satisfied,

and their hearts became proud.

Therefore they forgot me.

The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob:[fn]

I will never forget all their deeds.