Lexicon :: Strong's H8047 - šammâ

Come, behold the works of the LORD,

Who has brought desolations and wonders on the earth.

How they are destroyed in a moment!

They are completely swept away by sudden terrors!

In my ears the LORD of hosts said, “Be assured that many houses will become desolate,

Even great and beautiful ones will be unoccupied.

Listen carefully, the day of the LORD is coming,

Cruel, with wrath and raging anger,

To make the land a horror [of devastation];

And He shall exterminate its sinners from it.

Horrible desolation is left in the city,

And the gate is battered into ruins.

“The young lions have roared at him,

They have made their voices heard and roared loudly.

And they have made his land a waste;

His cities have been destroyed and are burned ruins, without inhabitant.

“A lion has left his lair,

And a destroyer of nations is on his way.

He has gone out from his place

To desolate your land;

Your cities will be in ruins

Without an inhabitant.

“An appalling and horrible thing [bringing desolation and destruction]

Has come to pass in the land:

For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I (Jeremiah) am broken;

I mourn, anxiety has gripped me.

Making their land a desolation and a horror,

A thing to be hissed at perpetually;

Everyone who passes by will be astounded

And shake his head [in scorn].

“He has left His lair like the lion;

For their land has become a horror

Because of the fierceness of the oppressor

And because of the LORD’S fierce anger.”

For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “As My anger and My wrath have been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so My wrath will be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. You will become detested, an object of horror, a curse and a people scorned; and you will no longer see this place.”

“O you daughter who dwells in Egypt and you who dwell with her,

Prepare yourselves [with all you will need] to go into exile,

For Memphis will become desolate;

It will even be burned down and without inhabitant.

“Give a gravestone to Moab,

For she will fall into ruins;

Her cities (pastures, farms) will be desolate,

Without anyone to live in them.

“Edom will become an object of horror; everyone who goes by it will be astonished and shall hiss [scornfully] at all its plagues and disasters.

“For out of the north a nation (Media) has come against her which will make her land desolate, and no one will live there. They have fled, they have gone away—both man and animal.

“How the hammer of the whole earth

Is crushed and broken!

How Babylon has become

A horror [of desolation] among the nations!

The land trembles and writhes [in pain and sorrow],

For the purposes of the LORD against Babylon stand,

To make the land of Babylon

A desolation without inhabitants.

“Babylon will become a heap [of ruins], a haunt and dwelling place of jackals,

An object of horror (an astonishing desolation) and a hissing [of scorn and amazement], without inhabitants.

“How Sheshak (Babylon) has been captured,

And the praise of the whole earth been seized!

How Babylon has become an astonishing desolation and an object of horror among the nations!

“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.

‘You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,

With the cup of horror and desolation,

With the cup of your sister Samaria.

Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke;

Among the tribes of Israel I declare what is certain.

It has made My vine (My people) a waste and object of horror,

And splintered and broken My fig tree.

It has stripped them completely bare and thrown them away;

Their branches have become white.

“For [you have kept] the statutes of Omri [the idolatrous king],

And all the works of the [wicked] house (dynasty) of Ahab;

And you walk in their counsels and policies.

Therefore, I shall hand you over for destruction and horror

And your [city’s] inhabitants for ridicule,

And you shall bear the rebuke and scorn of My people.”

This is the joyous city

Which dwells carelessly [feeling so secure],

Who says in her heart,

“I am, and there is no one besides me.”

What a desolation she has become,

A lair for [wild] animals!

Everyone who passes by her will hiss [in scorn]

And wave his hand in contempt.