Lexicon :: Strong's H8074 - šāmēm

“I will send wild animals against you that will deprive you of your children, ravage your livestock, and reduce your numbers until your roads are deserted.

“I will reduce your cities to ruins and devastate your sanctuaries. I will not smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.

“Then the land will make up for its Sabbath years during the time it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and make up for its Sabbaths.

“For the land abandoned by them will make up for its Sabbaths by lying desolate without the people, while they make amends for their iniquity, because they rejected my ordinances and abhorred my statutes.

We threw them down;

Heshbon has been destroyed as far as Dibon.

We caused desolation as far as Nophah,

which reaches as far as Medeba.

The LORD’s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod. He terrified the people of Ashdod and its territory and afflicted them with tumors.[fn][fn]

Though this temple is now exalted,[fn] everyone who passes by will be appalled and will scoff.[fn] They will say, “Why did the LORD do this to this land and this temple?”

As for this temple, which was exalted, everyone who passes by will be appalled and will say, “Why did the LORD do this to this land and this temple?”

This fulfilled the word of the LORD through Jeremiah, and the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation until seventy years were fulfilled.

When I heard this report, I tore my tunic and robe, pulled out some of the hair from my head and beard, and sat down devastated.

Surely he[fn] has now exhausted me.

You have devastated my entire family.

The upright are appalled at this,

and the innocent are roused against the godless.

Those in the west are appalled at his fate,

while those in the east tremble in horror.

Look at me and shudder;

put your hand over your mouth.

Let those who say to me, “Aha, aha! ”

be appalled because of their shame.

Make their fortification desolate;

may no one live in their tents.

for they have devoured Jacob

and devastated his homeland.

My spirit is weak within me;

my heart is overcome with dismay.

Don’t be excessively righteous, and don’t be overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

The highways are deserted;

travel has ceased.

An agreement has been broken,

cities[fn] despised,

and human life disregarded.

This is what the LORD says:

I will answer you in a time of favor,

and I will help you in the day of salvation.

I will keep you, and I will appoint you

to be a covenant for the people,

to restore the land,

to make them possess the desolate inheritances,

“For your waste and desolate places

and your land marked by ruins

will now be indeed too small for the inhabitants,

and those who swallowed you up will be far away.

Just as many were appalled at you[fn] —

his appearance was so disfigured

that he did not look like a man,

and his form did not resemble a human being —

“Rejoice, childless one, who did not give birth;

burst into song and shout,

you who have not been in labor!

For the children of the desolate one will be more

than the children of the married woman,”

says the LORD.

“For you will spread out to the right and to the left,

and your descendants will dispossess nations

and inhabit the desolate cities.

He saw that there was no man —

he was amazed that there was no one interceding;

so his own arm brought salvation,

and his own righteousness supported him.

They will rebuild the ancient ruins;

they will restore the former devastations;

they will renew the ruined cities,

the devastations of many generations.

I looked, but there was no one to help,

and I was amazed that no one assisted;

so my arm accomplished victory for me,

and my wrath assisted me.

Be appalled at this, heavens;

be shocked and utterly desolated!

This is the LORD’s declaration.

“On that day” ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​“the king and the officials will lose their courage. The priests will tremble in fear, and the prophets will be scared speechless.”

Pour out your wrath on the nations

that don’t recognize you

and on the families

that don’t call on your name,

for they have consumed Jacob;

they have consumed him and finished him off

and made his homeland desolate.

They have made it a desolation.

It mourns, desolate, before me.

All the land is desolate,

but no one takes it to heart.

They have made their land a horror,

a perpetual object of scorn;[fn]

all who pass by it will be appalled

and shake their heads.

“I will make this city desolate, an object of scorn. Everyone who passes by it will be appalled and scoff because of all its wounds.

“This is what the LORD says: In this place, which you say is a ruin, without people or animals ​— ​that is, in Judah’s cities and Jerusalem’s streets that are a desolation without people, without inhabitants, and without animals ​— ​there will be heard again

“Edom will become a desolation. Everyone who passes by her will be appalled and scoff because of all her wounds.

Therefore, hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Edom and the strategies he has devised against the people of Teman: The flock’s little lambs will certainly be dragged away, and their grazing land will be made desolate because of them.

Because of the LORD’s wrath,

she will not be inhabited;

she will become a desolation, every bit of her.

Everyone who passes through Babylon

will be appalled

and scoff because of all her wounds.

Therefore, hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Babylon and the strategies he has devised against the land of the Chaldeans: Certainly the flock’s little lambs will be dragged away; certainly the grazing land will be made desolate because of them.

The roads to Zion mourn,

for no one comes to the appointed festivals.

All her gates are deserted;

her priests groan,

her young women grieve,

and she herself is bitter.

I weep because of these things;

my eyes flow[fn] with tears.

For there is no one nearby to comfort me,

no one to keep me alive.

My children are desolate

because the enemy has prevailed.

Those who used to eat delicacies

are destitute in the streets;

those who were reared in purple garments

huddle in trash heaps.

because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate

and has jackals prowling in it.

I came to the exiles at Tel-abib, who were living by the Chebar Canal, and I sat there among them stunned for seven days.

“for lack of bread and water. Everyone will be devastated and waste away because of their iniquity.

“Your altars will be desolated and your shrines[fn] smashed. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols.

“I will turn against that one and make him a sign and a proverb; I will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am the LORD.