You drew near in the day that I called upon you: you said, “Fear not.” O LORD, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.
The above, Lamentations 3:57 & 58, is the LORD in Jeremiah describing His time in death and hell, as Jonah was in the whale’s belly, and how, from there, He resurrected. As we understand, Jeremiah’s name means Jehovah rising (ruwm), as in Jeremiah, and with His rising in him raising us to life (in us).
Both the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and the Thayer’s Greek Lexicons define Jeremiah as meaning “whom Jehovah has appointed.” The purpose of the appointment is to be the body the LORD has prepared for Himself, as the hand of God lifted up against His enemies holding us (by their ever-open mouths) down in hell.
Friends, this is not an exercise or a show. The Biblical reality is there are multiple truths we must accept before we (God’s people) can and will comprehend this is THE foretold time, and I Am the One in whom He is first making His presence known, to raise us as His first fruits. This time is hell and all are dead, except the very elect who’ve received Him, as I’ve received Him and am alive. This ascension is into heaven joined with Him, in full understanding (in the firmament where the waters are divided: God’s word above from the words of devils remaining below in hell – in the earth remaining without form, and void, where darkness, ignorance, remains upon the face of the deep).
Isaiah 26
8 Yea, in the way of your judgments, O LORD, have we waited for you; the desire of our soul is to your name, and to the remembrance [zeker] of you.
9 With my soul have I desired you in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek you early: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
10 Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
11 LORD, when your hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of your enemies shall devour them.
12 LORD, you will ordain peace for us: for you also have wrought all our works in us.
13 O LORD our God, other lords beside you have had dominion [ba’al] over us: but by you only will we make mention [zakar – rememberance] of your name.
14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore have you visited [paqad] and destroyed them, and made all their memory [zeker] to perish.
15 You have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation: you are glorified: you had removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
16 LORD, in trouble have they visited [paqad] you, they poured out a prayer when your chastening [correction] was upon them.
17 Like as a woman with child, that draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and cries out in her pangs; so have we been in your sight, O LORD.
18 We have been with child, we have been in pain [to bring forth the I Am among us], we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen [into the birth canal].
19 Your dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise [as ONE BODY]. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust [the ruin from where you shall rise to life]: for your dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
20 Come, my people, enter you into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
21 For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to punish [paqad] the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
Jeremiah, in Lamentation 3, precisely describes the resurrection (the LORD’s and ours, as ONE BODY) predicated on understanding the magnitude of the moment’s experience and its cause and effect (in death and hell). He/we (in the identical pattern of Jonah 2) realizes He is (we are) spiritually dead in hell: society (now the world) in a constant state of confusion, agitation, and turmoil (tribulation as the storm upon the sea), caused by the mouths of men: demagogues and their devices, community agitators raised into power: lawless abusers who’ve become tyrants.
This realization comes when Jeremiah (in Jeremiah 15) tells of His finding the word of God, the roll he, as does Ezekiel, eats and understands it’s the LORD in it, revealing His presence. These men comprehended the pattern sent forward to them (as Ezekiel’s wheel within a wheel) in which understanding (unfolding light) was life.
People of God, I say again, THIS IS NOT A DRILL. You called and, as He promised, God has sent (manifested Himself in) His message, His living word, as you’ve asked. All you need to do is hear Him and, by faith, respond to His commands.
Ephesians 5
14 Wherefore he says, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light [understanding].
15 See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
17 Wherefore be you not unwise, but understanding what the will of the LORD is.
Lamentations 3
26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
28 He sits alone and keeps silence, because he has borne it upon him.
29 He puts his mouth in the dust [the ruin of the earth – from where He creates man]; if so be there may be hope.
30 He gives his cheek to him that smites him: he is filled full with reproach.
31 For the LORD will not cast off forever:
32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
33 For he does not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.
35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
36 To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approves not.
37 Who is he that says, and it comes to pass, when the LORD commands it not?
38 Out of the mouth of the Most High proceeds not evil and good?
39 Wherefore does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: you have not pardoned.
43 You have covered with anger, and persecuted us: you have slain, you have not pitied.
44 You have covered yourself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
45 You have made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
48 Mine eye run down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 Mine eye trickle down, and ceases not, without any intermission.
50 Till the LORD looks down, and beholds from heaven.
51 Mine eye affects mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
53 They have cut off my life [as Messiah is cut off, but not from Himself] in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me [as upon the mouth of the tomb].
54 Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
55 I called upon your name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
56 You have heard my voice: hide not your ear at my breathing, at my cry.
57 You drew near in the day that I called upon you: you said, Fear not.
58 O LORD, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.
59 O LORD, you have seen my wrong: judge you my cause.
60 You have seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
61 You have heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music.
64 Render unto them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
65 Give them sorrow of heart, your curse unto them.
66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
Jonah 2
1 Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish’s belly,
2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell [sheol – the place where the dead reside] cried I, and you heard my voice.
3 For you have cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all your billows and your waves passed over me.
4 Then I said, I am cast out of your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.
5 The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me forever: yet have you brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto you, into your holy temple.
8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
9 But I will sacrifice unto you with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.
10 And the LORD spoke unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
Jonah 3
1 And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid you.
Matthew 12
40 For as Jonah [dove – the only sign of the end] was three days and three nights in the whale’s [ketos] belly [swallowed by the ever-open mouths of false prophets and false teachers]; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
42 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
Jonah 3
3 So Jonah arose, [kept his vow] and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey.
In Jeremiah 15, the LORD tells of His people no longer comprehending or knowing (the earth without light) the words of Moses and Samuel; names meaning drawn (separated) from the waters (below) and (written by) those who hear Him speaking. He says they forgot and abandoned Him from the time of king Manasseh, meaning those who’ve forgotten (God).
He (Manasseh) brought in idol worship, producing the affliction (tribulation and separation from God) they suffer under those leading and teaching them with corrupt words and ideas mixed with His (creating the mired waters of confusion that bring desolation to men and nations). He says none have pity on or bemoan His fallen people: here described as (His ONE BODY) scattered.
It is into this condition The LORD (Jehovah) manifests Himself, rising first in Jeremiah, whose father finds (rediscovers) the book: the written word abandoned. He reads it and first (the prerequisite) understands the condition (the state of the people and nation) is as foretold therein: desolation that comes from no longer hearing the word of God as the word from His mouth, and not listening, falling into the tribulation (tsarah) He said follows.
This, finding the word, is the same Daniel speaks of in Daniel 9, there saying he found the book of Jeremiah (the wheel within the wheel, the word of God sent forward to give life to those it gives understanding). He says He (as a prerequisite) understood the desolation, the condition of the nation and God’s people: their confusion of face come from not hearing and following the LORD.
He (Daniel, after His prayer of confession and repentance – steps now forgotten, abandoned, and vilified) ends the chapter telling of our time, when the daily sacrifice: the knowledge of God bringing (by the necessary sacrifice of self) His righteous judgment (Daniel – God’s Judgment) and His mercy. It speaks of this as the time when Messiah the Prince (the anointed and appointed one, the king in waiting, of God’s choosing) is cut off, but not from Himself.
The word rendered “cut off,” in Daniel 9:26, is karath, which tells of God’s people leaving Him, forgetting the covenant he “made” with them. It’s referring us to its use, in Jeremiah 11:19, telling of Jeremiah’s understanding (having knowledge of) it, the necessary sacrifice, and the destruction of the men (of Anathoth – who prayed for deliverance, and hearing God speaking, rejected His commandments) who hear it.
Jeremiah, in Jeremiah 12, then talks to the LORD about His (longsuffering) judgment. He asks why the wicked are prospering and saying, “He [The LORD unknown in Jeremiah] shall not see our last end.” The LORD (speaking of the last end and His being “cut off,” but not from Himself, unknown walking in the furnace with them as a burning lamp) tells Jeremiah that time is when he is running with the footman. He (the LORD) asks, if they have wearied him then, how is going to do in this time of war, in the swelling (ga’own – pride) of Jordan. As we understand, this phrase means this time when the waters, wherein, below its surface, lurks death, and they (the waters) carry all men into it (the dead sea). It’s when these dark waters overflow their banks, as the swelled pride of men, whose power is to deceive, exceeds all moral and ethical boundaries.
Jeremiah 11
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying,
2 Hear you the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
3 And say you unto them, Thus says the LORD God of Israel; Cursed be the man that obeys not the words of this covenant,
4 Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall you be my people, and I will be your God:
5 That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.
6 Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear you the words of this covenant, and do them.
7 For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do: but they did them not.
9 And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy [a plot against Me] is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
11 Therefore thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.
12 Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.
13 For according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have you set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal.
14 Therefore pray not you for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.
15 What has my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she has wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? when you do evil, then you rejoice.
16 The LORD called your name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
17 For the LORD of hosts, that planted you, has pronounced evil against you, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.
18 And the LORD has given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then you showed me their doings.
19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
20 But, O LORD of hosts, that judges righteously, that tries the reins and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them: for unto you have I revealed my cause.
21 Therefore thus says the LORD of the men of Anathoth [who’ve prayed for my help and now reject it once it’s come], that seek your life [causing you to have to sacrifice your life to deliver my message], saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that you die not by our hand:
22 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:
23 And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.
Jeremiah 12
1 Righteous are you, O LORD, when I plead with you: yet let me talk with you of your judgments: Wherefore does the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
2 You have planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: you are near in their mouth, and far from their reins.
3 But you, O LORD, know me: you have seen me, and tried mine heart toward you: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, “He shall not see our last end.”
5 [And the LORD in him answered,] If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein you trusted, they wearied you, then how will you do in the swelling [ga’own] of Jordan?
6 For even your brethren, and the house of your father [my own people have cut a covenant with the men they’ve put in my place: calves they call their gods], even they have dealt treacherously with you; yea, they have called a multitude after you: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto you.
7 I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
Jeremiah 15
5 For who shall have pity upon you, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan you? or who shall go aside to ask how you do?
6 You have forsaken me, says the LORD, you are gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against you, and destroy you; I am weary with repenting.
7 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates [between heaven and hell] of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people since they return not from their ways.
8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
9 She that has borne seven languish [the church]: she has given up the ghost; her sun [church – as God intended it to shine His understanding upon the earth] is gone down while it was yet day [while I was among them as a burning lamp]: she has been ashamed and confounded [she hasn’t reached the end her false prophets and false teacher have, in my name, told them of]: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword [this word of God they reject] before their enemies, says the LORD.
10 Woe is me, my mother [wisdom], that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury [I have not given them more or less than I expect in return, as we covenanted], nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them does curse me.
11 The LORD said, Truly it shall be well with your remnant [the elect whom I’ve awakened as My first fruits]; truly I will cause the enemy to entreat you well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
12 Shall [not My] iron [strength] break the northern iron [the strength of darkness] and the steel [the power of ignorance]?
13 Your substance and your treasures [the things you think are valuable, which are the dust and ruin of the earth] will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your borders.
14 And I will make you to pass with your enemies into a land [Babylon, the confusion wherein you now unknowingly dwell] which you know not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.
15 O LORD, you know: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in your longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered rebuke.
16 Your words [which were abandoned and forgotten] were found, and I did eat them; and your word was unto me the joy [as in Job 38:7, when all the morning stars {first fruits} sang together {again risen into heaven: into full understand} and shout for joy] and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by your name {Jeremiah: Jehovah’s Salvation in the flesh: Jesus}, O LORD God of hosts.
17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers [who reject and vilify Your word and work, Your presence, of which they are ignorant], nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of your hand: for you have filled me with indignation.
18 Why is my pain [longsuffering to bring to life Your ONE BODY] perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you be altogether unto me as a liar [as these men who speak words that never come to pass], and as waters [words] that fail?
19 Therefore thus says the LORD [to His people], If you return, then will I bring you again, and you shall stand before me: and if you take forth the precious from the vile [separating my words {This Word} from the corrupt words of false prophets and false teachers], you shall be as my mouth: let them return unto you; but return not you unto them.
20 And I will make you unto this people a fenced brazen wall: and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you: for I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says the LORD.
21 And I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.
Jeremiah 50
43 The king of Babylon [the confusion that now rules the world] has heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish [tsarah – the tribulation they’ve caused] took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail [the confusion and affliction that brings forth the appointed and anointed king, the shepherd and stone sent for this rescue].
44 Behold, he [the LORD] shall come up like a lion from the swelling [ga’own] of Jordan [against the pride of those whose words have carried all the world into death and hell] unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them [the enemies mixed among My people, who’ve led them into death and hell] suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen [anointed] man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?
45 Therefore hear you the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans [those using their words to manipulate and control the world]: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.
46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.
The word “cry,” above in verse 46, is the Hebrew word za’aq, which refers us to its use in Ecclesiastes 9:17, also rendered “cry,” telling us of the voice of God’s wisdom, which is despised and not heard among the so-called wise of the world. BUT, the Word of God takes the city of Babylon, and their cry is heard when it comes.
Ecclesiastes 9
11 I returned, and saw under the sun [when His light is upon the earth], that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happens to them all [as God wills it for His purpose].
12 For man also knows not his time [this time which Only I know, because the One who lives in me told me so]: as the fishes [those whose misleading words, death lurking below the surface of the waters, cause the blinding ignorance that agitates humanity {the sea}, swallowing up their understanding of the LORD here with them the belly of hell], that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds [who are supposed to be soaring in heaven, in the air, with full understanding] that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.
13 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun [when I received understanding], and it seemed great unto me:
14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king [of Babylon] against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered [in whom the LORD did His work] that same poor man.
16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless, the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard [among the so-called wise and powerful of the world].
17 The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry [za’aq] of him that rules among fools.
18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner [in power] destroys much good.
When Jeremiah, in Lamentations 3:53 & 55, tells of the “dungeon” where they took (cut off) his life, the word is “bowr,” meaning “pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison):–cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well.” It is the “pit” Joseph’s brothers put him in before selling him into slavery, and it’s the “dungeon” he was later cast into in Egypt. It’s from the latter he was raised to the throne of Egypt.
We’re told, in Jeremiah 38, it’s the “dungeon” of Malchiah, the son of Melek, names respectively meaning “king of (i.e. appointed by) Jah [Jehovah],” the son of (David) the “King.”
After saying Jeremiah was cast therein, it says “and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire [the cloudy waters of confusion].”
We understand, by the word chebel rendered “cords,” this descent into hell, is for the purposes of the right assessment determined (by the measuring “line”), declared (confessed) to be the “bands” holding God’s people therein, which (lacking these steps) is the “snare” in which all the world now finds itself caught.
Zechariah 2
1 I lifted up my eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line [chebel] in his hand.
2 Then said I, Where go you? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem [God’s people in who he will dwell, in peace by the words that flow from Him], to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.
3 And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth [bringing this message], and another angel went out to meet him [to receive the message sent to those who become the heirs of Salvation],
4 And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein:
5 For I, says the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.
6 Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north [darkness and ignorance], says the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, says the LORD.
7 Deliver yourself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon [confusion].
8 For thus says the LORD of hosts; After the glory has he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that touches you touches the apple of his eye. [The word “apple” is the once used word babah, meaning it is the gate out of Babel, Babylon, for those who see with the “eye” of the LORD. It, therefore, tells of Him telling Babylon, those who touch us, touch those he brings through the gates out of Babylon: confusion]
9 For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me.
10 Sing and rejoice [shout for joy children of the God], O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of you, says the LORD.
11 And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of you, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war] has sent me unto you.
12 And the LORD shall inherit Judah [His elect remnant] his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem [His people at large] again.
13 Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up [as in Jeremiah] out of his holy habitation.
2 Samuel 22
…The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my savior; you saved me from violence.
4 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
5 When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
6 The sorrows [chebel] of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
7 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.
8 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
9 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.
11 And he rode upon a cherub [His messenger by who His presence is manifested to those who receive the report], and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind [by His Spirit soaring in heaven: in full understanding].
12 And he made darkness [ignorance] pavilions round about him, dark waters [word of men: ignorance concealing Him], and thick clouds of the skies.
13 Through the brightness [His understanding sent forth] before him were coals of fire kindled.
14 The LORD thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice.
15 And he sent out arrows [His people with His message], and scattered them [the ignorant]; lightning [understanding], and discomfited them.
16 And the channels [the water flowing to all] of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered [to be out of course and needing to be again laid: remembered], at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
17 He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters [separated me from the waters below];
18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
19 They prevented [went before] me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
20 He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
21 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me. [Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.]
22 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Job 18
5 Yea, the light [understanding] of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
6 The light shall be dark [what they understand is ignorance] in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
10 The snare [chebel] is laid for him in the ground [in the earth], and a trap for him in the way.
These bands, the ways of the wicked, the strength in which they trust, are what Jeremiah describes, in Lamentation 3:62, as the “device” of the wicked against him. He earlier, in verse 60, calls their “device” their “imaginations,” respectively from the words, higgayown (their murmuring against), and machashabah (their plot against {God raising His people}).
Strong’s #1902: higgayown (pronounced hig-gaw-yone’); intensive from 1897; a murmuring sound, i.e. a musical notation (probably similar to the modern affettuoso to indicate solemnity of movement); by implication, a machination.
Strong’s #4284: machashabah (pronounced makh-ash-aw-baw’); or machashebeth {makh-ash-eh’-beth}; from 2803; a contrivance, i.e. (concretely) a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention, plan (whether bad, a plot; or good, advice).
Lamentation 3
60 You have seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations [machashabah] against me.
61 You have heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device [higgayown] against me all the day.
Job 5 [Speaking of the vengeance of the wicked]
2 For wrath kills the foolish man, and envy slays the silly one.
3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
5 Whose harvest the hungry eat up, and taketh it even out of the thorns [from the misleaders mixed among us], and the robber swallows up their substance.
6 Although affliction comes not forth of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground [out of the earth, without the wicked stirring it with His devices];
7 Yet man is born unto trouble [as a snare], as the sparks [in which there is no enlightenment] fly upward.
8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
9 Which does great things and unsearchable; marvelous things without number:
10 Who gives rain [His word from heaven] upon the earth, and sends waters upon the fields [to bring life where nothing has grown]:
11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
12 He disappoints the devices [machashabah] of the crafty [those who think they are the wise of the world], so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong [into destruction].
14 They meet with darkness [ignorance] in the daytime [when understanding is present], and grope in the noonday [now when understanding is at its highest] as in the night [they choose to remain in darkness because their deeds are evil].
15 But he [the LORD] saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
16 So the poor has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.
17 Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore despise not you the chastening of the Almighty:
18 For he makes sore, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole.
19 He shall deliver you in six troubles [tsarah – tribulations, caused by the words of wicked and evil men]: yea, in seven [when His angel, His messenger, comes with His correction] there shall no evil touch you [and He shall lead you out through the gates of Babylon, out of death and hell into heaven: full understanding].
Job 27
27 Behold, I know your thoughts [machashabah], and the devices which you wrongfully imagine [your plot to do violence] against me.
28 For you say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
29 Have you not asked them that go by the way? and do you not know their tokens,
30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
31 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he has done?
32 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb [among the dead].
Psalms 9
1 I will praise you, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will show forth all your marvelous works.
2 I will be glad and rejoice in you: I will sing praise to your name, O you Most High.
3 When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at your presence.
4 For you have maintained my right and my cause; you sit in the throne judging right.
5 You have rebuked the heathen, you have destroyed the wicked, you have put out their name forever and ever.
6 O you enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and you have destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
7 But the LORD shall endure forever: he has prepared his throne for judgment.
8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble [tsarah – in the tribulations].
10 And they that know your name will put their trust in you: for you, LORD, have not forsaken them that [diligently] seek you.
11 Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.
12 When he makes inquisition for blood, he remembers them: he forgets not the cry of the humble.
13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, you that liftest me up from the gates of death:
14 That I may show forth all your praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in your salvation.
15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executes: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion [by their murmuring and plotting again Him]. Selah [stop, think, and understand what you are experiencing, seeing with your own eyes].
17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish forever.
19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in your sight [as Your eyes see].
20 Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah [stop, think, and understand what you are experiencing, seeing with your own eyes].
