Strong's G5599 ὦ (o)

And Isaac said to his son, What is this which thou hast quickly found? And he said, That which the Lord thy God presented before me.

And he looked upon Og, and took up his parable and said, Oh, oh, who shall live, when God shall do these things?

And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the Lord should have called the three kings on their way, to give them into the hand of Moab.

And behold, one was cutting down a beam, and the axe head fell into the water: and he cried out, Alas! master: and it was hidden.

And the servant of Elisha rose up early and went out; and, behold, a host compassed the city, and horses and chariots: and the servant said to him, O master, what shall we do?

Lord, remember, I pray thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thine eyes. And Hezekiah wept with a great weeping.

For it is the hand of the Lord that has touched me.

Then I called on the name of the Lord: O Lord, deliver my soul.

O Lord, I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thy handmaid: Thou hast burst my bonds asunder.

O Lord, save now: O Lord, send now prosperity.

Alas for those who forsake right paths, To walk in ways of darkness;

Go to the ant, O sluggard; And see, and emulate his ways, And become wiser than he.

You, O men, I exhort; And utter my voice to the sons of men.

And I said, Woe is me, for I am pricked to the heart; for being a man, and having unclean lips, I dwell in the midst of a people having unclean lips; and I have seen with mine eyes the King, the Lord of hosts.

And I said, O Lord, thou that art supreme Lord, behold, I know not how to speak, for I am a child.

And I said, O sovereign Lord, verily thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, There shall be peace; whereas behold, the sword has reached even to their soul.

For thus saith the Lord, Hew down her trees, array a numerous force against Jerusalem. O false city; there is all oppression in her.

And I said, O ever living Lord! behold, their prophets prophesy, and say, Ye shall not see a sword, nor shall famine be among you; for I will give truth and peace on the land, and in this place.

He that builds his house not with justice, and his upper chambers not with judgment, who works by means of his neighbor for nothing, and will by no means give him his reward.

Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, even concerning this man; they shall not bewail him, saying, Ah brother! neither shall they at all weep for him, saying, Alas Lord.

Woe to the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of their pasture!

They shall come upon thee, and thou shalt not know it, Babylon, that thou wilt even be taken captive: thou art found and taken, because thou didst resist the Lord.

O ever living Lord! thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power, and with thy high and lofty arm: nothing can be hidden from thee.

Thou shalt die in peace: and as they wept for thy fathers that reigned before thee, they shall weep also for thee, saying, Ah lord! and they shall lament for thee down to the grave: for I have spoken the word, said the Lord.

And thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord God: O city that sheds blood in the midst of her, so that her time should come, and that forms devices against herself, to defile herself;

Therefore thus saith the Lord; O bloody city, the caldron in which there is scum, and the scum has not gone out of, she has brought it forth piece by piece, no lot has fallen upon it.

Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord; Woe, woe worth the day!

Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say to the shepherds, Thus saith the Lord God; O shepherds of Israel, do shepherds feed themselves? do not the shepherds feed the sheep?

And he prayed to the Lord, and said, O Lord, were not these my words when I was yet in my land? therefore I made haste to flee to Tarshish; because I knew that thou art merciful and compassionate, long-suffering, and abundant in kindness, and repentest of evil.

O city of blood, wholly false, full of unrighteousness; the prey shall not be handled.

Woe to him that covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evils.

Woe to him that gives his neighbor to drink the thick lees of wine, and intoxicates him, that he may look upon their secret parts.

Alas the glorious and ransomed city.

Ho, ho, flee from the land of the north, saith the Lord: for I will gather you from the four winds of heaven, saith the Lord,

Alas for the vain shepherds that have forsaken the sheep! the sword shall be upon the arms of such a one, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be completely withered, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.

Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.

He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him unto me.

And Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and suffer you? Bring thy son hither.

Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:

The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,

And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:

But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss.

Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.

And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:

But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

O ye men, is not wine the strongest, that enforceth to do thus? And when he had so spoken, he held his peace.

O ye men, do not men excel in strength, that bear rule over sea and land, and all things in them?

O ye men, how should not the king be mightiest, when in such sort he is obeyed? And he held his tongue.

O ye men, how can it be but women should be strong, seeing they do thus?

Then Raguel leaped up, and kissed him, and wept,

But thou, O godless man, and of all other most wicked, be not lifted up without a cause, nor puffed up with uncertain hopes, lifting up thy hand against the servants of God:

I would counsel thee, old man, before thy tortures begin, to taste the swine’s flesh, and save your life; for I feel respect for your age and hoary head, which since you have had so long, you appear to me to be no philosopher in retaining the superstition of the Jews.

Wherefore do you, O children of Abraham, die nobly for your religion.

O priest, worthy of the priesthood! thou didst not pollute thy sacred teeth; nor make thy appetite, which had always embraced the clean and lawful, a partaker of profanity.

O harmonizer with the law, and sage devoted to a divine life!

O aged man of more power than tortures, elder more vigorous than fire, greatest king over the passions, Eleazar!

O blessed old age, and reverend hoar head, and life obedient to the law, which the faithful seal of death perfected.

but I do beg you to yield, and to enjoy my friendship; for I possess the power, not only of punishing those who disobey my commands, but of doing good to those who obey them.

Why do we cheer ourselves with vain counsels, and venture upon a disobedience bringing death?

Why delayest thou, O tyrant? for we are readier to die than to transgress the injunctions of our fathers.

he answered, Not so powerful, O accursed ministers, is your wheel, as to stifle my reasoning; cut my limbs, and burn my flesh, and twist my joints.

We, O accursed tyrant, suffer this for the sake of Divine education and virtue.

O thou hater of virtue and of men, what have we done that thou thus revelest in our blood?

A great favor thou bestowest upon us, O tyrant, by enabling us to manifest our adherence to the law by means of nobler sufferings.

And he, while tormented, said, O period good and holy, in which, for the sake of religion, we brothers have been called to the contest of pain, and have not been conquered.

For religious understanding, O tyrant, is unconquered.

O reasonings more royal than a king, and freer than freemen!

Sacred and harmonious concert of the seven brethren as concerning piety!

O holy seven of harmonious brethren! for as the seven days of creation, about religion,

O reasoning of the sons, lord over the passions, and religion more desirable to a mother than progeny!

O in what way can I describe ethically the affections of parents toward their children, the resemblance of soul and of form engrafted into the small type of a child in a wonderful manner, especially through the greater sympathy of mothers with the feelings of those born of them!

O holy nature and parental feeling, and reward of bringing up children, and unconquerable maternal affection!

O thou mother, who wast tried at this time with bitterer pangs than those of parturition!

O thou only woman who hast brought forth perfect holiness!

O mother of a nation, avenger of the law, and defender of religion, and prime bearer in the battle of the affections!

O thou nobler in endurance than males, and more manly than men in patience!

Ah! wretched I, and many times miserable; who having born seven sons, have become the mother of none.

O seven useless childbirths, and seven profitless periods of labor, and fruitless givings of suck, and miserable nursings at the breast.

Vainly, for your sakes, O sons, have I endured many pangs, and the more difficult anxieties of rearing.

Alas, of my children, some of you unmarried, and some who have married to no profit, I shall not see your children, nor be felicitated as a grandmother.

Ah, that I who had many and fair children, should be a lone widow full of sorrows!

O woman, soldier of God for religion, thou, aged and a female, hast conquered through endurance even a tyrant; and though but weak, hast been found more powerful in deeds and words.

O sons, noble is the contest; to which you being called as a witness for the nation, strive zealously for the laws of your country.

O thou mother, who together with seven children didst destroy the violence of the tyrant, and render void his wicked intentions, and exhibit the nobleness of faith!

Be of good cheer, therefore, O holy-minded mother! holding the firm substance of the hope of your steadfastness with God.

O Israelitish children, descendants of the seed of Abraham, obey this law, and in every way be religious.

O that bitter, and yet not bitter, day when the bitter tyrant of the Greeks, quenching fire with fire in his cruel caldrons, brought with boiling rage the seven sons of the daughter of Abraham to the catapult, and to all his torments!

Unto you therefore, O kings, do I speak, That ye may learn wisdom, and not fall away.

O wicked imagination, whence camest thou in To cover the earth with deceit?

O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth at rest in his possessions, Unto the man that hath nothing to vex him, and that hath prosperity in all things: Yea, unto him that is yet able to receive meat!

O death, acceptable is thy sentence unto the needy, And unto him whose strength faileth, that is now in the last age, And is vexed with all things, And to him that despaireth, and hath lost patience!

O Israel, how great is the house of God! and how large is the place of his possession!