קָצֵר

Yahweh said to Moses, “Has Yahweh’s hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not.”

They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. The soul of the people was very discouraged because of the journey.

They put away the foreign gods from among them and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

When she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, his soul was troubled to death.

As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?

You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame.

He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.

The fear of Yahweh prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in.

Why, when I came, was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness. Their fish stink because there is no water, and die of thirst.