מַת

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”

At that time we captured all his cities and devoted to destruction the people of every city, including women and children. We left no survivors.

We devoted them to destruction, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.

Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

…and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.

You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.

Let Reuben live and not die, nor his men be few.”

When they were few in number, few indeed, and strangers in the land,

Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?

Surely He knows the deceit of men. If He sees iniquity, does He not take note?

All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.

Will you stay on the ancient path that wicked men have trod?

From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.

…if the men of my house have not said, ‘Who is there who has not had his fill?’—

…from such men, O LORD, by Your hand—from men of the world whose portion is in this life. May You fill the bellies of Your treasured ones and satisfy their sons, so they leave their abundance to their children.

I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.

When they were few in number, few indeed, and strangers in the land,

Your men will fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle.

Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.

Do not fear, O Jacob, you worm, O few men of Israel. I will help you,” declares the LORD. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

Those who escape the sword will return from Egypt to Judah, few in number, and the whole remnant of Judah who went to dwell in the land of Egypt will know whose word will stand, Mine or theirs!