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οὐ — 1893x G3756 οὐ
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Occurrences: 1893 times in 1645 verses
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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:5 - Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth[fn] and no plant had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:17 - but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:18 - The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:1 - Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:3 - but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:4 - “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:5 - but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:9 - Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I don't know,” he replied. “Am I my brother's keeper?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:12 - When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:3 - Then the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with[fn] humans forever, for they are mortal[fn]; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:12 - He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:21 - The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though[fn] every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:22 - “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:4 - “But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:4 - Then the word of the LORD came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:10 - Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:5 - No longer will you be called Abram[fn]; your name will be Abraham,[fn] for I have made you a father of many nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:14 - Any uncircumcised male, who has not been circumcised in the flesh, will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:15 - God also said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:25 - Far be it from you to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:28 - what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five people?” “If I find forty-five there,” he said, “I will not destroy it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:29 - Once again he spoke to him, “What if only forty are found there?” He said, “For the sake of forty, I will not do it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:30 - Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak. What if only thirty can be found there?” He answered, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:31 - Abraham said, “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty can be found there?” He said, “For the sake of twenty, I will not destroy it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:32 - Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?” He answered, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:19 - Your[fn] servant has found favor in your[fn] eyes, and you[fn] have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can't flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I'll die.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:20 - Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it—it is very small, isn't it? Then my life will be spared.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:22 - But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar.[fn])
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:10 - and she said to Abraham, “Get rid of that slave woman and her son, for that woman's son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:16 - Then she went off and sat down about a bowshot away, for she thought, “I cannot watch the boy die.” And as she sat there, she[fn] began to sob.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:5 - The servant asked him, “What if the woman is unwilling to come back with me to this land? Shall I then take your son back to the country you came from?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:33 - Then food was set before him, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told you what I have to say.” “Then tell us,” Laban said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:37 - And my master made me swear an oath, and said, ‘You must not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:39 - “Then I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not come back with me?'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:50 - Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we can say nothing to you one way or the other.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:2 - Isaac said, “I am now an old man and don't know the day of my death.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:1 - So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him: “Do not marry a Canaanite woman.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:6 - Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Paddan Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:15 - I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:8 - “We can't,” they replied, “until all the flocks are gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:15 - Laban said to him, “Just because you are a relative of mine, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:25 - When morning came, there was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? I served you for Rachel, didn't I? Why have you deceived me?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:1 - When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister. So she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I'll die!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:31 - “What shall I give you?” he asked. “Don't give me anything,” Jacob replied. “But if you will do this one thing for me, I will go on tending your flocks and watching over them:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:32 - But if you find anyone who has your gods, that person shall not live. In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself whether there is anything of yours here with me; and if so, take it.” Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:35 - Rachel said to her father, “Don't be angry, my lord, that I cannot stand up in your presence; I'm having my period.” So he searched but could not find the household gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:38 - “I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:25 - When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:26 - Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:28 - Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,[fn] because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:32 - Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob's hip was touched near the tendon.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:14 - They said to them, “We can't do such a thing; we can't give our sister to a man who is not circumcised. That would be a disgrace to us.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:5 - Then they set out, and the terror of God fell on the towns all around them so that no one pursued them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:10 - God said to him, “Your name is Jacob,[fn] but you will no longer be called Jacob; your name will be Israel.[fn]” So he named him Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:21 - When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue him from their hands. “Let's not take his life,” he said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:16 - Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” “And what will you give me to sleep with you?” she asked.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:26 - Judah recognized them and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I wouldn't give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not sleep with her again.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:8 - But he refused. “With me in charge,” he told her, “my master does not concern himself with anything in the house; everything he owns he has entrusted to my care.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:21 - But even after they ate them, no one could tell that they had done so; they looked just as ugly as before. Then I woke up.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:49 - Joseph stored up huge quantities of grain, like the sand of the sea; it was so much that he stopped keeping records because it was beyond measure.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:15 - And this is how you will be tested: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you will not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:34 - But bring your youngest brother to me so I will know that you are not spies but honest men. Then I will give your brother back to you, and you can trade[fn] in the land.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:38 - But Jacob said, “My son will not go down there with you; his brother is dead and he is the only one left. If harm comes to him on the journey you are taking, you will bring my gray head down to the grave in sorrow.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:5 - But if you will not send him, we will not go down, because the man said to us, ‘You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:32 - They served him by himself, the brothers by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because Egyptians could not eat with Hebrews, for that is detestable to Egyptians.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:5 - Isn't this the cup my master drinks from and also uses for divination? This is a wicked thing you have done.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:22 - And we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father; if he leaves him, his father will die.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:23 - But you told your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:26 - But we said, ‘We cannot go down. Only if our youngest brother is with us will we go. We cannot see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:1 - Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, “Have everyone leave my presence!” So there was no one with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:26 - They told him, “Joseph is still alive! In fact, he is ruler of all Egypt.” Jacob was stunned; he did not believe them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:4 - They also said to him, “We have come to live here for a while, because the famine is severe in Canaan and your servants' flocks have no pasture. So now, please let your servants settle in Goshen.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:2 - There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:3 - So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:19 - But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless a mighty hand compels him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:21 - The LORD said to Moses, “When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have given you the power to do. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:11 - Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced at all.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:14 - And Pharaoh's slave drivers beat the Israelite overseers they had appointed, demanding, “Why haven't you met your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as before?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:16 - Your servants are given no straw, yet we are told, ‘Make bricks!' Your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:18 - Now get to work. You will not be given any straw, yet you must produce your full quota of bricks.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:18 - The fish in the Nile will die, and the river will stink; the Egyptians will not be able to drink its water.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:26 - But Moses said, “That would not be right. The sacrifices we offer the LORD our God would be detestable to the Egyptians. And if we offer sacrifices that are detestable in their eyes, will they not stone us?
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:28 - Pharaoh said, “I will let you go to offer sacrifices to the LORD your God in the wilderness, but you must not go very far. Now pray for me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:31 - and the LORD did what Moses asked. The flies left Pharaoh and his officials and his people; not a fly remained.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:4 - But the LORD will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and that of Egypt, so that no animal belonging to the Israelites will die.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:18 - Therefore, at this time tomorrow I will send the worst hailstorm that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded till now.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:24 - hail fell and lightning flashed back and forth. It was the worst storm in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:3 - So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, so that they may worship me.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:5 - They will cover the face of the ground so that it cannot be seen. They will devour what little you have left after the hail, including every tree that is growing in your fields.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:14 - they invaded all Egypt and settled down in every area of the country in great numbers. Never before had there been such a plague of locusts, nor will there ever be again.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:6 - There will be loud wailing throughout Egypt—worse than there has ever been or ever will be again.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:7 - But among the Israelites not a dog will bark at any person or animal.' Then you will know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:10 - Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:16 - On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat; that is all you may do.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:30 - Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:39 - With the dough the Israelites had brought from Egypt, they baked loaves of unleavened bread. The dough was without yeast because they had been driven out of Egypt and did not have time to prepare food for themselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:46 - “It must be eaten inside the house; take none of the meat outside the house. Do not break any of the bones.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:3 - Then Moses said to the people, “Commemorate this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery, because the LORD brought you out of it with a mighty hand. Eat nothing containing yeast.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:12 - Didn't we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians'? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:13 - Moses answered the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the LORD will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:20 - coming between the armies of Egypt and Israel. Throughout the night the cloud brought darkness to the one side and light to the other side; so neither went near the other all night long.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:28 - The water flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:8 - Moses also said, “You will know that it was the LORD when he gives you meat to eat in the evening and all the bread you want in the morning, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we? You are not grumbling against us, but against the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:15 - When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread the LORD has given you to eat.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:28 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you[fn] refuse to keep my commands and my instructions?
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:18 - You and these people who come to you will only wear yourselves out. The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:13 - They are to be stoned or shot with arrows; not a hand is to be laid on them. No person or animal shall be permitted to live.' Only when the ram's horn sounds a long blast may they approach the mountain.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:23 - Moses said to the LORD, “The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, because you yourself warned us, ‘Put limits around the mountain and set it apart as holy.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:4 - “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:5 - You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:7 - “You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:10 - but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:13 - “You shall not murder.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:14 - “You shall not commit adultery.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:15 - “You shall not steal.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:16 - “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:23 - Do not make any gods to be alongside me; do not make for yourselves gods of silver or gods of gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:8 - If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself,[fn] he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:28 - “If a bull gores a man or woman to death, the bull is to be stoned to death, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the bull will not be held responsible.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:18 - “Do not allow a sorceress to live.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:21 - “Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:22 - “Do not take advantage of the widow or the fatherless.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:28 - “Do not blaspheme God[fn] or curse the ruler of your people.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:29 - “Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats.[fn] “You must give me the firstborn of your sons.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:1 - “Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:2 - “Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:5 - If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help them with it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:6 - “Do not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:7 - Have nothing to do with a false charge and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:8 - “Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the innocent.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:9 - “Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:18 - “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast. “The fat of my festival offerings must not be kept until morning.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:21 - Pay attention to him and listen to what he says. Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive your rebellion, since my Name is in him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:24 - Do not bow down before their gods or worship them or follow their practices. You must demolish them and break their sacred stones to pieces.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:32 - Do not make a covenant with them or with their gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:2 - but Moses alone is to approach the LORD; the others must not come near. And the people may not come up with him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:11 - But God did not raise his hand against these leaders of the Israelites; they saw God, and they ate and drank.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:34 - And if any of the meat of the ordination ram or any bread is left over till morning, burn it up. It must not be eaten, because it is sacred.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:9 - Do not offer on this altar any other incense or any burnt offering or grain offering, and do not pour a drink offering on it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:15 - The rich are not to give more than a half shekel and the poor are not to give less when you make the offering to the LORD to atone for your lives.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:20 - Whenever they enter the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water so that they will not die. Also, when they approach the altar to minister by presenting a food offering to the LORD,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:32 - Do not pour it on anyone else's body and do not make any other oil using the same formula. It is sacred, and you are to consider it sacred.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:37 - Do not make any incense with this formula for yourselves; consider it holy to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:3 - Go up to the land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people and I might destroy you on the way.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:20 - But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:7 - maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:10 - Then the LORD said: “I am making a covenant with you. Before all your people I will do wonders never before done in any nation in all the world. The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the LORD, will do for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:14 - Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:17 - “Do not make any idols.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:25 - “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Festival remain until morning.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:26 - “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. “Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:3 - Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:17 - He shall tear it open by the wings, not dividing it completely, and then the priest shall burn it on the wood that is burning on the altar. It is a burnt offering, a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:11 - “ ‘Every grain offering you bring to the LORD must be made without yeast, for you are not to burn any yeast or honey in a food offering presented to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:13 - Season all your grain offerings with salt. Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offerings; add salt to all your offerings.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:2 - “Say to the Israelites: ‘When anyone sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the LORD's commands—
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:13 - “ ‘If the whole Israelite community sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the LORD's commands, even though the community is unaware of the matter, when they realize their guilt
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:22 - “ ‘When a leader sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the commands of the LORD his God, when he realizes his guilt
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:27 - “ ‘If any member of the community sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the LORD's commands, when they realize their guilt
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:8 - They are to bring them to the priest, who shall first offer the one for the sin offering. He is to wring its head from its neck, not dividing it completely,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:17 - “If anyone sins and does what is forbidden in any of the LORD's commands, even though they do not know it, they are guilty and will be held responsible.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:9 - “Give Aaron and his sons this command: ‘These are the regulations for the burnt offering: The burnt offering is to remain on the altar hearth throughout the night, till morning, and the fire must be kept burning on the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:12 - The fire on the altar must be kept burning; it must not go out. Every morning the priest is to add firewood and arrange the burnt offering on the fire and burn the fat of the fellowship offerings on it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:13 - The fire must be kept burning on the altar continuously; it must not go out.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:17 - It must not be baked with yeast; I have given it as their share of the food offerings presented to me. Like the sin offering[fn] and the guilt offering, it is most holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:23 - Every grain offering of a priest shall be burned completely; it must not be eaten.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:30 - But any sin offering whose blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place must not be eaten; it must be burned up.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:15 - The meat of their fellowship offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the day it is offered; they must leave none of it till morning.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:18 - If any meat of the fellowship offering is eaten on the third day, the one who offered it will not be accepted. It will not be reckoned to their credit, for it has become impure; the person who eats any of it will be held responsible.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:19 - “ ‘Meat that touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up. As for other meat, anyone ceremonially clean may eat it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:24 - The fat of an animal found dead or torn by wild animals may be used for any other purpose, but you must not eat it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:1 - Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense; and they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, contrary to his command.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:6 - Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not let your hair become unkempt[fn] and do not tear your clothes, or you will die and the LORD will be angry with the whole community. But your relatives, all the Israelites, may mourn for those the LORD has destroyed by fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:9 - “You and your sons are not to drink wine or other fermented drink whenever you go into the tent of meeting, or you will die. This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:18 - Since its blood was not taken into the Holy Place, you should have eaten the goat in the sanctuary area, as I commanded.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:4 - “ ‘There are some that only chew the cud or only have a divided hoof, but you must not eat them. The camel, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:5 - The hyrax, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:6 - The rabbit, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:8 - You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:13 - “ ‘These are the birds you are to regard as unclean and not eat because they are unclean: the eagle,[fn] the vulture, the black vulture,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:26 - “ ‘Every animal that does not have a divided hoof or that does not chew the cud is unclean for you; whoever touches the carcass of any of them will be unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:41 - “ ‘Every creature that moves along the ground is to be regarded as unclean; it is not to be eaten.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:42 - You are not to eat any creature that moves along the ground, whether it moves on its belly or walks on all fours or on many feet; it is unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:43 - Do not defile yourselves by any of these creatures. Do not make yourselves unclean by means of them or be made unclean by them.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:44 - I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy. Do not make yourselves unclean by any creature that moves along the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:4 - If the shiny spot on the skin is white but does not appear to be more than skin deep and the hair in it has not turned white, the priest is to isolate the affected person for seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:5 - On the seventh day the priest is to examine them, and if he sees that the sore is unchanged and has not spread in the skin, he is to isolate them for another seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:6 - On the seventh day the priest is to examine them again, and if the sore has faded and has not spread in the skin, the priest shall pronounce them clean; it is only a rash. They must wash their clothes, and they will be clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:32 - On the seventh day the priest is to examine the sore, and if it has not spread and there is no yellow hair in it and it does not appear to be more than skin deep,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:33 - then the man or woman must shave themselves, except for the affected area, and the priest is to keep them isolated another seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:34 - On the seventh day the priest is to examine the sore, and if it has not spread in the skin and appears to be no more than skin deep, the priest shall pronounce them clean. They must wash their clothes, and they will be clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:55 - After the article has been washed, the priest is to examine it again, and if the mold has not changed its appearance, even though it has not spread, it is unclean. Burn it, no matter which side of the fabric has been spoiled.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:36 - The priest is to order the house to be emptied before he goes in to examine the mold, so that nothing in the house will be pronounced unclean. After this the priest is to go in and inspect the house.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:39 - On the seventh day the priest shall return to inspect the house. If the mold has spread on the walls,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:48 - “But if the priest comes to examine it and the mold has not spread after the house has been plastered, he shall pronounce the house clean, because the defiling mold is gone.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:11 - “ ‘Anyone the man with a discharge touches without rinsing his hands with water must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:29 - “This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month you must deny yourselves[fn] and not do any work—whether native-born or a foreigner residing among you—
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:7 - They must no longer offer any of their sacrifices to the goat idols[fn] to whom they prostitute themselves. This is to be a lasting ordinance for them and for the generations to come.'
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:12 - Therefore I say to the Israelites, “None of you may eat blood, nor may any foreigner residing among you eat blood.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:14 - because the life of every creature is its blood. That is why I have said to the Israelites, “You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is its blood; anyone who eats it must be cut off.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:3 - You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:6 - “ ‘No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:17 - “ ‘Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. Do not have sexual relations with either her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:18 - “ ‘Do not take your wife's sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:19 - “ ‘Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleanness of her monthly period.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:20 - “ ‘Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor's wife and defile yourself with her.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:21 - “ ‘Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molek, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:22 - “ ‘Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:23 - “ ‘Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:26 - But you must keep my decrees and my laws. The native-born and the foreigners residing among you must not do any of these detestable things,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:30 - Keep my requirements and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not defile yourselves with them. I am the LORD your God.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:4 - “ ‘Do not turn to idols or make metal gods for yourselves. I am the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:7 - If any of it is eaten on the third day, it is impure and will not be accepted.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:9 - “ ‘When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:11 - “ ‘Do not steal. “ ‘Do not lie. “ ‘Do not deceive one another.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:12 - “ ‘Do not swear falsely by my name and so profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:13 - “ ‘Do not defraud or rob your neighbor. “ ‘Do not hold back the wages of a hired worker overnight.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:14 - “ ‘Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but fear your God. I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:15 - “ ‘Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:16 - “ ‘Do not go about spreading slander among your people. “ ‘Do not do anything that endangers your neighbor's life. I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:17 - “ ‘Do not hate a fellow Israelite in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in their guilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:18 - “ ‘Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:19 - “ ‘Keep my decrees. “ ‘Do not mate different kinds of animals. “ ‘Do not plant your field with two kinds of seed. “ ‘Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:20 - “ ‘If a man sleeps with a female slave who is promised to another man but who has not been ransomed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment.[fn] Yet they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:23 - “ ‘When you enter the land and plant any kind of fruit tree, regard its fruit as forbidden.[fn] For three years you are to consider it forbidden[fn]; it must not be eaten.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:27 - “ ‘Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:28 - “ ‘Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:29 - “ ‘Do not degrade your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will turn to prostitution and be filled with wickedness.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:31 - “ ‘Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:33 - “ ‘When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:35 - “ ‘Do not use dishonest standards when measuring length, weight or quantity.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:22 - “ ‘Keep all my decrees and laws and follow them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:25 - “ ‘You must therefore make a distinction between clean and unclean animals and between unclean and clean birds. Do not defile yourselves by any animal or bird or anything that moves along the ground—those that I have set apart as unclean for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:1 - The LORD said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: ‘A priest must not make himself ceremonially unclean for any of his people who die,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:4 - He must not make himself unclean for people related to him by marriage,[fn] and so defile himself.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:5 - “ ‘Priests must not shave their heads or shave off the edges of their beards or cut their bodies.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:6 - They must be holy to their God and must not profane the name of their God. Because they present the food offerings to the LORD, the food of their God, they are to be holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:7 - “ ‘They must not marry women defiled by prostitution or divorced from their husbands, because priests are holy to their God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:10 - “ ‘The high priest, the one among his brothers who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and who has been ordained to wear the priestly garments, must not let his hair become unkempt[fn] or tear his clothes.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:11 - He must not enter a place where there is a dead body. He must not make himself unclean, even for his father or mother,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:12 - nor leave the sanctuary of his God or desecrate it, because he has been dedicated by the anointing oil of his God. I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:14 - He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or a woman defiled by prostitution, but only a virgin from his own people,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:15 - so that he will not defile his offspring among his people. I am the LORD, who makes him holy.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:17 - “Say to Aaron: ‘For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:18 - No man who has any defect may come near: no man who is blind or lame, disfigured or deformed;
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:21 - No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any defect is to come near to present the food offerings to the LORD. He has a defect; he must not come near to offer the food of his God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:23 - yet because of his defect, he must not go near the curtain or approach the altar, and so desecrate my sanctuary. I am the LORD, who makes them holy.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:2 - “Tell Aaron and his sons to treat with respect the sacred offerings the Israelites consecrate to me, so they will not profane my holy name. I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:8 - He must not eat anything found dead or torn by wild animals, and so become unclean through it. I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:10 - “ ‘No one outside a priest's family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired worker eat it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:12 - If a priest's daughter marries anyone other than a priest, she may not eat any of the sacred contributions.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:13 - But if a priest's daughter becomes a widow or is divorced, yet has no children, and she returns to live in her father's household as in her youth, she may eat her father's food. No unauthorized person, however, may eat it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:15 - The priests must not desecrate the sacred offerings the Israelites present to the LORD
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:20 - Do not bring anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:22 - Do not offer to the LORD the blind, the injured or the maimed, or anything with warts or festering or running sores. Do not place any of these on the altar as a food offering presented to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:23 - You may, however, present as a freewill offering an ox[fn] or a sheep that is deformed or stunted, but it will not be accepted in fulfillment of a vow.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:24 - You must not offer to the LORD an animal whose testicles are bruised, crushed, torn or cut. You must not do this in your own land,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:25 - and you must not accept such animals from the hand of a foreigner and offer them as the food of your God. They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and have defects.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:28 - Do not slaughter a cow or a sheep and its young on the same day.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:32 - Do not profane my holy name, for I must be acknowledged as holy by the Israelites. I am the LORD, who made you holy
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:3 - “ ‘There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a sabbath to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:7 - On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:8 - For seven days present a food offering to the LORD. And on the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:14 - You must not eat any bread, or roasted or new grain, until the very day you bring this offering to your God. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:21 - On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly and do no regular work. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:22 - “ ‘When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and for the foreigner residing among you. I am the LORD your God.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:25 - Do no regular work, but present a food offering to the LORD.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:28 - Do not do any work on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:31 - You shall do no work at all. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:35 - The first day is a sacred assembly; do no regular work.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:36 - For seven days present food offerings to the LORD, and on the eighth day hold a sacred assembly and present a food offering to the LORD. It is the closing special assembly; do no regular work.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:4 - But in the seventh year the land is to have a year of sabbath rest, a sabbath to the LORD. Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:11 - The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; do not sow and do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the untended vines.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:23 - “ ‘The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you reside in my land as foreigners and strangers.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:34 - But the pastureland belonging to their towns must not be sold; it is their permanent possession.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:36 - Do not take interest or any profit from them, but fear your God, so that they may continue to live among you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:37 - You must not lend them money at interest or sell them food at a profit.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:39 - “ ‘If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to you, do not make them work as slaves.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:42 - Because the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt, they must not be sold as slaves.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:43 - Do not rule over them ruthlessly, but fear your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:46 - You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:53 - They are to be treated as workers hired from year to year; you must see to it that those to whom they owe service do not rule over them ruthlessly.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:1 - “ ‘Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:6 - “ ‘I will grant peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid. I will remove wild beasts from the land, and the sword will not pass through your country.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:11 - I will put my dwelling place[fn] among you, and I will not abhor you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:20 - Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:26 - When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:31 - I will turn your cities into ruins and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:37 - They will stumble over one another as though fleeing from the sword, even though no one is pursuing them. So you will not be able to stand before your enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:11 - If what they vowed is a ceremonially unclean animal—one that is not acceptable as an offering to the LORD—the animal must be presented to the priest,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:26 - “ ‘No one, however, may dedicate the firstborn of an animal, since the firstborn already belongs to the LORD; whether an ox[fn] or a sheep, it is the LORD's.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:29 - “ ‘No person devoted to destruction[fn] may be ransomed; they are to be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:33 - No one may pick out the good from the bad or make any substitution. If anyone does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute become holy and cannot be redeemed.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:49 - “You must not count the tribe of Levi or include them in the census of the other Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:33 - The Levites, however, were not counted along with the other Israelites, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:19 - So that they may live and not die when they come near the most holy things, do this for them: Aaron and his sons are to go into the sanctuary and assign to each man his work and what he is to carry.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:20 - But the Kohathites must not go in to look at the holy things, even for a moment, or they will die.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:3 - Send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:3 - they must abstain from wine and other fermented drink and must not drink vinegar made from wine or other fermented drink. They must not drink grape juice or eat grapes or raisins.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:4 - As long as they remain under their Nazirite vow, they must not eat anything that comes from the grapevine, not even the seeds or skins.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:7 - Even if their own father or mother or brother or sister dies, they must not make themselves ceremonially unclean on account of them, because the symbol of their dedication to God is on their head.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:12 - They must not leave any of it till morning or break any of its bones. When they celebrate the Passover, they must follow all the regulations.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:13 - But if anyone who is ceremonially clean and not on a journey fails to celebrate the Passover, they must be cut off from their people for not presenting the LORD's offering at the appointed time. They will bear the consequences of their sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:19 - When the cloud remained over the tabernacle a long time, the Israelites obeyed the LORD's order and did not set out.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:22 - Whether the cloud stayed over the tabernacle for two days or a month or a year, the Israelites would remain in camp and not set out; but when it lifted, they would set out.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:7 - To gather the assembly, blow the trumpets, but not with the signal for setting out.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:30 - He answered, “No, I will not go; I am going back to my own land and my own people.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:14 - I cannot carry all these people by myself; the burden is too heavy for me.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:8 - With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:31 - But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can't attack those people; they are stronger than we are.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:11 - The LORD said to Moses, “How long will these people treat me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the signs I have performed among them?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:18 - ‘The LORD is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.'
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:42 - Do not go up, because the LORD is not with you. You will be defeated by your enemies,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:34 - and they kept him in custody, because it was not clear what should be done to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:39 - You will have these tassels to look at and so you will remember all the commands of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by chasing after the lusts of your own hearts and eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:10 - The LORD said to Moses, “Put back Aaron's staff in front of the ark of the covenant law, to be kept as a sign to the rebellious. This will put an end to their grumbling against me, so that they will not die.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:3 - They are to be responsible to you and are to perform all the duties of the tent, but they must not go near the furnishings of the sanctuary or the altar. Otherwise both they and you will die.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:4 - They are to join you and be responsible for the care of the tent of meeting—all the work at the tent—and no one else may come near where you are.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:17 - “But you must not redeem the firstborn of a cow, a sheep or a goat; they are holy. Splash their blood against the altar and burn their fat as a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:20 - The LORD said to Aaron, “You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any share among them; I am your share and your inheritance among the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:22 - From now on the Israelites must not go near the tent of meeting, or they will bear the consequences of their sin and will die.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:23 - It is the Levites who are to do the work at the tent of meeting and bear the responsibility for any offenses they commit against it. This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. They will receive no inheritance among the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:24 - Instead, I give to the Levites as their inheritance the tithes that the Israelites present as an offering to the LORD. That is why I said concerning them: ‘They will have no inheritance among the Israelites.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:32 - By presenting the best part of it you will not be guilty in this matter; then you will not defile the holy offerings of the Israelites, and you will not die.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:12 - They must purify themselves with the water on the third day and on the seventh day; then they will be clean. But if they do not purify themselves on the third and seventh days, they will not be clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:13 - If they fail to purify themselves after touching a human corpse, they defile the LORD's tabernacle. They must be cut off from Israel. Because the water of cleansing has not been sprinkled on them, they are unclean; their uncleanness remains on them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:20 - But if those who are unclean do not purify themselves, they must be cut off from the community, because they have defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water of cleansing has not been sprinkled on them, and they are unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:5 - Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to this terrible place? It has no grain or figs, grapevines or pomegranates. And there is no water to drink!”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:17 - Please let us pass through your country. We will not go through any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will travel along the King's Highway and not turn to the right or to the left until we have passed through your territory.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:18 - But Edom answered: “You may not pass through here; if you try, we will march out and attack you with the sword.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:20 - Again they answered: “You may not pass through.” Then Edom came out against them with a large and powerful army.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:24 - “Aaron will be gathered to his people. He will not enter the land I give the Israelites, because both of you rebelled against my command at the waters of Meribah.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:22 - “Let us pass through your country. We will not turn aside into any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will travel along the King's Highway until we have passed through your territory.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:12 - But God said to Balaam, “Do not go with them. You must not put a curse on those people, because they are blessed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:14 - So the Moabite officials returned to Balak and said, “Balaam refused to come with us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:18 - But Balaam answered them, “Even if Balak gave me all the silver and gold in his palace, I could not do anything great or small to go beyond the command of the LORD my God.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:34 - Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, “I have sinned. I did not realize you were standing in the road to oppose me. Now if you are displeased, I will go back.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:37 - Balak said to Balaam, “Did I not send you an urgent summons? Why didn't you come to me? Am I really not able to reward you?”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:9 - From the rocky peaks I see them, from the heights I view them. I see a people who live apart and do not consider themselves one of the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:13 - Then Balak said to him, “Come with me to another place where you can see them; you will not see them all but only the outskirts of their camp. And from there, curse them for me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:20 - I have received a command to bless; he has blessed, and I cannot change it.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:23 - There is no divination against[fn] Jacob, no evil omens against[fn] Israel. It will now be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘See what God has done!'
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:24 - The people rise like a lioness; they rouse themselves like a lion that does not rest till it devours its prey and drinks the blood of its victims.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:13 - ‘Even if Balak gave me all the silver and gold in his palace, I could not do anything of my own accord, good or bad, to go beyond the command of the LORD—and I must say only what the LORD says'?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:62 - All the male Levites a month old or more numbered 23,000. They were not counted along with the other Israelites because they received no inheritance among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:65 - For the LORD had told those Israelites they would surely die in the wilderness, and not one of them was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:18 - On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:25 - On the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:26 - “ ‘On the day of firstfruits, when you present to the LORD an offering of new grain during the Festival of Weeks, hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:1 - “ ‘On the first day of the seventh month hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. It is a day for you to sound the trumpets.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:7 - “ ‘On the tenth day of this seventh month hold a sacred assembly. You must deny yourselves[fn] and do no work.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:12 - “ ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. Celebrate a festival to the LORD for seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:35 - “ ‘On the eighth day hold a closing special assembly and do no regular work.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:2 - When a man makes a vow to the LORD or takes an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word but must do everything he said.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:5 - But if her father forbids her when he hears about it, none of her vows or the pledges by which she obligated herself will stand; the LORD will release her because her father has forbidden her.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:8 - But if her husband forbids her when he hears about it, he nullifies the vow that obligates her or the rash promise by which she obligates herself, and the LORD will release her.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:12 - But if her husband nullifies them when he hears about them, then none of the vows or pledges that came from her lips will stand. Her husband has nullified them, and the LORD will release her.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:49 - and said to him, “Your servants have counted the soldiers under our command, and not one is missing.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:11 - ‘Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of those who were twenty years old or more when they came up out of Egypt will see the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:18 - We will not return to our homes until each of the Israelites has received their inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:12 - They will be places of refuge from the avenger, so that anyone accused of murder may not die before they stand trial before the assembly.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:22 - “ ‘But if without enmity someone suddenly pushes another or throws something at them unintentionally
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:30 - “ ‘Anyone who kills a person is to be put to death as a murderer only on the testimony of witnesses. But no one is to be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:31 - “ ‘Do not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer, who deserves to die. They are to be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:32 - “ ‘Do not accept a ransom for anyone who has fled to a city of refuge and so allow them to go back and live on their own land before the death of the high priest.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:33 - “ ‘Do not pollute the land where you are. Bloodshed pollutes the land, and atonement cannot be made for the land on which blood has been shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:34 - Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell, for I, the LORD, dwell among the Israelites.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:9 - No inheritance may pass from one tribe to another, for each Israelite tribe is to keep the land it inherits.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:9 - At that time I said to you, “You are too heavy a burden for me to carry alone.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:17 - Do not show partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be afraid of anyone, for judgment belongs to God. Bring me any case too hard for you, and I will hear it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:37 - Because of you the LORD became angry with me also and said, “You shall not enter it, either.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:42 - But the LORD said to me, “Tell them, ‘Do not go up and fight, because I will not be with you. You will be defeated by your enemies.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:5 - Do not provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, not even enough to put your foot on. I have given Esau the hill country of Seir as his own.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:9 - Then the LORD said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any part of their land. I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:19 - When you come to the Ammonites, do not harass them or provoke them to war, for I will not give you possession of any land belonging to the Ammonites. I have given it as a possession to the descendants of Lot.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:34 - At that time we took all his towns and completely destroyed[fn] them—men, women and children. We left no survivors.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:37 - But in accordance with the command of the LORD our God, you did not encroach on any of the land of the Ammonites, neither the land along the course of the Jabbok nor that around the towns in the hills.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:22 - Do not be afraid of them; the LORD your God himself will fight for you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:27 - Go up to the top of Pisgah and look west and north and south and east. Look at the land with your own eyes, since you are not going to cross this Jordan.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:2 - Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the LORD your God that I give you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:22 - I will die in this land; I will not cross the Jordan; but you are about to cross over and take possession of that good land.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:42 - to which anyone who had killed a person could flee if they had unintentionally killed a neighbor without malice aforethought. They could flee into one of these cities and save their life.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:8 - “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:9 - You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:11 - “You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:14 - but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your ox, your donkey or any of your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns, so that your male and female servants may rest, as you do.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:17 - “You shall not murder.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:18 - “You shall not commit adultery.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:19 - “You shall not steal.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:20 - “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:22 - These are the commandments the LORD proclaimed in a loud voice to your whole assembly there on the mountain from out of the fire, the cloud and the deep darkness; and he added nothing more. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:11 - houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant—then when you eat and are satisfied,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:14 - Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:2 - and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally.[fn] Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:3 - Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:16 - You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God gives over to you. Do not look on them with pity and do not serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:18 - But do not be afraid of them; remember well what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:21 - Do not be terrified by them, for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:22 - The LORD your God will drive out those nations before you, little by little. You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:25 - The images of their gods you are to burn in the fire. Do not covet the silver and gold on them, and do not take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:4 - Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:9 - a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:16 - Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and do not be stiff-necked any longer.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:17 - For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:17 - Then the LORD's anger will burn against you, and he will shut up the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce, and you will soon perish from the good land the LORD is giving you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:4 - You must not worship the LORD your God in their way.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:8 - You are not to do as we do here today, everyone doing as they see fit,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:9 - since you have not yet reached the resting place and the inheritance the LORD your God is giving you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:16 - But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:17 - You must not eat in your own towns the tithe of your grain and new wine and olive oil, or the firstborn of your herds and flocks, or whatever you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:23 - But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:24 - You must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:25 - Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:30 - and after they have been destroyed before you, be careful not to be ensnared by inquiring about their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? We will do the same.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:31 - You must not worship the LORD your God in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:32 - See that you do all I command you; do not add to it or take away from it.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:8 - do not yield to them or listen to them. Show them no pity. Do not spare them or shield them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:11 - Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and no one among you will do such an evil thing again.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:17 - and none of the condemned things[fn] are to be found in your hands. Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger, will show you mercy, and will have compassion on you. He will increase your numbers, as he promised on oath to your ancestors—
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:1 - You are the children of the LORD your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:3 - Do not eat any detestable thing.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:7 - However, of those that chew the cud or that have a divided hoof you may not eat the camel, the rabbit or the hyrax. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof; they are ceremonially unclean for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:8 - The pig is also unclean; although it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. You are not to eat their meat or touch their carcasses.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:10 - But anything that does not have fins and scales you may not eat; for you it is unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:12 - But these you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:19 - All flying insects are unclean to you; do not eat them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21 - Do not eat anything you find already dead. You may give it to the foreigner residing in any of your towns, and they may eat it, or you may sell it to any other foreigner. But you are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:6 - For the LORD your God will bless you as he has promised, and you will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. You will rule over many nations but none will rule over you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:7 - If anyone is poor among your fellow Israelites in any of the towns of the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:9 - Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought: “The seventh year, the year for canceling debts, is near,” so that you do not show ill will toward the needy among your fellow Israelites and give them nothing. They may then appeal to the LORD against you, and you will be found guilty of sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:10 - Give generously to them and do so without a grudging heart; then because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you put your hand to.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:11 - There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your fellow Israelites who are poor and needy in your land.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:18 - Do not consider it a hardship to set your servant free, because their service to you these six years has been worth twice as much as that of a hired hand. And the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:19 - Set apart for the LORD your God every firstborn male of your herds and flocks. Do not put the firstborn of your cows to work, and do not shear the firstborn of your sheep.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:21 - If an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:23 - But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:3 - Do not eat it with bread made with yeast, but for seven days eat unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left Egypt in haste—so that all the days of your life you may remember the time of your departure from Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:4 - Let no yeast be found in your possession in all your land for seven days. Do not let any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain until morning.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:5 - You must not sacrifice the Passover in any town the LORD your God gives you
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:8 - For six days eat unleavened bread and on the seventh day hold an assembly to the LORD your God and do no work.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:21 - Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole beside the altar you build to the LORD your God,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:22 - and do not erect a sacred stone, for these the LORD your God hates.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:1 - Do not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep that has any defect or flaw in it, for that would be detestable to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:3 - and contrary to my command has worshiped other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or the moon or the stars in the sky,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:15 - be sure to appoint over you a king the LORD your God chooses. He must be from among your fellow Israelites. Do not place a foreigner over you, one who is not an Israelite.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:16 - The king, moreover, must not acquire great numbers of horses for himself or make the people return to Egypt to get more of them, for the LORD has told you, “You are not to go back that way again.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:17 - He must not take many wives, or his heart will be led astray. He must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:9 - When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:16 - For this is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:20 - But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, is to be put to death.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:4 - This is the rule concerning anyone who kills a person and flees there for safety—anyone who kills a neighbor unintentionally, without malice aforethought.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:6 - Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue him in a rage, overtake him if the distance is too great, and kill him even though he is not deserving of death, since he did it to his neighbor without malice aforethought.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:13 - Show no pity. You must purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, so that it may go well with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:14 - Do not move your neighbor's boundary stone set up by your predecessors in the inheritance you receive in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:20 - The rest of the people will hear of this and be afraid, and never again will such an evil thing be done among you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:21 - Show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:1 - When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours, do not be afraid of them, because the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:16 - However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:20 - However, you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees and use them to build siege works until the city at war with you falls.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:14 - If you are not pleased with her, let her go wherever she wishes. You must not sell her or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:16 - when he wills his property to his sons, he must not give the rights of the firstborn to the son of the wife he loves in preference to his actual firstborn, the son of the wife he does not love.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:23 - you must not leave the body hanging on the pole overnight. Be sure to bury it that same day, because anyone who is hung on a pole is under God's curse. You must not desecrate the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:3 - Do the same if you find their donkey or cloak or anything else they have lost. Do not ignore it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:6 - If you come across a bird's nest beside the road, either in a tree or on the ground, and the mother is sitting on the young or on the eggs, do not take the mother with the young.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:8 - When you build a new house, make a parapet around your roof so that you may not bring the guilt of bloodshed on your house if someone falls from the roof.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:9 - Do not plant two kinds of seed in your vineyard; if you do, not only the crops you plant but also the fruit of the vineyard will be defiled.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:19 - They shall fine him a hundred shekels[fn] of silver and give them to the young woman's father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:26 - Do nothing to the woman; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders a neighbor,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:28 - If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:29 - he shall pay her father fifty shekels[fn] of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:30 - A man is not to marry his father's wife; he must not dishonor his father's bed.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:6 - Do not seek a treaty of friendship with them as long as you live.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:7 - Do not despise an Edomite, for the Edomites are related to you. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you resided as foreigners in their country.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:15 - If a slave has taken refuge with you, do not hand them over to their master.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:16 - Let them live among you wherever they like and in whatever town they choose. Do not oppress them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:18 - You must not bring the earnings of a female prostitute or of a male prostitute[fn] into the house of the LORD your God to pay any vow, because the LORD your God detests them both.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:21 - If you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not be slow to pay it, for the LORD your God will certainly demand it of you and you will be guilty of sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:23 - Whatever your lips utter you must be sure to do, because you made your vow freely to the LORD your God with your own mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:4 - then her first husband, who divorced her, is not allowed to marry her again after she has been defiled. That would be detestable in the eyes of the LORD. Do not bring sin upon the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:12 - If the neighbor is poor, do not go to sleep with their pledge in your possession.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:15 - Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor and are counting on it. Otherwise they may cry to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:3 - but the judge must not impose more than forty lashes. If the guilty party is flogged more than that, your fellow Israelite will be degraded in your eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:4 - Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:7 - However, if a man does not want to marry his brother's wife, she shall go to the elders at the town gate and say, “My husband's brother refuses to carry on his brother's name in Israel. He will not fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:8 - Then the elders of his town shall summon him and talk to him. If he persists in saying, “I do not want to marry her,”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:12 - you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:19 - When the LORD your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land he is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you shall blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:13 - Then say to the LORD your God: “I have removed from my house the sacred portion and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, according to all you commanded. I have not turned aside from your commands nor have I forgotten any of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:12 - The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:14 - Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:30 - You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:31 - Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:39 - You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:40 - You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:44 - They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, but you will be the tail.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:50 - a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:65 - Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:66 - You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:68 - The LORD will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:5 - Yet the LORD says, “During the forty years that I led you through the wilderness, your clothes did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:20 - The LORD will never be willing to forgive them; his wrath and zeal will burn against them. All the curses written in this book will fall on them, and the LORD will blot out their names from under heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:23 - The whole land will be a burning waste of salt and sulfur—nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, which the LORD overthrew in fierce anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:18 - I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:2 - “I am now a hundred and twenty years old and I am no longer able to lead you. The LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not cross the Jordan.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:6 - Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:21 - And when many disasters and calamities come on them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten by their descendants. I know what they are disposed to do, even before I bring them into the land I promised them on oath.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:17 - They sacrificed to false gods, which are not God— gods they had not known, gods that recently appeared, gods your ancestors did not fear.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:21 - They made me jealous by what is no god and angered me with their worthless idols. I will make them envious by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:4 - Then you will know which way to go, since you have never been this way before. But keep a distance of about two thousand cubits[fn] between you and the ark; do not go near it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:12 - That is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies; they turn their backs and run because they have been made liable to destruction. I will not be with you anymore unless you destroy whatever among you is devoted to destruction.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:13 - “Go, consecrate the people. Tell them, ‘Consecrate yourselves in preparation for tomorrow; for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: There are devoted things among you, Israel. You cannot stand against your enemies until you remove them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:17 - Not a man remained in Ai or Bethel who did not go after Israel. They left the city open and went in pursuit of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:19 - but all the leaders answered, “We have given them our oath by the LORD, the God of Israel, and we cannot touch them now.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:23 - You are now under a curse: You will never be released from service as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:13 - So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation avenged itself on[fn] its enemies, as it is written in the Book of Jashar. The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:28 - That day Joshua took Makkedah. He put the city and its king to the sword and totally destroyed everyone in it. He left no survivors. And he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:30 - The LORD also gave that city and its king into Israel's hand. The city and everyone in it Joshua put to the sword. He left no survivors there. And he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:39 - They took the city, its king and its villages, and put them to the sword. Everyone in it they totally destroyed. They left no survivors. They did to Debir and its king as they had done to Libnah and its king and to Hebron.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:40 - So Joshua subdued the whole region, including the hill country, the Negev, the western foothills and the mountain slopes, together with all their kings. He left no survivors. He totally destroyed all who breathed, just as the LORD, the God of Israel, had commanded.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:11 - Everyone in it they put to the sword. They totally destroyed[fn] them, not sparing anyone that breathed, and he burned Hazor itself.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:14 - The Israelites carried off for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but all the people they put to the sword until they completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone that breathed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:15 - As the LORD commanded his servant Moses, so Moses commanded Joshua, and Joshua did it; he left nothing undone of all that the LORD commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:22 - No Anakites were left in Israelite territory; only in Gaza, Gath and Ashdod did any survive.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:7 - The Levites, however, do not get a portion among you, because the priestly service of the LORD is their inheritance. And Gad, Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have already received their inheritance on the east side of the Jordan. Moses the servant of the LORD gave it to them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:45 - Not one of all the LORD's good promises to Israel failed; every one was fulfilled.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:13 - then you may be sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become snares and traps for you, whips on your backs and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land, which the LORD your God has given you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:14 - “Now I am about to go the way of all the earth. You know with all your heart and soul that not one of all the good promises the LORD your God gave you has failed. Every promise has been fulfilled; not one has failed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:19 - Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the LORD. He is a holy God; he is a jealous God. He will not forgive your rebellion and your sins.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:1 - The angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land I swore to give to your ancestors. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:2 - and you shall not make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall break down their altars.' Yet you have disobeyed me. Why have you done this?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:3 - And I have also said, ‘I will not drive them out before you; they will become traps for you, and their gods will become snares to you.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:21 - I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:23 - The LORD had allowed those nations to remain; he did not drive them out at once by giving them into the hands of Joshua.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:29 - At that time they struck down about ten thousand Moabites, all vigorous and strong; not one escaped.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:8 - Barak said to her, “If you go with me, I will go; but if you don't go with me, I won't go.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:16 - Barak pursued the chariots and army as far as Harosheth Haggoyim, and all Sisera's troops fell by the sword; not a man was left.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:10 - I said to you, ‘I am the LORD your God; do not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you live.' But you have not listened to me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:4 - But the LORD said to Gideon, “There are still too many men. Take them down to the water, and I will thin them out for you there. If I say, ‘This one shall go with you,' he shall go; but if I say, ‘This one shall not go with you,' he shall not go.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:28 - Thus Midian was subdued before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. During Gideon's lifetime, the land had peace forty years.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:13 - But you have forsaken me and served other gods, so I will no longer save you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:2 - Gilead's wife also bore him sons, and when they were grown up, they drove Jephthah away. “You are not going to get any inheritance in our family,” they said, “because you are the son of another woman.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:35 - When he saw her, he tore his clothes and cried, “Oh no, my daughter! You have brought me down and I am devastated. I have made a vow to the LORD that I cannot break.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:1 - The Ephraimite forces were called out, and they crossed over to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, “Why did you go to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We're going to burn down your house over your head.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:6 - they said, “All right, say ‘Shibboleth.' ” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce the word correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. Forty-two thousand Ephraimites were killed at that time.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:3 - The angel of the LORD appeared to her and said, “You are barren and childless, but you are going to become pregnant and give birth to a son.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:14 - She must not eat anything that comes from the grapevine, nor drink any wine or other fermented drink nor eat anything unclean. She must do everything I have commanded her.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:16 - The angel of the LORD replied, “Even though you detain me, I will not eat any of your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the LORD.” (Manoah did not realize that it was the angel of the LORD.)
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:21 - When the angel of the LORD did not show himself again to Manoah and his wife, Manoah realized that it was the angel of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:13 - “Agreed,” they answered. “We will only tie you up and hand you over to them. We will not kill you.” So they bound him with two new ropes and led him up from the rock.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:12 - His master replied, “No. We won't go into any city whose people are not Israelites. We will go on to Gibeah.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:16 - Among all these soldiers there were seven hundred select troops who were left-handed, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:1 - The men of Israel had taken an oath at Mizpah: “Not one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a Benjamite.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:17 - The Benjamite survivors must have heirs,” they said, “so that a tribe of Israel will not be wiped out.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:18 - We can't give them our daughters as wives, since we Israelites have taken this oath: ‘Cursed be anyone who gives a wife to a Benjamite.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:22 - When their fathers or brothers complain to us, we will say to them, ‘Do us the favor of helping them, because we did not get wives for them during the war. You will not be guilty of breaking your oath because you did not give your daughters to them.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:7 - She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves behind the harvesters.' She came into the field and has remained here from morning till now, except for a short rest in the shelter.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:8 - So Boaz said to Ruth, “My daughter, listen to me. Don't go and glean in another field and don't go away from here. Stay here with the women who work for me.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:1 - One day Ruth's mother-in-law Naomi said to her, “My daughter, I must find a home[fn] for you, where you will be well provided for.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:18 - Then Naomi said, “Wait, my daughter, until you find out what happens. For the man will not rest until the matter is settled today.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:6 - At this, the guardian-redeemer said, “Then I cannot redeem it because I might endanger my own estate. You redeem it yourself. I cannot do it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:14 - The women said to Naomi: “Praise be to the LORD, who this day has not left you without a guardian-redeemer. May he become famous throughout Israel!
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:11 - And she made a vow, saying, “LORD Almighty, if you will only look on your servant's misery and remember me, and not forget your servant but give her a son, then I will give him to the LORD for all the days of his life, and no razor will ever be used on his head.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:15 - “Not so, my lord,” Hannah replied, “I am a woman who is deeply troubled. I have not been drinking wine or beer; I was pouring out my soul to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:18 - She said, “May your servant find favor in your eyes.” Then she went her way and ate something, and her face was no longer downcast.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:15 - But even before the fat was burned, the priest's servant would come and say to the person who was sacrificing, “Give the priest some meat to roast; he won't accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:5 - And he ran to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.” But Eli said, “I did not call; go back and lie down.” So he went and lay down.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:6 - Again the LORD called, “Samuel!” And Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.” “My son,” Eli said, “I did not call; go back and lie down.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:7 - the Philistines were afraid. “A god has[fn] come into the camp,” they said. “Oh no! Nothing like this has happened before.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:7 - When the people of Ashdod saw what was happening, they said, “The ark of the god of Israel must not stay here with us, because his hand is heavy on us and on Dagon our god.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:11 - So they called together all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send the ark of the god of Israel away; let it go back to its own place, or it[fn] will kill us and our people.” For death had filled the city with panic; God's hand was very heavy on it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:9 - but keep watching it. If it goes up to its own territory, toward Beth Shemesh, then the LORD has brought this great disaster on us. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us but that it happened to us by chance.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:12 - Then the cows went straight up toward Beth Shemesh, keeping on the road and lowing all the way; they did not turn to the right or to the left. The rulers of the Philistines followed them as far as the border of Beth Shemesh.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:13 - So the Philistines were subdued and they stopped invading Israel's territory. Throughout Samuel's lifetime, the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:5 - They said to him, “You are old, and your sons do not follow your ways; now appoint a king to lead[fn] us, such as all the other nations have.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:7 - And the LORD told him: “Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:13 - As soon as you enter the town, you will find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. The people will not begin eating until he comes, because he must bless the sacrifice; afterward, those who are invited will eat. Go up now; you should find him about this time.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:20 - As for the donkeys you lost three days ago, do not worry about them; they have been found. And to whom is all the desire of Israel turned, if not to you and your whole family line?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:12 - The people then said to Samuel, “Who was it that asked, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?' Turn these men over to us so that we may put them to death.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:4 - “You have not cheated or oppressed us,” they replied. “You have not taken anything from anyone's hand.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:19 - The people all said to Samuel, “Pray to the LORD your God for your servants so that we will not die, for we have added to all our other sins the evil of asking for a king.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:21 - Do not turn away after useless idols. They can do you no good, nor can they rescue you, because they are useless.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:8 - He waited seven days, the time set by Samuel; but Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and Saul's men began to scatter.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:11 - “What have you done?” asked Samuel. Saul replied, “When I saw that the men were scattering, and that you did not come at the set time, and that the Philistines were assembling at Mikmash,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:14 - But now your kingdom will not endure; the LORD has sought out a man after his own heart and appointed him ruler of his people, because you have not kept the LORD's command.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:9 - If they say to us, ‘Wait there until we come to you,' we will stay where we are and not go up to them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:34 - Then he said, “Go out among the men and tell them, ‘Each of you bring me your cattle and sheep, and slaughter them here and eat them. Do not sin against the LORD by eating meat with blood still in it.' ” So everyone brought his ox that night and slaughtered it there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:3 - Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy[fn] all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:35 - Until the day Samuel died, he did not go to see Saul again, though Samuel mourned for him. And the LORD regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:11 - So he asked Jesse, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse answered. “He is tending the sheep.” Samuel said, “Send for him; we will not sit down until he arrives.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:33 - Saul replied, “You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a young man, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:39 - David fastened on his sword over the tunic and tried walking around, because he was not used to them. “I cannot go in these,” he said to Saul, “because I am not used to them.” So he took them off.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:25 - Saul replied, “Say to David, ‘The king wants no other price for the bride than a hundred Philistine foreskins, to take revenge on his enemies.' ” Saul's plan was to have David fall by the hands of the Philistines.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:2 - “Never!” Jonathan replied. “You are not going to die! Look, my father doesn't do anything, great or small, without letting me know. Why would he hide this from me? It isn't so!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:3 - But David took an oath and said, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said to himself, ‘Jonathan must not know this or he will be grieved.' Yet as surely as the LORD lives and as you live, there is only a step between me and death.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:5 - So David said, “Look, tomorrow is the New Moon feast, and I am supposed to dine with the king; but let me go and hide in the field until the evening of the day after tomorrow.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:12 - Then Jonathan said to David, “I swear by the LORD, the God of Israel, that I will surely sound out my father by this time the day after tomorrow! If he is favorably disposed toward you, will I not send you word and let you know?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:26 - Saul said nothing that day, for he thought, “Something must have happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:27 - But the next day, the second day of the month, David's place was empty again. Then Saul said to his son Jonathan, “Why hasn't the son of Jesse come to the meal, either yesterday or today?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:29 - He said, ‘Let me go, because our family is observing a sacrifice in the town and my brother has ordered me to be there. If I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away to see my brothers.' That is why he has not come to the king's table.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:30 - Saul's anger flared up at Jonathan and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Don't I know that you have sided with the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of the mother who bore you?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:9 - When David learned that Saul was plotting against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:14 - David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hills of the Desert of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God did not give David into his hands.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:17 - “Don't be afraid,” he said. “My father Saul will not lay a hand on you. You will be king over Israel, and I will be second to you. Even my father Saul knows this.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:8 - Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hands. Now let me pin him to the ground with one thrust of the spear; I won't strike him twice.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:15 - David said, “You're a man, aren't you? And who is like you in Israel? Why didn't you guard your lord the king? Someone came to destroy your lord the king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:21 - Then Saul said, “I have sinned. Come back, David my son. Because you considered my life precious today, I will not try to harm you again. Surely I have acted like a fool and have been terribly wrong.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:4 - When Saul was told that David had fled to Gath, he no longer searched for him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:20 - Immediately Saul fell full length on the ground, filled with fear because of Samuel's words. His strength was gone, for he had eaten nothing all that day and all that night.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:7 - Now turn back and go in peace; do nothing to displease the Philistine rulers.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:8 - “But what have I done?” asked David. “What have you found against your servant from the day I came to you until now? Why can't I go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:12 - part of a cake of pressed figs and two cakes of raisins. He ate and was revived, for he had not eaten any food or drunk any water for three days and three nights.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:19 - Nothing was missing: young or old, boy or girl, plunder or anything else they had taken. David brought everything back.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:22 - But all the evil men and troublemakers among David's followers said, “Because they did not go out with us, we will not share with them the plunder we recovered. However, each man may take his wife and children and go.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:23 - David replied, “No, my brothers, you must not do that with what the LORD has given us. He has protected us and delivered into our hands the raiding party that came against us.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:10 - “So I stood beside him and killed him, because I knew that after he had fallen he could not survive. And I took the crown that was on his head and the band on his arm and have brought them here to my lord.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:23 - Saul and Jonathan— in life they were loved and admired, and in death they were not parted. They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:26 - Abner called out to Joab, “Must the sword devour forever? Don't you realize that this will end in bitterness? How long before you order your men to stop pursuing their fellow Israelites?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:28 - So Joab blew the trumpet, and all the troops came to a halt; they no longer pursued Israel, nor did they fight anymore.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:34 - Your hands were not bound, your feet were not fettered. You fell as one falls before the wicked.” And all the people wept over him again.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:35 - Then they all came and urged David to eat something while it was still day; but David took an oath, saying, “May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun sets!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:5 - “Go and tell my servant David, ‘This is what the LORD says: Are you the one to build me a house to dwell in?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:6 - I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought the Israelites up out of Egypt to this day. I have been moving from place to place with a tent as my dwelling.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:10 - And I will provide a place for my people Israel and will plant them so that they can have a home of their own and no longer be disturbed. Wicked people will not oppress them anymore, as they did at the beginning
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:9 - But Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all his master's servants and did not go down to his house.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:10 - David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” So he asked Uriah, “Haven't you just come from a military campaign? Why didn't you go home?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:13 - At David's invitation, he ate and drank with him, and David made him drunk. But in the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master's servants; he did not go home.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:13 - Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” Nathan replied, “The LORD has taken away your sin. You are not going to die.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:17 - The elders of his household stood beside him to get him up from the ground, but he refused, and he would not eat any food with them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:12 - “No, my brother!” she said to him. “Don't force me! Such a thing should not be done in Israel! Don't do this wicked thing.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:13 - What about me? Where could I get rid of my disgrace? And what about you? You would be like one of the wicked fools in Israel. Please speak to the king; he will not keep me from being married to you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:25 - “No, my son,” the king replied. “All of us should not go; we would only be a burden to you.” Although Absalom urged him, he still refused to go but gave him his blessing.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:30 - While they were on their way, the report came to David: “Absalom has struck down all the king's sons; not one of them is left.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:10 - The king replied, “If anyone says anything to you, bring them to me, and they will not bother you again.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:11 - She said, “Then let the king invoke the LORD his God to prevent the avenger of blood from adding to the destruction, so that my son will not be destroyed.” “As surely as the LORD lives,” he said, “not one hair of your son's head will fall to the ground.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:14 - Like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die. But that is not what God desires; rather, he devises ways so that a banished person does not remain banished from him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:8 - You know your father and his men; they are fighters, and as fierce as a wild bear robbed of her cubs. Besides, your father is an experienced fighter; he will not spend the night with the troops.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:22 - So David and all the people with him set out and crossed the Jordan. By daybreak, no one was left who had not crossed the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:3 - But the men said, “You must not go out; if we are forced to flee, they won't care about us. Even if half of us die, they won't care; but you are worth ten thousand of us.[fn] It would be better now for you to give us support from the city.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:12 - But the man replied, “Even if a thousand shekels[fn] were weighed out into my hands, I would not lay a hand on the king's son. In our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for my sake.[fn]'
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:13 - And if I had put my life in jeopardy[fn]—and nothing is hidden from the king—you would have kept your distance from me.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:21 - Then Abishai son of Zeruiah said, “Shouldn't Shimei be put to death for this? He cursed the LORD's anointed.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:22 - David replied, “What does this have to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? What right do you have to interfere? Should anyone be put to death in Israel today? Don't I know that today I am king over Israel?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:23 - So the king said to Shimei, “You shall not die.” And the king promised him on oath.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:17 - But Abishai son of Zeruiah came to David's rescue; he struck the Philistine down and killed him. Then David's men swore to him, saying, “Never again will you go out with us to battle, so that the lamp of Israel will not be extinguished.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:4 - he is like the light of morning at sunrise on a cloudless morning, like the brightness after rain that brings grass from the earth.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:5 - “If my house were not right with God, surely he would not have made with me an everlasting covenant, arranged and secured in every part; surely he would not bring to fruition my salvation and grant me my every desire.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:6 - But evil men are all to be cast aside like thorns, which are not gathered with the hand.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:7 - Whoever touches thorns uses a tool of iron or the shaft of a spear; they are burned up where they lie.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:14 - David said to Gad, “I am in deep distress. Let us fall into the hands of the LORD, for his mercy is great; but do not let me fall into human hands.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:51 - Then Solomon was told, “Adonijah is afraid of King Solomon and is clinging to the horns of the altar. He says, ‘Let King Solomon swear to me today that he will not put his servant to death with the sword.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:6 - Deal with him according to your wisdom, but do not let his gray head go down to the grave in peace.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:9 - But now, do not consider him innocent. You are a man of wisdom; you will know what to do to him. Bring his gray head down to the grave in blood.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:26 - To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go back to your fields in Anathoth. You deserve to die, but I will not put you to death now, because you carried the ark of the Sovereign LORD before my father David and shared all my father's hardships.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:12 - I will do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and discerning heart, so that there will never have been anyone like you, nor will there ever be.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:13 - Moreover, I will give you what you have not asked for—both wealth and honor—so that in your lifetime you will have no equal among kings.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:27 - The district governors, each in his month, supplied provisions for King Solomon and all who came to the king's table. They saw to it that nothing was lacking.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:56 - “Praise be to the LORD, who has given rest to his people Israel just as he promised. Not one word has failed of all the good promises he gave through his servant Moses.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:20 - Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like it had ever been made for any other kingdom.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:12 - Nevertheless, for the sake of David your father, I will not do it during your lifetime. I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:13 - Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom from him, but will give him one tribe for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:34 - “ ‘But I will not take the whole kingdom out of Solomon's hand; I have made him ruler all the days of his life for the sake of David my servant, whom I chose and who obeyed my commands and decrees.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:16 - The man of God said, “I cannot turn back and go with you, nor can I eat bread or drink water with you in this place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:22 - You came back and ate bread and drank water in the place where he told you not to eat or drink. Therefore your body will not be buried in the tomb of your ancestors.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:28 - Then he went out and found the body lying on the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it. The lion had neither eaten the body nor mauled the donkey.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:18 - “I have not made trouble for Israel,” Elijah replied. “But you and your father's family have. You have abandoned the LORD's commands and have followed the Baals.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:23 - Get two bulls for us. Let Baal's prophets choose one for themselves, and let them cut it into pieces and put it on the wood but not set fire to it. I will prepare the other bull and put it on the wood but not set fire to it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:4 - while he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:18 - Yet I reserve seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed down to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:9 - So he replied to Ben-Hadad's messengers, “Tell my lord the king, ‘Your servant will do all you demanded the first time, but this demand I cannot meet.' ” They left and took the answer back to Ben-Hadad.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:23 - Meanwhile, the officials of the king of Aram advised him, “Their gods are gods of the hills. That is why they were too strong for us. But if we fight them on the plains, surely we will be stronger than they.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:28 - The man of God came up and told the king of Israel, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because the Arameans think the LORD is a god of the hills and not a god of the valleys, I will deliver this vast army into your hands, and you will know that I am the LORD.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:6 - He answered her, “Because I said to Naboth the Jezreelite, ‘Sell me your vineyard; or if you prefer, I will give you another vineyard in its place.' But he said, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:8 - The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one prophet through whom we can inquire of the LORD, but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good about me, but always bad. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.” “The king should not say such a thing,” Jehoshaphat replied.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:17 - Then Micaiah answered, “I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd, and the LORD said, ‘These people have no master. Let each one go home in peace.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:18 - The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn't I tell you that he never prophesies anything good about me, but only bad?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:4 - Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘You will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!' ” So Elijah went.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:6 - “A man came to meet us,” they replied. “And he said to us, ‘Go back to the king who sent you and tell him, “This is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending messengers to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!” ' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:16 - He told the king, “This is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel for you to consult that you have sent messengers to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron? Because you have done this, you will never leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:10 - “You have asked a difficult thing,” Elijah said, “yet if you see me when I am taken from you, it will be yours—otherwise, it will not.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:14 - He took the cloak that had fallen from Elijah and struck the water with it. “Where now is the LORD, the God of Elijah?” he asked. When he struck the water, it divided to the right and to the left, and he crossed over.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:23 - “Why go to him today?” he asked. “It's not the New Moon or the Sabbath.” “That's all right,” she said.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:28 - “Did I ask you for a son, my lord?” she said. “Didn't I tell you, ‘Don't raise my hopes'?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:17 - “If you will not,” said Naaman, “please let me, your servant, be given as much earth as a pair of mules can carry, for your servant will never again make burnt offerings and sacrifices to any other god but the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:25 - When he went in and stood before his master, Elisha asked him, “Where have you been, Gehazi?” “Your servant didn't go anywhere,” Gehazi answered.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:10 - So the king of Israel checked on the place indicated by the man of God. Time and again Elisha warned the king, so that he was on his guard in such places.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:22 - “Do not kill them,” he answered. “Would you kill those you have captured with your own sword or bow? Set food and water before them so that they may eat and drink and then go back to their master.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:23 - So he prepared a great feast for them, and after they had finished eating and drinking, he sent them away, and they returned to their master. So the bands from Aram stopped raiding Israel's territory.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:2 - The officer on whose arm the king was leaning said to the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” answered Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:19 - The officer had said to the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?” The man of God had replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:3 - Then take the flask and pour the oil on his head and declare, ‘This is what the LORD says: I anoint you king over Israel.' Then open the door and run; don't delay!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:5 - So the palace administrator, the city governor, the elders and the guardians sent this message to Jehu: “We are your servants and we will do anything you say. We will not appoint anyone as king; you do whatever you think best.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:10 - Know, then, that not a word the LORD has spoken against the house of Ahab will fail. The LORD has done what he announced through his servant Elijah.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:14 - “Take them alive!” he ordered. So they took them alive and slaughtered them by the well of Beth Eked—forty-two of them. He left no survivor.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:19 - Now summon all the prophets of Baal, all his servants and all his priests. See that no one is missing, because I am going to hold a great sacrifice for Baal. Anyone who fails to come will no longer live.” But Jehu was acting deceptively in order to destroy the servants of Baal.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:21 - Then he sent word throughout Israel, and all the servants of Baal came; not one stayed away. They crowded into the temple of Baal until it was full from one end to the other.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:3 - The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:13 - The money brought into the temple was not spent for making silver basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, trumpets or any other articles of gold or silver for the temple of the LORD;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:12 - They worshiped idols, though the LORD had said, “You shall not do this.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:35 - When the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites, he commanded them: “Do not worship any other gods or bow down to them, serve them or sacrifice to them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:37 - You must always be careful to keep the decrees and regulations, the laws and commands he wrote for you. Do not worship other gods.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:38 - Do not forget the covenant I have made with you, and do not worship other gods.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:26 - Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don't speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:29 - This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you. He cannot deliver you from my hand.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:30 - Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, ‘The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:32 - until I come and take you to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Choose life and not death! “Do not listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:10 - “Say to Hezekiah king of Judah: Do not let the god you depend on deceive you when he says, ‘Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:18 - They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:32 - “Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the king of Assyria: “ ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow here. He will not come before it with shield or build a siege ramp against it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:1 - In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:8 - I will not again make the feet of the Israelites wander from the land I gave their ancestors, if only they will be careful to do everything I commanded them and will keep the whole Law that my servant Moses gave them.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:17 - Because they have forsaken me and burned incense to other gods and aroused my anger by all the idols their hands have made,[fn] my anger will burn against this place and will not be quenched.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:7 - The king of Egypt did not march out from his own country again, because the king of Babylon had taken all his territory, from the Wadi of Egypt to the Euphrates River.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:14 - so David inquired of God again, and God answered him, “Do not go directly after them, but circle around them and attack them in front of the poplar trees.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:4 - “Go and tell my servant David, ‘This is what the LORD says: You are not the one to build me a house to dwell in.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:5 - I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought Israel up out of Egypt to this day. I have moved from one tent site to another, from one dwelling place to another.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:9 - And I will provide a place for my people Israel and will plant them so that they can have a home of their own and no longer be disturbed. Wicked people will not oppress them anymore, as they did at the beginning
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:13 - David said to Gad, “I am in deep distress. Let me fall into the hands of the LORD, for his mercy is very great; but do not let me fall into human hands.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:24 - But King David replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on paying the full price. I will not take for the LORD what is yours, or sacrifice a burnt offering that costs me nothing.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:24 - Joab son of Zeruiah began to count the men but did not finish. God's wrath came on Israel on account of this numbering, and the number was not entered in the book[fn] of the annals of King David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:20 - David also said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do the work. Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you until all the work for the service of the temple of the LORD is finished.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:6 - But who is able to build a temple for him, since the heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain him? Who then am I to build a temple for him, except as a place to burn sacrifices before him?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:6 - and King Solomon and the entire assembly of Israel that had gathered about him were before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and cattle that they could not be recorded or counted.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:11 - Solomon brought Pharaoh's daughter up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her, for he said, “My wife must not live in the palace of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the LORD has entered are holy.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:15 - They did not deviate from the king's commands to the priests or to the Levites in any matter, including that of the treasuries.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:2 - Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too hard for him to explain to her.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:4 - ‘This is what the LORD says: Do not go up to fight against your fellow Israelites. Go home, every one of you, for this is my doing.' ” So they obeyed the words of the LORD and turned back from marching against Jeroboam.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:7 - When the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, this word of the LORD came to Shemaiah: “Since they have humbled themselves, I will not destroy them but will soon give them deliverance. My wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem through Shishak.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:14 - He did evil because he had not set his heart on seeking the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:3 - For a long time Israel was without the true God, without a priest to teach and without the law.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:17 - The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn't I tell you that he never prophesies anything good about me, but only bad?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:12 - Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no power to face this vast army that is attacking us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:33 - The high places, however, were not removed, and the people still had not set their hearts on the God of their ancestors.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:17 - They attacked Judah, invaded it and carried off all the goods found in the king's palace, together with his sons and wives. Not a son was left to him except Ahaziah,[fn] the youngest.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:8 - The Levites and all the men of Judah did just as Jehoiada the priest ordered. Each one took his men—those who were going on duty on the Sabbath and those who were going off duty—for Jehoiada the priest had not released any of the divisions.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:7 - But a man of God came to him and said, “Your Majesty, these troops from Israel must not march with you, for the LORD is not with Israel—not with any of the people of Ephraim.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:18 - They confronted King Uzziah and said, “It is not right for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the LORD. That is for the priests, the descendants of Aaron, who have been consecrated to burn incense. Leave the sanctuary, for you have been unfaithful; and you will not be honored by the LORD God.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:13 - “You must not bring those prisoners here,” they said, “or we will be guilty before the LORD. Do you intend to add to our sin and guilt? For our guilt is already great, and his fierce anger rests on Israel.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:7 - They also shut the doors of the portico and put out the lamps. They did not burn incense or present any burnt offerings at the sanctuary to the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:3 - They had not been able to celebrate it at the regular time because not enough priests had consecrated themselves and the people had not assembled in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:19 - who sets their heart on seeking God—the LORD, the God of their ancestors—even if they are not clean according to the rules of the sanctuary.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:13 - “Do you not know what I and my predecessors have done to all the peoples of the other lands? Were the gods of those nations ever able to deliver their land from my hand?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:15 - Now do not let Hezekiah deceive you and mislead you like this. Do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or the hand of my predecessors. How much less will your god deliver you from my hand!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:17 - The king also wrote letters ridiculing the LORD, the God of Israel, and saying this against him: “Just as the gods of the peoples of the other lands did not rescue their people from my hand, so the god of Hezekiah will not rescue his people from my hand.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:25 - But Hezekiah's heart was proud and he did not respond to the kindness shown him; therefore the LORD's wrath was on him and on Judah and Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:8 - I will not again make the feet of the Israelites leave the land I assigned to your ancestors, if only they will be careful to do everything I commanded them concerning all the laws, decrees and regulations given through Moses.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:25 - Because they have forsaken me and burned incense to other gods and aroused my anger by all that their hands have made,[fn] my anger will be poured out on this place and will not be quenched.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:5 - But the eye of their God was watching over the elders of the Jews, and they were not stopped until a report could go to Darius and his written reply be received.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:3 - but I said to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should my face not look sad when the city where my ancestors are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:10 - Meanwhile, the people in Judah said, “The strength of the laborers is giving out, and there is so much rubble that we cannot rebuild the wall.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:11 - Also our enemies said, “Before they know it or see us, we will be right there among them and will kill them and put an end to the work.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:12 - “We will give it back,” they said. “And we will not demand anything more from them. We will do as you say.” Then I summoned the priests and made the nobles and officials take an oath to do what they had promised.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:13 - I also shook out the folds of my robe and said, “In this way may God shake out of their house and possessions anyone who does not keep this promise. So may such a person be shaken out and emptied!” At this the whole assembly said, “Amen,” and praised the LORD. And the people did as they had promised.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:1 - When word came to Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab and the rest of our enemies that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left in it—though up to that time I had not set the doors in the gates—
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:3 - so I sent messengers to them with this reply: “I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you?”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:9 - They were all trying to frighten us, thinking, “Their hands will get too weak for the work, and it will not be completed.” But I prayed, “Now strengthen my hands.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:21 - For forty years you sustained them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing, their clothes did not wear out nor did their feet become swollen.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:34 - Our kings, our leaders, our priests and our ancestors did not follow your law; they did not pay attention to your commands or the statutes you warned them to keep.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:30 - “We promise not to give our daughters in marriage to the peoples around us or take their daughters for our sons.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:2 - because they had not met the Israelites with food and water but had hired Balaam to call a curse down on them. (Our God, however, turned the curse into a blessing.)
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:8 - By the king's command each guest was allowed to drink with no restrictions, for the king instructed all the wine stewards to serve each man what he wished.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:16 - Then Memukan replied in the presence of the king and the nobles, “Queen Vashti has done wrong, not only against the king but also against all the nobles and the peoples of all the provinces of King Xerxes.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:20 - But Esther had kept secret her family background and nationality just as Mordecai had told her to do, for she continued to follow Mordecai's instructions as she had done when he was bringing her up.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:2 - All the royal officials at the king's gate knelt down and paid honor to Haman, for the king had commanded this concerning him. But Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:5 - When Haman saw that Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor, he was enraged.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:8 - Then Haman said to King Xerxes, “There is a certain people dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom who keep themselves separate. Their customs are different from those of all other people, and they do not obey the king's laws; it is not in the king's best interest to tolerate them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:2 - But he went only as far as the king's gate, because no one clothed in sackcloth was allowed to enter it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:11 - “All the king's officials and the people of the royal provinces know that for any man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned the king has but one law: that they be put to death unless the king extends the gold scepter to them and spares their lives. But thirty days have passed since I was called to go to the king.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:1 - On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the palace, in front of the king's hall. The king was sitting on his royal throne in the hall, facing the entrance.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:12 - “And that's not all,” Haman added. “I'm the only person Queen Esther invited to accompany the king to the banquet she gave. And she has invited me along with the king tomorrow.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:13 - and told Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has started, is of Jewish origin, you cannot stand against him—you will surely come to ruin!”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:4 - For I and my people have been sold to be destroyed, killed and annihilated. If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept quiet, because no such distress would justify disturbing the king.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:28 - These days should be remembered and observed in every generation by every family, and in every province and in every city. And these days of Purim should never fail to be celebrated by the Jews—nor should the memory of these days die out among their descendants.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:10 - “Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:5 - But now stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:10 - for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me to hide trouble from my eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:19 - The small and the great are there, and the slaves are freed from their owners.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:21 - to those who long for death that does not come, who search for it more than for hidden treasure,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:12 - “A word was secretly brought to me, my ears caught a whisper of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:18 - If God places no trust in his servants, if he charges his angels with error,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:6 - For hardship does not spring from the soil, nor does trouble sprout from the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:8 - “But if I were you, I would appeal to God; I would lay my cause before him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:12 - He thwarts the plans of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:19 - From six calamities he will rescue you; in seven no harm will touch you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:21 - You will be protected from the lash of the tongue, and need not fear when destruction comes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:22 - You will laugh at destruction and famine, and need not fear the wild animals.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:24 - You will know that your tent is secure; you will take stock of your property and find nothing missing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:7 - I refuse to touch it; such food makes me ill.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:10 - Then I would still have this consolation— my joy in unrelenting pain— that I had not denied the words of the Holy One.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:15 - But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams, as the streams that overflow
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:25 - How painful are honest words! But what do your arguments prove?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:28 - “But now be so kind as to look at me. Would I lie to your face?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:30 - Is there any wickedness on my lips? Can my mouth not discern malice?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:8 - The eye that now sees me will see me no longer; you will look for me, but I will be no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:10 - He will never come to his house again; his place will know him no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:16 - I despise my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone; my days have no meaning.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:12 - While still growing and uncut, they wither more quickly than grass.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:15 - They lean on the web, but it gives way; they cling to it, but it does not hold.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:20 - “Surely God does not reject one who is blameless or strengthen the hands of evildoers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:3 - Though they wished to dispute with him, they could not answer him one time out of a thousand.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:11 - When he passes me, I cannot see him; when he goes by, I cannot perceive him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:16 - Even if I summoned him and he responded, I do not believe he would give me a hearing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:32 - “He is not a mere mortal like me that I might answer him, that we might confront each other in court.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:35 - Then I would speak up without fear of him, but as it now stands with me, I cannot.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:15 - If I am guilty—woe to me! Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head, for I am full of shame and drowned in[fn] my affliction.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:3 - Will your idle talk reduce others to silence? Will no one rebuke you when you mock?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:11 - Surely he recognizes deceivers; and when he sees evil, does he not take note?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:15 - then, free of fault, you will lift up your face; you will stand firm and without fear.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:16 - You will surely forget your trouble, recalling it only as waters gone by.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:6 - The tents of marauders are undisturbed, and those who provoke God are secure— those God has in his hand.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:3 - But I desire to speak to the Almighty and to argue my case with God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:16 - Indeed, this will turn out for my deliverance, for no godless person would dare come before him!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:20 - “Only grant me these two things, God, and then I will not hide from you:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:2 - They spring up like flowers and wither away; like fleeting shadows, they do not endure.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:5 - A person's days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:7 - “At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:12 - so he lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, people will not awake or be roused from their sleep.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:16 - Surely then you will count my steps but not keep track of my sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:3 - Would they argue with useless words, with speeches that have no value?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:4 - But you even undermine piety and hinder devotion to God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:15 - If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:29 - He will no longer be rich and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:32 - Before his time he will wither, and his branches will not flourish.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:5 - But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:13 - his archers surround me. Without pity, he pierces my kidneys and spills my gall on the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:1 - My spirit is broken, my days are cut short, the grave awaits me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:4 - You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore you will not let them triumph.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:10 - “But come on, all of you, try again! I will not find a wise man among you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:2 - “When will you end these speeches? Be sensible, and then we can talk.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:7 - “Though I cry, ‘Violence!' I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:8 - He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; he has shrouded my paths in darkness.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:14 - My relatives have gone away; my closest friends have forgotten me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:8 - Like a dream he flies away, no more to be found, banished like a vision of the night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:9 - The eye that saw him will not see him again; his place will look on him no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:13 - though he cannot bear to let it go and lets it linger in his mouth,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:14 - yet his food will turn sour in his stomach; it will become the venom of serpents within him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:18 - What he toiled for he must give back uneaten; he will not enjoy the profit from his trading.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:20 - “Surely he will have no respite from his craving; he cannot save himself by his treasure.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:24 - Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow pierces him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:3 - Bear with me while I speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:4 - “Is my complaint directed to a human being? Why should I not be impatient?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:14 - Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We have no desire to know your ways.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:17 - “Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out? How often does calamity come upon them, the fate God allots in his anger?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:25 - Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having enjoyed anything good.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:6 - Would he vigorously oppose me? No, he would not press charges against me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:9 - When he is at work in the north, I do not see him; when he turns to the south, I catch no glimpse of him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:11 - My feet have closely followed his steps; I have kept to his way without turning aside.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:12 - I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:17 - Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:12 - The groans of the dying rise from the city, and the souls of the wounded cry out for help. But God charges no one with wrongdoing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:15 - The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk; he thinks, ‘No eye will see me,' and he keeps his face concealed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:22 - But God drags away the mighty by his power; though they become established, they have no assurance of life.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 25:5 - If even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in his eyes,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:5 - I will never admit you are in the right; till I die, I will not deny my integrity.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:6 - I will maintain my innocence and never let go of it; my conscience will not reproach me as long as I live.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:7 - “May my enemy be like the wicked, my adversary like the unjust!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:11 - “I will teach you about the power of God; the ways of the Almighty I will not conceal.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:19 - He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:22 - It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:7 - No bird of prey knows that hidden path, no falcon's eye has seen it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:8 - Proud beasts do not set foot on it, and no lion prowls there.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:15 - It cannot be bought with the finest gold, nor can its price be weighed out in silver.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:16 - It cannot be bought with the gold of Ophir, with precious onyx or lapis lazuli.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:18 - Coral and jasper are not worthy of mention; the price of wisdom is beyond rubies.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:19 - The topaz of Cush cannot compare with it; it cannot be bought with pure gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:22 - After I had spoken, they spoke no more; my words fell gently on their ears.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:24 - When I smiled at them, they scarcely believed it; the light of my face was precious to them.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:27 - The churning inside me never stops; days of suffering confront me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:1 - “I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a young woman.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:26 - if I have regarded the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:34 - because I so feared the crowd and so dreaded the contempt of the clans that I kept silent and would not go outside—
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:16 - Must I wait, now that they are silent, now that they stand there with no reply?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:21 - I will show no partiality, nor will I flatter anyone;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:22 - for if I were skilled in flattery, my Maker would soon take me away.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:1 - “But now, Job, listen to my words; pay attention to everything I say.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:9 - ‘I am pure, I have done no wrong; I am clean and free from sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:20 - so that their body finds food repulsive and their soul loathes the choicest meal.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:23 - Yet if there is an angel at their side, a messenger, one out of a thousand, sent to tell them how to be upright,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:32 - Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do so again.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:36 - Oh, that Job might be tested to the utmost for answering like a wicked man!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:12 - He does not answer when people cry out because of the arrogance of the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:13 - Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea; the Almighty pays no attention to it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:5 - “God is mighty, but despises no one; he is mighty, and firm in his purpose.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:6 - He does not keep the wicked alive but gives the afflicted their rights.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:12 - But if they do not listen, they will perish by the sword[fn] and die without knowledge.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:13 - “The godless in heart harbor resentment; even when he fetters them, they do not cry for help.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:26 - How great is God—beyond our understanding! The number of his years is past finding out.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:4 - Their young thrive and grow strong in the wilds; they leave and do not return.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:22 - It laughs at fear, afraid of nothing; it does not shy away from the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:24 - In frenzied excitement it eats up the ground; it cannot stand still when the trumpet sounds.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:5 - I spoke once, but I have no answer— twice, but I will say no more.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:23 - A raging river does not alarm it; it is secure, though the Jordan should surge against its mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:7 - Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:10 - No one is fierce enough to rouse it. Who then is able to stand against me?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:12 - “I will not fail to speak of Leviathan's limbs, its strength and its graceful form.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:16 - each is so close to the next that no air can pass between.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:17 - They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:23 - The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:28 - Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones are like chaff to it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:7 - After the LORD had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:8 - So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 3:6 - I will not fear though tens of thousands assail me on every side.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 5:5 - The arrogant cannot stand in your presence. You hate all who do wrong;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:6 - He says to himself, “Nothing will ever shake me.” He swears, “No one will ever do me harm.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:15 - Break the arm of the wicked man; call the evildoer to account for his wickedness that would not otherwise be found out.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 15:5 - who lends money to the poor without interest; who does not accept a bribe against the innocent. Whoever does these things will never be shaken.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:2 - I say to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:4 - Those who run after other gods will suffer more and more. I will not pour out libations of blood to such gods or take up their names on my lips.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:38 - I crushed them so that they could not rise; they fell beneath my feet.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 21:7 - For the king trusts in the LORD; through the unfailing love of the Most High he will not be shaken.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 21:11 - Though they plot evil against you and devise wicked schemes, they cannot succeed.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:5 - To you they cried out and were saved; in you they trusted and were not put to shame.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:4 - Even though I walk through the darkest valley,[fn] I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:3 - No one who hopes in you will ever be put to shame, but shame will come on those who are treacherous without cause.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:1 - Of David. Vindicate me, LORD, for I have led a blameless life; I have trusted in the LORD and have not faltered.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:4 - I do not sit with the deceitful, nor do I associate with hypocrites.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:5 - I abhor the assembly of evildoers and refuse to sit with the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:3 - Though an army besiege me, my heart will not fear; though war break out against me, even then I will be confident.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:5 - Because they have no regard for the deeds of the LORD and what his hands have done, he will tear them down and never build them up again.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:6 - When I felt secure, I said, “I will never be shaken.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:12 - that my heart may sing your praises and not be silent. LORD my God, I will praise you forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:8 - You have not given me into the hands of the enemy but have set my feet in a spacious place.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 32:2 - Blessed is the one whose sin the LORD does not count against them and in whose spirit is no deceit.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:16 - No king is saved by the size of his army; no warrior escapes by his great strength.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:17 - A horse is a vain hope for deliverance; despite all its great strength it cannot save.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:5 - Those who look to him are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:20 - he protects all his bones, not one of them will be broken.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:22 - The LORD will rescue his servants; no one who takes refuge in him will be condemned.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:8 - may ruin overtake them by surprise— may the net they hid entangle them, may they fall into the pit, to their ruin.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:15 - But when I stumbled, they gathered in glee; assailants gathered against me without my knowledge. They slandered me without ceasing.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:4 - Even on their beds they plot evil; they commit themselves to a sinful course and do not reject what is wrong.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:12 - See how the evildoers lie fallen— thrown down, not able to rise!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:10 - A little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:19 - In times of disaster they will not wither; in days of famine they will enjoy plenty.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:24 - though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the LORD upholds him with his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:33 - but the LORD will not leave them in the power of the wicked or let them be condemned when brought to trial.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:6 - “Surely everyone goes around like a mere phantom; in vain they rush about, heaping up wealth without knowing whose it will finally be.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:9 - I proclaim your saving acts in the great assembly; I do not seal my lips, LORD, as you know.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:11 - I know that you are pleased with me, for my enemy does not triumph over me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:3 - It was not by their sword that they won the land, nor did their arm bring them victory; it was your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, for you loved them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:6 - I put no trust in my bow, my sword does not bring me victory;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:2 - Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:5 - God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:7 - No one can redeem the life of another or give to God a ransom for them—
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:12 - People, despite their wealth, do not endure; they are like the beasts that perish.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:20 - People who have wealth but lack understanding are like the beasts that perish.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:3 - Our God comes and will not be silent; a fire devours before him, and around him a tempest rages.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:9 - I have no need of a bull from your stall or of goats from your pens,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:12 - If I were hungry I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 54:3 - Arrogant foes are attacking me; ruthless people are trying to kill me— people without regard for God.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:19 - God, who is enthroned from of old, who does not change— he will hear them and humble them, because they have no fear of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:22 - Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:23 - But you, God, will bring down the wicked into the pit of decay; the bloodthirsty and deceitful will not live out half their days. But as for me, I trust in you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:4 - In God, whose word I praise— in God I trust and am not afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:11 - in God I trust and am not afraid. What can man do to me?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:13 - consume them in your wrath, consume them till they are no more. Then it will be known to the ends of the earth that God rules over Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:2 - Truly he is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:6 - Truly he is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will not be shaken.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 64:4 - They shoot from ambush at the innocent; they shoot suddenly, without fear.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:5 - They are free from common human burdens; they are not plagued by human ills.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:9 - We are given no signs from God; no prophets are left, and none of us knows how long this will be.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:7 - “Will the Lord reject forever? Will he never show his favor again?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:19 - Your path led through the sea, your way through the mighty waters, though your footprints were not seen.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:8 - They would not be like their ancestors— a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal to God, whose spirits were not faithful to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:38 - Yet he was merciful; he forgave their iniquities and did not destroy them. Time after time he restrained his anger and did not stir up his full wrath.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:64 - their priests were put to the sword, and their widows could not weep.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:18 - Then we will not turn away from you; revive us, and we will call on your name.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:11 - “But my people would not listen to me; Israel would not submit to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:4 - “Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation, so that Israel's name is remembered no more.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 84:11 - For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 86:14 - Arrogant foes are attacking me, O God; ruthless people are trying to kill me— they have no regard for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:22 - The enemy will not get the better of him; the wicked will not oppress him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:33 - but I will not take my love from him, nor will I ever betray my faithfulness.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:34 - I will not violate my covenant or alter what my lips have uttered.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:5 - You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:10 - no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:6 - Senseless people do not know, fools do not understand,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 93:1 - The LORD reigns, he is robed in majesty; the LORD is robed in majesty and armed with strength; indeed, the world is established, firm and secure.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:9 - Does he who fashioned the ear not hear? Does he who formed the eye not see?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 96:10 - Say among the nations, “The LORD reigns.” The world is firmly established, it cannot be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 101:3 - I will not look with approval on anything that is vile. I hate what faithless people do; I will have no part in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 101:5 - Whoever slanders their neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not tolerate.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 101:7 - No one who practices deceit will dwell in my house; no one who speaks falsely will stand in my presence.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:10 - he does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:5 - He set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:9 - You set a boundary they cannot cross; never again will they cover the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:7 - When our ancestors were in Egypt, they gave no thought to your miracles; they did not remember your many kindnesses, and they rebelled by the sea, the Red Sea.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 110:4 - The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:6 - Surely the righteous will never be shaken; they will be remembered forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:7 - They will have no fear of bad news; their hearts are steadfast, trusting in the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:8 - Their hearts are secure, they will have no fear; in the end they will look in triumph on their foes.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:5 - They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:7 - They have hands, but cannot feel, feet, but cannot walk, nor can they utter a sound with their throats.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 118:6 - The LORD is with me; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 118:18 - The LORD has chastened me severely, but he has not given me over to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:3 - they do no wrong but follow his ways.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:6 - Then I would not be put to shame when I consider all your commands.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:93 - I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have preserved my life.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 121:4 - indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 121:6 - the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 125:1 - A song of ascents. Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be shaken but endures forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 127:5 - Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their opponents in court.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:11 - The LORD swore an oath to David, a sure oath he will not revoke: “One of your own descendants I will place on your throne.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:16 - They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:17 - They have ears, but cannot hear, nor is there breath in their mouths.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:6 - Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:12 - even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:10 - May burning coals fall on them; may they be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, never to rise.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:11 - May slanderers not be established in the land; may disaster hunt down the violent.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:4 - Do not let my heart be drawn to what is evil so that I take part in wicked deeds along with those who are evildoers; do not let me eat their delicacies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:2 - Do not bring your servant into judgment, for no one living is righteous before you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:6 - and he established them for ever and ever— he issued a decree that will never pass away.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:17 - How useless to spread a net where every bird can see it!
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:24 - But since you refuse to listen when I call and no one pays attention when I stretch out my hand,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:29 - since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:19 - None who go to her return or attain the paths of life.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:6 - in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:23 - Then you will go on your way in safety, and your foot will not stumble.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:25 - Have no fear of sudden disaster or of the ruin that overtakes the wicked,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:28 - Do not say to your neighbor, “Come back tomorrow and I'll give it to you”— when you already have it with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:32 - For the LORD detests the perverse but takes the upright into his confidence.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:12 - When you walk, your steps will not be hampered; when you run, you will not stumble.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:16 - For they cannot rest until they do evil; they are robbed of sleep till they make someone stumble.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:27 - Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned?
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:28 - Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched?
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:30 - People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger when he is starving.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:34 - For jealousy arouses a husband's fury, and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:19 - My husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:3 - The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry, but he thwarts the craving of the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:22 - The blessing of the LORD brings wealth, without painful toil for it.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:3 - No one can be established through wickedness, but the righteous cannot be uprooted.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:5 - An honest witness does not deceive, but a false witness pours out lies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:13 - Even in laughter the heart may ache, and rejoicing may end in grief.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:33 - Wisdom reposes in the heart of the discerning and even among fools she lets herself be known.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:23 - A person finds joy in giving an apt reply— and how good is a timely word!
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:10 - The lips of a king speak as an oracle, and his mouth does not betray justice.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:4 - A wicked person listens to deceitful lips; a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:13 - Evil will never leave the house of one who pays back evil for good.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:16 - Why should fools have money in hand to buy wisdom, when they are not able to understand it?
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:20 - One whose heart is corrupt does not prosper; one whose tongue is perverse falls into trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:23 - The wicked accept bribes in secret to pervert the course of justice.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:26 - If imposing a fine on the innocent is not good, surely to flog honest officials is not right.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:2 - Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:5 - It is not good to be partial to the wicked and so deprive the innocent of justice.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:5 - A false witness will not go unpunished, and whoever pours out lies will not go free.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:7 - The poor are shunned by all their relatives— how much more do their friends avoid them! Though the poor pursue them with pleading, they are nowhere to be found.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:10 - It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury— how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:24 - A sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not even bring it back to his mouth!
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:2 - A king's wrath strikes terror like the roar of a lion; those who anger him forfeit their lives.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:23 - The LORD detests differing weights, and dishonest scales do not please him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:7 - The violence of the wicked will drag them away, for they refuse to do what is right.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:25 - The craving of a sluggard will be the death of him, because his hands refuse to work.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:13 - Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish them with the rod, they will not die.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:30 - Those who linger over wine, who go to sample bowls of mixed wine.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:20 - for the evildoer has no future hope, and the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:22 - for those two will send sudden destruction on them, and who knows what calamities they can bring?
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:23 - These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judging is not good:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:27 - It is not good to eat too much honey, nor is it honorable to search out matters that are too deep.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:28 - Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:15 - A sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:1 - Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:22 - Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding them like grain with a pestle, you will not remove their folly from them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:24 - for riches do not endure forever, and a crown is not secure for all generations.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:5 - Evildoers do not understand what is right, but those who seek the LORD understand it fully.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:17 - Anyone tormented by the guilt of murder will seek refuge in the grave; let no one hold them back.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:7 - The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:9 - If a wise person goes to court with a fool, the fool rages and scoffs, and there is no peace.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:18 - Where there is no revelation, people cast off restraint; but blessed is the one who heeds wisdom's instruction.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:19 - Servants cannot be corrected by mere words; though they understand, they will not respond.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:16 - the grave, the barren womb, land, which is never satisfied with water, and fire, which never says, ‘Enough!'
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:21 - “Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:5 - lest they drink and forget what has been decreed, and deprive all the oppressed of their rights.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:21 - When it snows, she has no fear for her household; for all of them are clothed in scarlet.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:8 - All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:15 - What is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:23 - All their days their work is grief and pain; even at night their minds do not rest. This too is meaningless.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:12 - Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:10 - Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:15 - Everyone comes naked from their mother's womb, and as everyone comes, so they depart. They take nothing from their toil that they can carry in their hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:20 - They seldom reflect on the days of their life, because God keeps them occupied with gladness of heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:7 - Everyone's toil is for their mouth, yet their appetite is never satisfied.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:10 - Whatever exists has already been named, and what humanity is has been known; no one can contend with someone who is stronger.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:17 - Do not be overwicked, and do not be a fool— why die before your time?
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:5 - Whoever obeys his command will come to no harm, and the wise heart will know the proper time and procedure.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:8 - As no one has power over the wind to contain it, so[fn] no one has power over the time of their death. As no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:13 - Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:17 - then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:11 - I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:11 - If a snake bites before it is charmed, the charmer receives no fee.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:2 - Invest in seven ventures, yes, in eight; you do not know what disaster may come upon the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:4 - Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:5 - As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed[fn] in a mother's womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:6 - Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let your hands not be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:7 - Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If one were to give all the wealth of one's house for love, it[fn] would be utterly scorned.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:3 - The ox knows its master, the donkey its owner's manger, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:11 - “The multitude of your sacrifices— what are they to me?” says the LORD. “I have more than enough of burnt offerings, of rams and the fat of fattened animals; I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:13 - Stop bringing meaningless offerings! Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations— I cannot bear your worthless assemblies.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:23 - Your rulers are rebels, partners with thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow's case does not come before them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:24 - Therefore the Lord, the LORD Almighty, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: “Ah! I will vent my wrath on my foes and avenge myself on my enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:4 - He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:9 - So people will be brought low and everyone humbled— do not forgive them.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:7 - But in that day he will cry out, “I have no remedy. I have no food or clothing in my house; do not make me the leader of the people.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:6 - I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will command the clouds not to rain on it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:7 - The vineyard of the LORD Almighty is the nation of Israel, and the people of Judah are the vines he delighted in. And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:12 - They have harps and lyres at their banquets, pipes and timbrels and wine, but they have no regard for the deeds of the LORD, no respect for the work of his hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:24 - Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the LORD Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:27 - Not one of them grows tired or stumbles, not one slumbers or sleeps; not a belt is loosened at the waist, not a sandal strap is broken.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:9 - He said, “Go and tell this people: “ ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.'
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:7 - Yet this is what the Sovereign LORD says: “ ‘It will not take place, it will not happen,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:12 - But Ahaz said, “I will not ask; I will not put the LORD to the test.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:25 - As for all the hills once cultivated by the hoe, you will no longer go there for fear of the briers and thorns; they will become places where cattle are turned loose and where sheep run.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:10 - Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted; propose your plan, but it will not stand, for God is with us.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:12 - “Do not call conspiracy everything this people calls a conspiracy; do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:20 - On the right they will devour, but still be hungry; on the left they will eat, but not be satisfied. Each will feed on the flesh of their own offspring[fn]:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:3 - and he will delight in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes, or decide by what he hears with his ears;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:9 - They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:13 - Ephraim's jealousy will vanish, and Judah's enemies[fn] will be destroyed; Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah, nor Judah hostile toward Ephraim.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 12:2 - Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD himself, is my strength and my defense[fn]; he has become my salvation.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:10 - The stars of heaven and their constellations will not show their light. The rising sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:17 - See, I will stir up against them the Medes, who do not care for silver and have no delight in gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:18 - Their bows will strike down the young men; they will have no mercy on infants, nor will they look with compassion on children.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:20 - She will never be inhabited or lived in through all generations; there no nomads will pitch their tents, there no shepherds will rest their flocks.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:22 - Hyenas will inhabit her strongholds, jackals her luxurious palaces. Her time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:20 - you will not join them in burial, for you have destroyed your land and killed your people. Let the offspring of the wicked never be mentioned again.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:8 - The fields of Heshbon wither, the vines of Sibmah also. The rulers of the nations have trampled down the choicest vines, which once reached Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots spread out and went as far as the sea.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:10 - Joy and gladness are taken away from the orchards; no one sings or shouts in the vineyards; no one treads out wine at the presses, for I have put an end to the shouting.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:12 - When Moab appears at her high place, she only wears herself out; when she goes to her shrine to pray, it is to no avail.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:3 - The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim, and royal power from Damascus; the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the Israelites,”

declares the LORD Almighty.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:8 - They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands, and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles[fn] and the incense altars their fingers have made.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:2 - you town so full of commotion, you city of tumult and revelry? Your slain were not killed by the sword, nor did they die in battle.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:20 - The earth reels like a drunkard, it sways like a hut in the wind; so heavy upon it is the guilt of its rebellion that it falls—never to rise again.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:2 - You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin, the foreigners' stronghold a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:10 - But when grace is shown to the wicked, they do not learn righteousness; even in a land of uprightness they go on doing evil and do not regard the majesty of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:14 - They are now dead, they live no more; their spirits do not rise. You punished them and brought them to ruin; you wiped out all memory of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:21 - See, the LORD is coming out of his dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The earth will disclose the blood shed on it; the earth will conceal its slain no longer.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:8 - By warfare[fn] and exile you contend with her— with his fierce blast he drives her out, as on a day the east wind blows.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:9 - By this, then, will Jacob's guilt be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: When he makes all the altar stones to be like limestone crushed to pieces, no Asherah poles[fn] or incense altars will be left standing.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:11 - When its twigs are dry, they are broken off and women come and make fires with them. For this is a people without understanding; so their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:15 - You boast, “We have entered into a covenant with death, with the realm of the dead we have made an agreement. When an overwhelming scourge sweeps by, it cannot touch us, for we have made a lie our refuge and falsehood[fn] our hiding place.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:16 - So this is what the Sovereign LORD says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who relies on it will never be stricken with panic.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:17 - I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plumb line; hail will sweep away your refuge, the lie, and water will overflow your hiding place.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:18 - Your covenant with death will be annulled; your agreement with the realm of the dead will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge sweeps by, you will be beaten down by it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:20 - The bed is too short to stretch out on, the blanket too narrow to wrap around you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:27 - Caraway is not threshed with a sledge, nor is the wheel of a cart rolled over cumin; caraway is beaten out with a rod, and cumin with a stick.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:28 - Grain must be ground to make bread; so one does not go on threshing it forever. The wheels of a threshing cart may be rolled over it, but one does not use horses to grind grain.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:11 - For you this whole vision is nothing but words sealed in a scroll. And if you give the scroll to someone who can read, and say, “Read this, please,” they will answer, “I can't; it is sealed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:15 - Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the LORD, who do their work in darkness and think, “Who sees us? Who will know?”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:16 - You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, “You did not make me”? Can the pot say to the potter, “You know nothing”?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:22 - Therefore this is what the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, says to the descendants of Jacob: “No longer will Jacob be ashamed; no longer will their faces grow pale.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:1 - “Woe to the obstinate children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out plans that are not mine, forming an alliance, but not by my Spirit, heaping sin upon sin;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:2 - Yet he too is wise and can bring disaster; he does not take back his words. He will rise up against that wicked nation, against those who help evildoers.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:3 - But the Egyptians are mere mortals and not God; their horses are flesh and not spirit. When the LORD stretches out his hand, those who help will stumble, those who are helped will fall; all will perish together.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:8 - “Assyria will fall by no human sword; a sword, not of mortals, will devour them. They will flee before the sword and their young men will be put to forced labor.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:8 - The highways are deserted, no travelers are on the roads. The treaty is broken, its witnesses[fn] are despised, no one is respected.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:19 - You will see those arrogant people no more, people whose speech is obscure, whose language is strange and incomprehensible.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:20 - Look on Zion, the city of our festivals; your eyes will see Jerusalem, a peaceful abode, a tent that will not be moved; its stakes will never be pulled up, nor any of its ropes broken.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:21 - There the LORD will be our Mighty One. It will be like a place of broad rivers and streams. No galley with oars will ride them, no mighty ship will sail them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:22 - For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; it is he who will save us.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:23 - Your rigging hangs loose: The mast is not held secure, the sail is not spread. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided and even the lame will carry off plunder.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:24 - No one living in Zion will say, “I am ill”; and the sins of those who dwell there will be forgiven.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:10 - It will not be quenched night or day; its smoke will rise forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever pass through it again.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:8 - And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness; it will be for those who walk on that Way. The unclean will not journey on it; wicked fools will not go about on it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:9 - No lion will be there, nor any ravenous beast; they will not be found there. But only the redeemed will walk there,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:14 - This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you. He cannot deliver you!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:15 - Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, ‘The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.'
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:10 - “Say to Hezekiah king of Judah: Do not let the god you depend on deceive you when he says, ‘Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.'
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:19 - They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:26 - “Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it. In days of old I planned it; now I have brought it to pass, that you have turned fortified cities into piles of stone.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:33 - “Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the king of Assyria: “He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow here. He will not come before it with shield or build a siege ramp against it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:1 - In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:18 - For the grave cannot praise you, death cannot sing your praise; those who go down to the pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:20 - The LORD will save me, and we will sing with stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:6 - The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:21 - Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the earth was founded?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:24 - No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take root in the ground, than he blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:28 - Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:31 - but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:7 - The metalworker encourages the goldsmith, and the one who smooths with the hammer spurs on the one who strikes the anvil. One says of the welding, “It is good.” The other nails down the idol so it will not topple.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:12 - Though you search for your enemies, you will not find them. Those who wage war against you will be as nothing at all.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:28 - I look but there is no one— no one among the gods to give counsel, no one to give answer when I ask them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:2 - He will not shout or cry out, or raise his voice in the streets.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:3 - A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out. In faithfulness he will bring forth justice;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:4 - he will not falter or be discouraged till he establishes justice on earth. In his teaching the islands will put their hope.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:8 - “I am the LORD; that is my name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:2 - When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:22 - “Yet you have not called on me, Jacob, you have not wearied yourselves for[fn] me, Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:25 - “I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:12 - The blacksmith takes a tool and works with it in the coals; he shapes an idol with hammers, he forges it with the might of his arm. He gets hungry and loses his strength; he drinks no water and grows faint.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:1 - “This is what the LORD says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I take hold of to subdue nations before him and to strip kings of their armor, to open doors before him so that gates will not be shut:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:13 - I will raise up Cyrus[fn] in my righteousness: I will make all his ways straight. He will rebuild my city and set my exiles free, but not for a price or reward, says the LORD Almighty.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:20 - “Gather together and come; assemble, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry about idols of wood, who pray to gods that cannot save.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:2 - They stoop and bow down together; unable to rescue the burden, they themselves go off into captivity.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:7 - They lift it to their shoulders and carry it; they set it up in its place, and there it stands. From that spot it cannot move. Even though someone cries out to it, it cannot answer; it cannot save them from their troubles.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:13 - I am bringing my righteousness near, it is not far away; and my salvation will not be delayed. I will grant salvation to Zion, my splendor to Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:8 - “Now then, listen, you lover of pleasure, lounging in your security and saying to yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or suffer the loss of children.'
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:11 - Disaster will come upon you, and you will not know how to conjure it away. A calamity will fall upon you that you cannot ward off with a ransom; a catastrophe you cannot foresee will suddenly come upon you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:14 - Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot even save themselves from the power of the flame. These are not coals for warmth; this is not a fire to sit by.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:1 - “Listen to this, you descendants of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel and come from the line of Judah, you who take oaths in the name of the LORD and invoke the God of Israel— but not in truth or righteousness—
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:7 - They are created now, and not long ago; you have not heard of them before today. So you cannot say, ‘Yes, I knew of them.'
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:11 - For my own sake, for my own sake, I do this. How can I let myself be defamed? I will not yield my glory to another.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:19 - Your descendants would have been like the sand, your children like its numberless grains; their name would never be blotted out nor destroyed from before me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:10 - They will neither hunger nor thirst, nor will the desert heat or the sun beat down on them. He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:7 - Because the Sovereign LORD helps me, I will not be disgraced. Therefore have I set my face like flint, and I know I will not be put to shame.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:6 - Lift up your eyes to the heavens, look at the earth beneath; the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment and its inhabitants die like flies. But my salvation will last forever, my righteousness will never fail.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:9 - Awake, awake, arm of the LORD, clothe yourself with strength! Awake, as in days gone by, as in generations of old. Was it not you who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced that monster through?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:14 - The cowering prisoners will soon be set free; they will not die in their dungeon, nor will they lack bread.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:22 - This is what your Sovereign LORD says, your God, who defends his people: “See, I have taken out of your hand the cup that made you stagger; from that cup, the goblet of my wrath, you will never drink again.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:3 - For this is what the LORD says: “You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:12 - But you will not leave in haste or go in flight; for the LORD will go before you, the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:1 - “Sing, barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,”

says the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:4 - “Do not be afraid; you will not be put to shame. Do not fear disgrace; you will not be humiliated. You will forget the shame of your youth and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:10 - Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:11 - “Afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted, I will rebuild you with stones of turquoise,[fn] your foundations with lapis lazuli.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:14 - In righteousness you will be established: Tyranny will be far from you; you will have nothing to fear. Terror will be far removed; it will not come near you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:8 - “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,”

declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:10 - As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:11 - so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:10 - Israel's watchmen are blind, they all lack knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they lie around and dream, they love to sleep.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:10 - You wearied yourself by such going about, but you would not say, ‘It is hopeless.' You found renewal of your strength, and so you did not faint.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:20 - But the wicked are like the tossing sea, which cannot rest, whose waves cast up mire and mud.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:5 - Is this the kind of fast I have chosen, only a day for people to humble themselves? Is it only for bowing one's head like a reed and for lying in sackcloth and ashes? Is that what you call a fast, a day acceptable to the LORD?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:9 - So justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We look for light, but all is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:21 - “As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit, who is on you, will not depart from you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will always be on your lips, on the lips of your children and on the lips of their descendants—from this time on and forever,” says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:11 - Your gates will always stand open, they will never be shut, day or night, so that people may bring you the wealth of the nations— their kings led in triumphal procession.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:12 - For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish; it will be utterly ruined.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:20 - Your sun will never set again, and your moon will wane no more; the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your days of sorrow will end.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:1 - For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, for Jerusalem's sake I will not remain quiet, till her vindication shines out like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:4 - No longer will they call you Deserted, or name your land Desolate. But you will be called Hephzibah,[fn] and your land Beulah[fn]; for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be married.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:6 - I have posted watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD, give yourselves no rest,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:8 - He said, “Surely they are my people, children who will be true to me”; and so he became their Savior.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:9 - In all their distress he too was distressed, and the angel of his presence saved them.[fn] In his love and mercy he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:6 - “See, it stands written before me: I will not keep silent but will pay back in full; I will pay it back into their laps—
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:8 - This is what the LORD says: “As when juice is still found in a cluster of grapes and people say, ‘Don't destroy it, there is still a blessing in it,' so will I do in behalf of my servants; I will not destroy them all.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:17 - “See, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:20 - “Never again will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his years; the one who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere child; the one who fails to reach[fn] a hundred will be considered accursed.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:22 - No longer will they build houses and others live in them, or plant and others eat. For as the days of a tree, so will be the days of my people; my chosen ones will long enjoy the work of their hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:23 - They will not labor in vain, nor will they bear children doomed to misfortune; for they will be a people blessed by the LORD, they and their descendants with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:24 - “And they will go out and look on the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; the worms that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:19 - They will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you and will rescue you,” declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:6 - They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD, who brought us up out of Egypt and led us through the barren wilderness, through a land of deserts and ravines, a land of drought and utter darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:13 - “My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:20 - “Long ago you broke off your yoke and tore off your bonds; you said, ‘I will not serve you!' Indeed, on every high hill and under every spreading tree you lay down as a prostitute.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:24 - a wild donkey accustomed to the desert, sniffing the wind in her craving— in her heat who can restrain her? Any males that pursue her need not tire themselves; at mating time they will find her.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:27 - They say to wood, ‘You are my father,' and to stone, ‘You gave me birth.' They have turned their backs to me and not their faces; yet when they are in trouble, they say, ‘Come and save us!'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:31 - “You of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a desert to Israel or a land of great darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to you no more'?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:1 - “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, should he return to her again? Would not the land be completely defiled? But you have lived as a prostitute with many lovers— would you now return to me?”

declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:12 - Go, proclaim this message toward the north: “ ‘Return, faithless Israel,' declares the LORD, ‘I will frown on you no longer, for I am faithful,' declares the LORD, ‘I will not be angry forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:16 - In those days, when your numbers have increased greatly in the land,” declares the LORD, “people will no longer say, ‘The ark of the covenant of the LORD.' It will never enter their minds or be remembered; it will not be missed, nor will another one be made.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:17 - At that time they will call Jerusalem The Throne of the LORD, and all nations will gather in Jerusalem to honor the name of the LORD. No longer will they follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:19 - Oh, my anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain. Oh, the agony of my heart! My heart pounds within me, I cannot keep silent. For I have heard the sound of the trumpet; I have heard the battle cry.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:22 - “My people are fools; they do not know me. They are senseless children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil; they know not how to do good.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:27 - This is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be ruined, though I will not destroy it completely.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:28 - Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above grow dark, because I have spoken and will not relent, I have decided and will not turn back.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:29 - At the sound of horsemen and archers every town takes to flight. Some go into the thickets; some climb up among the rocks. All the towns are deserted; no one lives in them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:18 - “Yet even in those days,” declares the LORD, “I will not destroy you completely.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:21 - Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:22 - Should you not fear me?” declares the LORD. “Should you not tremble in my presence? I made the sand a boundary for the sea, an everlasting barrier it cannot cross. The waves may roll, but they cannot prevail; they may roar, but they cannot cross it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:8 - Take warning, Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you and make your land desolate so no one can live in it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:10 - To whom can I speak and give warning? Who will listen to me? Their ears are closed[fn] so they cannot hear. The word of the LORD is offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:11 - But I am full of the wrath of the LORD, and I cannot hold it in. “Pour it out on the children in the street and on the young men gathered together; both husband and wife will be caught in it, and the old, those weighed down with years.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:16 - This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:19 - Hear, you earth: I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their schemes, because they have not listened to my words and have rejected my law.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:20 - “ ‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: My anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place—on man and beast, on the trees of the field and on the crops of your land—and it will burn and not be quenched.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:24 - But they did not listen or pay attention; instead, they followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:26 - But they did not listen to me or pay attention. They were stiff-necked and did more evil than their ancestors.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:31 - They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I did not command, nor did it enter my mind.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:2 - They will be exposed to the sun and the moon and all the stars of the heavens, which they have loved and served and which they have followed and consulted and worshiped. They will not be gathered up or buried, but will be like dung lying on the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:20 - “The harvest is past, the summer has ended, and we are not saved.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:3 - “They make ready their tongue like a bow, to shoot lies; it is not by truth that they triumph[fn] in the land. They go from one sin to another; they do not acknowledge me,”

declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:5 - Friend deceives friend, and no one speaks the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they weary themselves with sinning.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:4 - They adorn it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so it will not totter.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:5 - Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field, their idols cannot speak; they must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them; they can do no harm nor can they do any good.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:9 - Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz. What the craftsman and goldsmith have made is then dressed in blue and purple— all made by skilled workers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:11 - Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I will bring on them a disaster they cannot escape. Although they cry out to me, I will not listen to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:19 - I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter; I did not realize that they had plotted against me, saying, “Let us destroy the tree and its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:21 - Therefore this is what the LORD says about the people of Anathoth who are threatening to kill you, saying, “Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD or you will die by our hands”—
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:1 - This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and buy a linen belt and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:7 - So I went to Perath and dug up the belt and took it from the place where I had hidden it, but now it was ruined and completely useless.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:10 - These wicked people, who refuse to listen to my words, who follow the stubbornness of their hearts and go after other gods to serve and worship them, will be like this belt—completely useless!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:12 - “Say to them: ‘This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Every wineskin should be filled with wine.' And if they say to you, ‘Don't we know that every wineskin should be filled with wine?'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:14 - I will smash them one against the other, parents and children alike, declares the LORD. I will allow no pity or mercy or compassion to keep me from destroying them.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:9 - Why are you like a man taken by surprise, like a warrior powerless to save? You are among us, LORD, and we bear your name; do not forsake us!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:20 - I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to rescue and save you,”

declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:2 - “You must not marry and have sons or daughters in this place.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:4 - “They will die of deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried but will be like dung lying on the ground. They will perish by sword and famine, and their dead bodies will become food for the birds and the wild animals.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:6 - “Both high and low will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned, and no one will cut themselves or shave their head for the dead.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:7 - No one will offer food to comfort those who mourn for the dead—not even for a father or a mother—nor will anyone give them a drink to console them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:13 - So I will throw you out of this land into a land neither you nor your ancestors have known, and there you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:6 - That person will be like a bush in the wastelands; they will not see prosperity when it comes. They will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:8 - They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:11 - Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay are those who gain riches by unjust means. When their lives are half gone, their riches will desert them, and in the end they will prove to be fools.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:22 - Do not bring a load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your ancestors.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:27 - But if you do not obey me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying any load as you come through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in the gates of Jerusalem that will consume her fortresses.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:6 - He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the LORD. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:6 - So beware, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when people will no longer call this place Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:11 - and say to them, ‘This is what the LORD Almighty says: I will smash this nation and this city just as this potter's jar is smashed and cannot be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:9 - But if I say, “I will not mention his word or speak anymore in his name,” his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:16 - May that man be like the towns the LORD overthrew without pity. May he hear wailing in the morning, a battle cry at noon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:7 - After that, declares the LORD, I will give Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials and the people in this city who survive the plague, sword and famine, into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who want to kill them. He will put them to the sword; he will show them no mercy or pity or compassion.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:10 - Do not weep for the dead king or mourn his loss; rather, weep bitterly for him who is exiled, because he will never return nor see his native land again.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:13 - “Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, his upper rooms by injustice, making his own people work for nothing, not paying them for their labor.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:15 - “Does it make you a king to have more and more cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He did what was right and just, so all went well with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:16 - He defended the cause of the poor and needy, and so all went well. Is that not what it means to know me?” declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:18 - Therefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: “They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my brother! Alas, my sister!' They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my master! Alas, his splendor!'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:27 - You will never come back to the land you long to return to.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:30 - This is what the LORD says: “Record this man as if childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime, for none of his offspring will prosper, none will sit on the throne of David or rule anymore in Judah.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:4 - I will place shepherds over them who will tend them, and they will no longer be afraid or terrified, nor will any be missing,” declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:2 - One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early; the other basket had very bad figs, so bad they could not be eaten.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:3 - Then the LORD asked me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” “Figs,” I answered. “The good ones are very good, but the bad ones are so bad they cannot be eaten.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:6 - My eyes will watch over them for their good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:8 - “ ‘But like the bad figs, which are so bad they cannot be eaten,' says the LORD, ‘so will I deal with Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials and the survivors from Jerusalem, whether they remain in this land or live in Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:4 - And though the LORD has sent all his servants the prophets to you again and again, you have not listened or paid any attention.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:27 - “Then tell them, ‘This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Drink, get drunk and vomit, and fall to rise no more because of the sword I will send among you.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:29 - See, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears my Name, and will you indeed go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword on all who live on the earth, declares the LORD Almighty.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:33 - At that time those slain by the LORD will be everywhere—from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned or gathered up or buried, but will be like dung lying on the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:9 - So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your interpreters of dreams, your mediums or your sorcerers who tell you, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:11 - For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:23 - For they have done outrageous things in Israel; they have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and in my name they have uttered lies—which I did not authorize. I know it and am a witness to it,” declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:28 - He has sent this message to us in Babylon: It will be a long time. Therefore build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:14 - All your allies have forgotten you; they care nothing for you. I have struck you as an enemy would and punished you as would the cruel, because your guilt is so great and your sins so many.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:19 - From them will come songs of thanksgiving and the sound of rejoicing. I will add to their numbers, and they will not be decreased; I will bring them honor, and they will not be disdained.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:24 - The fierce anger of the LORD will not turn back until he fully accomplishes the purposes of his heart. In days to come you will understand this.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:9 - They will come with weeping; they will pray as I bring them back. I will lead them beside streams of water on a level path where they will not stumble, because I am Israel's father, and Ephraim is my firstborn son.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:12 - They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will rejoice in the bounty of the LORD— the grain, the new wine and the olive oil, the young of the flocks and herds. They will be like a well-watered garden, and they will sorrow no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:29 - “In those days people will no longer say, ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:32 - It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to[fn] them,[fn]

declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:34 - No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the LORD,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,”

declares the LORD.

“For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:40 - The whole valley where dead bodies and ashes are thrown, and all the terraces out to the Kidron Valley on the east as far as the corner of the Horse Gate, will be holy to the LORD. The city will never again be uprooted or demolished.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:4 - Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape the Babylonians[fn] but will certainly be given into the hands of the king of Babylon, and will speak with him face to face and see him with his own eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:17 - “Ah, Sovereign LORD, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:33 - They turned their backs to me and not their faces; though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:35 - They built high places for Baal in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molek, though I never commanded—nor did it enter my mind—that they should do such a detestable thing and so make Judah sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:40 - I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:8 - I will cleanse them from all the sin they have committed against me and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:3 - You will not escape from his grasp but will surely be captured and given into his hands. You will see the king of Babylon with your own eyes, and he will speak with you face to face. And you will go to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:6 - But they replied, “We do not drink wine, because our forefather Jehonadab[fn] son of Rekab gave us this command: ‘Neither you nor your descendants must ever drink wine.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:7 - Also you must never build houses, sow seed or plant vineyards; you must never have any of these things, but must always live in tents. Then you will live a long time in the land where you are nomads.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:13 - “This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Go and tell the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, ‘Will you not learn a lesson and obey my words?' declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:15 - Again and again I sent all my servants the prophets to you. They said, “Each of you must turn from your wicked ways and reform your actions; do not follow other gods to serve them. Then you will live in the land I have given to you and your ancestors.” But you have not paid attention or listened to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:19 - Therefore this is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘Jehonadab son of Rekab will never fail to have a descendant to serve me.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:5 - Then Jeremiah told Baruch, “I am restricted; I am not allowed to go to the LORD's temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:24 - The king and all his attendants who heard all these words showed no fear, nor did they tear their clothes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:9 - “This is what the LORD says: Do not deceive yourselves, thinking, ‘The Babylonians will surely leave us.' They will not!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:19 - Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, ‘The king of Babylon will not attack you or this land'?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:20 - But now, my lord the king, please listen. Let me bring my petition before you: Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the secretary, or I will die there.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:4 - Then the officials said to the king, “This man should be put to death. He is discouraging the soldiers who are left in this city, as well as all the people, by the things he is saying to them. This man is not seeking the good of these people but their ruin.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:15 - Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If I give you an answer, will you not kill me? Even if I did give you counsel, you would not listen to me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:17 - Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “This is what the LORD God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, your life will be spared and this city will not be burned down; you and your family will live.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:18 - But if you will not surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, this city will be given into the hands of the Babylonians and they will burn it down; you yourself will not escape from them.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:20 - “They will not hand you over,” Jeremiah replied. “Obey the LORD by doing what I tell you. Then it will go well with you, and your life will be spared.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:23 - “All your wives and children will be brought out to the Babylonians. You yourself will not escape from their hands but will be captured by the king of Babylon; and this city will[fn] be burned down.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:24 - Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Do not let anyone know about this conversation, or you may die.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:25 - If the officials hear that I talked with you, and they come to you and say, ‘Tell us what you said to the king and what the king said to you; do not hide it from us or we will kill you,'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:17 - But I will rescue you on that day, declares the LORD; you will not be given into the hands of those you fear.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:18 - I will save you; you will not fall by the sword but will escape with your life, because you trust in me, declares the LORD.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:4 - “I have heard you,” replied Jeremiah the prophet. “I will certainly pray to the LORD your God as you have requested; I will tell you everything the LORD says and will keep nothing back from you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:10 - ‘If you stay in this land, I will build you up and not tear you down; I will plant you and not uproot you, for I have relented concerning the disaster I have inflicted on you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:13 - “However, if you say, ‘We will not stay in this land,' and so disobey the LORD your God,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:14 - and if you say, ‘No, we will go and live in Egypt, where we will not see war or hear the trumpet or be hungry for bread,'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18 - This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘As my anger and wrath have been poured out on those who lived in Jerusalem, so will my wrath be poured out on you when you go to Egypt. You will be a curse[fn] and an object of horror, a curse[fn] and an object of reproach; you will never see this place again.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:14 - None of the remnant of Judah who have gone to live in Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah, to which they long to return and live; none will return except a few fugitives.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:23 - They will chop down her forest,”

declares the LORD,

“dense though it be. They are more numerous than locusts, they cannot be counted.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:28 - Do not be afraid, Jacob my servant, for I am with you,” declares the LORD. “Though I completely destroy all the nations among which I scatter you, I will not completely destroy you. I will discipline you but only in due measure; I will not let you go entirely unpunished.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:8 - The destroyer will come against every town, and not a town will escape. The valley will be ruined and the plateau destroyed, because the LORD has spoken.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:9 - If grape pickers came to you, would they not leave a few grapes? If thieves came during the night, would they not steal only as much as they wanted?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:10 - But I will strip Esau bare; I will uncover his hiding places, so that he cannot conceal himself. His armed men are destroyed, also his allies and neighbors, so there is no one to say,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:12 - This is what the LORD says: “If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, why should you go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, but must drink it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:18 - As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown, along with their neighboring towns,”

says the LORD,

“so no one will live there; no people will dwell in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:23 - Concerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are dismayed, for they have heard bad news. They are disheartened, troubled like[fn] the restless sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:31 - “Arise and attack a nation at ease, which lives in confidence,”

declares the LORD,

“a nation that has neither gates nor bars; its people live far from danger.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:33 - “Hazor will become a haunt of jackals, a desolate place forever. No one will live there; no people will dwell in it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:13 - Because of the LORD's anger she will not be inhabited but will be completely desolate. All who pass Babylon will be appalled; they will scoff because of all her wounds.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:20 - In those days, at that time,” declares the LORD, “search will be made for Israel's guilt, but there will be none, and for the sins of Judah, but none will be found, for I will forgive the remnant I spare.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:24 - I set a trap for you, Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it; you were found and captured because you opposed the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:39 - “So desert creatures and hyenas will live there, and there the owl will dwell. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:40 - As I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah along with their neighboring towns,”

declares the LORD,

“so no one will live there; no people will dwell in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:42 - They are armed with bows and spears; they are cruel and without mercy. They sound like the roaring sea as they ride on their horses; they come like men in battle formation to attack you, Daughter Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:19 - He who is the Portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the Maker of all things, including the people of his inheritance— the LORD Almighty is his name.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:26 - No rock will be taken from you for a cornerstone, nor any stone for a foundation, for you will be desolate forever,”

declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:37 - Babylon will be a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals, an object of horror and scorn, a place where no one lives.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:39 - But while they are aroused, I will set out a feast for them and make them drunk, so that they shout with laughter— then sleep forever and not awake,”

declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:43 - Her towns will be desolate, a dry and desert land, a land where no one lives, through which no one travels.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:44 - I will punish Bel in Babylon and make him spew out what he has swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him. And the wall of Babylon will fall.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:58 - This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Babylon's thick wall will be leveled and her high gates set on fire; the peoples exhaust themselves for nothing, the nations' labor is only fuel for the flames.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:64 - Then say, ‘So will Babylon sink to rise no more because of the disaster I will bring on her. And her people will fall.' ” The words of Jeremiah end here.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:12 - “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see. Is any suffering like my suffering that was inflicted on me, that the LORD brought on me in the day of his fierce anger?
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:14 - “My sins have been bound into a yoke[fn]; by his hands they were woven together. They have been hung on my neck, and the Lord has sapped my strength. He has given me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:2 - Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob; in his wrath he has torn down the strongholds of Daughter Judah. He has brought her kingdom and its princes down to the ground in dishonor.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:2 - He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness rather than light;
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:49 - My eyes will flow unceasingly, without relief,
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:15 - “Go away! You are unclean!” people cry to them. “Away! Away! Don't touch us!” When they flee and wander about, people among the nations say, “They can stay here no longer.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:16 - The LORD himself has scattered them; he no longer watches over them. The priests are shown no honor, the elders no favor.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:17 - Moreover, our eyes failed, looking in vain for help; from our towers we watched for a nation that could not save us.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:22 - Your punishment will end, Daughter Zion; he will not prolong your exile. But he will punish your sin, Daughter Edom, and expose your wickedness.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:5 - You are not being sent to a people of obscure speech and strange language, but to the people of Israel—
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:7 - But the people of Israel are not willing to listen to you because they are not willing to listen to me, for all the Israelites are hardened and obstinate.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:18 - When I say to a wicked person, ‘You will surely die,' and you do not warn them or speak out to dissuade them from their evil ways in order to save their life, that wicked person will die for[fn] their sin, and I will hold you accountable for their blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:20 - “Again, when a righteous person turns from their righteousness and does evil, and I put a stumbling block before them, they will die. Since you did not warn them, they will die for their sin. The righteous things that person did will not be remembered, and I will hold you accountable for their blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:25 - And you, son of man, they will tie with ropes; you will be bound so that you cannot go out among the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:14 - Then I said, “Not so, Sovereign LORD! I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have never eaten anything found dead or torn by wild animals. No impure meat has ever entered my mouth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:7 - “Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: You have been more unruly than the nations around you and have not followed my decrees or kept my laws. You have not even[fn] conformed to the standards of the nations around you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:9 - Because of all your detestable idols, I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:11 - Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your vile images and detestable practices, I myself will shave you; I will not look on you with pity or spare you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:4 - I will not look on you with pity; I will not spare you. I will surely repay you for your conduct and for the detestable practices among you. “ ‘Then you will know that I am the LORD.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:7 - Doom has come upon you, upon you who dwell in the land. The time has come! The day is near! There is panic, not joy, on the mountains.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:9 - I will not look on you with pity; I will not spare you. I will repay you for your conduct and for the detestable practices among you. “ ‘Then you will know that it is I the LORD who strikes you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:11 - Violence has arisen,[fn] a rod to punish the wicked. None of the people will be left, none of that crowd— none of their wealth, nothing of value.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:13 - The seller will not recover the property that was sold— as long as both buyer and seller live. For the vision concerning the whole crowd will not be reversed. Because of their sins, not one of them will preserve their life.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:19 - “ ‘They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will be treated as a thing unclean. Their silver and gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD's wrath. It will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs, for it has caused them to stumble into sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:18 - Therefore I will deal with them in anger; I will not look on them with pity or spare them. Although they shout in my ears, I will not listen to them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:10 - So I will not look on them with pity or spare them, but I will bring down on their own heads what they have done.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:11 - This city will not be a pot for you, nor will you be the meat in it; I will execute judgment on you at the borders of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:2 - “Son of man, you are living among a rebellious people. They have eyes to see but do not see and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious people.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:6 - Put them on your shoulder as they are watching and carry them out at dusk. Cover your face so that you cannot see the land, for I have made you a sign to the Israelites.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:25 - But I the LORD will speak what I will, and it shall be fulfilled without delay. For in your days, you rebellious people, I will fulfill whatever I say, declares the Sovereign LORD.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:28 - “Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: None of my words will be delayed any longer; whatever I say will be fulfilled, declares the Sovereign LORD.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:9 - My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations. They will not belong to the council of my people or be listed in the records of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:22 - Because you disheartened the righteous with your lies, when I had brought them no grief, and because you encouraged the wicked not to turn from their evil ways and so save their lives,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:23 - therefore you will no longer see false visions or practice divination. I will save my people from your hands. And then you will know that I am the LORD.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:18 - as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, even if these three men were in it, they could not save their own sons or daughters. They alone would be saved.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:23 - You will be consoled when you see their conduct and their actions, for you will know that I have done nothing in it without cause, declares the Sovereign LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:16 - You took some of your garments to make gaudy high places, where you carried on your prostitution. You went to him, and he possessed your beauty.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:41 - They will burn down your houses and inflict punishment on you in the sight of many women. I will put a stop to your prostitution, and you will no longer pay your lovers.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:42 - Then my wrath against you will subside and my jealous anger will turn away from you; I will be calm and no longer angry.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:6 - He does not eat at the mountain shrines or look to the idols of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor's wife or have sexual relations with a woman during her period.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:7 - He does not oppress anyone, but returns what he took in pledge for a loan. He does not commit robbery but gives his food to the hungry and provides clothing for the naked.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:8 - He does not lend to them at interest or take a profit from them. He withholds his hand from doing wrong and judges fairly between two parties.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:13 - He lends at interest and takes a profit. Will such a man live? He will not! Because he has done all these detestable things, he is to be put to death; his blood will be on his own head.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:15 - “He does not eat at the mountain shrines or look to the idols of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor's wife.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:16 - He does not oppress anyone or require a pledge for a loan. He does not commit robbery but gives his food to the hungry and provides clothing for the naked.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:17 - He withholds his hand from mistreating the poor and takes no interest or profit from them. He keeps my laws and follows my decrees. He will not die for his father's sin; he will surely live.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:20 - The one who sins is the one who will die. The child will not share the guilt of the parent, nor will the parent share the guilt of the child. The righteousness of the righteous will be credited to them, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:21 - “But if a wicked person turns away from all the sins they have committed and keeps all my decrees and does what is just and right, that person will surely live; they will not die.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:22 - None of the offenses they have committed will be remembered against them. Because of the righteous things they have done, they will live.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:24 - “But if a righteous person turns from their righteousness and commits sin and does the same detestable things the wicked person does, will they live? None of the righteous things that person has done will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness they are guilty of and because of the sins they have committed, they will die.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:25 - “Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.' Hear, you Israelites: Is my way unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:28 - Because they consider all the offenses they have committed and turn away from them, that person will surely live; they will not die.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:29 - Yet the Israelites say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.' Are my ways unjust, people of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:32 - For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign LORD. Repent and live!
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:25 - So I gave them other statutes that were not good and laws through which they could not live;
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:39 - “ ‘As for you, people of Israel, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Go and serve your idols, every one of you! But afterward you will surely listen to me and no longer profane my holy name with your gifts and idols.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:47 - Say to the southern forest: ‘Hear the word of the LORD. This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am about to set fire to you, and it will consume all your trees, both green and dry. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and every face from south to north will be scorched by it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:48 - Everyone will see that I the LORD have kindled it; it will not be quenched.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:26 - this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Take off the turban, remove the crown. It will not be as it was: The lowly will be exalted and the exalted will be brought low.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:32 - You will be fuel for the fire, your blood will be shed in your land, you will be remembered no more; for I the LORD have spoken.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:24 - “Son of man, say to the land, ‘You are a land that has not been cleansed or rained on in the day of wrath.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:26 - Her priests do violence to my law and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common; they teach that there is no difference between the unclean and the clean; and they shut their eyes to the keeping of my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:28 - Her prophets whitewash these deeds for them by false visions and lying divinations. They say, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says'—when the LORD has not spoken.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:27 - So I will put a stop to the lewdness and prostitution you began in Egypt. You will not look on these things with longing or remember Egypt anymore.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:36 - The LORD said to me: “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then confront them with their detestable practices,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:48 - “So I will put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not imitate you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:12 - It has frustrated all efforts; its heavy deposit has not been removed, not even by fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:14 - “ ‘I the LORD have spoken. The time has come for me to act. I will not hold back; I will not have pity, nor will I relent. You will be judged according to your conduct and your actions, declares the Sovereign LORD.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:16 - “Son of man, with one blow I am about to take away from you the delight of your eyes. Yet do not lament or weep or shed any tears.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:17 - Groan quietly; do not mourn for the dead. Keep your turban fastened and your sandals on your feet; do not cover your mustache and beard or eat the customary food of mourners.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:22 - And you will do as I have done. You will not cover your mustache and beard or eat the customary food of mourners.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:27 - At that time your mouth will be opened; you will speak with him and will no longer be silent. So you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:13 - I will put an end to your noisy songs, and the music of your harps will be heard no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:14 - I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread fishnets. You will never be rebuilt, for I the LORD have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:2 - “Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: “ ‘In the pride of your heart you say, “I am a god; I sit on the throne of a god in the heart of the seas.” But you are a mere mortal and not a god, though you think you are as wise as a god.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:9 - Will you then say, “I am a god,” in the presence of those who kill you? You will be but a mortal, not a god, in the hands of those who slay you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:5 - I will leave you in the desert, you and all the fish of your streams. You will fall on the open field and not be gathered or picked up. I will give you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the sky.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:11 - The foot of neither man nor beast will pass through it; no one will live there for forty years.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:15 - It will be the lowliest of kingdoms and will never again exalt itself above the other nations. I will make it so weak that it will never again rule over the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:21 - “Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. It has not been bound up to be healed or put in a splint so that it may become strong enough to hold a sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:7 - When I snuff you out, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:13 - I will destroy all her cattle from beside abundant waters no longer to be stirred by the foot of man or muddied by the hooves of cattle.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:11 - Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, people of Israel?'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:12 - “Therefore, son of man, say to your people, ‘If someone who is righteous disobeys, that person's former righteousness will count for nothing. And if someone who is wicked repents, that person's former wickedness will not bring condemnation. The righteous person who sins will not be allowed to live even though they were formerly righteous.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:13 - If I tell a righteous person that they will surely live, but then they trust in their righteousness and do evil, none of the righteous things that person has done will be remembered; they will die for the evil they have done.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:15 - if they give back what they took in pledge for a loan, return what they have stolen, follow the decrees that give life, and do no evil—that person will surely live; they will not die.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:16 - None of the sins that person has committed will be remembered against them. They have done what is just and right; they will surely live.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:22 - Now the evening before the man arrived, the hand of the LORD was on me, and he opened my mouth before the man came to me in the morning. So my mouth was opened and I was no longer silent.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:31 - My people come to you, as they usually do, and sit before you to hear your words, but they do not put them into practice. Their mouths speak of love, but their hearts are greedy for unjust gain.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:32 - Indeed, to them you are nothing more than one who sings love songs with a beautiful voice and plays an instrument well, for they hear your words but do not put them into practice.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:2 - “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Woe to you shepherds of Israel who only take care of yourselves! Should not shepherds take care of the flock?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:3 - You eat the curds, clothe yourselves with the wool and slaughter the choice animals, but you do not take care of the flock.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:4 - You have not strengthened the weak or healed the sick or bound up the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:10 - This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against the shepherds and will hold them accountable for my flock. I will remove them from tending the flock so that the shepherds can no longer feed themselves. I will rescue my flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:22 - I will save my flock, and they will no longer be plundered. I will judge between one sheep and another.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:29 - I will provide for them a land renowned for its crops, and they will no longer be victims of famine in the land or bear the scorn of the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:9 - I will make you desolate forever; your towns will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:12 - I will cause people, my people Israel, to live on you. They will possess you, and you will be their inheritance; you will never again deprive them of their children.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:15 - No longer will I make you hear the taunts of the nations, and no longer will you suffer the scorn of the peoples or cause your nation to fall, declares the Sovereign LORD.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:29 - I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain and make it plentiful and will not bring famine upon you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:32 - I want you to know that I am not doing this for your sake, declares the Sovereign LORD. Be ashamed and disgraced for your conduct, people of Israel!
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:7 - “ ‘I will make known my holy name among my people Israel. I will no longer let my holy name be profaned, and the nations will know that I the LORD am the Holy One in Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:10 - They will not need to gather wood from the fields or cut it from the forests, because they will use the weapons for fuel. And they will plunder those who plundered them and loot those who looted them, declares the Sovereign LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:7 - He said: “Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet. This is where I will live among the Israelites forever. The people of Israel will never again defile my holy name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution and the funeral offerings[fn] for their kings at their death.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:18 - They are to wear linen turbans on their heads and linen undergarments around their waists. They must not wear anything that makes them perspire.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:19 - When they go out into the outer court where the people are, they are to take off the clothes they have been ministering in and are to leave them in the sacred rooms, and put on other clothes, so that the people are not consecrated through contact with their garments.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:20 - “ ‘They must not shave their heads or let their hair grow long, but they are to keep the hair of their heads trimmed.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:21 - No priest is to drink wine when he enters the inner court.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:22 - They must not marry widows or divorced women; they may marry only virgins of Israelite descent or widows of priests.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:25 - “ ‘A priest must not defile himself by going near a dead person; however, if the dead person was his father or mother, son or daughter, brother or unmarried sister, then he may defile himself.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:28 - “ ‘I am to be the only inheritance the priests have. You are to give them no possession in Israel; I will be their possession.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:31 - The priests must not eat anything, whether bird or animal, found dead or torn by wild animals.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:8 - This land will be his possession in Israel. And my princes will no longer oppress my people but will allow the people of Israel to possess the land according to their tribes.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:2 - The prince is to enter from the outside through the portico of the gateway and stand by the gatepost. The priests are to sacrifice his burnt offering and his fellowship offerings. He is to bow down in worship at the threshold of the gateway and then go out, but the gate will not be shut until evening.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:18 - The prince must not take any of the inheritance of the people, driving them off their property. He is to give his sons their inheritance out of his own property, so that not one of my people will be separated from their property.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:5 - He measured off another thousand, but now it was a river that I could not cross, because the water had risen and was deep enough to swim in—a river that no one could cross.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:11 - But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:12 - Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:14 - They must not sell or exchange any of it. This is the best of the land and must not pass into other hands, because it is holy to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:8 - But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:44 - “In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:12 - But there are some Jews whom you have set over the affairs of the province of Babylon—Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego—who pay no attention to you, Your Majesty. They neither serve your gods nor worship the image of gold you have set up.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:14 - and Nebuchadnezzar said to them, “Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the image of gold I have set up?
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:16 - Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego replied to him, “King Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:18 - But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:18 - “This is the dream that I, King Nebuchadnezzar, had. Now, Belteshazzar, tell me what it means, for none of the wise men in my kingdom can interpret it for me. But you can, because the spirit of the holy gods is in you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:23 - Instead, you have set yourself up against the Lord of heaven. You had the goblets from his temple brought to you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you did not honor the God who holds in his hand your life and all your ways.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:12 - So they went to the king and spoke to him about his royal decree: “Did you not publish a decree that during the next thirty days anyone who prays to any god or human being except to you, Your Majesty, would be thrown into the lions' den?” The king answered, “The decree stands—in accordance with the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be repealed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:15 - Then the men went as a group to King Darius and said to him, “Remember, Your Majesty, that according to the law of the Medes and Persians no decree or edict that the king issues can be changed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:18 - Then the king returned to his palace and spent the night without eating and without any entertainment being brought to him. And he could not sleep.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:26 - “I issue a decree that in every part of my kingdom people must fear and reverence the God of Daniel. “For he is the living God and he endures forever; his kingdom will not be destroyed, his dominion will never end.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:14 - He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all nations and peoples of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:4 - I watched the ram as it charged toward the west and the north and the south. No animal could stand against it, and none could rescue from its power. It did as it pleased and became great.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:12 - You have fulfilled the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing on us great disaster. Under the whole heaven nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:17 - How can I, your servant, talk with you, my lord? My strength is gone and I can hardly breathe.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:6 - After some years, they will become allies. The daughter of the king of the South will go to the king of the North to make an alliance, but she will not retain her power, and he and his power[fn] will not last. In those days she will be betrayed, together with her royal escort and her father[fn] and the one who supported her.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:12 - When the army is carried off, the king of the South will be filled with pride and will slaughter many thousands, yet he will not remain triumphant.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:15 - Then the king of the North will come and build up siege ramps and will capture a fortified city. The forces of the South will be powerless to resist; even their best troops will not have the strength to stand.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:17 - He will determine to come with the might of his entire kingdom and will make an alliance with the king of the South. And he will give him a daughter in marriage in order to overthrow the kingdom, but his plans[fn] will not succeed or help him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:25 - “With a large army he will stir up his strength and courage against the king of the South. The king of the South will wage war with a large and very powerful army, but he will not be able to stand because of the plots devised against him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:27 - The two kings, with their hearts bent on evil, will sit at the same table and lie to each other, but to no avail, because an end will still come at the appointed time.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:37 - He will show no regard for the gods of his ancestors or for the one desired by women, nor will he regard any god, but will exalt himself above them all.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:1 - “At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:8 - I heard, but I did not understand. So I asked, “My lord, what will the outcome of all this be?”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:10 - Many will be purified, made spotless and refined, but the wicked will continue to be wicked. None of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:6 - Gomer conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. Then the LORD said to Hosea, “Call her Lo-Ruhamah (which means “not loved”), for I will no longer show love to Israel, that I should at all forgive them.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:7 - Yet I will show love to Judah; and I will save them—not by bow, sword or battle, or by horses and horsemen, but I, the LORD their God, will save them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:9 - Then the LORD said, “Call him Lo-Ammi (which means “not my people”), for you are not my people, and I am not your God.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:10 - “Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,' they will be called ‘children of the living God.'
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:2 - “Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adulterous look from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:4 - I will not show my love to her children, because they are the children of adultery.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:6 - Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:7 - She will chase after her lovers but not catch them; she will look for them but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go back to my husband as at first, for then I was better off than now.'
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:10 - So now I will expose her lewdness before the eyes of her lovers; no one will take her out of my hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:16 - “In that day,” declares the LORD, “you will call me ‘my husband'; you will no longer call me ‘my master.[fn]'
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:17 - I will remove the names of the Baals from her lips; no longer will their names be invoked.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 3:3 - Then I told her, “You are to live with me many days; you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any man, and I will behave the same way toward you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:10 - “They will eat but not have enough; they will engage in prostitution but not flourish, because they have deserted the LORD to give themselves
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:14 - “I will not punish your daughters when they turn to prostitution, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, because the men themselves consort with harlots and sacrifice with shrine prostitutes— a people without understanding will come to ruin!
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:6 - When they go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, they will not find him; he has withdrawn himself from them.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:13 - “When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his sores, then Ephraim turned to Assyria, and sent to the great king for help. But he is not able to cure you, not able to heal your sores.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:6 - For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:8 - “Ephraim mixes with the nations; Ephraim is a flat loaf not turned over.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:4 - They set up kings without my consent; they choose princes without my approval. With their silver and gold they make idols for themselves to their own destruction.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:5 - Samaria, throw out your calf-idol! My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of purity?
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:6 - They are from Israel! This calf—a metalworker has made it; it is not God. It will be broken in pieces, that calf of Samaria.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:13 - Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD is not pleased with them. Now he will remember their wickedness and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:3 - They will not remain in the LORD's land; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:15 - “Because of all their wickedness in Gilgal, I hated them there. Because of their sinful deeds, I will drive them out of my house. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:9 - “Since the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, Israel, and there you have remained.[fn] Will not war again overtake the evildoers in Gibeah?
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:7 - My people are determined to turn from me. Even though they call me God Most High, I will by no means exalt them.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:9 - I will not carry out my fierce anger, nor will I devastate Ephraim again. For I am God, and not a man— the Holy One among you. I will not come against their cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:4 - “But I have been the LORD your God ever since you came out of Egypt. You shall acknowledge no God but me, no Savior except me.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:13 - Pains as of a woman in childbirth come to him, but he is a child without wisdom; when the time arrives, he doesn't have the sense to come out of the womb.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:3 - Assyria cannot save us; we will not mount warhorses. We will never again say ‘Our gods' to what our own hands have made, for in you the fatherless find compassion.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:2 - a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like dawn spreading across the mountains a large and mighty army comes, such as never was in ancient times nor ever will be in ages to come.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:7 - They charge like warriors; they scale walls like soldiers. They all march in line, not swerving from their course.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:8 - They do not jostle each other; each marches straight ahead. They plunge through defenses without breaking ranks.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:19 - The LORD replied[fn] to them: “I am sending you grain, new wine and olive oil, enough to satisfy you fully; never again will I make you an object of scorn to the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:26 - You will have plenty to eat, until you are full, and you will praise the name of the LORD your God, who has worked wonders for you; never again will my people be shamed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:27 - Then you will know that I am in Israel, that I am the LORD your God, and that there is no other; never again will my people be shamed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:17 - “Then you will know that I, the LORD your God, dwell in Zion, my holy hill. Jerusalem will be holy; never again will foreigners invade her.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:21 - Shall I leave their innocent blood unavenged? No, I will not.” The LORD dwells in Zion!
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:12 - “But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:14 - The swift will not escape, the strong will not muster their strength, and the warrior will not save his life.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:15 - The archer will not stand his ground, the fleet-footed soldier will not get away, and the horseman will not save his life.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:6 - When a trumpet sounds in a city, do not the people tremble? When disaster comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:7 - Surely the Sovereign LORD does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:8 - The lion has roared— who will not fear? The Sovereign LORD has spoken— who can but prophesy?
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:7 - “I also withheld rain from you when the harvest was still three months away. I sent rain on one town, but withheld it from another. One field had rain; another had none and dried up.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:8 - People staggered from town to town for water but did not get enough to drink, yet you have not returned to me,”

declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:11 - You levy a straw tax on the poor and impose a tax on their grain. Therefore, though you have built stone mansions, you will not live in them; though you have planted lush vineyards, you will not drink their wine.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:18 - Woe to you who long for the day of the LORD! Why do you long for the day of the LORD? That day will be darkness, not light.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:20 - Will not the day of the LORD be darkness, not light— pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:21 - “I hate, I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:22 - Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Though you bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have no regard for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:6 - So the LORD relented. “This will not happen either,” the Sovereign LORD said.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:10 - Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent a message to Jeroboam king of Israel: “Amos is raising a conspiracy against you in the very heart of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:16 - Now then, hear the word of the LORD. You say, “ ‘Do not prophesy against Israel, and stop preaching against the descendants of Isaac.'
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:8 - “Will not the land tremble for this, and all who live in it mourn? The whole land will rise like the Nile; it will be stirred up and then sink like the river of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:11 - “The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign LORD, “when I will send a famine through the land— not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:12 - People will stagger from sea to sea and wander from north to east, searching for the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:14 - Those who swear by the sin of Samaria— who say, ‘As surely as your god lives, Dan,' or, ‘As surely as the god[fn] of Beersheba lives'— they will fall, never to rise again.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:1 - I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and he said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Bring them down on the heads of all the people; those who are left I will kill with the sword. Not one will get away, none will escape.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:7 - “Are not you Israelites the same to me as the Cushites[fn]?”

declares the LORD.

“Did I not bring Israel up from Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor[fn] and the Arameans from Kir?
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:9 - “For I will give the command, and I will shake the people of Israel among all the nations as grain is shaken in a sieve, and not a pebble will reach the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:10 - All the sinners among my people will die by the sword, all those who say, ‘Disaster will not overtake or meet us.'
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:15 - I will plant Israel in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land I have given them,”

says the LORD your God.

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:9 - Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:11 - And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left—and also many animals?”
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:5 - All this is because of Jacob's transgression, because of the sins of the people of Israel. What is Jacob's transgression? Is it not Samaria? What is Judah's high place? Is it not Jerusalem?
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:3 - Therefore, the LORD says: “I am planning disaster against this people, from which you cannot save yourselves. You will no longer walk proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:6 - “Do not prophesy,” their prophets say. “Do not prophesy about these things; disgrace will not overtake us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:11 - Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets tell fortunes for money. Yet they look for the LORD's support and say, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster will come upon us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:12 - But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD; they do not understand his plan, that he has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:14 - You will eat but not be satisfied; your stomach will still be empty.[fn] You will store up but save nothing, because what you save[fn] I will give to the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:15 - You will plant but not harvest; you will press olives but not use the oil, you will crush grapes but not drink the wine.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:18 - Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:14 - The LORD has given a command concerning you, Nineveh: “You will have no descendants to bear your name. I will destroy the images and idols that are in the temple of your gods. I will prepare your grave, for you are vile.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:15 - Look, there on the mountains, the feet of one who brings good news, who proclaims peace! Celebrate your festivals, Judah, and fulfill your vows. No more will the wicked invade you; they will be completely destroyed.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:13 - “I am against you,” declares the LORD Almighty. “I will burn up your chariots in smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions. I will leave you no prey on the earth. The voices of your messengers will no longer be heard.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:1 - Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without victims!
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:2 - How long, LORD, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not save?
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:4 - Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:5 - “Look at the nations and watch— and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:12 - LORD, are you not from everlasting? My God, my Holy One, you[fn] will never die. You, LORD, have appointed them to execute judgment; you, my Rock, have ordained them to punish.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:13 - Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrongdoing. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:17 - Is he to keep on emptying his net, destroying nations without mercy?
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:3 - For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it[fn] will certainly come and will not delay.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:13 - Has not the LORD Almighty determined that the people's labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:17 - Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls,
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:12 - At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish those who are complacent, who are like wine left on its dregs, who think, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.'
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:13 - Their wealth will be plundered, their houses demolished. Though they build houses, they will not live in them; though they plant vineyards, they will not drink the wine.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:18 - Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them on the day of the LORD's wrath.” In the fire of his jealousy the whole earth will be consumed, for he will make a sudden end of all who live on the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:5 - The LORD within her is righteous; he does no wrong. Morning by morning he dispenses his justice, and every new day he does not fail, yet the unrighteous know no shame.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:7 - Of Jerusalem I thought, ‘Surely you will fear me and accept correction!' Then her place of refuge[fn] would not be destroyed, nor all my punishments come upon[fn] her. But they were still eager to act corruptly in all they did.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:11 - On that day you, Jerusalem, will not be put to shame for all the wrongs you have done to me, because I will remove from you your arrogant boasters. Never again will you be haughty on my holy hill.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:13 - They will do no wrong; they will tell no lies. A deceitful tongue will not be found in their mouths. They will eat and lie down and no one will make them afraid.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:19 - Is there yet any seed left in the barn? Until now, the vine and the fig tree, the pomegranate and the olive tree have not borne fruit. “ ‘From this day on I will bless you.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:4 - Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed: This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘Turn from your evil ways and your evil practices.' But they would not listen or pay attention to me, declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:12 - Then the angel of the LORD said, “LORD Almighty, how long will you withhold mercy from Jerusalem and from the towns of Judah, which you have been angry with these seventy years?”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:5 - He answered, “Do you not know what these are?” “No, my lord,” I replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:13 - “ ‘When I called, they did not listen; so when they called, I would not listen,' says the LORD Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:11 - But now I will not deal with the remnant of this people as I did in the past,” declares the LORD Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:14 - This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Just as I had determined to bring disaster on you and showed no pity when your ancestors angered me,” says the LORD Almighty,
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:5 - Ashkelon will see it and fear; Gaza will writhe in agony, and Ekron too, for her hope will wither. Gaza will lose her king and Ashkelon will be deserted.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:8 - But I will encamp at my temple to guard it against marauding forces. Never again will an oppressor overrun my people, for now I am keeping watch.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:10 - I will bring them back from Egypt and gather them from Assyria. I will bring them to Gilead and Lebanon, and there will not be room enough for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:5 - Their buyers slaughter them and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Praise the LORD, I am rich!' Their own shepherds do not spare them.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:6 - For I will no longer have pity on the people of the land,” declares the LORD. “I will give everyone into the hands of their neighbors and their king. They will devastate the land, and I will not rescue anyone from their hands.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:9 - and said, “I will not be your shepherd. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish. Let those who are left eat one another's flesh.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:16 - For I am going to raise up a shepherd over the land who will not care for the lost, or seek the young, or heal the injured, or feed the healthy, but will eat the meat of the choice sheep, tearing off their hooves.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 13:3 - And if anyone still prophesies, their father and mother, to whom they were born, will say to them, ‘You must die, because you have told lies in the LORD's name.' Then their own parents will stab the one who prophesies.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:2 - I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:7 - It will be a unique day—a day known only to the LORD—with no distinction between day and night. When evening comes, there will be light.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:8 - When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you sacrifice lame or diseased animals, is that not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you?” says the LORD Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:10 - “Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would not light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased with you,” says the LORD Almighty, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:2 - If you do not listen, and if you do not resolve to honor my name,” says the LORD Almighty, “I will send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not resolved to honor me.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:16 - “The man who hates and divorces his wife,” says the LORD, the God of Israel, “does violence to the one he should protect,”[fn] says the LORD Almighty. So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:11 - I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe,” says the LORD Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 4:1 - “Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire,” says the LORD Almighty. “Not a root or a branch will be left to them.
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