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ὥσπερ — 219x G5618 ὥσπερ
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Occurrences: 219 times in 187 verses
Speech: Adverb
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:9 - Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, “Behold, I have dreamed another dream. Behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:11 - Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father's house, till Shelah my son grows up”—for he feared that he would die, like his brothers. So Tamar went and remained in her father's house.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:2 - and behold, there came up out of the Nile seven cows, attractive and plump, and they fed in the reed grass.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:18 - Seven cows, plump and attractive, came up out of the Nile and fed in the reed grass.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:22 - I also saw in my dream seven ears growing on one stalk, full and good.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:48 - If a stranger shall sojourn with you and would keep the Passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised. Then he may come near and keep it; he shall be as a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:7 - “When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:10 - and they saw the God of Israel. There was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:26 - And all its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings. So the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin, and he shall be forgiven.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:17 - It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of my food offerings. It is a thing most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:7 - The guilt offering is just like the sin offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with it shall have it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:13 - And he shall kill the lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary. For the guilt offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest; it is most holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:35 - then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, ‘There seems to me to be some case of disease in my house.'
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:21 - But the field, when it is released in the jubilee, shall be a holy gift to the LORD, like a field that has been devoted. The priest shall be in possession of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:40 - to be a reminder to the people of Israel, so that no outsider, who is not of the descendants of Aaron, should draw near to burn incense before the LORD, lest he become like Korah and his company—as the LORD said to him through Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:10 - (The Emim formerly lived there, a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:11 - Like the Anakim they are also counted as Rephaim, but the Moabites call them Emim.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:21 - a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim; but the LORD destroyed them before the Ammonites,[fn] and they dispossessed them and settled in their place,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:22 - as he did for the people of Esau, who live in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites before them and they dispossessed them and settled in their place even to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:2 - But the LORD said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hand. And you shall do to him as you did to Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:6 - And we devoted them to destruction,[fn] as we did to Sihon the king of Heshbon, devoting to destruction every city, men, women, and children.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:20 - until the LORD gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also occupy the land that the LORD your God gives them beyond the Jordan. Then each of you may return to his possession which I have given you.'
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, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:24 - And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:26 - And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house and become devoted to destruction[fn] like it. You shall utterly detest and abhor it, for it is devoted to destruction.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:1 - “At that time the LORD said to me, ‘Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to me on the mountain and make an ark of wood.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:10 - For the land that you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated it,[fn] like a garden of vegetables.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:7 - and ministers in the name of the LORD his God, like all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before the LORD,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:18 - I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:8 - And the officers shall speak further to the people, and say, ‘Is there any man who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go back to his house, lest he make the heart of his fellows melt like his own.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:23 - the whole land burned out with brimstone and salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and wrath—
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:26 - “There is none like God, O Jeshurun,
who rides through the heavens to your help,
through the skies in his majesty.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:5 - No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:15 - until the LORD gives rest to your brothers as he has to you, and they also take possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and shall possess it, the land that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:14 - On that day the LORD exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they stood in awe of him just as they had stood in awe of Moses, all the days of his life.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:5 - and the men of Ai killed about thirty-six of their men and chased them before the gate as far as Shebarim and struck them at the descent. And the hearts of the people melted and became as water.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:4 - And they came out with all their troops, a great horde, in number like the sand that is on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:12 - And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the East lay along the valley like locusts in abundance, and their camels were without number, as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:9 - And the priest said, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in the Valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that, take it, for there is none but that here.” And David said, “There is none like that; give it to me.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:14 - We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and he devises means so that the banished one will not remain an outcast.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:6 - But worthless men[fn] are all like thorns that are thrown away,
for they cannot be taken with the hand;
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:3 - But Joab said to the king, “May the LORD your God add to the people a hundred times as many as they are, while the eyes of my lord the king still see it, but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:10 - But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?”[fn] In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:16 - Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child,
as infants who never see the light?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:21 - who long for death, but it comes not,
and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:25 - You shall know also that your offspring shall be many,
and your descendants as the grass of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:26 - You shall come to your grave in ripe old age,
like a sheaf gathered up in its season.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:7 - My appetite refuses to touch them;
they are as food that is loathsome to me.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:15 - My brothers are treacherous as a torrent-bed,
as torrential streams that pass away,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:16 - which are dark with ice,
and where the snow hides itself.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:1 - “Has not man a hard service on earth,
and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:2 - Like a slave who longs for the shadow,
and like a hired hand who looks for his wages,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:9 - As the cloud fades and vanishes,
so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:4 - Have you eyes of flesh?
Do you see as man sees?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:10 - Did you not pour me out like milk
and curdle me like cheese?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:16 - And were my head lifted up,[fn] you would hunt me like a lion
and again work wonders against me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:19 - and were as though I had not been,
carried from the womb to the grave.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:15 - Surely then you will lift up your face without blemish;
you will be secure and will not fear.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:16 - You will forget your misery;
you will remember it as waters that have passed away.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:17 - And your life will be brighter than the noonday;
its darkness will be like the morning.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:25 - They grope in the dark without light,
and he makes them stagger like a drunken man.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:28 - Man[fn] wastes away like a rotten thing,
like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:2 - He comes out like a flower and withers;
he flees like a shadow and continues not.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:6 - look away from him and leave him alone,[fn]
that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:9 - yet at the scent of water it will bud
and put out branches like a young plant.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:24 - distress and anguish terrify him;
they prevail against him, like a king ready for battle.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:33 - He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine,
and cast off his blossom like the olive tree.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:12 - I was at ease, and he broke me apart;
he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces;
he set me up as his target;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:3 - Why are we counted as cattle?
Why are we stupid in your sight?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:10 - He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone,
and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:11 - He has kindled his wrath against me
and counts me as his adversary.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:22 - Why do you, like God, pursue me?
Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:8 - He will fly away like a dream and not be found;
he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:18 - He will give back the fruit of his toil
and will not swallow it down;
from the profit of his trading
he will get no enjoyment.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:18 - That they are like straw before the wind,
and like chaff that the storm carries away?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:25 - then the Almighty will be your gold
and your precious silver.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:10 - But he knows the way that I take;
when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:5 - Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert
the poor[fn] go out to their toil, seeking game;
the wasteland yields food for their children.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:20 - The womb forgets them;
the worm finds them sweet;
they are no longer remembered,
so wickedness is broken like a tree.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:24 - They are exalted a little while, and then are gone;
they are brought low and gathered up like all others;
they are cut off like the heads of grain.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:7 - “Let my enemy be as the wicked,
and let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:16 - Though he heap up silver like dust,
and pile up clothing like clay,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:18 - He builds his house like a moth's,
like a booth that a watchman makes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:20 - Terrors overtake him like a flood;
in the night a whirlwind carries him off.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:18 - Then I thought, ‘I shall die in my nest,
and I shall multiply my days as the sand,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:23 - They waited for me as for the rain,
and they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:15 - Terrors are turned upon me;
my honor is pursued as by the wind,
and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:18 - With great force my garment is disfigured;
it binds me about like the collar of my tunic.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:19 - Behold, my belly is like wine that has no vent;
like new wineskins ready to burst.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:10 - Behold, he finds occasions against me,
he counts me as his enemy,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:24 - and he is merciful to him, and says,
‘Deliver him from going down into the pit;
I have found a ransom;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:25 - let his flesh become fresh with youth;
let him return to the days of his youthful vigor';
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:7 - What man is like Job,
who drinks up scoffing like water,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:36 - Would that Job were tried to the end,
because he answers like wicked men.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:21 - “And now no one looks on the light
when it is bright in the skies,
when the wind has passed and cleared them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:3 - Dress for action[fn] like a man;
I will question you, and you make it known to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:30 - The waters become hard like stone,
and the face of the deep is frozen.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:38 - when the dust runs into a mass
and the clods stick fast together?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:7 - “Dress for action[fn] like a man;
I will question you, and you make it known to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:5 - Will you play with him as with a bird,
or will you put him on a leash for your girls?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:15 - His back is made of[fn] rows of shields,
shut up closely as with a seal.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:24 - His heart is hard as a stone,
hard as the lower millstone.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:27 - He counts iron as straw,
and bronze as rotten wood.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:30 - His underparts are like sharp potsherds;
he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:31 - He makes the deep boil like a pot;
he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:32 - Behind him he leaves a shining wake;
one would think the deep to be white-haired.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:7 - After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:12 - like Sheol let us swallow them alive,
and whole, like those who go down to the pit;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:5 - save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,[fn]
like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:11 - and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
and want like an armed man.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:2 - keep my commandments and live;
keep my teaching as the apple of your eye;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:22 - All at once he follows her,
as an ox goes to the slaughter,
or as a stag is caught fast[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:23 - till an arrow pierces its liver;
as a bird rushes into a snare;
he does not know that it will cost him his life.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:26 - Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes,
so is the sluggard to those who send him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:14 - Where there is no guidance, a people falls,
but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:22 - Like a gold ring in a pig's snout
is a beautiful woman without discretion.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:4 - An excellent wife is the crown of her husband,
but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:15 - In the light of a king's face there is life,
and his favor is like the clouds that bring the spring rain.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:3 - The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold,
and the LORD tests hearts.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:19 - A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city,
and quarreling is like the bars of a castle.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:12 - A king's wrath is like the growling of a lion,
but his favor is like dew on the grass.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:1 - The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the LORD;
he turns it wherever he will.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:5 - When your eyes light on it, it is gone,
for suddenly it sprouts wings,
flying like an eagle toward heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:32 - In the end it bites like a serpent
and stings like an adder.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:34 - You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea,
like one who lies on the top of a mast.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:22 - for disaster will arise suddenly from them,
and who knows the ruin that will come from them both?
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:30 - I passed by the field of a sluggard,
by the vineyard of a man lacking sense,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:34 - and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
and want like an armed man.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:13 - Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest
is a faithful messenger to those who send him;
he refreshes the soul of his masters.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:14 - Like clouds and wind without rain
is a man who boasts of a gift he does not give.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:20 - Whoever sings songs to a heavy heart
is like one who takes off a garment on a cold day,
and like vinegar on soda.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:25 - Like cold water to a thirsty soul,
so is good news from a far country.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:26 - Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain
is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:28 - A man without self-control
is like a city broken into and left without walls.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:1 - Like snow in summer or rain in harvest,
so honor is not fitting for a fool.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:2 - Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying,
a curse that is causeless does not alight.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:3 - A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey,
and a rod for the back of fools.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:11 - Like a dog that returns to his vomit
is a fool who repeats his folly.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:14 - As a door turns on its hinges,
so does a sluggard on his bed.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:17 - Whoever meddles in a quarrel not his own
is like one who takes a passing dog by the ears.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:18 - Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:23 - Like the glaze[fn] covering an earthen vessel
are fervent lips with an evil heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:8 - Like a bird that strays from its nest
is a man who strays from his home.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:19 - As in water face reflects face,
so the heart of man reflects the man.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:1 - The wicked flee when no one pursues,
but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:3 - A poor man who oppresses the poor
is a beating rain that leaves no food.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:16 - This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go, and what gain is there to him who toils for the wind?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:10 - All of them will answer
and say to you:
‘You too have become as weak as we!
You have become like us!'
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:9 - Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for,
and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:[fn]
when he makes all the stones of the altars
like chalkstones crushed to pieces,
no Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:21 - For the LORD will rise up as on Mount Perazim;
as in the Valley of Gibeon he will be roused;
to do his deed—strange is his deed!
and to work his work—alien is his work!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:12 - My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me
like a shepherd's tent;
like a weaver I have rolled up my life;
he cuts me off from the loom;
from day to night you bring me to an end;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:7 - Who is like me? Let him proclaim it.[fn]
Let him declare and set it before me,
since I appointed an ancient people.
Let them declare what is to come, and what will happen.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:6 - Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
and look at the earth beneath;
for the heavens vanish like smoke,
the earth will wear out like a garment,
and they who dwell in it will die in like manner;[fn]
but my salvation will be forever,
and my righteousness will never be dismayed.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:8 - For the moth will eat them up like a garment,
and the worm will eat them like wool,
but my righteousness will be forever,
and my salvation to all generations.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:8 - For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:10 - This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who stubbornly follow their own heart and have gone after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be like this loincloth, which is good for nothing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:9 - Why should you be like a man confused,
like a mighty warrior who cannot save?
Yet you, O LORD, are in the midst of us,
and we are called by your name;
do not leave us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:14 - But in the prophets of Jerusalem
I have seen a horrible thing:
they commit adultery and walk in lies;
they strengthen the hands of evildoers,
so that no one turns from his evil;
all of them have become like Sodom to me,
and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:29 - Is not my word like fire, declares the LORD, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:30 - “You, therefore, shall prophesy against them all these words, and say to them:
“‘The LORD will roar from on high,
and from his holy habitation utter his voice;
he will roar mightily against his fold,
and shout, like those who tread grapes,
against all the inhabitants of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:34 - “Wail, you shepherds, and cry out,
and roll in ashes, you lords of the flock,
for the days of your slaughter and dispersion have come,
and you shall fall like a choice vessel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:38 - Like a lion he has left his lair,
for their land has become a waste
because of the sword of the oppressor,
and because of his fierce anger.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:6 - then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:9 - Why have you prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, ‘This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant'?” And all the people gathered around Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:12 - They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Zion,
and they shall be radiant over the goodness of the LORD,
over the grain, the wine, and the oil,
and over the young of the flock and the herd;
their life shall be like a watered garden,
and they shall languish no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:18 - I have heard Ephraim grieving,
‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined,
like an untrained calf;
bring me back that I may be restored,
for you are the LORD my God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:28 - And it shall come to pass that as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring harm, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:12 - I shall kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them and carry them away captive. And he shall clean the land of Egypt as a shepherd cleans his cloak of vermin, and he shall go away from there in peace.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:21 - Even her hired soldiers in her midst
are like fattened calves;
yes, they have turned and fled together;
they did not stand,
for the day of their calamity has come upon them,
the time of their punishment.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:6 - Flee! Save yourselves!
You will be like a juniper in the desert!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:13 - Then Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:36 - Therefore my heart moans for Moab like a flute, and my heart moans like a flute for the men of Kir-hareseth. Therefore the riches they gained have perished.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:16 - The horror you inspire has deceived you,
and the pride of your heart,
you who live in the clefts of the rock,[fn]
who hold the height of the hill.
Though you make your nest as high as the eagle's,
I will bring you down from there,
declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:18 - As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities were overthrown, says the LORD, no man shall dwell there, no man shall sojourn in her.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:19 - Behold, like a lion coming up from the jungle of the Jordan against a perennial pasture, I will suddenly make him[fn] run away from her. And I will appoint over her whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who will summon me? What shepherd can stand before me?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:22 - Behold, one shall mount up and fly swiftly like an eagle and spread his wings against Bozrah, and the heart of the warriors of Edom shall be in that day like the heart of a woman in her birth pains.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:8 - “Flee from the midst of Babylon, and go out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as male goats before the flock.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:42 - They lay hold of bow and spear;
they are cruel and have no mercy.
The sound of them is like the roaring of the sea;
they ride on horses,
arrayed as a man for battle
against you, O daughter of Babylon!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:44 - “Behold, like a lion coming up from the thicket of the Jordan against a perennial pasture, I will suddenly make them run away from her, and I will appoint over her whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who will summon me? What shepherd can stand before me?
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:20 - “Look, O LORD, for I am in distress;
my stomach churns;
my heart is wrung within me,
because I have been very rebellious.
In the street the sword bereaves;
in the house it is like death.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:6 - For the chastisement[fn] of the daughter of my people has been greater
than the punishment[fn] of Sodom,
which was overthrown in a moment,
and no hands were wrung for her.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:8 - Now their face is blacker than soot;
they are not recognized in the streets;
their skin has shriveled on their bones;
it has become as dry as wood.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:12 - As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:11 - And I will multiply on you man and beast, and they shall multiply and be fruitful. And I will cause you to be inhabited as in your former times, and will do more good to you than ever before. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:7 - The days of punishment have come;
the days of recompense have come;
Israel shall know it.
The prophet is a fool;
the man of the spirit is mad,
because of your great iniquity
and great hatred.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:3 - Therefore they shall be like the morning mist
or like the dew that goes early away,
like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor
or like smoke from a window.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:18 - Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity
and passing over transgression
for the remnant of his inheritance?
He does not retain his anger forever,
because he delights in steadfast love.
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