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μὴ — 2190x G3361 μή
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Occurrences: 2190 times in 1835 verses
Speech: Adverb
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:1 - Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You[fn] shall not eat of any tree in the garden'?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:3 - but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:11 - He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:17 - And to Adam he said,
“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
and have eaten of the tree
of which I commanded you,
‘You shall not eat of it,'
cursed is the ground because of you;
in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:7 - If you do well, will you not be accepted?[fn] And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is contrary to[fn] you, but you must rule over it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:9 - Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said, “I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:15 - Then the LORD said to him, “Not so! If anyone kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.” And the LORD put a mark on Cain, lest any who found him should attack him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:3 - Then the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not abide in[fn] man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:2 - Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals,[fn] the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:3 - and seven pairs[fn] of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:8 - Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:7 - Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:8 - Then Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we are kinsmen.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:23 - that I would not take a thread or a sandal strap or anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:1 - After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:2 - And Sarai said to Abram, “Behold now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children[fn] by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:3 - and said, “O Lord,[fn] if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by your servant.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:14 - Is anything too hard[fn] for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:17 - The LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:23 - Then Abraham drew near and said, “Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:28 - Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking. Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?” And he said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:29 - Again he spoke to him and said, “Suppose forty are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of forty I will not do it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:30 - Then he said, “Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Suppose thirty are found there.” He answered, “I will not do it, if I find thirty there.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:31 - He said, “Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord. Suppose twenty are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of twenty I will not destroy it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:32 - Then he said, “Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but this once. Suppose ten are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of ten I will not destroy it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:7 - and said, “I beg you, my brothers, do not act so wickedly.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:8 - Behold, I have two daughters who have not known any man. Let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please. Only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:9 - But they said, “Stand back!” And they said, “This fellow came to sojourn, and he has become the judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them.” Then they pressed hard against the man Lot, and drew near to break the door down.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:15 - As morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:17 - And as they brought them out, one said, “Escape for your life. Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:19 - Behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life. But I cannot escape to the hills, lest the disaster overtake me and I die.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:21 - He said to him, “Behold, I grant you this favor also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:6 - Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:7 - Now then, return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:12 - But God said to Abraham, “Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your offspring be named.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:16 - Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off, about the distance of a bowshot, for she said, “Let me not look on the death of the child.” And as she sat opposite him, she lifted up her voice and wept.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:17 - And God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:23 - Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my descendants or with my posterity, but as I have dealt kindly with you, so you will deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:12 - He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:3 - that I may make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:6 - Abraham said to him, “See to it that you do not take my son back there.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:8 - But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this oath of mine; only you must not take my son back there.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:33 - Then food was set before him to eat. But he said, “I will not eat until I have said what I have to say.” He said, “Speak on.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:56 - But he said to them, “Do not delay me, since the LORD has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:2 - And the LORD appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land of which I shall tell you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:24 - And the LORD appeared to him the same night and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham's sake.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:29 - that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:38 - Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father.” And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:13 - And behold, the LORD stood above it[fn] and said, “I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:2 - Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:15 - But she said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes also?” Rachel said, “Then he may lie with you tonight in exchange for your son's mandrakes.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:33 - So my honesty will answer for me later, when you come to look into my wages with you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the lambs, if found with me, shall be counted stolen.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:14 - Then Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, “Is there any portion or inheritance left to us in our father's house?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:20 - And Jacob tricked[fn] Laban the Aramean, by not telling him that he intended to flee.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:35 - And she said to her father, “Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the way of women is upon me.” So he searched but did not find the household gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:42 - If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:52 - This heap is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, to do harm.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:32 - Therefore to this day the people of Israel do not eat the sinew of the thigh that is on the hip socket, because he touched the socket of Jacob's hip on the sinew of the thigh.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:17 - But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter, and we will be gone.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:8 - His brothers said to him, “Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:22 - And Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood; throw him into this pit here in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him”—that he might rescue him out of their hand to restore him to his father.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:27 - Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And his brothers listened to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:9 - But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. So whenever he went in to his brother's wife he would waste the semen on the ground, so as not to give offspring to his brother.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:22 - So he returned to Judah and said, “I have not found her. Also, the men of the place said, ‘No cult prostitute has been here.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:38 - And Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find a man like this, in whom is the Spirit of God?”[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:2 - And he said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain for sale in Egypt. Go down and buy grain for us there, that we may live and not die.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:15 - By this you shall be tested: by the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go from this place unless your youngest brother comes here.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:22 - And Reuben answered them, “Did I not tell you not to sin against the boy? But you did not listen. So now there comes a reckoning for his blood.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:37 - Then Reuben said to his father, “Kill my two sons if I do not bring him back to you. Put him in my hands, and I will bring him back to you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:3 - But Judah said to him, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:5 - But if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:7 - They replied, “The man questioned us carefully about ourselves and our kindred, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?' What we told him was in answer to these questions. Could we in any way know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down'?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:8 - And Judah said to Israel his father, “Send the boy with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live and not die, both we and you and also our little ones.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:9 - I will be a pledge of his safety. From my hand you shall require him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:10 - If we had not delayed, we would now have returned twice.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:23 - He replied, “Peace to you, do not be afraid. Your God and the God of your father has put treasure in your sacks for you. I received your money.” Then he brought Simeon out to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:7 - They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:18 - Then Judah went up to him and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not your anger burn against your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:23 - Then you said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall not see my face again.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:26 - we said, ‘We cannot go down. If our youngest brother goes with us, then we will go down. For we cannot see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:30 - “Now therefore, as soon as I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us, then, as his life is bound up in the boy's life,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:31 - as soon as he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:32 - For your servant became a pledge of safety for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:34 - For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would find my father.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:5 - And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:9 - Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, ‘Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not tarry.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:11 - There I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come, so that you and your household, and all that you have, do not come to poverty.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:20 - Have no concern for[fn] your goods, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:24 - Then he sent his brothers away, and as they departed, he said to them, “Do not quarrel on the way.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:3 - Then he said, “I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you into a great nation.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:19 - Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:4 - Unstable as water, you shall not have preeminence,
because you went up to your father's bed;
then you defiled it—he went up to my couch!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:6 - Let my soul come not into their council;
O my glory, be not joined to their company.
For in their anger they killed men,
and in their willfulness they hamstrung oxen.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:19 - But Joseph said to them, “Do not fear, for am I in the place of God?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:21 - So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones.” Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:14 - He answered, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, and thought, “Surely the thing is known.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:5 - Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:19 - But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless compelled by a mighty hand.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:1 - Then Moses answered, “But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, ‘The LORD did not appear to you.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:8 - “If they will not believe you,” God said, “or listen to the first sign, they may believe the latter sign.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:9 - If they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground, and the water that you shall take from the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:21 - And the LORD said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles that I have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:23 - and I say to you, “Let my son go that he may serve me.” If you refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:5 - And Pharaoh said, “Behold, the people of the land are now many,[fn] and you make them rest from their burdens!”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:9 - Let heavier work be laid on the men that they may labor at it and pay no regard to lying words.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:14 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh's heart is hardened; he refuses to let the people go.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:2 - But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your country with frogs.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:21 - Or else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you and your servants and your people, and into your houses. And the houses of the Egyptians shall be filled with swarms of flies, and also the ground on which they stand.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:29 - Then Moses said, “Behold, I am going out from you and I will plead with the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow. Only let not Pharaoh cheat again by not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:2 - For if you refuse to let them go and still hold them,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:17 - You are still exalting yourself against my people and will not let them go.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:19 - Now therefore send, get your livestock and all that you have in the field into safe shelter, for every man and beast that is in the field and is not brought home will die when the hail falls on them.”'”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:21 - but whoever did not pay attention to the word of the LORD left his slaves and his livestock in the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:4 - For if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:10 - But he said to them, “The LORD be with you, if ever I let you and your little ones go! Look, you have some evil purpose in mind.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:11 - No! Go, the men among you, and serve the LORD, for that is what you are asking.” And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:4 - And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:13 - Every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. Every firstborn of man among your sons you shall redeem.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:5 - When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, the mind of Pharaoh and his servants was changed toward the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:11 - They said to Moses, “Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us in bringing us out of Egypt?
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:15 - And he said to the people, “Be ready for the third day; do not go near a woman.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:24 - And the LORD said to him, “Go down, and come up bringing Aaron with you. But do not let the priests and the people break through to come up to the LORD, lest he break out against them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:5 - You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:7 - “You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:19 - and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:20 - Moses said to the people, “Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you, that you may not sin.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:26 - And you shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness be not exposed on it.'
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:8 - If she does not please her master, who has designated her[fn] for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has broken faith with her.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:11 - And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:18 - “When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist and the man does not die but takes to his bed,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:22 - “When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:29 - But if the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has been warned but has not kept it in, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:33 - “When a man opens a pit, or when a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:36 - Or if it is known that the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall repay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be his.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:3 - but if the sun has risen on him, there shall be bloodguilt for him. He[fn] shall surely pay. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:8 - If the thief is not found, the owner of the house shall come near to God to show whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor's property.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:11 - an oath by the LORD shall be between them both to see whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor's property. The owner shall accept the oath, and he shall not make restitution.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:14 - “If a man borrows anything of his neighbor, and it is injured or dies, the owner not being with it, he shall make full restitution.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:17 - If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the bride-price for virgins.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:21 - “You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:13 - “Pay attention to all that I have said to you, and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let it be heard on your lips.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:18 - “You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the fat of my feast remain until the morning.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:21 - Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:24 - you shall not bow down to their gods nor serve them, nor do as they do, but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:29 - I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild beasts multiply against you.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:33 - They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:32 - It shall have an opening for the head in the middle of it, with a woven binding around the opening, like the opening in a garment,[fn] so that it may not tear.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:35 - And it shall be on Aaron when he ministers, and its sound shall be heard when he goes into the Holy Place before the LORD, and when he comes out, so that he does not die.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:43 - and they shall be on Aaron and on his sons when they go into the tent of meeting or when they come near the altar to minister in the Holy Place, lest they bear guilt and die. This shall be a statute forever for him and for his offspring after him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:20 - When they go into the tent of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister, to burn a food offering[fn] to the LORD, they shall wash with water, so that they may not die.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:21 - They shall wash their hands and their feet, so that they may not die. It shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his offspring throughout their generations.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:22 - And Aaron said, “Let not the anger of my lord burn hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:3 - Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:5 - For the LORD had said to Moses, “Say to the people of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should go up among you, I would consume you. So now take off your ornaments, that I may know what to do with you.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:15 - And he said to him, “If your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:20 - But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:3 - No one shall come up with you, and let no one be seen throughout all the mountain. Let no flocks or herds graze opposite that mountain.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:14 - (for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:20 - The firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. And none shall appear before me empty-handed.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:21 - And they bound the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, so that it should lie on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastpiece should not come loose from the ephod, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:37 - But if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out till the day that it was taken up.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:1 - “If anyone sins in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, and though he is a witness, whether he has seen or come to know the matter, yet does not speak, he shall bear his iniquity;
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:7 - “But if he cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring to the LORD as his compensation for the sin that he has committed two turtledoves or two pigeons,[fn] one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:11 - “But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two pigeons, then he shall bring as his offering for the sin that he has committed a tenth of an ephah[fn] of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it and shall put no frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:10 - And every grain offering, mixed with oil or dry, shall be shared equally among all the sons of Aaron.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:35 - At the entrance of the tent of meeting you shall remain day and night for seven days, performing what the LORD has charged, so that you do not die, for so I have been commanded.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:6 - And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar his sons, “Do not let the hair of your heads hang loose, and do not tear your clothes, lest you die, and wrath come upon all the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning that the LORD has kindled.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:7 - And do not go outside the entrance of the tent of meeting, lest you die, for the anointing oil of the LORD is upon you.” And they did according to the word of Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:9 - “Drink no wine or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:19 - And Aaron said to Moses, “Behold, today they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD, and yet such things as these have happened to me! If I had eaten the sin offering today, would the LORD have approved?”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:43 - You shall not make yourselves detestable with any swarming thing that swarms, and you shall not defile yourselves with them, and become unclean through them.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:47 - to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean and between the living creature that may be eaten and the living creature that may not be eaten.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:8 - And if she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons,[fn] one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. And the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:4 - But if the spot is white in the skin of his body and appears no deeper than the skin, and the hair in it has not turned white, the priest shall shut up the diseased person for seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:21 - But if the priest examines it and there is no white hair in it and it is not deeper than the skin, but has faded, then the priest shall shut him up seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:23 - But if the spot remains in one place and does not spread, it is the scar of the boil, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:26 - But if the priest examines it and there is no white hair in the spot and it is no deeper than the skin, but has faded, the priest shall shut him up seven days,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:28 - But if the spot remains in one place and does not spread in the skin, but has faded, it is a swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is the scar of the burn.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:53 - “And if the priest examines, and if the disease has not spread in the garment, in the warp or the woof or in any article made of skin,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:55 - And the priest shall examine the diseased thing after it has been washed. And if the appearance of the diseased area has not changed, though the disease has not spread, it is unclean. You shall burn it in the fire, whether the rot is on the back or on the front.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:21 - “But if he is poor and cannot afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a guilt offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and a log of oil;
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:32 - This is the law for him in whom is a case of leprous disease, who cannot afford the offerings for his cleansing.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:36 - Then the priest shall command that they empty the house before the priest goes to examine the disease, lest all that is in the house be declared unclean. And afterward the priest shall go in to see the house.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:2 - and the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat that is on the ark, so that he may not die. For I will appear in the cloud over the mercy seat.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:4 - and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to offer it as a gift to the LORD in front of the tabernacle of the LORD, bloodguilt shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood, and that man shall be cut off from among his people.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:9 - and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to offer it to the LORD, that man shall be cut off from his people.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:16 - But if he does not wash them or bathe his flesh, he shall bear his iniquity.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:24 - “Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:28 - lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:30 - So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: I am the LORD your God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:13 - “You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired worker shall not remain with you all night until the morning.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:26 - “You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not interpret omens or tell fortunes.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:4 - And if the people of the land do at all close their eyes to that man when he gives one of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:22 - “You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:3 - or his virgin sister (who is near to him because she has had no husband; for her he may make himself unclean).
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:6 - the person who touches such a thing shall be unclean until the evening and shall not eat of the holy things unless he has bathed his body in water.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:9 - They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear sin for it and die thereby when they profane it: I am the LORD who sanctifies them.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:13 - But if a priest's daughter is widowed or divorced and has no child and returns to her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's food; yet no lay person shall eat of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:29 - For whoever is not afflicted[fn] on that very day shall be cut off from his people.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:14 - And if you make a sale to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:17 - You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God, for I am the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:20 - And if you say, ‘What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we may not sow or gather in our crop?'
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:26 - If a man has no one to redeem it and then himself becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:28 - But if he does not have sufficient means to recover it, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:30 - If it is not redeemed within a full year, then the house in the walled city shall belong in perpetuity to the buyer, throughout his generations; it shall not be released in the jubilee.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:54 - And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he and his children with him shall be released in the year of jubilee.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:14 - “But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:15 - if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:18 - And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again sevenfold for your sins,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:21 - “Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:23 - “And if by this discipline you are not turned to me but walk contrary to me,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:26 - When I break your supply[fn] of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:27 - “But if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:31 - And I will lay your cities waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing aromas.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:20 - But if he does not wish to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed anymore.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:27 - And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back at the valuation, and add a fifth to it; or, if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at the valuation.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:15 - And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, as the camp sets out, after that the sons of Kohath shall come to carry these, but they must not touch the holy things, lest they die. These are the things of the tent of meeting that the sons of Kohath are to carry.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:18 - “Let not the tribe of the clans of the Kohathites be destroyed from among the Levites,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:19 - but deal thus with them, that they may live and not die when they come near to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint them each to his task and to his burden,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:20 - but they shall not go in to look on the holy things even for a moment, lest they die.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:3 - You shall put out both male and female, putting them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:8 - But if the man has no next of kin to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution for wrong shall go to the LORD for the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement with which atonement is made for him.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:13 - if a man lies with her sexually, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, since she was not taken in the act,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:14 - and if the spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife who has defiled herself, or if the spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife, though she has not defiled herself,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:19 - Then the priest shall make her take an oath, saying, ‘If no man has lain with you, and if you have not turned aside to uncleanness while you were under your husband's authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings the curse.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:28 - But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, then she shall be free and shall conceive children.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:7 - And those men said to him, “We are unclean through touching a dead body. Why are we kept from bringing the LORD's offering at its appointed time among the people of Israel?”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:19 - Even when the cloud continued over the tabernacle many days, the people of Israel kept the charge of the LORD and did not set out.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:22 - Whether it was two days, or a month, or a longer time, that the cloud continued over the tabernacle, abiding there, the people of Israel remained in camp and did not set out, but when it lifted they set out.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:31 - And he said, “Please do not leave us, for you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you will serve as eyes for us.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:12 - Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing child,' to the land that you swore to give their fathers?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:15 - If you will treat me like this, kill me at once, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my wretchedness.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:22 - Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, and be enough for them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, and be enough for them?”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:23 - And the LORD said to Moses, “Is the LORD's hand shortened? Now you shall see whether my word will come true for you or not.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:29 - But Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the LORD's people were prophets, that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:2 - And they said, “Has the LORD indeed spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us also?” And the LORD heard it.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:11 - And Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, do not punish us[fn] because we have done foolishly and have sinned.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:12 - Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes out of his mother's womb.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:31 - Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:9 - Only do not rebel against the LORD. And do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their protection is removed from them, and the LORD is with us; do not fear them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:16 - ‘It is because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to give to them that he has killed them in the wilderness.'
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:42 - Do not go up, for the LORD is not among you, lest you be struck down before your enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:22 - “But if you sin unintentionally,[fn] and do not observe all these commandments that the LORD has spoken to Moses,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:9 - is it too small a thing for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do service in the tabernacle of the LORD and to stand before the congregation to minister to them,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:13 - Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that you must also make yourself a prince over us?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:15 - And Moses was very angry and said to the LORD, “Do not respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, and I have not harmed one of them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:26 - And he spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be swept away with all their sins.”
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 BoxNum 17:10 - And the LORD said to Moses, “Put back the staff of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept as a sign for the rebels, that you may make an end of their grumblings against me, lest they die.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:32 - And you shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have contributed the best of it. But you shall not profane the holy things of the people of Israel, lest you die.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:12 - He shall cleanse himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so be clean. But if he does not cleanse himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not become clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:13 - Whoever touches a dead person, the body of anyone who has died, and does not cleanse himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD, and that person shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not thrown on him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness is still on him.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:20 - “If the man who is unclean does not cleanse himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, since he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. Because the water for impurity has not been thrown on him, he is unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:10 - Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels: shall we bring water for you out of this rock?”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:24 - “Let Aaron be gathered to his people, for he shall not enter the land that I have given to the people of Israel, because you rebelled against my command at the waters of Meribah.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:34 - But the LORD said to Moses, “Do not fear him, for I have given him into your hand, and all his people, and his land. And you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:35 - So they defeated him and his sons and all his people, until he had no survivor left. And they possessed his land.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:16 - And they came to Balaam and said to him, “Thus says Balak the son of Zippor: ‘Let nothing hinder you from coming to me,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:30 - And the donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long to this day? Is it my habit to treat you this way?” And he said, “No.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:33 - The donkey saw me and turned aside before me these three times. If she had not turned aside from me, surely just now I would have killed you and let her live.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:8 - How can I curse whom God has not cursed?
How can I denounce whom the LORD has not denounced?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:13 - And Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place, from which you may see them. You shall see only a fraction of them and shall not see them all. Then curse them for me from there.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:20 - Behold, I received a command to bless:
he has blessed, and I cannot revoke it.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:25 - And Balak said to Balaam, “Do not curse them at all, and do not bless them at all.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:4 - Why should the name of our father be taken away from his clan because he had no son? Give to us a possession among our father's brothers.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:8 - And you shall speak to the people of Israel, saying, ‘If a man dies and has no son, then you shall transfer his inheritance to his daughter.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:9 - And if he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:10 - And if he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father's brothers.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:11 - And if his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to the nearest kinsman of his clan, and he shall possess it. And it shall be for the people of Israel a statute and rule, as the LORD commanded Moses.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:11 - and her husband heard of it and said nothing to her and did not oppose her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge by which she bound herself shall stand.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:23 - everything that can stand the fire, you shall pass through the fire, and it shall be clean. Nevertheless, it shall also be purified with the water for impurity. And whatever cannot stand the fire, you shall pass through the water.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:5 - And they said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Do not take us across the Jordan.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:7 - Why will you discourage the heart of the people of Israel from going over into the land that the LORD has given them?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:9 - For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the people of Israel from going into the land that the LORD had given them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:18 - We will not return to our homes until each of the people of Israel has gained his inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:23 - But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD, and be sure your sin will find you out.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:30 - However, if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:55 - But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:12 - The cities shall be for you a refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:33 - You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:17 - You shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:21 - See, the LORD your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has told you. Do not fear or be dismayed.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:29 - Then I said to you, ‘Do not be in dread or afraid of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:37 - Even with me the LORD was angry on your account and said, ‘You also shall not go in there.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:42 - And the LORD said to me, ‘Say to them, Do not go up or fight, for I am not in your midst, lest you be defeated before your enemies.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:5 - Do not contend with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:9 - And the LORD said to me, ‘Do not harass Moab or contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the people of Lot for a possession.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:19 - And when you approach the territory of the people of Ammon, do not harass them or contend with them, for I will not give you any of the land of the people of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the sons of Lot for a possession.'
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 3:3 - So the LORD our God gave into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people, and we struck him down until he had no survivor left.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:26 - But the LORD was angry with me because of you and would not listen to me. And the LORD said to me, ‘Enough from you; do not speak to me of this matter again.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:9 - “Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children—
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:16 - beware lest you act corruptly by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:19 - And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:21 - Furthermore, the LORD was angry with me because of you, and he swore that I should not cross the Jordan, and that I should not enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:23 - Take care, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make a carved image, the form of anything that the LORD your God has forbidden you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:28 - And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:31 - For the LORD your God is a merciful God. He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:9 - You shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:11 - “‘You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:25 - Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, we shall die.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:12 - then take care lest you forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:15 - for the LORD your God in your midst is a jealous God—lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:2 - and when the LORD your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction.[fn] You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:3 - You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:22 - The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once,[fn] lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:25 - The carved images of their gods you shall burn with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:11 - “Take care lest you forget the LORD your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:12 - lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:17 - Beware lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:4 - “Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out before you, ‘It is because of my righteousness that the LORD has brought me in to possess this land,' whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out before you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:7 - Remember and do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:26 - And I prayed to the LORD, ‘O Lord GOD, do not destroy your people and your heritage, whom you have redeemed through your greatness, whom you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:27 - Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not regard the stubbornness of this people, or their wickedness or their sin,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:28 - lest the land from which you brought us say, “Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land that he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:17 - For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:16 - Take care lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:28 - and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not known.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:13 - Take care that you do not offer your burnt offerings at any place that you see,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:19 - Take care that you do not neglect the Levite as long as you live in your land.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:23 - Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:30 - take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods?—that I also may do the same.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:8 - you shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:24 - And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, when the LORD your God blesses you, because the place is too far from you, which the LORD your God chooses, to set his name there,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:7 - “If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:9 - Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,' and your eye look grudgingly[fn] on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the LORD against you, and you be guilty of sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:11 - For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:19 - “All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and flock you shall dedicate to the LORD your God. You shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:12 - The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:16 - Only he must not acquire many horses for himself or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses, since the LORD has said to you, ‘You shall never return that way again.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:20 - that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left, so that he may continue long in his kingdom, he and his children, in Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:16 - just as you desired of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:19 - And whoever will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:22 - when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:6 - lest the avenger of blood in hot anger pursue the manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him fatally, though the man did not deserve to die, since he had not hated his neighbor in the past.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:3 - and shall say to them, ‘Hear, O Israel, today you are drawing near for battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint. Do not fear or panic or be in dread of them,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:5 - Then the officers shall speak to the people, saying, ‘Is there any man who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:6 - And is there any man who has planted a vineyard and has not enjoyed its fruit? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man enjoy its fruit.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:7 - And is there any man who has betrothed a wife and has not taken her? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man take her.'
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 20:12 - But if it makes no peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:18 - that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices that they have done for their gods, and so you sin against the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:19 - “When you besiege a city for a long time, making war against it in order to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them. You may eat from them, but you shall not cut them down. Are the trees in the field human, that they should be besieged by you?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:8 - Accept atonement, O LORD, for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and do not set the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel, so that their blood guilt be atoned for.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:14 - But if you no longer delight in her, you shall let her go where she wants. But you shall not sell her for money, nor shall you treat her as a slave, since you have humiliated her.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:18 - “If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:1 - “You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep going astray and ignore them. You shall take them back to your brother.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:2 - And if he does not live near you and you do not know who he is, you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall stay with you until your brother seeks it. Then you shall restore it to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:4 - You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way and ignore them. You shall help him to lift them up again.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:5 - “A woman shall not wear a man's garment, nor shall a man put on a woman's cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:9 - “You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole yield be forfeited,[fn] the crop that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:20 - But if the thing is true, that evidence of virginity was not found in the young woman,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:4 - because they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:22 - But if you refrain from vowing, you will not be guilty of sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:23 - You shall be careful to do what has passed your lips, for you have voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God what you have promised with your mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:1 - “When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:5 - “If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband's brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:7 - And if the man does not wish to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, ‘My husband's brother refuses to perpetuate his brother's name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:19 - Therefore when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies around you, in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:13 - And the LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you shall only go up and not down, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you today, being careful to do them,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:15 - “But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:27 - The LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and scabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:35 - The LORD will strike you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:51 - It shall eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:55 - so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:58 - “If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, the LORD your God,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:61 - Every sickness also and every affliction that is not recorded in the book of this law, the LORD will bring upon you, until you are destroyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:65 - And among these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and a languishing soul.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:15 - but with whoever is standing here with us today before the LORD our God, and with whoever is not here with us today.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:19 - one who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.' This will lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:20 - The LORD will not be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the LORD and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and the curses written in this book will settle upon him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under heaven.
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 30:17 - But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:18 - I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:6 - Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:8 - It is the LORD who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:21 - And when many evils and troubles have come upon them, this song shall confront them as a witness (for it will live unforgotten in the mouths of their offspring). For I know what they are inclined to do even today, before I have brought them into the land that I swore to give.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:27 - had I not feared provocation by the enemy,
lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
lest they should say, “Our hand is triumphant,
it was not the LORD who did all this.”'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:30 - How could one have chased a thousand,
and two have put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
and the LORD had given them up?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:6 - “Let Reuben live, and not die,
but let his men be few.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:11 - Bless, O LORD, his substance,
and accept the work of his hands;
crush the loins of his adversaries,
of those who hate him, that they rise not again.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:9 - Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:18 - Whoever rebels against your commandment and disobeys your words, whatever you command him, shall be put to death. Only be strong and courageous.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:16 - And she said[fn] to them, “Go into the hills, or the pursuers will encounter you, and hide there three days until the pursuers have returned. Then afterward you may go your way.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:4 - Yet there shall be a distance between you and it, about 2,000 cubits[fn] in length. Do not come near it, in order that you may know the way you shall go, for you have not passed this way before.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:6 - For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD; the LORD swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:10 - But Joshua commanded the people, “You shall not shout or make your voice heard, neither shall any word go out of your mouth, until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:3 - And they returned to Joshua and said to him, “Do not have all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai. Do not make the whole people toil up there, for they are few.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:12 - Therefore the people of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction.[fn] I will be with you no more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:19 - Then Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the LORD God of Israel and give praise[fn] to him. And tell me now what you have done; do not hide it from me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:1 - And the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not fear and do not be dismayed. Take all the fighting men with you, and arise, go up to Ai. See, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, his city, and his land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:4 - And he commanded them, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you remain ready.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:22 - And the others came out from the city against them, so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. And Israel struck them down, until there was left none that survived or escaped.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:7 - But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you live among us; then how can we make a covenant with you?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:23 - Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you shall never be anything but servants, cutters of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:6 - And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal, saying, “Do not relax your hand from your servants. Come up to us quickly and save us and help us, for all the kings of the Amorites who dwell in the hill country are gathered against us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:8 - And the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not fear them, for I have given them into your hands. Not a man of them shall stand before you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:19 - but do not stay there yourselves. Pursue your enemies; attack their rear guard. Do not let them enter their cities, for the LORD your God has given them into your hand.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:25 - And Joshua said to them, “Do not be afraid or dismayed; be strong and courageous. For thus the LORD will do to all your enemies against whom you fight.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:33 - Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish. And Joshua struck him and his people, until he left none remaining.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:6 - And the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, for tomorrow at this time I will give over all of them, slain, to Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:8 - And the LORD gave them into the hand of Israel, who struck them and chased them as far as Great Sidon and Misrephoth-maim, and eastward as far as the Valley of Mizpeh. And they struck them until he left none remaining.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:20 - For it was the LORD's doing to harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, in order that they should be devoted to destruction and should receive no mercy but be destroyed, just as the LORD commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:9 - These were the cities designated for all the people of Israel and for the stranger sojourning among them, that anyone who killed a person without intent could flee there, so that he might not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, till he stood before the congregation.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:17 - Have we not had enough of the sin at Peor from which even yet we have not cleansed ourselves, and for which there came a plague upon the congregation of the LORD,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:19 - But now, if the land of your possession is unclean, pass over into the LORD's land where the LORD's tabernacle stands, and take for yourselves a possession among us. Only do not rebel against the LORD or make us as rebels by building for yourselves an altar other than the altar of the LORD our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:20 - Did not Achan the son of Zerah break faith in the matter of the devoted things, and wrath fell upon all the congregation of Israel? And he did not perish alone for his iniquity.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:22 - “The Mighty One, God, the LORD! The Mighty One, God, the LORD! He knows; and let Israel itself know! If it was in rebellion or in breach of faith against the LORD, do not spare us today
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:24 - No, but we did it from fear that in time to come your children might say to our children, ‘What have you to do with the LORD, the God of Israel?
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:25 - For the LORD has made the Jordan a boundary between us and you, you people of Reuben and people of Gad. You have no portion in the LORD.' So your children might make our children cease to worship the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:29 - Far be it from us that we should rebel against the LORD and turn away this day from following the LORD by building an altar for burnt offering, grain offering, or sacrifice, other than the altar of the LORD our God that stands before his tabernacle!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:6 - Therefore, be very strong to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, turning aside from it neither to the right hand nor to the left,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:7 - that you may not mix with these nations remaining among you or make mention of the names of their gods or swear by them or serve them or bow down to them,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:13 - know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the LORD your God has given you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:15 - And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:16 - Then the people answered, “Far be it from us that we should forsake the LORD to serve other gods,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:19 - But Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the LORD, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:2 - and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.' But you have not obeyed my voice. What is this you have done?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:23 - So the LORD left those nations, not driving them out quickly, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:1 - Now these are the nations that the LORD left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:8 - Barak said to her, “If you will go with me, I will go, but if you will not go with me, I will not go.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:18 - And Jael came out to meet Sisera and said to him, “Turn aside, my lord; turn aside to me; do not be afraid.” So he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:18 - Please do not depart from here until I come to you and bring out my present and set it before you.” And he said, “I will stay till you return.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:23 - But the LORD said to him, “Peace be to you. Do not fear; you shall not die.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:27 - So Gideon took ten men of his servants and did as the LORD had told him. But because he was too afraid of his family and the men of the town to do it by day, he did it by night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:31 - But Joash said to all who stood against him, “Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? Whoever contends for him shall be put to death by morning. If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because his altar has been broken down.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:39 - Then Gideon said to God, “Let not your anger burn against me; let me speak just once more. Please let me test just once more with the fleece. Please let it be dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground let there be dew.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:2 - The LORD said to Gideon, “The people with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel boast over me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:1 - Then the men of Ephraim said to him, “What is this that you have done to us, not to call us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they accused him fiercely.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:6 - And the officials of Succoth said, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:15 - And he came to the men of Succoth and said, “Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are exhausted?'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:41 - And Abimelech lived at Arumah, and Zebul drove out Gaal and his relatives, so that they could not dwell at Shechem.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:10 - And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The LORD will be witness between us, if we do not do as you say.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:25 - Now are you any better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever contend against Israel, or did he ever go to war with them?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:5 - And the Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, “Let me go over,” the men of Gilead said to him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” When he said, “No,”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:4 - Therefore be careful and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:7 - but he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. So then drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:14 - She may not eat of anything that comes from the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, or eat any unclean thing. All that I commanded her let her observe.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:3 - But his father and mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:13 - but if you cannot tell me what it is, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes.” And they said to him, “Put your riddle, that we may hear it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:18 - And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down,
“What is sweeter than honey?
What is stronger than a lion?” And he said to them,
“If you had not plowed with my heifer,
you would not have found out my riddle.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:12 - And they said to him, “We have come down to bind you, that we may give you into the hands of the Philistines.” And Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:7 - Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, then I shall become weak and be like any other man.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:8 - Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:7 - Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting, lacking[fn] nothing that is in the earth and possessing wealth, and how they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:9 - They said, “Arise, and let us go up against them, for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. And will you do nothing? Do not be slow to go, to enter in and possess the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:19 - And they said to him, “Keep quiet; put your hand on your mouth and come with us and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and clan in Israel?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:25 - And the people of Dan said to him, “Do not let your voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall upon you, and you lose your life with the lives of your household.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:12 - And his master said to him, “We will not turn aside into the city of foreigners, who do not belong to the people of Israel, but we will pass on to Gibeah.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:20 - And the old man said, “Peace be to you; I will care for all your wants. Only, do not spend the night in the square.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:23 - And the man, the master of the house, went out to them and said to them, “No, my brothers, do not act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house, do not do this vile thing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:24 - Behold, here are my virgin daughter and his concubine. Let me bring them out now. Violate them and do with them what seems good to you, but against this man do not do this outrageous thing.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:5 - And the people of Israel said, “Which of all the tribes of Israel did not come up in the assembly to the LORD?” For they had taken a great oath concerning him who did not come up to the LORD to Mizpah, saying, “He shall surely be put to death.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:7 - What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them any of our daughters for wives?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:17 - And they said, “There must be an inheritance for the survivors of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:11 - But Naomi said, “Turn back, my daughters; why will you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb that they may become your husbands?
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:12 - Turn back, my daughters; go your way, for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say I have hope, even if I should have a husband this night and should bear sons,
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:13 - would you therefore wait till they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying? No, my daughters, for it is exceedingly bitter to me for your sake that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:16 - But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:20 - She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi;[fn] call me Mara,[fn] for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:8 - Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Now, listen, my daughter, do not go to glean in another field or leave this one, but keep close to my young women.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:9 - Let your eyes be on the field that they are reaping, and go after them. Have I not charged the young men not to touch you? And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink what the young men have drawn.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:15 - When she rose to glean, Boaz instructed his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not reproach her.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:1 - Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:3 - Wash therefore and anoint yourself, and put on your cloak and go down to the threshing floor, but do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:10 - And he said, “May you be blessed by the LORD, my daughter. You have made this last kindness greater than the first in that you have not gone after young men, whether poor or rich.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:11 - And now, my daughter, do not fear. I will do for you all that you ask, for all my fellow townsmen know that you are a worthy woman.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:13 - Remain tonight, and in the morning, if he will redeem you, good; let him do it. But if he is not willing to redeem you, then, as the LORD lives, I will redeem you. Lie down until the morning.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:14 - So she lay at his feet until the morning, but arose before one could recognize another. And he said, “Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:17 - saying, “These six measures of barley he gave to me, for he said to me, ‘You must not go back empty-handed to your mother-in-law.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:18 - She replied, “Wait, my daughter, until you learn how the matter turns out, for the man will not rest but will settle the matter today.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:4 - So I thought I would tell you of it and say, ‘Buy it in the presence of those sitting here and in the presence of the elders of my people.' If you will redeem it, redeem it. But if you[fn] will not, tell me, that I may know, for there is no one besides you to redeem it, and I come after you.” And he said, “I will redeem it.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:6 - And her rival used to provoke her grievously to irritate her, because the LORD had closed her womb.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:16 - Do not regard your servant as a worthless woman, for all along I have been speaking out of my great anxiety and vexation.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:3 - Talk no more so very proudly,
let not arrogance come from your mouth;
for the LORD is a God of knowledge,
and by him actions are weighed.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:10 - The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces;
against them he will thunder in heaven.
The LORD will judge the ends of the earth;
he will give strength to his king
and exalt the horn of his anointed.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:15 - Moreover, before the fat was burned, the priest's servant would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give meat for the priest to roast, for he will not accept boiled meat from you but only raw.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:24 - No, my sons; it is no good report that I hear the people of the LORD spreading abroad.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:17 - And Eli said, “What was it that he told you? Do not hide it from me. May God do so to you and more also if you hide anything from me of all that he told you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:20 - And about the time of her death the women attending her said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you have borne a son.” But she did not answer or pay attention.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:11 - They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to its own place, that it may not kill us and our people.” For there was a deathly panic throughout the whole city. The hand of God was very heavy there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:3 - They said, “If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it empty, but by all means return him a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why his hand does not turn away from you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:8 - And the people of Israel said to Samuel, “Do not cease to cry out to the LORD our God for us, that he may save us from the hand of the Philistines.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:7 - And the LORD said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:5 - When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant[fn] who was with him, “Come, let us go back, lest my father cease to care about the donkeys and become anxious about us.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:13 - As soon as you enter the city you will find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat. For the people will not eat till he comes, since he must bless the sacrifice; afterward those who are invited will eat. Now go up, for you will meet him immediately.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:20 - As for your donkeys that were lost three days ago, do not set your mind on them, for they have been found. And for whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you and for all your father's house?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:3 - The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Give us seven days' respite that we may send messengers through all the territory of Israel. Then, if there is no one to save us, we will give ourselves up to you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:14 - If you will fear the LORD and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, and if both you and the king who reigns over you will follow the LORD your God, it will be well.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:15 - But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then the hand of the LORD will be against you and your king.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:19 - And all the people said to Samuel, “Pray for your servants to the LORD your God, that we may not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for ourselves a king.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:20 - And Samuel said to the people, “Do not be afraid; you have done all this evil. Yet do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:21 - And do not turn aside after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:6 - When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were hard pressed), the people hid themselves in caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:19 - Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:9 - If they say to us, ‘Wait until we come to you,' then we will stand still in our place, and we will not go up to them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:34 - And Saul said, “Disperse yourselves among the people and say to them, ‘Let every man bring his ox or his sheep and slaughter them here and eat, and do not sin against the LORD by eating with the blood.'” So every one of the people brought his ox with him that night and they slaughtered them there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:36 - Then Saul said, “Let us go down after the Philistines by night and plunder them until the morning light; let us not leave a man of them.” And they said, “Do whatever seems good to you.” But the priest said, “Let us draw near to God here.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:6 - Then Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, depart; go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them. For you showed kindness to all the people of Israel when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:23 - For rebellion is as the sin of divination,
and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the LORD,
he has also rejected you from being king.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:26 - And Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you. For you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:1 - The LORD said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:7 - But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:11 - Then Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your sons here?” And he said, “There remains yet the youngest,[fn] but behold, he is keeping the sheep.” And Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him, for we will not sit down till he comes here.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:32 - And David said to Saul, “Let no man's heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:33 - And Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, for you are but a youth, and he has been a man of war from his youth.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:39 - and David strapped his sword over his armor. And he tried in vain to go, for he had not tested them. Then David said to Saul, “I cannot go with these, for I have not tested them.” So David put them off.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:4 - And Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, “Let not the king sin against his servant David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his deeds have brought good to you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:11 - Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch him, that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David's wife, told him, “If you do not escape with your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:2 - And he said to him, “Far from it! You shall not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small without disclosing it to me. And why should my father hide this from me? It is not so.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:3 - But David vowed again, saying, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he thinks, ‘Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.' But truly, as the LORD lives and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:12 - And Jonathan said to David, “The LORD, the God of Israel, be witness![fn] When I have sounded out my father, about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if he is well disposed toward David, shall I not then send and disclose it to you?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:15 - and do not cut off[fn] your steadfast love from my house forever, when the LORD cuts off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:26 - Yet Saul did not say anything that day, for he thought, “Something has happened to him. He is not clean; surely he is not clean.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:38 - And Jonathan called after the boy, “Hurry! Be quick! Do not stay!” So Jonathan's boy gathered up the arrows and came to his master.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:5 - Then the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not remain in the stronghold; depart, and go into the land of Judah.” So David departed and went into the forest of Hereth.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:15 - Is today the first time that I have inquired of God for him? No! Let not the king impute anything to his servant or to all the house of my father, for your servant has known nothing of all this, much or little.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:23 - Stay with me; do not be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life. With me you shall be in safekeeping.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:17 - And he said to him, “Do not fear, for the hand of Saul my father shall not find you. You shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you. Saul my father also knows this.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:28 - So Saul returned from pursuing after David and went against the Philistines. Therefore that place was called the Rock of Escape.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:25 - Let not my lord regard this worthless fellow, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal[fn] is his name, and folly is with him. But I your servant did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:26 - Now then, my lord, as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, because the LORD has restrained you from bloodguilt and from saving with your own hand, now then let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:33 - Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodguilt and from working salvation with my own hand!
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:34 - For as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, truly by morning there had not been left to Nabal so much as one male.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:9 - But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can put out his hand against the LORD's anointed and be guiltless?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:10 - And David said, “As the LORD lives, the LORD will strike him, or his day will come to die, or he will go down into battle and perish.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:19 - Now therefore let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is the LORD who has stirred you up against me, may he accept an offering, but if it is men, may they be cursed before the LORD, for they have driven me out this day that I should have no share in the heritage of the LORD, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:20 - Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the LORD, for the king of Israel has come out to seek a single flea like one who hunts a partridge in the mountains.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:1 - Then David said in his heart, “Now I shall perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of seeking me any longer within the borders of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:11 - And David would leave neither man nor woman alive to bring news to Gath, thinking, “lest they should tell about us and say, ‘So David has done.'” Such was his custom all the while he lived in the country of the Philistines.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:13 - The king said to her, “Do not be afraid. What do you see?” And the woman said to Saul, “I see a god coming up out of the earth.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:4 - But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with him. And the commanders of the Philistines said to him, “Send the man back, that he may return to the place to which you have assigned him. He shall not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For how could this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Would it not be with the heads of the men here?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:7 - So go back now; and go peaceably, that you may not displease the lords of the Philistines.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:8 - And David said to Achish, “But what have I done? What have you found in your servant from the day I entered your service until now, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:10 - Now then rise early in the morning with the servants of your lord who came with you, and start early in the morning, and depart as soon as you have light.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:15 - And David said to him, “Will you take me down to this band?” And he said, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will take you down to this band.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:4 - Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and mistreat me.” But his armor-bearer would not, for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword and fell upon it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:20 - Tell it not in Gath,
publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon,
lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice,
lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:21 - “You mountains of Gilboa,
let there be no dew or rain upon you,
nor fields of offerings![fn]
For there the shield of the mighty was defiled,
the shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:22 - And Abner said again to Asahel, “Turn aside from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I lift up my face to your brother Joab?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:26 - Then Abner called to Joab, “Shall the sword devour forever? Do you not know that the end will be bitter? How long will it be before you tell your people to turn from the pursuit of their brothers?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:27 - And Joab said, “As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely the men would not have given up the pursuit of their brothers until the morning.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:8 - Then Abner was very angry over the words of Ish-bosheth and said, “Am I a dog's head of Judah? To this day I keep showing steadfast love to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not given you into the hand of David. And yet you charge me today with a fault concerning a woman.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:13 - And he said, “Good; I will make a covenant with you. But one thing I require of you; that is, you shall not see my face unless you first bring Michal, Saul's daughter, when you come to see my face.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:29 - May it fall upon the head of Joab and upon all his father's house, and may the house of Joab never be without one who has a discharge or who is leprous or who holds a spindle or who falls by the sword or who lacks bread!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:35 - Then all the people came to persuade David to eat bread while it was yet day. But David swore, saying, “God do so to me and more also, if I taste bread or anything else till the sun goes down!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:7 - And David said to him, “Do not fear, for I will show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan, and I will restore to you all the land of Saul your father, and you shall eat at my table always.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:3 - But the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think, because David has sent comforters to you, that he is honoring your father? Has not David sent his servants to you to search the city and to spy it out and to overthrow it?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:25 - David said to the messenger, “Thus shall you say to Joab, ‘Do not let this matter displease you, for the sword devours now one and now another. Strengthen your attack against the city and overthrow it.' And encourage him.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:13 - David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” And Nathan said to David, “The LORD also has put away your sin; you shall not die.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:23 - But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:28 - Now then gather the rest of the people together and encamp against the city and take it, lest I take the city and it be called by my name.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:12 - She answered him, “No, my brother, do not violate[fn] me, for such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do this outrageous thing.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:13 - As for me, where could I carry my shame? And as for you, you would be as one of the outrageous fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:20 - And her brother Absalom said to her, “Has Amnon your brother been with you? Now hold your peace, my sister. He is your brother; do not take this to heart.” So Tamar lived, a desolate woman, in her brother Absalom's house.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:25 - But the king said to Absalom, “No, my son, let us not all go, lest we be burdensome to you.” He pressed him, but he would not go but gave him his blessing.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:28 - Then Absalom commanded his servants, “Mark when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,' then kill him. Do not fear; have I not commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:32 - But Jonadab the son of Shimeah, David's brother, said, “Let not my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men, the king's sons, for Amnon alone is dead. For by the command of Absalom this has been determined from the day he violated his sister Tamar.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:33 - Now therefore let not my lord the king so take it to heart as to suppose that all the king's sons are dead, for Amnon alone is dead.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:2 - And Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman and said to her, “Pretend to be a mourner and put on mourning garments. Do not anoint yourself with oil, but behave like a woman who has been mourning many days for the dead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:7 - And now the whole clan has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Give up the man who struck his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed.' And so they would destroy the heir also. Thus they would quench my coal that is left and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:11 - Then she said, “Please let the king invoke the LORD your God, that the avenger of blood kill no more, and my son be not destroyed.” He said, “As the LORD lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:13 - And the woman said, “Why then have you planned such a thing against the people of God? For in giving this decision the king convicts himself, inasmuch as the king does not bring his banished one home again.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:18 - Then the king answered the woman, “Do not hide from me anything I ask you.” And the woman said, “Let my lord the king speak.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:19 - The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered and said, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, one cannot turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has said. It was your servant Joab who commanded me; it was he who put all these words in the mouth of your servant.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:24 - And the king said, “Let him dwell apart in his own house; he is not to come into my presence.” So Absalom lived apart in his own house and did not come into the king's presence.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:14 - Then David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, “Arise, and let us flee, or else there will be no escape for us from Absalom. Go quickly, lest he overtake us quickly and bring down ruin on us and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:8 - Hushai said, “You know that your father and his men are mighty men, and that they are enraged,[fn] like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Besides, your father is expert in war; he will not spend the night with the people.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:13 - If he withdraws into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we shall drag it into the valley, until not even a pebble is to be found there.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:16 - Now therefore send quickly and tell David, ‘Do not stay tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over, lest the king and all the people who are with him be swallowed up.'”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:12 - But the man said to Joab, “Even if I felt in my hand the weight of a thousand pieces of silver, I would not reach out my hand against the king's son, for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘For my sake protect the young man Absalom.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:13 - On the other hand, if I had dealt treacherously against his life[fn] (and there is nothing hidden from the king), then you yourself would have stood aloof.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:16 - Then Joab blew the trumpet, and the troops came back from pursuing Israel, for Joab restrained them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:7 - Now therefore arise, go out and speak kindly to your servants, for I swear by the LORD, if you do not go, not a man will stay with you this night, and this will be worse for you than all the evil that has come upon you from your youth until now.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:13 - And say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me and more also, if you are not commander of my army from now on in place of Joab.'”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:19 - and said to the king, “Let not my lord hold me guilty or remember how your servant did wrong on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. Do not let the king take it to heart.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:21 - Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, “Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD's anointed?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:23 - And the king said to Shimei, “You shall not die.” And the king gave him his oath.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:35 - I am this day eighty years old. Can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or what he drinks? Can I still listen to the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:42 - All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, “Because the king is our close relative. Why then are you angry over this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king's expense? Or has he given us any gift?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:5 - They said to the king, “The man who consumed us and planned to destroy us, so that we should have no place in all the territory of Israel,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:17 - But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid and attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then David's men swore to him, “You shall no longer go out with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp of Israel.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:5 - “For does not my house stand so with God?
For he has made with me an everlasting covenant,
ordered in all things and secure.
For will he not cause to prosper
all my help and my desire?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:14 - Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let us fall into the hand of the LORD, for his mercy is great; but let me not fall into the hand of man.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:9 - Now therefore do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man. You will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down with blood to Sheol.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:16 - And now I have one request to make of you; do not refuse me.” She said to him, “Speak.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:20 - Then she said, “I have one small request to make of you; do not refuse me.” And the king said to her, “Make your request, my mother, for I will not refuse you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:27 - So Solomon expelled Abiathar from being priest to the LORD, thus fulfilling the word of the LORD that he had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:26 - Then the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because her heart yearned for her son, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means put him to death.” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours; divide him.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:27 - Then the king answered and said, “Give the living child to the first woman, and by no means put him to death; she is his mother.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:6 - The lowest story[fn] was five cubits broad, the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad. For around the outside of the house he made offsets on the wall in order that the supporting beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:35 - “When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:57 - The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. May he not leave us or forsake us,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:64 - The same day the king consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD, for there he offered the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before the LORD was too small to receive the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:6 - But if you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes that I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:15 - And this is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon drafted to build the house of the LORD and his own house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:20 - All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the people of Israel—
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:2 - from the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the people of Israel, “You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:10 - and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods. But he did not keep what the LORD commanded.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:13 - However, I will not tear away all the kingdom, but I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem that I have chosen.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:34 - Nevertheless, I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him ruler all the days of his life, for the sake of David my servant whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:8 - And the man of God said to the king, “If you give me half your house, I will not go in with you. And I will not eat bread or drink water in this place,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:9 - for so was it commanded me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘You shall neither eat bread nor drink water nor return by the way that you came.'”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:16 - And he said, “I may not return with you, or go in with you, neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:17 - for it was said to me by the word of the LORD, ‘You shall neither eat bread nor drink water there, nor return by the way that you came.'”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:22 - but have come back and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he said to you, “Eat no bread and drink no water,” your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.'”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:13 - He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother because she had made an abominable image for Asherah. And Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:17 - Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built Ramah, that he might permit no one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:1 - Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe[fn] in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:23 - Let two bulls be given to us, and let them choose one bull for themselves and cut it in pieces and lay it on the wood, but put no fire to it. And I will prepare the other bull and lay it on the wood and put no fire to it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:25 - Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose for yourselves one bull and prepare it first, for you are many, and call upon the name of your god, but put no fire to it.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:44 - And at the seventh time he said, “Behold, a little cloud like a man's hand is rising from the sea.” And he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down, lest the rain stop you.'”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:8 - And all the elders and all the people said to him, “Do not listen or consent.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:11 - And the king of Israel answered, “Tell him, ‘Let not him who straps on his armor boast himself as he who takes it off.'”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:19 - So these went out of the city, the servants of the governors of the districts and the army that followed them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:23 - And the servants of the king of Syria said to him, “Their gods are gods of the hills, and so they were stronger than we. But let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:8 - And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, Micaiah the son of Imlah, but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:31 - Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, “Fight with neither small nor great, but only with the king of Israel.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:3 - But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:6 - And they said to him, “There came a man to meet us, and said to us, ‘Go back to the king who sent you, and say to him, Thus says the LORD, Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.'”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:15 - Then the angel of the LORD said to Elijah, “Go down with him; do not be afraid of him.” So he arose and went down with him to the king
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:10 - And he said, “You have asked a hard thing; yet, if you see me as I am being taken from you, it shall be so for you, but if you do not see me, it shall not be so.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:18 - And they came back to him while he was staying at Jericho, and he said to them, “Did I not say to you, ‘Do not go'?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:14 - And Elisha said, “As the LORD of hosts lives, before whom I stand, were it not that I have regard for Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would neither look at you nor see you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:3 - Then he said, “Go outside, borrow vessels from all your neighbors, empty vessels and not too few.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:16 - And he said, “At this season, about this time next year, you shall embrace a son.” And she said, “No, my lord, O man of God; do not lie to your servant.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:24 - Then she saddled the donkey, and she said to her servant, “Urge the animal on; do not slacken the pace for me unless I tell you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:28 - Then she said, “Did I ask my lord for a son? Did I not say, ‘Do not deceive me?'”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:7 - And when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Only consider, and see how he is seeking a quarrel with me.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:20 - Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “See, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not accepting from his hand what he brought. As the LORD lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:9 - But the man of God sent word to the king of Israel, “Beware that you do not pass this place, for the Syrians are going down there.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:16 - He said, “Do not be afraid, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:22 - He answered, “You shall not strike them down. Would you strike down those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink and go to their master.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:27 - And he said, “If the LORD will not help you, how shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the winepress?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:2 - Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned said to the man of God, “If the LORD himself should make windows in heaven, could this thing be?” But he said, “You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:10 - So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city and told them, “We came to the camp of the Syrians, and behold, there was no one to be seen or heard there, nothing but the horses tied and the donkeys tied and the tents as they were.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:19 - the captain had answered the man of God, “If the LORD himself should make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?” And he had said, “You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:15 - but King Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) So Jehu said, “If this is your decision, then let no one slip out of the city to go and tell the news in Jezreel.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:26 - ‘As surely as I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons—declares the LORD—I will repay you on this plot of ground.' Now therefore take him up and throw him on the plot of ground, in accordance with the word of the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:37 - and the corpse of Jezebel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the territory of Jezreel, so that no one can say, This is Jezebel.'”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:11 - So Jehu struck down all who remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, all his great men and his close friends and his priests, until he left him none remaining.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:19 - Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his worshipers and all his priests. Let none be missing, for I have a great sacrifice to offer to Baal. Whoever is missing shall not live.” But Jehu did it with cunning in order to destroy the worshipers of Baal.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:25 - So as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the officers, “Go in and strike them down; let not a man escape.” So when they put them to the sword, the guard and the officers cast them out and went into the inner room of the house of Baal,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:15 - Then Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains who were set over the army, “Bring her out between the ranks, and put to death with the sword anyone who follows her.” For the priest said, “Let her not be put to death in the house of the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:7 - Therefore King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and said to them, “Why are you not repairing the house? Now therefore take no more money from your donors, but hand it over for the repair of the house.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:8 - So the priests agreed that they should take no more money from the people, and that they should not repair the house.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:15 - They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:25 - Moreover, is it without the LORD that I have come up against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, “Go up against this land and destroy it.”'”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:27 - But the Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and to drink their own urine?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:29 - Thus says the king: ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you out of my[fn] hand.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:30 - Do not let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD by saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:31 - Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: ‘Make your peace with me[fn] and come out to me. Then each one of you will eat of his own vine, and each one of his own fig tree, and each one of you will drink the water of his own cistern,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:32 - until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey, that you may live, and not die. And do not listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you by saying, “The LORD will deliver us.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:33 - Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:6 - Isaiah said to them, “Say to your master, ‘Thus says the LORD: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have reviled me.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:10 - “Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:12 - Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:32 - “Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield or cast up a siege mound against it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:9 - However, the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:18 - And he said, “Let him be; let no man move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:33 - And Pharaoh Neco put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and laid on the land a tribute of a hundred talents[fn] of silver and a talent of gold.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:24 - And Gedaliah swore to them and their men, saying, “Do not be afraid because of the Chaldean officials. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:10 - Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from harm[fn] so that it might not bring me pain!” And God granted what he asked.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:4 - Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and mistreat me.” But his armor-bearer would not, for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword and fell upon it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:22 - saying, “Touch not my anointed ones,
do my prophets no harm!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:30 - tremble before him, all the earth;
yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:3 - But the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun, “Do you think, because David has sent comforters to you, that he is honoring your father? Have not his servants come to you to search and to overthrow and to spy out the land?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:3 - But Joab said, “May the LORD add to his people a hundred times as many as they are! Are they not, my lord the king, all of them my lord's servants? Why then should my lord require this? Why should it be a cause of guilt for Israel?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:13 - Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let me fall into the hand of the LORD, for his mercy is very great, but do not let me fall into the hand of man.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:17 - And David said to God, “Was it not I who gave command to number the people? It is I who have sinned and done great evil. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O LORD my God, be against me and against my father's house. But do not let the plague be on your people.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:24 - But King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will buy them for the full price. I will not take for the LORD what is yours, nor offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:13 - Then you will prosper if you are careful to observe the statutes and the rules that the LORD commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Fear not; do not be dismayed.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:27 - From spoil won in battles they dedicated gifts for the maintenance of the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:20 - Then David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous and do it. Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed, for the LORD God, even my God, is with you. He will not leave you or forsake you, until all the work for the service of the house of the LORD is finished.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:26 - “When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict[fn] them,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:42 - O LORD God, do not turn away the face of your anointed one!
Remember your steadfast love for David your servant.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:13 - When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:4 - ‘Thus says the LORD, You shall not go up or fight against your relatives. Return every man to his home, for this thing is from me.'” So they listened to the word of the LORD and returned and did not go against Jeroboam.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:14 - For the Levites left their common lands and their holdings and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons cast them out from serving as priests of the LORD,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:7 - When the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah: “They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:9 - Have you not driven out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves like the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes for ordination[fn] with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of what are not gods.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:11 - And Asa cried to the LORD his God, “O LORD, there is none like you to help, between the mighty and the weak. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on you, and in your name we have come against this multitude. O LORD, you are our God; let not man prevail against you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:13 - Asa and the people who were with him pursued them as far as Gerar, and the Ethiopians fell until none remained alive, for they were broken before the LORD and his army. The men of Judah[fn] carried away very much spoil.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:7 - But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:13 - but that whoever would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether young or old, man or woman.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:16 - Even Maacah, his mother, King Asa removed from being queen mother because she had made a detestable image for Asherah. Asa cut down her image, crushed it, and burned it at the brook Kidron.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:1 - In the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built Ramah, that he might permit no one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:7 - At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, “Because you relied on the king of Syria, and did not rely on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Syria has escaped you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:7 - And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:15 - But the king said to him, “How many times shall I make you swear that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of the LORD?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:30 - Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of his chariots, “Fight with neither small nor great, but only with the king of Israel.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:15 - And he said, “Listen, all Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem and King Jehoshaphat: Thus says the LORD to you, ‘Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed at this great horde, for the battle is not yours but God's.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:17 - You will not need to fight in this battle. Stand firm, hold your position, and see the salvation of the LORD on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem.' Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed. Tomorrow go out against them, and the LORD will be with you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:6 - Let no one enter the house of the LORD except the priests and ministering Levites. They may enter, for they are holy, but all the people shall keep the charge of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:14 - Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains who were set over the army, saying to them, “Bring her out between the ranks, and anyone who follows her is to be put to death with the sword.” For the priest said, “Do not put her to death in the house of the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:13 - But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, not letting them go with him to battle, raided the cities of Judah, from Samaria to Beth-horon, and struck down 3,000 people in them and took much spoil.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:16 - But as he was speaking, the king said to him, “Have we made you a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” So the prophet stopped, but said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:13 - and said to them, “You shall not bring the captives in here, for you propose to bring upon us guilt against the LORD in addition to our present sins and guilt. For our guilt is already great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:11 - My sons, do not now be negligent, for the LORD has chosen you to stand in his presence, to minister to him and to be his ministers and make offerings to him.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:7 - Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were faithless to the LORD God of their fathers, so that he made them a desolation, as you see.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:8 - Do not now be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the LORD and come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever, and serve the LORD your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:17 - For there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves. Therefore the Levites had to slaughter the Passover lamb for everyone who was not clean, to consecrate it to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:4 - A great many people were gathered, and they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the land, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:7 - “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or dismayed before the king of Assyria and all the horde that is with him, for there are more with us than with him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:13 - Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of other lands? Were the gods of the nations of those lands at all able to deliver their lands out of my hand?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:14 - Who among all the gods of those nations that my fathers devoted to destruction was able to deliver his people from my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you from my hand?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:15 - Now, therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you in this fashion, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand!'”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:17 - And he wrote letters to cast contempt on the LORD, the God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, “Like the gods of the nations of the lands who have not delivered their people from my hands, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver his people from my hand.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:21 - But he sent envoys to him, saying, “What have we to do with each other, king of Judah? I am not coming against you this day, but against the house with which I am at war. And God has commanded me to hurry. Cease opposing God, who is with me, lest he destroy you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:2 - Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:13 - He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. He stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:63 - The governor told them that they were not to partake of the most holy food, until there should be a priest to consult Urim and Thummim.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:8 - Moreover, I make a decree regarding what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the rebuilding of this house of God. The cost is to be paid to these men in full and without delay from the royal revenue, the tribute of the province from Beyond the River.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:24 - We also notify you that it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll on anyone of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the doorkeepers, the temple servants, or other servants of this house of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:25 - “And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people in the province Beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God. And those who do not know them, you shall teach.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:26 - Whoever will not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be strictly executed on him, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of his goods or for imprisonment.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:12 - Therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:14 - shall we break your commandments again and intermarry with the peoples who practice these abominations? Would you not be angry with us until you consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:8 - and that if anyone did not come within three days, by order of the officials and the elders all his property should be forfeited, and he himself banned from the congregation of the exiles.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:5 - And I said, “O LORD God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments,
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:11 - O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name, and give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” Now I was cupbearer to the king.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:2 - And the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of the heart.” Then I was very much afraid.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:3 - I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:12 - Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. And I told no one what my God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There was no animal with me but the one on which I rode.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:3 - Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “Yes, what they are building—if a fox goes up on it he will break down their stone wall!”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:5 - Do not cover their guilt, and let not their sin be blotted out from your sight, for they have provoked you to anger in the presence of the builders.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:14 - And I looked and arose and said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, “Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:65 - The governor told them that they were not to partake of the most holy food until a priest with Urim and Thummim should arise.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:9 - And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, “This day is holy to the LORD your God; do not mourn or weep.” For all the people wept as they heard the words of the Law.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:10 - Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:11 - So the Levites calmed all the people, saying, “Be quiet, for this day is holy; do not be grieved.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:32 - “Now, therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love, let not all the hardship seem little to you that has come upon us, upon our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers, and all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria until this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:30 - We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:1 - On that day they read from the Book of Moses in the hearing of the people. And in it was found written that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:14 - Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and do not wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God and for his service.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:19 - As soon as it began to grow dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut and gave orders that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. And I stationed some of my servants at the gates, that no load might be brought in on the Sabbath day.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:27 - Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:19 - If it please the king, let a royal order go out from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes so that it may not be repealed, that Vashti is never again to come before King Ahasuerus. And let the king give her royal position to another who is better than she.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:10 - Esther had not made known her people or kindred, for Mordecai had commanded her not to make it known.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:14 - In the evening she would go in, and in the morning she would return to the second harem in custody of Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch, who was in charge of the concubines. She would not go in to the king again, unless the king delighted in her and she was summoned by name.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:13 - Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not think to yourself that in the king's palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:16 - “Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:1 - On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king's palace, in front of the king's quarters, while the king was sitting on his royal throne inside the throne room opposite the entrance to the palace.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:6 - So Haman came in, and the king said to him, “What should be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?” And Haman said to himself, “Whom would the king delight to honor more than me?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:10 - Then the king said to Haman, “Hurry; take the robes and the horse, as you have said, and do so to Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king's gate. Leave out nothing that you have mentioned.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:13 - And Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of the Jewish people, you will not overcome him but will surely fall before him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:28 - that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, in every clan, province, and city, and that these days of Purim should never fall into disuse among the Jews, nor should the commemoration of these days cease among their descendants.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:9 - Then Satan answered the LORD and said, “Does Job fear God for no reason?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:12 - And the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your hand. Only against him do not stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:4 - Let that day be darkness!
May God above not seek it,
nor light shine upon it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:6 - That night—let thick darkness seize it!
Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;
let it not come into the number of the months.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:7 - Behold, let that night be barren;
let no joyful cry enter it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:9 - Let the stars of its dawn be dark;
let it hope for light, but have none,
nor see the eyelids of the morning,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:2 - “If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?
Yet who can keep from speaking?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:11 - The strong lion perishes for lack of prey,
and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:17 - ‘Can mortal man be in the right before[fn] God?
Can a man be pure before his Maker?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:20 - Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces;
they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:21 - Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them,
do they not die, and that without wisdom?'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:6 - For affliction does not come from the dust,
nor does trouble sprout from the ground,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:12 - He frustrates the devices of the crafty,
so that their hands achieve no success.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:17 - “Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves;
therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:19 - He will deliver you from six troubles;
in seven no evil[fn] shall touch you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:21 - You shall be hidden from the lash of the tongue,
and shall not fear destruction when it comes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:22 - At destruction and famine you shall laugh,
and shall not fear the beasts of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:24 - You shall know that your tent is at peace,
and you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:5 - Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass,
or the ox low over his fodder?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:10 - This would be my comfort;
I would even exult[fn] in pain unsparing,
for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:12 - Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh bronze?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:29 - Please turn; let no injustice be done.
Turn now; my vindication is at stake.
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 7:10 - he returns no more to his house,
nor does his place know him anymore.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:3 - Does God pervert justice?
Or does the Almighty pervert the right?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:11 - “Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh?
Can reeds flourish where there is no water?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:12 - While yet in flower and not cut down,
they wither before any other plant.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:15 - He leans against his house, but it does not stand;
he lays hold of it, but it does not endure.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:20 - “Behold, God will not reject a blameless man,
nor take the hand of evildoers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:3 - If one wished to contend with him,
one could not answer him once in a thousand times.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:11 - Behold, he passes by me, and I see him not;
he moves on, but I do not perceive him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:17 - For he crushes me with a tempest
and multiplies my wounds without cause;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:24 - The earth is given into the hand of the wicked;
he covers the faces of its judges—
if it is not he, who then is it?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:35 - Then I would speak without fear of him,
for I am not so in myself.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:3 - Should your babble silence men,
and when you mock, shall no one shame you?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:4 - For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure,
and I am clean in God's[fn] eyes.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:14 - If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away,
and let not injustice dwell in your tents.
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 12:10 - In his hand is the life of every living thing
and the breath of all mankind.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:25 - They grope in the dark without light,
and he makes them stagger like a drunken man.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:2 - He comes out like a flower and withers;
he flees like a shadow and continues not.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:5 - Since his days are determined,
and the number of his months is with you,
and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:7 - “For there is hope for a tree,
if it be cut down, that it will sprout again,
and that its shoots will not cease.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:12 - so a man lies down and rises not again;
till the heavens are no more he will not awake
or be roused out of his sleep.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:15 - You would call, and I would answer you;
you would long for the work of your hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:16 - For then you would number my steps;
you would not keep watch over my sin;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:6 - Your own mouth condemns you, and not I;
your own lips testify against you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:7 - “Are you the first man who was born?
Or were you brought forth before the hills?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:22 - He does not believe that he will return out of darkness,
and he is marked for the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:29 - he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure,
nor will his possessions spread over the earth;[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:30 - he will not depart from darkness;
the flame will dry up his shoots,
and by the breath of his mouth he will depart.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:31 - Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself,
for emptiness will be his payment.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:32 - It will be paid in full before his time,
and his branch will not be green.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:3 - Shall windy words have an end?
Or what provokes you that you answer?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:18 - “O earth, cover not my blood,
and let my cry find no resting place.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:4 - Since you have closed their hearts to understanding,
therefore you will not let them triumph.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:21 - Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous,
such is the place of him who knows not God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:8 - He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass,
and he has set darkness upon my paths.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:4 - Do you not know this from of old,
since man was placed on earth,
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 20:14 - yet his food is turned in his stomach;
it is the venom of cobras within him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:17 - He will not look upon the rivers,
the streams flowing with honey and curds.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:24 - He will flee from an iron weapon;
a bronze arrow will strike him through.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:2 - “Keep listening to my words,
and let this be your comfort.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:4 - As for me, is my complaint against man?
Why should I not be impatient?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:20 - Let their own eyes see their destruction,
and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:12 - “Is not God high in the heavens?
See the highest stars, how lofty they are!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:15 - Will you keep to the old way
that wicked men have trod?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:20 - saying, ‘Surely our adversaries are cut off,
and what they left the fire has consumed.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:11 - My foot has held fast to his steps;
I have kept his way and have not turned aside.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:12 - I have not departed from the commandment of his lips;
I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:8 - They are wet with the rain of the mountains
and cling to the rock for lack of shelter.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:22 - Yet God[fn] prolongs the life of the mighty by his power;
they rise up when they despair of life.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:23 - He gives them security, and they are supported,
and his eyes are upon their ways.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 25:3 - Is there any number to his armies?
Upon whom does his light not arise?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:5 - The dead tremble
under the waters and their inhabitants.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:4 - my lips will not speak falsehood,
and my tongue will not utter deceit.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:6 - I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go;
my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:10 - Will he take delight in the Almighty?
Will he call upon God at all times?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:13 - Man does not know its worth,
and it is not found in the land of the living.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:24 - I smiled on them when they had no confidence,
and the light of my face they did not cast down.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:20 - if his body has not blessed me,[fn]
and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:34 - because I stood in great fear of the multitude,
and the contempt of families terrified me,
so that I kept silence, and did not go out of doors—
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:35 - Oh, that I had one to hear me!
(Here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!)
Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:37 - I would give him an account of all my steps;
like a prince I would approach him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:13 - Beware lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom;
God may vanquish him, not a man.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:21 - I will not show partiality to any man
or use flattery toward any person.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:18 - he keeps back his soul from the pit,
his life from perishing by the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:20 - so that his life loathes bread,
and his appetite the choicest food.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:23 - If there be for him an angel,
a mediator, one of the thousand,
to declare to man what is right for him,
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 33:28 - He has redeemed my soul from going down into the pit,
and my life shall look upon the light.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:9 - For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing
that he should take delight in God.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:16 - “If you have understanding, hear this;
listen to what I say.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:32 - teach me what I do not see;
if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:33 - Will he then make repayment to suit you,
because you reject it?
For you must choose, and not I;
therefore declare what you know.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:36 - Would that Job were tried to the end,
because he answers like wicked men.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:37 - For he adds rebellion to his sin;
he claps his hands among us
and multiplies his words against God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:12 - There they cry out, but he does not answer,
because of the pride of evil men.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:5 - “Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise any;
he is mighty in strength of understanding.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:6 - He does not keep the wicked alive,
but gives the afflicted their right.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:12 - But if they do not listen, they perish by the sword
and die without knowledge.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:20 - Do not long for the night,
when peoples vanish in their place.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:21 - Take care; do not turn to iniquity,
for this you have chosen rather than affliction.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:20 - Shall it be told him that I would speak?
Did a man ever wish that he would be swallowed up?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:4 - Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open;
they go out and do not return to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:16 - She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers;
though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:22 - He laughs at fear and is not dismayed;
he does not turn back from the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:24 - With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground;
he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:2 - “Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty?
He who argues with God, let him answer it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:8 - Will you even put me in the wrong?
Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:23 - Behold, if the river is turbulent he is not frightened;
he is confident though Jordan rushes against his mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:7 - Can you fill his skin with harpoons
or his head with fishing spears?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:16 - One is so near to another
that no air can come between them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:17 - They are joined one to another;
they clasp each other and cannot be separated.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:26 - Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail,
nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:28 - The arrow cannot make him flee;
for him, sling stones are turned to stubble.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:8 - Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 4:4 - Be angry,[fn] and do not sin;
ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. Selah
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:1 - To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments; according to The Sheminith.[fn] A Psalm of David.
O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger,
nor discipline me in your wrath.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:2 - lest like a lion they tear my soul apart,
rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:11 - God is a righteous judge,
and a God who feels indignation every day.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:12 - If a man[fn] does not repent, God[fn] will whet his sword;
he has bent and readied his bow;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:19 - Arise, O LORD! Let not man prevail;
let the nations be judged before you!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:6 - He says in his heart, “I shall not be moved;
throughout all generations I shall not meet adversity.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:11 - He says in his heart, “God has forgotten,
he has hidden his face, he will never see it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:12 - Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up your hand;
forget not the afflicted.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:15 - Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer;
call his wickedness to account till you find none.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:18 - to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed,
so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:4 - The sorrows of those who run after[fn] another god shall multiply;
their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out
or take their names on my lips.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:8 - I have set the LORD always before me;
because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:4 - With regard to the works of man, by the word of your lips
I have avoided the ways of the violent.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:5 - My steps have held fast to your paths;
my feet have not slipped.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:38 - I thrust them through, so that they were not able to rise;
they fell under my feet.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 21:7 - For the king trusts in the LORD,
and through the steadfast love of the Most High he shall not be moved.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 21:11 - Though they plan evil against you,
though they devise mischief, they will not succeed.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:11 - Be not far from me,
for trouble is near,
and there is none to help.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:19 - But you, O LORD, do not be far off!
O you my help, come quickly to my aid!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:2 - O my God, in you I trust;
let me not be put to shame;
let not my enemies exult over me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:3 - Indeed, none who wait for you shall be put to shame;
they shall be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:7 - Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions;
according to your steadfast love remember me,
for the sake of your goodness, O LORD!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:20 - Oh, guard my soul, and deliver me!
Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:1 - Of David.
Vindicate me, O LORD,
for I have walked in my integrity,
and I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:4 - I do not sit with men of falsehood,
nor do I consort with hypocrites.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:5 - I hate the assembly of evildoers,
and I will not sit with the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:9 - Do not sweep my soul away with sinners,
nor my life with bloodthirsty men,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:9 - Hide not your face from me.
Turn not your servant away in anger,
O you who have been my help.
Cast me not off; forsake me not,
O God of my salvation!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:12 - Give me not up to the will of my adversaries;
for false witnesses have risen against me,
and they breathe out violence.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:1 - Of David.
To you, O LORD, I call;
my rock, be not deaf to me,
lest, if you be silent to me,
I become like those who go down to the pit.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:3 - Do not drag me off with the wicked,
with the workers of evil,
who speak peace with their neighbors
while evil is in their hearts.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:5 - Because they do not regard the works of the LORD
or the work of his hands,
he will tear them down and build them up no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:6 - As for me, I said in my prosperity,
“I shall never be moved.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:9 - “What profit is there in my death,[fn]
if I go down to the pit?[fn]
Will the dust praise you?
Will it tell of your faithfulness?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:12 - that my glory may sing your praise and not be silent.
O LORD my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:1 - To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
In you, O LORD, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame;
in your righteousness deliver me!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:17 - O LORD, let me not be put to shame,
for I call upon you;
let the wicked be put to shame;
let them go silently to Sheol.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 32:2 - Blessed is the man against whom the LORD counts no iniquity,
and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 32:9 - Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding,
which must be curbed with bit and bridle,
or it will not stay near you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:5 - Those who look to him are radiant,
and their faces shall never be ashamed.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:13 - Keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from speaking deceit.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:22 - The LORD redeems the life of his servants;
none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:19 - Let not those rejoice over me
who are wrongfully my foes,
and let not those wink the eye
who hate me without cause.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:22 - You have seen, O LORD; be not silent!
O Lord, be not far from me!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:24 - Vindicate me, O LORD, my God,
according to your righteousness,
and let them not rejoice over me!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:25 - Let them not say in their hearts,
“Aha, our heart's desire!”
Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:11 - Let not the foot of arrogance come upon me,
nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:12 - There the evildoers lie fallen;
they are thrust down, unable to rise.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:1 - [fn] Of David.
Fret not yourself because of evildoers;
be not envious of wrongdoers!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:7 - Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him;
fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way,
over the man who carries out evil devices!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:8 - Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath!
Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:10 - In just a little while, the wicked will be no more;
though you look carefully at his place, he will not be there.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:33 - The LORD will not abandon him to his power
or let him be condemned when he is brought to trial.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:1 - A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering.
O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger,
nor discipline me in your wrath!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:21 - Do not forsake me, O LORD!
O my God, be not far from me!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:1 - To the choirmaster: to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.
I said, “I will guard my ways,
that I may not sin with my tongue;
I will guard my mouth with a muzzle,
so long as the wicked are in my presence.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:12 - “Hear my prayer, O LORD,
and give ear to my cry;
hold not your peace at my tears!
For I am a sojourner with you,
a guest, like all my fathers.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:13 - Look away from me, that I may smile again,
before I depart and am no more!”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:9 - I have told the glad news of deliverance[fn]
in the great congregation;
behold, I have not restrained my lips,
as you know, O LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:11 - As for you, O LORD, you will not restrain
your mercy from me;
your steadfast love and your faithfulness will
ever preserve me!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:17 - As for me, I am poor and needy,
but the Lord takes thought for me.
You are my help and my deliverer;
do not delay, O my God!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:2 - the LORD protects him and keeps him alive;
he is called blessed in the land;
you do not give him up to the will of his enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:8 - They say, “A deadly thing is poured out[fn] on him;
he will not rise again from where he lies.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:11 - By this I know that you delight in me:
my enemy will not shout in triumph over me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:23 - Awake! Why are you sleeping, O Lord?
Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:16 - Be not afraid when a man becomes rich,
when the glory of his house increases.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:13 - Do I eat the flesh of bulls
or drink the blood of goats?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:22 - “Mark this, then, you who forget God,
lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:11 - Cast me not away from your presence,
and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:1 - To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Maskil[fn] of David.
Give ear to my prayer, O God,
and hide not yourself from my plea for mercy!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:23 - But you, O God, will cast them down
into the pit of destruction;
men of blood and treachery
shall not live out half their days.
But I will trust in you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:1 - To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam[fn] of David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave.
Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me,
for in you my soul takes refuge;
in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge,
till the storms of destruction pass by.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:1 - To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam[fn] of David.
Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods?[fn]
Do you judge the children of man uprightly?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:1 - To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam[fn] of David, when Saul sent men to watch his house in order to kill him.
Deliver me from my enemies, O my God;
protect me from those who rise up against me;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:5 - You, LORD God of hosts, are God of Israel.
Rouse yourself to punish all the nations;
spare none of those who treacherously plot evil. Selah
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:11 - Kill them not, lest my people forget;
make them totter[fn] by your power and bring them down,
O Lord, our shield!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:13 - consume them in wrath;
consume them till they are no more,
that they may know that God rules over Jacob
to the ends of the earth. Selah
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:15 - They wander about for food
and growl if they do not get their fill.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:2 - He alone is my rock and my salvation,
my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:6 - He only is my rock and my salvation,
my fortress; I shall not be shaken.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:10 - Put no trust in extortion;
set no vain hopes on robbery;
if riches increase, set not your heart on them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:7 - who rules by his might forever,
whose eyes keep watch on the nations—
let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:9 - who has kept our soul among the living
and has not let our feet slip.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:18 - If I had cherished iniquity in my heart,
the Lord would not have listened.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:30 - Rebuke the beasts that dwell among the reeds,
the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples.
Trample underfoot those who lust after tribute;
scatter the peoples who delight in war.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:6 - Let not those who hope in you be put to shame through me,
O Lord GOD of hosts;
let not those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me,
O God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:14 - Deliver me
from sinking in the mire;
let me be delivered from my enemies
and from the deep waters.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:17 - Hide not your face from your servant,
for I am in distress; make haste to answer me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:23 - Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see,
and make their loins tremble continually.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:25 - May their camp be a desolation;
let no one dwell in their tents.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:27 - Add to them punishment upon punishment;
may they have no acquittal from you.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:28 - Let them be blotted out of the book of the living;
let them not be enrolled among the righteous.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 70:5 - But I am poor and needy;
hasten to me, O God!
You are my help and my deliverer;
O LORD, do not delay!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:1 - In you, O LORD, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:9 - Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
forsake me not when my strength is spent.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:12 - O God, be not far from me;
O my God, make haste to help me!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:18 - So even to old age and gray hairs,
O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:19 - Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild beasts;
do not forget the life of your poor forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:21 - Let not the downtrodden turn back in shame;
let the poor and needy praise your name.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:23 - Do not forget the clamor of your foes,
the uproar of those who rise against you, which goes up continually!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 75:1 - To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song.
We give thanks to you, O God;
we give thanks, for your name is near.
We[fn] recount your wondrous deeds.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 75:4 - I say to the boastful, ‘Do not boast,'
and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 75:5 - do not lift up your horn on high,
or speak with haughty neck.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:7 - “Will the Lord spurn forever,
and never again be favorable?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:7 - so that they should set their hope in God
and not forget the works of God,
but keep his commandments;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:8 - and that they should not be like their fathers,
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation whose heart was not steadfast,
whose spirit was not faithful to God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:19 - They spoke against God, saying,
“Can God spread a table in the wilderness?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:20 - He struck the rock so that water gushed out
and streams overflowed.
Can he also give bread
or provide meat for his people?”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:44 - He turned their rivers to blood,
so that they could not drink of their streams.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:6 - Pour out your anger on the nations
that do not know you,
and on the kingdoms
that do not call upon your name!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:8 - Do not remember against us our former iniquities;[fn]
let your compassion come speedily to meet us,
for we are brought very low.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:18 - Then we shall not turn back from you;
give us life, and we will call upon your name!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:1 - A Song. A Psalm of Asaph.
O God, do not keep silence;
do not hold your peace or be still, O God!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:4 - They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation;
let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 85:5 - Will you be angry with us forever?
Will you prolong your anger to all generations?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:10 - Do you work wonders for the dead?
Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:11 - Is your steadfast love declared in the grave,
or your faithfulness in Abaddon?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:12 - Are your wonders known in the darkness,
or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:30 - If his children forsake my law
and do not walk according to my rules,[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:31 - if they violate my statutes
and do not keep my commandments,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:33 - but I will not remove from him my steadfast love
or be false to my faithfulness.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:34 - I will not violate my covenant
or alter the word that went forth from my lips.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:47 - Remember how short my time is!
For what vanity you have created all the children of man!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:3 - You return man to dust
and say, “Return, O children of man!”[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:17 - If the LORD had not been my help,
my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:20 - Can wicked rulers be allied with you,
those who frame[fn] injustice by statute?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 95:8 - do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah,
as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:2 - Do not hide your face from me
in the day of my distress!
Incline your ear to me;
answer me speedily in the day when I call!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:24 - “O my God,” I say, “take me not away
in the midst of my days—
you whose years endure
throughout all generations!”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:2 - Bless the LORD, O my soul,
and forget not all his benefits,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:35 - Let sinners be consumed from the earth,
and let the wicked be no more!
Bless the LORD, O my soul!
Praise the LORD!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:15 - saying, “Touch not my anointed ones,
do my prophets no harm!”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:23 - Therefore he said he would destroy them—
had not Moses, his chosen one,
stood in the breach before him,
to turn away his wrath from destroying them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:1 - To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
Be not silent, O God of my praise!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:12 - Let there be none to extend kindness to him,
nor any to pity his fatherless children!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:14 - May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD,
and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:8 - His heart is steady;[fn] he will not be afraid,
until he looks in triumph on his adversaries.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:1 - Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory,
for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:6 - Then I shall not be put to shame,
having my eyes fixed on all your commandments.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:10 - With my whole heart I seek you;
let me not wander from your commandments!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:11 - I have stored up your word in my heart,
that I might not sin against you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:19 - I am a sojourner on the earth;
hide not your commandments from me!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:36 - Incline my heart to your testimonies,
and not to selfish gain!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:37 - Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things;
and give me life in your ways.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:43 - And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth,
for my hope is in your rules.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:80 - May my heart be blameless in your statutes,
that I may not be put to shame!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:92 - If your law had not been my delight,
I would have perished in my affliction.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:93 - I will never forget your precepts,
for by them you have given me life.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:116 - Uphold me according to your promise, that I may live,
and let me not be put to shame in my hope!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:121 - Ayin
I have done what is just and right;
do not leave me to my oppressors.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:122 - Give your servant a pledge of good;
let not the insolent oppress me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:133 - Keep steady my steps according to your promise,
and let no iniquity get dominion over me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 121:3 - He will not let your foot be moved;
he who keeps you will not slumber.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 124:1 - A Song of Ascents. Of David.
If it had not been the LORD who was on our side—
let Israel now say—
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 124:2 - if it had not been the LORD who was on our side
when people rose up against us,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 125:3 - For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest
on the land allotted to the righteous,
lest the righteous stretch out
their hands to do wrong.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 127:1 - A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon.
Unless the LORD builds the house,
those who build it labor in vain.
Unless the LORD watches over the city,
the watchman stays awake in vain.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 131:2 - But I have calmed and quieted my soul,
like a weaned child with its mother;
like a weaned child is my soul within me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:10 - For the sake of your servant David,
do not turn away the face of your anointed one.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:11 - The LORD swore to David a sure oath
from which he will not turn back:
“One of the sons of your body[fn]
I will set on your throne.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:6 - Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth,
if I do not remember you,
if I do not set Jerusalem
above my highest joy!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 138:8 - The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me;
your steadfast love, O LORD, endures forever.
Do not forsake the work of your hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:6 - Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is high; I cannot attain it.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:8 - Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked;
do not further their[fn] evil plot, or they will be exalted! Selah
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:10 - Let burning coals fall upon them!
Let them be cast into fire,
into miry pits, no more to rise!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:4 - Do not let my heart incline to any evil,
to busy myself with wicked deeds
in company with men who work iniquity,
and let me not eat of their delicacies!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:5 - Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness;
let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head;
let my head not refuse it.
Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:8 - But my eyes are toward you, O GOD, my Lord;
in you I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless![fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:2 - Enter not into judgment with your servant,
for no one living is righteous before you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:7 - Answer me quickly, O LORD!
My spirit fails!
Hide not your face from me,
lest I be like those who go down to the pit.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 146:3 - Put not your trust in princes,
in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:8 - Hear, my son, your father's instruction,
and forsake not your mother's teaching,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:15 - my son, do not walk in the way with them;
hold back your foot from their paths,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:19 - none who go to her come back,
nor do they regain the paths of life.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:1 - My son, do not forget my teaching,
but let your heart keep my commandments,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:3 - Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you;
bind them around your neck;
write them on the tablet of your heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:5 - Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
and do not lean on your own understanding.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:6 - In all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make straight your paths.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:7 - Be not wise in your own eyes;
fear the LORD, and turn away from evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:11 - My son, do not despise the LORD's discipline
or be weary of his reproof,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:21 - My son, do not lose sight of these—
keep sound wisdom and discretion,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:23 - Then you will walk on your way securely,
and your foot will not stumble.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:26 - for the LORD will be your confidence
and will keep your foot from being caught.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:27 - Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due,[fn]
when it is in your power to do it.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:28 - Do not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again,
tomorrow I will give it”—when you have it with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:29 - Do not plan evil against your neighbor,
who dwells trustingly beside you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:30 - Do not contend with a man for no reason,
when he has done you no harm.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:31 - Do not envy a man of violence
and do not choose any of his ways,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:2 - for I give you good precepts;
do not forsake my teaching.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:5 - Get wisdom; get insight;
do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:13 - Keep hold of instruction; do not let go;
guard her, for she is your life.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:14 - Do not enter the path of the wicked,
and do not walk in the way of the evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:15 - Avoid it; do not go on it;
turn away from it and pass on.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:16 - For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong;
they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:21 - Let them not escape from your sight;
keep them within your heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:27 - Do not swerve to the right or to the left;
turn your foot away from evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:3 - For the lips of a forbidden[fn] woman drip honey,
and her speech[fn] is smoother than oil,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:7 - And now, O sons, listen to me,
and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:8 - Keep your way far from her,
and do not go near the door of her house,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:9 - lest you give your honor to others
and your years to the merciless,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:10 - lest strangers take their fill of your strength,
and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:16 - Should your springs be scattered abroad,
streams of water in the streets?
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:20 - Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman
and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:3 - then do this, my son, and save yourself,
for you have come into the hand of your neighbor:
go, hasten,[fn] and plead urgently with your neighbor.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:4 - Give your eyes no sleep
and your eyelids no slumber;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:7 - Without having any chief,
officer, or ruler,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:20 - My son, keep your father's commandment,
and forsake not your mother's teaching.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:35 - He will accept no compensation;
he will refuse though you multiply gifts.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:1 - My son, keep my words
and treasure up my commandments with you;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:25 - Let not your heart turn aside to her ways;
do not stray into her paths,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:10 - Take my instruction instead of silver,
and knowledge rather than choice gold,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 9:8 - Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you;
reprove a wise man, and he will love you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 9:18 - But he does not know that the dead[fn] are there,
that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:12 - Hatred stirs up strife,
but love covers all offenses.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:22 - The blessing of the LORD makes rich,
and he adds no sorrow with it.[fn]
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 11:29 - Whoever troubles his own household will inherit the wind,
and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:22 - Without counsel plans fail,
but with many advisers they succeed.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:23 - To make an apt answer is a joy to a man,
and a word in season, how good it is!
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:10 - An oracle is on the lips of a king;
his mouth does not sin in judgment.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:9 - Whoever is slack in his work
is a brother to him who destroys.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:18 - Discipline your son, for there is hope;
do not set your heart on putting him to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:24 - The sluggard buries his hand in the dish
and will not even bring it back to his mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:13 - Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty;
open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:22 - Do not say, “I will repay evil”;
wait for the LORD, and he will deliver you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:13 - Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor
will himself call out and not be answered.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:22 - Do not rob the poor, because he is poor,
or crush the afflicted at the gate,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:24 - Make no friendship with a man given to anger,
nor go with a wrathful man,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:26 - Be not one of those who give pledges,
who put up security for debts.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:27 - If you have nothing with which to pay,
why should your bed be taken from under you?
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:28 - Do not move the ancient landmark
that your fathers have set.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:29 - Do you see a man skillful in his work?
He will stand before kings;
he will not stand before obscure men.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:3 - Do not desire his delicacies,
for they are deceptive food.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:4 - Do not toil to acquire wealth;
be discerning enough to desist.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:6 - Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy;[fn]
do not desire his delicacies,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:10 - Do not move an ancient landmark
or enter the fields of the fatherless,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:13 - Do not withhold discipline from a child;
if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:17 - Let not your heart envy sinners,
but continue in the fear of the LORD all the day.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:20 - Be not among drunkards[fn]
or among gluttonous eaters of meat,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:22 - Listen to your father who gave you life,
and do not despise your mother when she is old.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:31 - Do not look at wine when it is red,
when it sparkles in the cup
and goes down smoothly.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:1 - Be not envious of evil men,
nor desire to be with them,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:11 - Rescue those who are being taken away to death;
hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:15 - Lie not in wait as a wicked man against the dwelling of the righteous;
do no violence to his home;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:17 - Do not rejoice when your enemy falls,
and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:19 - Fret not yourself because of evildoers,
and be not envious of the wicked,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:20 - for the evil man has no future;
the lamp of the wicked will be put out.
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 24:28 - Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause,
and do not deceive with your lips.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:29 - Do not say, “I will do to him as he has done to me;
I will pay the man back for what he has done.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:6 - Do not put yourself forward in the king's presence
or stand in the place of the great,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:8 - do not hastily bring into court,[fn]
for[fn] what will you do in the end,
when your neighbor puts you to shame?
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:9 - Argue your case with your neighbor himself,
and do not reveal another's secret,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:10 - lest he who hears you bring shame upon you,
and your ill repute have no end.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:4 - Answer not a fool according to his folly,
lest you be like him yourself.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:5 - Answer a fool according to his folly,
lest he be wise in his own eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:25 - when he speaks graciously, believe him not,
for there are seven abominations in his heart;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:1 - Do not boast about tomorrow,
for you do not know what a day may bring.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:2 - Let another praise you, and not your own mouth;
a stranger, and not your own lips.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:10 - Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend,
and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity.
Better is a neighbor who is near
than a brother who is far away.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:22 - Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle
along with crushed grain,
yet his folly will not depart from him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:9 - If one turns away his ear from hearing the law,
even his prayer is an abomination.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:17 - If one is burdened with the blood of another,
he will be a fugitive until death;[fn]
let no one help him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:24 - Whoever robs his father or his mother
and says, “That is no transgression,”
is a companion to a man who destroys.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:18 - Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint,[fn]
but blessed is he who keeps the law.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:24 - The partner of a thief hates his own life;
he hears the curse, but discloses nothing.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:6 - Do not add to his words,
lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:7 - Two things I ask of you;
deny them not to me before I die:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:9 - lest I be full and deny you
and say, “Who is the LORD?”
or lest I be poor and steal
and profane the name of my God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:10 - Do not slander a servant to his master,
lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:16 - Sheol, the barren womb,
the land never satisfied with water,
and the fire that never says, “Enough.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:25 - the ants are a people not strong,
yet they provide their food in the summer;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:3 - Do not give your strength to women,
your ways to those who destroy kings.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:4 - It is not for kings, O Lemuel,
it is not for kings to drink wine,
or for rulers to take strong drink,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:5 - lest they drink and forget what has been decreed
and pervert the rights of all the afflicted.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:7 - let them drink and forget their poverty
and remember their misery no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:11 - He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:12 - I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live;
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:22 - So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his work, for that is his lot. Who can bring him to see what will be after him?
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:10 - For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:2 - [fn] Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:4 - When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:5 - It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:6 - Let not your mouth lead you[fn] into sin, and do not say before the messenger[fn] that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:8 - If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:6 - Even though he should live a thousand years twice over, yet enjoy[fn] no good—do not all go to the one place?
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:9 - Be not quick in your spirit to become angry,
for anger lodges in the heart[fn] of fools.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:10 - Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?”
For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:14 - In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:16 - Be not overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself?
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:17 - Be not overly wicked, neither be a fool. Why should you die before your time?
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:18 - It is good that you should take hold of this, and from that withhold not your hand, for the one who fears God shall come out from both of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:21 - Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:2 - I say:[fn] Keep the king's command, because of God's oath to him.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:3 - Be not hasty to go from his presence. Do not take your stand in an evil cause, for he does whatever he pleases.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:15 - And I commend joy, for man has nothing better under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:2 - It is the same for all, since the same event happens to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil,[fn] to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As the good one is, so is the sinner, and he who swears is as he who shuns an oath.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:8 - Let your garments be always white. Let not oil be lacking on your head.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:4 - If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place,
for calmness[fn] will lay great offenses to rest.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:20 - Even in your thoughts, do not curse the king,
nor in your bedroom curse the rich,
for a bird of the air will carry your voice,
or some winged creature tell the matter.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:6 - In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:1 - Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:2 - before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain,
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:6 - before the silver cord is snapped, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern,
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:6 - Do not gaze at me because I am dark,
because the sun has looked upon me.
My mother's sons were angry with me;
they made me keeper of the vineyards,
but my own vineyard I have not kept!
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:8 - He
If you do not know,
O most beautiful among women,
follow in the tracks of the flock,
and pasture your young goats
beside the shepherds' tents.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:3 - The watchmen found me
as they went about in the city.
“Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:2 - Your navel is a rounded bowl
that never lacks mixed wine.
Your belly is a heap of wheat,
encircled with lilies.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:9 - If the LORD of hosts
had not left us a few survivors,
we should have been like Sodom,
and become like Gomorrah.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:20 - but if you refuse and rebel,
you shall be eaten by the sword;
for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:30 - For you shall be like an oak
whose leaf withers,
and like a garden without water.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:4 - He shall judge between the nations,
and shall decide disputes for many peoples;
and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war anymore.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:9 - So man is humbled,
and each one is brought low—
do not forgive them!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:6 - I will make it a waste;
it shall not be pruned or hoed,
and briers and thorns shall grow up;
I will also command the clouds
that they rain no rain upon it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:8 - Woe to those who join house to house,
who add field to field,
until there is no more room,
and you are made to dwell alone
in the midst of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:13 - Therefore my people go into exile
for lack of knowledge;[fn]
their honored men go hungry,[fn]
and their multitude is parched with thirst.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:14 - Therefore Sheol has enlarged its appetite
and opened its mouth beyond measure,
and the nobility of Jerusalem[fn] and her multitude will go down,
her revelers and he who exults in her.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:27 - None is weary, none stumbles,
none slumbers or sleeps,
not a waistband is loose,
not a sandal strap broken;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:9 - And he said, “Go, and say to this people:
“‘Keep on hearing,[fn] but do not understand;
keep on seeing,[fn] but do not perceive.'
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:11 - Then I said, “How long, O Lord?”
And he said:
“Until cities lie waste
without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
and the land is a desolate waste,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:4 - And say to him, ‘Be careful, be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two smoldering stumps of firebrands, at the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria and the son of Remaliah.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:7 - thus says the Lord GOD:
“‘It shall not stand,
and it shall not come to pass.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:9 - And the head of Ephraim is Samaria,
and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah.
If you[fn] are not firm in faith,
you will not be firm at all.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:12 - But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, and I will not put the LORD to the test.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:13 - And he[fn] said, “Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary men, that you weary my God also?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:25 - And as for all the hills that used to be hoed with a hoe, you will not come there for fear of briers and thorns, but they will become a place where cattle are let loose and where sheep tread.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:6 - “Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah that flow gently, and rejoice over Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:10 - Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing;
speak a word, but it will not stand,
for God is with us.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:12 - “Do not call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:16 - Bind up the testimony; seal the teaching[fn] among my disciples.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:22 - And they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish. And they will be thrust into thick darkness.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:20 - They slice meat on the right, but are still hungry,
and they devour on the left, but are not satisfied;
each devours the flesh of his own arm,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:4 - Nothing remains but to crouch among the prisoners
or fall among the slain.
For all this his anger has not turned away,
and his hand is stretched out still.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:15 - Shall the axe boast over him who hews with it,
or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it?
As if a rod should wield him who lifts it,
or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:20 - In that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no more lean on him who struck them, but will lean on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:24 - Therefore thus says the Lord GOD of hosts: “O my people, who dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrians when they strike with the rod and lift up their staff against you as the Egyptians did.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:9 - They shall not hurt or destroy
in all my holy mountain;
for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD
as the waters cover the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:2 - On a bare hill raise a signal;
cry aloud to them;
wave the hand for them to enter
the gates of the nobles.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:18 - Their bows will slaughter[fn] the young men;
they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb;
their eyes will not pity children.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:20 - It will never be inhabited
or lived in for all generations;
no Arab will pitch his tent there;
no shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:20 - You will not be joined with them in burial,
because you have destroyed your land,
you have slain your people.
“May the offspring of evildoers
nevermore be named!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:21 - Prepare slaughter for his sons
because of the guilt of their fathers,
lest they rise and possess the earth,
and fill the face of the world with cities.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:29 - Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of you,
that the rod that struck you is broken,
for from the serpent's root will come forth an adder,
and its fruit will be a flying fiery serpent.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:7 - Therefore the abundance they have gained
and what they have laid up
they carry away
over the Brook of the Willows.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:1 - Send the lamb to the ruler of the land,
from Sela, by way of the desert,
to the mount of the daughter of Zion.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:3 - “Give counsel;
grant justice;
make your shade like night
at the height of noon;
shelter the outcasts;
do not reveal the fugitive;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:8 - For the fields of Heshbon languish,
and the vine of Sibmah;
the lords of the nations
have struck down its branches,
which reached to Jazer
and strayed to the desert;
its shoots spread abroad
and passed over the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:10 - And joy and gladness are taken away from the fruitful field,
and in the vineyards no songs are sung,
no cheers are raised;
no treader treads out wine in the presses;
I have put an end to the shouting.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:12 - And when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, when he comes to his sanctuary to pray, he will not prevail.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:8 - He will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and he will not look on what his own fingers have made, either the Asherim or the altars of incense.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:3 - Therefore my loins are filled with anguish;
pangs have seized me,
like the pangs of a woman in labor;
I am bowed down so that I cannot hear;
I am dismayed so that I cannot see.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:4 - Therefore I said:
“Look away from me;
let me weep bitter tears;
do not labor to comfort me
concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:8 - Who has purposed this
against Tyre, the bestower of crowns,
whose merchants were princes,
whose traders were the honored of the earth?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:12 - And he said:
“You will no more exult,
O oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon;
arise, cross over to Cyprus,
even there you will have no rest.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:10 - The wasted city is broken down;
every house is shut up so that none can enter.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:20 - The earth staggers like a drunken man;
it sways like a hut;
its transgression lies heavy upon it,
and it falls, and will not rise again.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:2 - For you have made the city a heap,
the fortified city a ruin;
the foreigners' palace is a city no more;
it will never be rebuilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:10 - If favor is shown to the wicked,
he does not learn righteousness;
in the land of uprightness he deals corruptly
and does not see the majesty of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:14 - They are dead, they will not live;
they are shades, they will not arise;
to that end you have visited them with destruction
and wiped out all remembrance of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:7 - Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them?
Or have they been slain as their slayers were slain?
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 27:11 - When its boughs are dry, they are broken;
women come and make a fire of them.
For this is a people without discernment;
therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them;
he who formed them will show them no favor.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:15 - Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death,
and with Sheol we have an agreement,
when the overwhelming whip passes through
it will not come to us,
for we have made lies our refuge,
and in falsehood we have taken shelter”;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:16 - therefore thus says the Lord GOD,
“Behold, I am the one who has laid[fn] as a foundation in Zion,
a stone, a tested stone,
a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation:
‘Whoever believes will not be in haste.'
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:17 - And I will make justice the line,
and righteousness the plumb line;
and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies,
and waters will overwhelm the shelter.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:18 - Then your covenant with death will be annulled,
and your agreement with Sheol will not stand;
when the overwhelming scourge passes through,
you will be beaten down by it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:22 - Now therefore do not scoff,
lest your bonds be made strong;
for I have heard a decree of destruction
from the Lord GOD of hosts against the whole land.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:24 - Does he who plows for sowing plow continually?
Does he continually open and harrow his ground?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:12 - And when they give the book to one who cannot read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot read.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:16 - You turn things upside down!
Shall the potter be regarded as the clay,
that the thing made should say of its maker,
“He did not make me”;
or the thing formed say of him who formed it,
“He has no understanding”?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:10 - who say to the seers, “Do not see,”
and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right;
speak to us smooth things,
prophesy illusions,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:14 - and its breaking is like that of a potter's vessel
that is smashed so ruthlessly
that among its fragments not a shard is found
with which to take fire from the hearth,
or to dip up water out of the cistern.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:20 - And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself anymore, but your eyes shall see your Teacher.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:29 - You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:33 - For a burning place[fn] has long been prepared; indeed, for the king it is made ready, its pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:2 - And yet he is wise and brings disaster;
he does not call back his words,
but will arise against the house of the evildoers
and against the helpers of those who work iniquity.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:5 - The fool will no more be called noble,
nor the scoundrel said to be honorable.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:10 - In little more than a year
you will shudder, you complacent women;
for the grape harvest fails,
the fruit harvest will not come.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:8 - The highways lie waste;
the traveler ceases.
Covenants are broken;
cities[fn] are despised;
there is no regard for man.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:15 - He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly,
who despises the gain of oppressions,
who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe,
who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed
and shuts his eyes from looking on evil,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:19 - You will see no more the insolent people,
the people of an obscure speech that you cannot comprehend,
stammering in a tongue that you cannot understand.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:20 - Behold Zion, the city of our appointed feasts!
Your eyes will see Jerusalem,
an untroubled habitation, an immovable tent,
whose stakes will never be plucked up,
nor will any of its cords be broken.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:24 - And no inhabitant will say, “I am sick”;
the people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:4 - Say to those who have an anxious heart,
“Be strong; fear not!
Behold, your God
will come with vengeance,
with the recompense of God.
He will come and save you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:8 - And a highway shall be there,
and it shall be called the Way of Holiness;
the unclean shall not pass over it.
It shall belong to those who walk on the way;
even if they are fools, they shall not go astray.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:9 - No lion shall be there,
nor shall any ravenous beast come up on it;
they shall not be found there,
but the redeemed shall walk there.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:5 - Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? In whom do you now trust, that you have rebelled against me?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:10 - Moreover, is it without the LORD that I have come up against this land to destroy it? The LORD said to me, “Go up against this land and destroy it.”'”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:11 - Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:12 - But the Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:14 - Thus says the king: ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:15 - Do not let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD by saying, “The LORD will surely deliver us. This city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:16 - Do not listen to Hezekiah. For thus says the king of Assyria: Make your peace with me[fn] and come out to me. Then each one of you will eat of his own vine, and each one of his own fig tree, and each one of you will drink the water of his own cistern,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:18 - Beware lest Hezekiah mislead you by saying, “The LORD will deliver us.” Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:19 - Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:6 - Isaiah said to them, “Say to your master, ‘Thus says the LORD: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the young men of the king of Assyria have reviled me.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:10 - “Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:12 - Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:33 - “Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there or come before it with a shield or cast up a siege mound against it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:11 - I said, I shall not see the LORD,
the LORD in the land of the living;
I shall look on man no more
among the inhabitants of the world.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:17 - Behold, it was for my welfare
that I had great bitterness;
but in love you have delivered my life
from the pit of destruction,
for you have cast all my sins
behind your back.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:6 - Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:9 - Go on up to a high mountain,
O Zion, herald of good news;[fn]
lift up your voice with strength,
O Jerusalem, herald of good news;[fn]
lift it up, fear not;
say to the cities of Judah,
“Behold your God!”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:19 - An idol! A craftsman casts it,
and a goldsmith overlays it with gold
and casts for it silver chains.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:20 - He who is too impoverished for an offering
chooses wood[fn] that will not rot;
he seeks out a skillful craftsman
to set up an idol that will not move.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:24 - Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown,
scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth,
when he blows on them, and they wither,
and the tempest carries them off like stubble.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:27 - Why do you say, O Jacob,
and speak, O Israel,
“My way is hidden from the LORD,
and my right is disregarded by my God”?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:28 - Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;
his understanding is unsearchable.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:29 - He gives power to the faint,
and to him who has no might he increases strength.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:10 - fear not, for I am with you;
be not dismayed, for I am your God;
I will strengthen you, I will help you,
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:12 - You shall seek those who contend with you,
but you shall not find them;
those who war against you
shall be as nothing at all.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:13 - For I, the LORD your God,
hold your right hand;
it is I who say to you, “Fear not,
I am the one who helps you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:28 - But when I look, there is no one;
among these there is no counselor
who, when I ask, gives an answer.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:14 - For a long time I have held my peace;
I have kept still and restrained myself;
now I will cry out like a woman in labor;
I will gasp and pant.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:1 - But now thus says the LORD,
he who created you, O Jacob,
he who formed you, O Israel:
“Fear not, for I have redeemed you;
I have called you by name, you are mine.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:2 - When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you;
when you walk through fire you shall not be burned,
and the flame shall not consume you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:5 - Fear not, for I am with you;
I will bring your offspring from the east,
and from the west I will gather you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:6 - I will say to the north, Give up,
and to the south, Do not withhold;
bring my sons from afar
and my daughters from the end of the earth,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:18 - “Remember not the former things,
nor consider the things of old.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:25 - “I, I am he
who blots out your transgressions for my own sake,
and I will not remember your sins.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:2 - Thus says the LORD who made you,
who formed you from the womb and will help you:
Fear not, O Jacob my servant,
Jeshurun whom I have chosen.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:8 - Fear not, nor be afraid;
have I not told you from of old and declared it?
And you are my witnesses!
Is there a God besides me?
There is no Rock; I know not any.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:12 - The ironsmith takes a cutting tool and works it over the coals. He fashions it with hammers and works it with his strong arm. He becomes hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water and is faint.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:21 - Remember these things, O Jacob,
and Israel, for you are my servant;
I formed you; you are my servant;
O Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:9 - “Woe to him who strives with him who formed him,
a pot among earthen pots!
Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?'
or ‘Your work has no handles'?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:17 - But Israel is saved by the LORD
with everlasting salvation;
you shall not be put to shame or confounded
to all eternity.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:7 - They lift it to their shoulders, they carry it,
they set it in its place, and it stands there;
it cannot move from its place.
If one cries to it, it does not answer
or save him from his trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:3 - Your nakedness shall be uncovered,
and your disgrace shall be seen.
I will take vengeance,
and I will spare no one.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:5 - Sit in silence, and go into darkness,
O daughter of the Chaldeans;
for you shall no more be called
the mistress of kingdoms.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:11 - But evil shall come upon you,
which you will not know how to charm away;
disaster shall fall upon you,
for which you will not be able to atone;
and ruin shall come upon you suddenly,
of which you know nothing.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:14 - Behold, they are like stubble;
the fire consumes them;
they cannot deliver themselves
from the power of the flame.
No coal for warming oneself is this,
no fire to sit before!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:5 - I declared them to you from of old,
before they came to pass I announced them to you,
lest you should say, ‘My idol did them,
my carved image and my metal image commanded them.'
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:7 - They are created now, not long ago;
before today you have never heard of them,
lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.'
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:9 - “For my name's sake I defer my anger;
for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you,
that I may not cut you off.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:19 - your offspring would have been like the sand,
and your descendants like its grains;
their name would never be cut off
or destroyed from before me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:15 - “Can a woman forget her nursing child,
that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb?
Even these may forget,
yet I will not forget you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:24 - Can the prey be taken from the mighty,
or the captives of a tyrant[fn] be rescued?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:2 - Why, when I came, was there no man;
why, when I called, was there no one to answer?
Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem?
Or have I no power to deliver?
Behold, by my rebuke I dry up the sea,
I make the rivers a desert;
their fish stink for lack of water
and die of thirst.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:7 - But the Lord GOD helps me;
therefore I have not been disgraced;
therefore I have set my face like a flint,
and I know that I shall not be put to shame.
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 51:7 - “Listen to me, you who know righteousness,
the people in whose heart is my law;
fear not the reproach of man,
nor be dismayed at their revilings.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:11 - Depart, depart, go out from there;
touch no unclean thing;
go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves,
you who bear the vessels of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:2 - “Enlarge the place of your tent,
and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out;
do not hold back; lengthen your cords
and strengthen your stakes.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:4 - “Fear not, for you will not be ashamed;
be not confounded, for you will not be disgraced;
for you will forget the shame of your youth,
and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:9 - “This is like the days of Noah[fn] to me:
as I swore that the waters of Noah
should no more go over the earth,
so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you,
and will not rebuke you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:10 - For the mountains may depart
and the hills be removed,
but my steadfast love shall not depart from you,
and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,”
says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:1 - “Come, everyone who thirsts,
come to the waters;
and he who has no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:10 - “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven
and do not return there but water the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:11 - so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:2 - Blessed is the man who does this,
and the son of man who holds it fast,
who keeps the Sabbath, not profaning it,
and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:3 - Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say,
“The LORD will surely separate me from his people”;
and let not the eunuch say,
“Behold, I am a dry tree.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:6 - “And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD,
to minister to him, to love the name of the LORD,
and to be his servants,
everyone who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it,
and holds fast my covenant—
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:1 - “Cry aloud; do not hold back;
lift up your voice like a trumpet;
declare to my people their transgression,
to the house of Jacob their sins.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:2 - Yet they seek me daily
and delight to know my ways,
as if they were a nation that did righteousness
and did not forsake the judgment of their God;
they ask of me righteous judgments;
they delight to draw near to God.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:11 - And the LORD will guide you continually
and satisfy your desire in scorched places
and make your bones strong;
and you shall be like a watered garden,
like a spring of water,
whose waters do not fail.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:13 - “If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath,
from doing your pleasure[fn] on my holy day,
and call the Sabbath a delight
and the holy day of the LORD honorable;
if you honor it, not going your own ways,
or seeking your own pleasure,[fn] or talking idly;[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:1 - Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save,
or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:2 - but your iniquities have made a separation
between you and your God,
and your sins have hidden his face from you
so that he does not hear.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:6 - Their webs will not serve as clothing;
men will not cover themselves with what they make.
Their works are works of iniquity,
and deeds of violence are in their hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:9 - Therefore justice is far from us,
and righteousness does not overtake us;
we hope for light, and behold, darkness,
and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:21 - “And as for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD: “My Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your offspring, or out of the mouth of your children's offspring,” says the LORD, “from this time forth and forevermore.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:8 - For he said, “Surely they are my people,
children who will not deal falsely.”
And he became their Savior.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:17 - O LORD, why do you make us wander from your ways
and harden our heart, so that we fear you not?
Return for the sake of your servants,
the tribes of your heritage.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:9 - Be not so terribly angry, O LORD,
and remember not iniquity forever.
Behold, please look, we are all your people.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:1 - I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me;
I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me.
I said, “Here I am, here I am,”
to a nation that was not called by[fn] my name.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:5 - who say, “Keep to yourself,
do not come near me, for I am too holy for you.”
These are a smoke in my nostrils,
a fire that burns all the day.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:8 - Thus says the LORD:
“As the new wine is found in the cluster,
and they say, ‘Do not destroy it,
for there is a blessing in it,'
so I will do for my servants' sake,
and not destroy them all.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:17 - “For behold, I create new heavens
and a new earth,
and the former things shall not be remembered
or come into mind.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:19 - I will rejoice in Jerusalem
and be glad in my people;
no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping
and the cry of distress.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:20 - No more shall there be in it
an infant who lives but a few days,
or an old man who does not fill out his days,
for the young man shall die a hundred years old,
and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:22 - They shall not build and another inhabit;
they shall not plant and another eat;
for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,
and my chosen shall long enjoy[fn] the work of their hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:25 - The wolf and the lamb shall graze together;
the lion shall eat straw like the ox,
and dust shall be the serpent's food.
They shall not hurt or destroy
in all my holy mountain,”
says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:7 - But the LORD said to me,
“Do not say, ‘I am only a youth';
for to all to whom I send you, you shall go,
and whatever I command you, you shall speak.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:8 - Do not be afraid of them,
for I am with you to deliver you,
declares the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:17 - But you, dress yourself for work;[fn] arise, and say to them everything that I command you. Do not be dismayed by them, lest I dismay you before them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:19 - They will fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you, for I am with you, declares the LORD, to deliver you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:14 - “Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn servant?
Why then has he become a prey?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:15 - The lions have roared against him;
they have roared loudly.
They have made his land a waste;
his cities are in ruins, without inhabitant.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:31 - And you, O generation, behold the word of the LORD.
Have I been a wilderness to Israel,
or a land of thick darkness?
Why then do my people say, ‘We are free,
we will come no more to you'?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:32 - Can a virgin forget her ornaments,
or a bride her attire?
Yet my people have forgotten me
days without number.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:1 - “If[fn] a man divorces his wife
and she goes from him
and becomes another man's wife,
will he return to her?
Would not that land be greatly polluted?
You have played the whore with many lovers;
and would you return to me?
declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:5 - will he be angry forever,
will he be indignant to the end?'
Behold, you have spoken,
but you have done all the evil that you could.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:3 - For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem:
“Break up your fallow ground,
and sow not among thorns.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:4 - Circumcise yourselves to the LORD;
remove the foreskin of your hearts,
O men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem;
lest my wrath go forth like fire,
and burn with none to quench it,
because of the evil of your deeds.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:6 - Raise a standard toward Zion,
flee for safety, stay not,
for I bring disaster from the north,
and great destruction.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:7 - A lion has gone up from his thicket,
a destroyer of nations has set out;
he has gone out from his place
to make your land a waste;
your cities will be ruins
without inhabitant.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:27 - For thus says the LORD, “The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:9 - Shall I not punish them for these things?
declares the LORD;
and shall I not avenge myself
on a nation such as this?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:10 - “Go up through her vine rows and destroy,
but make not a full end;
strip away her branches,
for they are not the LORD's.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:18 - “But even in those days, declares the LORD, I will not make a full end of you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:22 - Do you not fear me? declares the LORD.
Do you not tremble before me?
I placed the sand as the boundary for the sea,
a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass;
though the waves toss, they cannot prevail;
though they roar, they cannot pass over it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:29 - Shall I not punish them for these things?
declares the LORD,
and shall I not avenge myself
on a nation such as this?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:8 - Be warned, O Jerusalem,
lest I turn from you in disgust,
lest I make you a desolation,
an uninhabited land.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:10 - To whom shall I speak and give warning,
that they may hear?
Behold, their ears are uncircumcised,
they cannot listen;
behold, the word of the LORD is to them an object of scorn;
they take no pleasure in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:25 - Go not out into the field,
nor walk on the road,
for the enemy has a sword;
terror is on every side.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:4 - Do not trust in these deceptive words: ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:6 - if you do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:10 - and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!'—only to go on doing all these abominations?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:11 - Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:16 - “As for you, do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with me, for I will not hear you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:19 - Is it I whom they provoke? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves, to their own shame?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:32 - Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when it will no more be called Topheth, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter; for they will bury in Topheth, because there is no room elsewhere.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:4 - “You shall say to them, Thus says the LORD:
When men fall, do they not rise again?
If one turns away, does he not return?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:19 - Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people
from the length and breadth of the land:
“Is the LORD not in Zion?
Is her King not in her?”
“Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images
and with their foreign idols?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:22 - Is there no balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why then has the health of the daughter of my people
not been restored?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:4 - Let everyone beware of his neighbor,
and put no trust in any brother,
for every brother is a deceiver,
and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:5 - Everyone deceives his neighbor,
and no one speaks the truth;
they have taught their tongue to speak lies;
they weary themselves committing iniquity.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:9 - Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD,
and shall I not avenge myself
on a nation such as this?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:10 - “I will take up weeping and wailing for the mountains,
and a lamentation for the pastures of the wilderness,
because they are laid waste so that no one passes through,
and the lowing of cattle is not heard;
both the birds of the air and the beasts
have fled and are gone.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:11 - I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,
a lair of jackals,
and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,
without inhabitant.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:12 - Who is the man so wise that he can understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined and laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:23 - Thus says the LORD: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:2 - Thus says the LORD:
“Learn not the way of the nations,
nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens
because the nations are dismayed at them,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:5 - Their idols[fn] are like scarecrows in a cucumber field,
and they cannot speak;
they have to be carried,
for they cannot walk.
Do not be afraid of them,
for they cannot do evil,
neither is it in them to do good.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:24 - Correct me, O LORD, but in justice;
not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:25 - Pour out your wrath on the nations that know you not,
and on the peoples that call not on your name,
for they have devoured Jacob;
they have devoured him and consumed him,
and have laid waste his habitation.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:12 - Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to whom they make offerings, but they cannot save them in the time of their trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:14 - “Therefore do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer on their behalf, for I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:15 - What right has my beloved in my house, when she has done many vile deeds? Can even sacrificial flesh avert your doom? Can you then exult?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:19 - But I was like a gentle lamb
led to the slaughter.
I did not know it was against me
they devised schemes, saying,
“Let us destroy the tree with 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 thus says the LORD concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, and say, “Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD, or you will die by our hand”—
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:6 - For even your brothers and the house of your father,
even they have dealt treacherously with you;
they are in full cry after you;
do not believe them,
though they speak friendly words to you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:9 - Is my heritage to me like a hyena's lair?
Are the birds of prey against her all around?
Go, assemble all the wild beasts;
bring them to devour.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:17 - But if any nation will not listen, then I will utterly pluck it up and destroy it, declares the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:7 - Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and I took the loincloth from the place where I had hidden it. And behold, the loincloth was spoiled; it was good for nothing.
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 13:12 - “You shall speak to them this word: ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, “Every jar shall be filled with wine.”' And they will say to you, ‘Do we not indeed know that every jar will be filled with wine?'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:15 - Hear and give ear; be not proud,
for the LORD has spoken.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:17 - But if you will not listen,
my soul will weep in secret for your pride;
my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears,
because the LORD's flock has been taken captive.
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 14:11 - The LORD said to me: “Do not pray for the welfare of this people.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:17 - “You shall say to them this word:
‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day,
and let them not cease,
for the virgin daughter of my people is shattered with a great wound,
with a very grievous blow.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:19 - Have you utterly rejected Judah?
Does your soul loathe Zion?
Why have you struck us down
so that there is no healing for us?
We looked for peace, but no good came;
for a time of healing, but behold, terror.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:21 - Do not spurn us, for your name's sake;
do not dishonor your glorious throne;
remember and do not break your covenant with us.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:22 - Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain?
Or can the heavens give showers?
Are you not he, O LORD our God?
We set our hope on you,
for you do all these things.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:11 - The LORD said, “Have I not[fn] set you free for their good? Have I not pleaded for you before the enemy in the time of trouble and in the time of distress?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:15 - O LORD, you know;
remember me and visit me,
and take vengeance for me on my persecutors.
In your forbearance take me not away;
know that for your sake I bear reproach.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:20 - And I will make you to this people
a fortified wall of bronze;
they will fight against you,
but they shall not prevail over you,
for I am with you
to save you and deliver you,
declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:1 - The word of the LORD came to me:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:5 - “For thus says the LORD: Do not enter the house of mourning, or go to lament or grieve for them, for I have taken away my peace from this people, my steadfast love and mercy, declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:6 - Both great and small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them or cut himself or make himself bald for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:7 - No one shall break bread for the mourner, to comfort him for the dead, nor shall anyone give him the cup of consolation to drink for his father or his mother.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:12 - and because you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, every one of you follows his stubborn, evil will, refusing to listen to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:17 - Be not a terror to me;
you are my refuge in the day of disaster.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:18 - Let those be put to shame who persecute me,
but let me not be put to shame;
let them be dismayed,
but let me not be dismayed;
bring upon them the day of disaster;
destroy them with double destruction!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:21 - Thus says the LORD: Take care for the sake of your lives, and do not bear a burden on the Sabbath day or bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:22 - And do not carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath or do any work, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:23 - Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck, that they might not hear and receive instruction.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:24 - “‘But if you listen to me, declares the LORD, and bring in no burden by the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but keep the Sabbath day holy and do no work on it,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:27 - But if you do not listen to me, to keep the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter by the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem and shall not be quenched.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:10 - and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will relent of the good that I had intended to do to it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:14 - Does the snow of Lebanon leave
the crags of Sirion?[fn]
Do the mountain waters run dry,[fn]
the cold flowing streams?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:23 - Yet you, O LORD, know
all their plotting to kill me.
Forgive not their iniquity,
nor blot out their sin from your sight.
Let them be overthrown before you;
deal with them in the time of your anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:15 - “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, behold, I am bringing upon this city and upon all its towns all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their neck, refusing to hear my words.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:9 - If I say, “I will not mention him,
or speak any more in his name,”
there is in my heart as it were a burning fire
shut up in my bones,
and I am weary with holding it in,
and I cannot.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:14 - Cursed be the day
on which I was born!
The day when my mother bore me,
let it not be blessed!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:7 - Afterward, declares the LORD, I will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people in this city who survive the pestilence, sword, and famine into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of their enemies, into the hand of those who seek their lives. He shall strike them down with the edge of the sword. He shall not pity them or spare them or have compassion.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:12 - O house of David! Thus says the LORD:
“‘Execute justice in the morning,
and deliver from the hand of the oppressor
him who has been robbed,
lest my wrath go forth like fire,
and burn with none to quench it,
because of your evil deeds.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:3 - Thus says the LORD: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:5 - But if you will not obey these words, I swear by myself, declares the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:6 - For thus says the LORD concerning the house of the king of Judah:
“‘You are like Gilead to me,
like the summit of Lebanon,
yet surely I will make you a desert,
an uninhabited city.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:10 - Weep not for him who is dead,
nor grieve for him,
but weep bitterly for him who goes away,
for he shall return no more
to see his native land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:13 - “Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness,
and his upper rooms by injustice,
who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing
and does not give him his wages,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:15 - Do you think you are a king
because you compete in cedar?
Did not your father eat and drink
and do justice and righteousness?
Then it was well with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:16 - He judged the cause of the poor and needy;
then it was well.
Is not this to know me?
declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:18 - Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:
“They shall not lament for him, saying,
‘Ah, my brother!' or ‘Ah, sister!'
They shall not lament for him, saying,
‘Ah, lord!' or ‘Ah, his majesty!'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:27 - But to the land to which they will long to return, there they shall not return.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:30 - Thus says the LORD:
“Write this man down as childless,
a man who shall not succeed in his days,
for none of his offspring shall succeed
in sitting on the throne of David
and ruling again in Judah.”
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 23:16 - Thus says the LORD of hosts: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, filling you with vain hopes. They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:24 - Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:36 - But ‘the burden of the LORD' you shall mention no more, for the burden is every man's own word, and you pervert the words of the living God, the LORD of hosts, our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:6 - I will set my eyes on them for 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 pluck them up.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:6 - Do not go after other gods to serve and worship them, or provoke me to anger with the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:27 - “Then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink, be drunk and vomit, fall and rise no more, because of the sword that I am sending among you.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:28 - “And if they refuse to accept the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts: You must drink!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:29 - For behold, I begin to work disaster at the city that is called by my name, and shall you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the LORD of hosts.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:33 - “And those pierced by the LORD on that day shall extend from one end of the earth to the other. They shall not be lamented, or gathered, or buried; they shall be dung on the surface of the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:2 - “Thus says the LORD: Stand in the court of the LORD's house, and speak to all the cities of Judah that come to worship in the house of the LORD all the words that I command you to speak to them; do not hold back a word.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:4 - You shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law that I have set before you,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:19 - Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Did he not fear the LORD and entreat the favor of the LORD, and did not the LORD relent of the disaster that he had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great disaster upon ourselves.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:24 - But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah so that he was not given over to the people to be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:8 - “‘“But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, declares the LORD, until I have consumed it by his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:9 - So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your fortune-tellers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:16 - Then I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, “Thus says the LORD: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who are prophesying to you, saying, ‘Behold, the vessels of the LORD's house will now shortly be brought back from Babylon,' for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:6 - Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:8 - For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are among you deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams that they dream,[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:14 - All your lovers have forgotten you;
they care nothing for you;
for I have dealt you the blow of an enemy,
the punishment of a merciless foe,
because your guilt is great,
because your sins are flagrant.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:19 - Out of them shall come songs of thanksgiving,
and the voices of those who celebrate.
I will multiply them, and they shall not be few;
I will make them honored, and they shall not be small.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:24 - The fierce anger of the LORD will not turn back
until he has executed and accomplished
the intentions of his mind.
In the latter days you will understand this.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:2 - Thus says the LORD:
“The people who survived the sword
found grace in the wilderness;
when Israel sought for rest,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:9 - With weeping they shall come,
and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back,
I will make them walk by brooks of water,
in a straight path in which they shall not stumble,
for I am a father to Israel,
and Ephraim is my firstborn.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:29 - In those days they shall no longer say:
“‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
and the children's teeth are set on edge.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:34 - And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:40 - The whole valley of the dead bodies and the ashes, and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, shall be sacred to the LORD. It shall not be plucked up or overthrown anymore forever.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:4 - Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:17 - ‘Ah, Lord GOD! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:27 - “Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:40 - I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:8 - I will cleanse them from all the guilt of their sin against me, and I will forgive all the guilt of their sin and rebellion against me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:10 - “Thus says the LORD: In this place of which you say, ‘It is a waste without man or beast,' in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man or inhabitant or beast, there shall be heard again
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:12 - “Thus says the LORD of hosts: In this place that is waste, without man or beast, and in all of its cities, there shall again be habitations of shepherds resting their flocks.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:3 - You shall not escape from his hand but shall surely be captured and delivered into his hand. You shall see the king of Babylon eye to eye and speak with him face to face. And you shall go to Babylon.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:9 - that everyone should set free his Hebrew slaves, male and female, so that no one should enslave a Jew, his brother.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:18 - And the men who transgressed my covenant and did not keep the terms of the covenant that they made before me, I will make them like[fn] the calf that they cut in two and passed between its parts—
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:6 - But they answered, “We will drink no wine, for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, ‘You shall not drink wine, neither you nor your sons forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:7 - You shall not build a house; you shall not sow seed; you shall not plant or have a vineyard; but you shall live in tents all your days, that you may live many days in the land where you sojourn.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:8 - We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, ourselves, our wives, our sons, or our daughters,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:9 - and not to build houses to dwell in. We have no vineyard or field or seed,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:13 - “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Go and say to the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will you not receive instruction and listen to my words? declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:14 - The command that Jonadab the son of Rechab gave to his sons, to drink no wine, has been kept, and they drink none to this day, for they have obeyed their father's command. I have spoken to you persistently, but you have not listened to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:19 - therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Jonadab the son of Rechab shall never lack a man to stand before me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:5 - And Jeremiah ordered Baruch, saying, “I am banned from going to the house of the LORD,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:19 - Then the officials said to Baruch, “Go and hide, you and Jeremiah, and let no one know where you are.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:25 - Even when Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:9 - Thus says the LORD, Do not deceive yourselves, saying, “The Chaldeans will surely go away from us,” for they will not go away.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:19 - Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land'?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:20 - Now hear, please, O my lord the king: let my humble plea come before you and do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the secretary, lest I die there.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:10 - Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, “Take thirty men with you from here, and lift Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:14 - King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and received him at the third entrance of the temple of the LORD. The king said to Jeremiah, “I will ask you a question; hide nothing from me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:15 - Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If I tell you, will you not surely put me to death? And if I give you counsel, you will not listen to me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:17 - Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “Thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: If you will surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon, then your life shall be spared, and this city shall not be burned with fire, and you and your house shall live.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:18 - But if you do not surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon, then this city shall be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape from their hand.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:19 - King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Judeans who have deserted to the Chaldeans, lest I be handed over to them and they deal cruelly with me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:20 - Jeremiah said, “You shall not be given to them. Obey now the voice of the LORD in what I say to you, and it shall be well with you, and your life shall be spared.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:21 - But if you refuse to surrender, this is the vision which the LORD has shown to me:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:23 - All your wives and your sons shall be led out to the Chaldeans, and you yourself shall not escape from their hand, but shall be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city shall be burned with fire.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:24 - Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Let no one know of these words, and you shall not die.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:25 - If the officials hear that I have spoken with you and come to you and say to you, ‘Tell us what you said to the king and what the king said to you; hide nothing from us and we will not put you to death,'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:26 - then you shall say to them, ‘I made a humble plea to the king that he would not send me back to the house of Jonathan to die there.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:17 - But I will deliver you on that day, declares the LORD, and you shall not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:18 - For I will surely save you, and you shall not fall by the sword, but you shall have your life as a prize of war, because you have put your trust in me, declares the LORD.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:9 - Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, swore to them and their men, saying, “Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Dwell in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:15 - Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke secretly to Gedaliah at Mizpah, “Please let me go and strike down Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no one will know it. Why should he take your life, so that all the Judeans who are gathered about you would be scattered, and the remnant of Judah would perish?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:16 - But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, “You shall not do this thing, for you are speaking falsely of Ishmael.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:8 - But there were ten men among them who said to Ishmael, “Do not put us to death, for we have stores of wheat, barley, oil, and honey hidden in the fields.” So he refrained and did not put them to death with their companions.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:4 - Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you. Behold, I will pray to the LORD your God according to your request, and whatever the LORD answers you I will tell you. I will keep nothing back from you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:5 - Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act according to all the word with which the LORD your God sends you to us.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:10 - If you will remain in this land, then I will build you up and not pull you down; I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I relent of the disaster that I did to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:11 - Do not fear the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid. Do not fear him, declares the LORD, for I am with you, to save you and to deliver you from his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:13 - But if you say, ‘We will not remain in this land,' disobeying the voice of the LORD your God
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:14 - and saying, ‘No, we will go to the land of Egypt, where we shall not see war or hear the sound of the trumpet or be hungry for bread, and we will dwell there,'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18 - “For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: As my anger and my wrath were poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you when you go to Egypt. You shall become an execration, a horror, a curse, and a taunt. You shall see this place no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:19 - The LORD has said to you, O remnant of Judah, ‘Do not go to Egypt.' Know for a certainty that I have warned you this day
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:2 - Azariah the son of Hoshaiah and Johanan the son of Kareah and all the insolent men said to Jeremiah, “You are telling a lie. The LORD our God did not send you to say, ‘Do not go to Egypt to live there,'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:4 - Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, ‘Oh, do not do this abomination that I hate!'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:5 - But they did not listen or incline their ear, to turn from their evil and make no offerings to other gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:7 - And now thus says the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why do you commit this great evil against yourselves, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and child, from the midst of Judah, leaving you no remnant?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:9 - Have you forgotten the evil of your fathers, the evil of the kings of Judah, the evil of their[fn] wives, your own evil, and the evil of your wives, which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:14 - so that none of the remnant of Judah who have come to live in the land of Egypt shall escape or survive or return to the land of Judah, to which they desire to return to dwell there. For they shall not return, except some fugitives.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:19 - And the women said,[fn] “When we made offerings to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands' approval that we made cakes for her bearing her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 45:5 - And do you seek great things for yourself? Seek them not, for behold, I am bringing disaster upon all flesh, declares the LORD. But I will give you your life as a prize of war in all places to which you may go.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:6 - “The swift cannot flee away,
nor the warrior escape;
in the north by the river Euphrates
they have stumbled and fallen.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:19 - Prepare yourselves baggage for exile,
O inhabitants of Egypt!
For Memphis shall become a waste,
a ruin, without inhabitant.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:23 - They shall cut down her forest,
declares the LORD,
though it is impenetrable,
because they are more numerous than locusts;
they are without number.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:27 - “But fear not, O Jacob my servant,
nor be dismayed, O Israel,
for behold, I will save you from far away,
and your offspring from the land of their captivity.
Jacob shall return and have quiet and ease,
and none shall make him afraid.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:28 - Fear not, O Jacob my servant,
declares the LORD,
for I am with you.
I will make a full end of all the nations
to which I have driven you,
but of you I will not make a full end.
I will discipline you in just measure,
and I will by no means leave you unpunished.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:8 - The destroyer shall come upon every city,
and no city shall escape;
the valley shall perish,
and the plain shall be destroyed,
as the LORD has spoken.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:27 - Was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him you wagged your head?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:1 - Concerning the Ammonites. Thus says the LORD:
“Has Israel no sons?
Has he no heir?
Why then has Milcom[fn] dispossessed Gad,
and his people settled in its cities?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:10 - But I have stripped Esau bare;
I have uncovered his hiding places,
and he is not able to conceal himself.
His children are destroyed, and his brothers,
and his neighbors; and he is no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:12 - For thus says the LORD: “If those who did not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, will you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you must drink.
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 49:20 - Therefore hear the plan that the LORD has made against Edom and the purposes that he has formed against the inhabitants of Teman: Even the little ones of the flock shall be dragged away. Surely their fold shall be appalled at their fate.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:23 - Concerning Damascus:
“Hamath and Arpad are confounded,
for they have heard bad news;
they melt in fear,
they are troubled like the sea that cannot be quiet.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:33 - Hazor shall become a haunt of jackals,
an everlasting waste;
no man shall dwell there;
no man shall sojourn in her.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:2 - “Declare among the nations and proclaim,
set up a banner and proclaim,
conceal it not, and say:
‘Babylon is taken,
Bel is put to shame,
Merodach is dismayed.
Her images are put to shame,
her idols are dismayed.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:7 - All who found them have devoured them, and their enemies have said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their habitation of righteousness, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:14 - Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around,
all you who bend the bow;
shoot at her, spare no arrows,
for she has sinned against the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:20 - In those days and in that time, declares the LORD, iniquity shall be sought in Israel, and there shall be none, and sin in Judah, and none shall be found, for I will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:26 - Come against her from every quarter;
open her granaries;
pile her up like heaps of grain, and devote her to destruction;
let nothing be left of her.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:29 - “Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her according to all that she has done. For she has proudly defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:39 - “Therefore wild beasts shall dwell with hyenas in Babylon,[fn] and ostriches shall dwell in her. She shall never again have people, nor be inhabited for all generations.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:40 - As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, declares the LORD, so no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn in her.
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 50:45 - Therefore hear the plan that the LORD has made against Babylon, and the purposes that he has formed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the little ones of their flock shall be dragged away; surely their fold shall be appalled at their fate.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:3 - Let not the archer bend his bow,
and let him not stand up in his armor.
Spare not her young men;
devote to destruction[fn] all her army.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:6 - “Flee from the midst of Babylon;
let every one save his life!
Be not cut off in her punishment,
for this is the time of the LORD's vengeance,
the repayment he is rendering her.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:26 - No stone shall be taken from you for a corner
and no stone for a foundation,
but you shall be a perpetual waste,
declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:29 - The land trembles and writhes in pain,
for the LORD's purposes against Babylon stand,
to make the land of Babylon a desolation,
without inhabitant.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:39 - While they are inflamed I will prepare them a feast
and make them drunk, that they may become merry,
then sleep a perpetual sleep
and not wake, declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:43 - Her cities have become a horror,
a land of drought and a desert,
a land in which no one dwells,
and through which no son of man passes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:44 - And I will punish Bel in Babylon,
and take out of his mouth what he has swallowed.
The nations shall no longer flow to him;
the wall of Babylon has fallen.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:50 - “You who have escaped from the sword,
go, do not stand still!
Remember the LORD from far away,
and let Jerusalem come into your mind:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:62 - and say, ‘O LORD, you have said concerning this place that you will cut it off, so that nothing shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, and it shall be desolate forever.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:64 - and say, ‘Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disaster that I am bringing upon her, and they shall become exhausted.'” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:4 - The roads to Zion mourn,
for none come to the festival;
all her gates are desolate;
her priests groan;
her virgins have been afflicted,[fn]
and she herself suffers bitterly.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:10 - The enemy has stretched out his hands
over all her precious things;
for she has seen the nations
enter her sanctuary,
those whom you forbade
to enter your congregation.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:18 - Their heart cried to the Lord.
O wall of the daughter of Zion,
let tears stream down like a torrent
day and night!
Give yourself no rest,
your eyes no respite!
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:49 - “My eyes will flow without ceasing,
without respite,
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:56 - you heard my plea, ‘Do not close
your ear to my cry for help!'
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:57 - You came near when I called on you;
you said, ‘Do not fear!'
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:14 - They wandered, blind, through the streets;
they were so defiled with blood
that no one was able to touch
their garments.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:15 - “Away! Unclean!” people cried at them.
“Away! Away! Do not touch!”
So they became fugitives and wanderers;
people said among the nations,
“They shall stay with us no longer.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:18 - They dogged our steps
so that we could not walk in our streets;
our end drew near; our days were numbered,
for our end had come.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:6 - And you, son of man, be not afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you and you sit on scorpions.[fn] Be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:8 - “But you, son of man, hear what I say to you. Be not rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:7 - But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me: because all the house of Israel have a hard forehead and a stubborn heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:9 - Like emery harder than flint have I made your forehead. Fear them not, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:19 - But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, or from his wicked way, he shall die for his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:20 - Again, if a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits injustice, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. Because you have not warned him, he shall die for his sin, and his righteous deeds that he has done shall not be remembered, but his blood I will require at your hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:21 - But if you warn the righteous person not to sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning, and you will have delivered your soul.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:25 - And you, O son of man, behold, cords will be placed upon you, and you shall be bound with them, so that you cannot go out among the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:8 - And behold, I will place cords upon you, so that you cannot turn from one side to the other, till you have completed the days of your siege.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:11 - Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will withdraw.[fn] My eye will not spare, and I will have no pity.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:4 - And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity, but I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:9 - And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the LORD, who strikes.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:12 - The time has come; the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all their multitude.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:13 - For the seller shall not return to what he has sold, while they live. For the vision concerns all their multitude; it shall not turn back; and because of his iniquity, none can maintain his life.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:19 - They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing. Their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:17 - Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations that they commit here, that they should fill the land with violence and provoke me still further to anger? Behold, they put the branch to their[fn] nose.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:18 - Therefore I will act in wrath. My eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:5 - And to the others he said in my hearing, “Pass through the city after him, and strike. Your eye shall not spare, and you shall show no pity.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:6 - Kill old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but touch no one on whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the house.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:10 - As for me, my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity; I will bring their deeds upon their heads.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:11 - This city shall not be your cauldron, nor shall you be the meat in the midst of it. I will judge you at the border of Israel,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:6 - In their sight you shall lift the baggage upon your shoulder and carry it out at dusk. You shall cover your face that you may not see the land, for I have made you a sign for the house of Israel.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:12 - And the prince who is among them shall lift his baggage upon his shoulder at dusk, and shall go out. They shall dig through the wall to bring him out through it. He shall cover his face, that he may not see the land with his eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:23 - Tell them therefore, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: I will put an end to this proverb, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel.' But say to them, The days are near, and the fulfillment[fn] of every vision.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:25 - For I am the LORD; I will speak the word that I will speak, and it will be performed. It will no longer be delayed, but in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak the word and perform it, declares the Lord GOD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:28 - Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: None of my words will be delayed any longer, but the word that I speak will be performed, declares the Lord GOD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:3 - Thus says the Lord GOD, Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:22 - Because you have disheartened the righteous falsely, although I have not grieved him, and you have encouraged the wicked, that he should not turn from his evil way to save his life,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:23 - therefore you shall no more see false visions nor practice divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand. And you shall know that I am the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:11 - that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, nor defile themselves anymore with all their transgressions, but that they may be my people and I may be their God, declares the Lord GOD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:18 - though these three men were in it, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they alone would be delivered.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:4 - Behold, it is given to the fire for fuel. When the fire has consumed both ends of it, and the middle of it is charred, is it useful for anything?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:5 - Behold, when it was whole, it was used for nothing. How much less, when the fire has consumed it and it is charred, can it ever be used for anything!
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:16 - You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:41 - And they shall burn your houses and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women. I will make you stop playing the whore, and you shall also give payment no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:42 - So will I satisfy my wrath on you, and my jealousy shall depart from you. I will be calm and will no more be angry.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:56 - Was not your sister Sodom a byword in your mouth in the day of your pride,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:63 - that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord GOD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:10 - Behold, it is planted; will it thrive? Will it not utterly wither when the east wind strikes it—wither away on the bed where it sprouted?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:14 - that the kingdom might be humble and not lift itself up, and keep his covenant that it might stand.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:16 - “As I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant with him he broke, in Babylon he shall die.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:18 - He despised the oath in breaking the covenant, and behold, he gave his hand and did all these things; he shall not escape.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:19 - Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: As I live, surely it is my oath that he despised, and my covenant that he broke. I will return it upon his head.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:6 - if he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor's wife or approach a woman in her time of menstrual impurity,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:7 - does not oppress anyone, but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:14 - “Now suppose this man fathers a son who sees all the sins that his father has done; he sees, and does not do likewise:
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:21 - “But if a wicked person turns away from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is just and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:23 - Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord GOD, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:24 - But when a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice and does the same abominations that the wicked person does, shall he live? None of the righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, for them he shall die.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:25 - “Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.' Hear now, O house of Israel: Is my way not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:28 - Because he considered and turned away from all the transgressions that he had committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:29 - Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.' O house of Israel, are my ways not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:9 - With hooks they put him in a cage[fn]
and brought him to the king of Babylon;
they brought him into custody,
that his voice should no more be heard
on the mountains of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:7 - And I said to them, ‘Cast away the detestable things your eyes feast on, every one of you, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:9 - But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made myself known to them in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:14 - But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:15 - Moreover, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most glorious of all lands,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:18 - “And I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:22 - But I withheld my hand and acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:39 - “As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord GOD: Go serve every one of you his idols, now and hereafter, if you will not listen to me; but my holy name you shall no more profane with your gifts and your idols.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:44 - And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I deal with you for my name's sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt deeds, O house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:30 - Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:32 - You shall be fuel for the fire. Your blood shall be in the midst of the land. You shall be no more remembered, for I the LORD have spoken.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:30 - And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:27 - Thus I will put an end to your lewdness and your whoring begun in the land of Egypt, so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:48 - Thus will I put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not commit lewdness as you have done.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:8 - To rouse my wrath, to take vengeance, I have set on the bare rock the blood she has shed, that it may not be covered.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:12 - She has wearied herself with toil;[fn] its abundant corrosion does not go out of it. Into the fire with its corrosion!
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:13 - On account of your unclean lewdness, because I would have cleansed you and you were not cleansed from your uncleanness, you shall not be cleansed anymore till I have satisfied my fury upon you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:14 - I am the LORD. I have spoken; it shall come to pass; I will do it. I will not go back; I will not spare; I will not relent; according to your ways and your deeds you will be judged, declares the Lord GOD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:16 - “Son of man, behold, I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you at a stroke; yet you shall not mourn or weep, nor shall your tears run down.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:17 - Sigh, but not aloud; make no mourning for the dead. Bind on your turban, and put your shoes on your feet; do not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:23 - Your turbans shall be on your heads and your shoes on your feet; you shall not mourn or weep, but you shall rot away in your iniquities and groan to one another.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:27 - On that day your mouth will be opened to the fugitive, and you shall speak and be no longer mute. So you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:10 - I will give it along with the Ammonites to the people of the East as a possession, that the Ammonites may be remembered no more among the nations,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:13 - And I will stop the music of your songs, and the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:14 - I will make you a bare rock. You shall be a place for the spreading of nets. You shall never be rebuilt, for I am the LORD; I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:19 - “For thus says the Lord GOD: When I make you a city laid waste, like the cities that are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you, and the great waters cover you,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:20 - then I will make you go down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you to dwell in the world below, among ruins from of old, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set beauty in the land of the living.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:3 - you are indeed wiser than Daniel;
no secret is hidden from you;
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:4 - by your wisdom and your understanding
you have made wealth for yourself,
and have gathered gold and silver
into your treasuries;
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:9 - Will you still say, ‘I am a god,'
in the presence of those who kill you,
though you are but a man, and no god,
in the hands of those who slay you?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:5 - And I will cast you out into the wilderness,
you and all the fish of your streams;
you shall fall on the open field,
and not be brought together or gathered.
To the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the heavens
I give you as food.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:11 - No foot of man shall pass through it, and no foot of beast shall pass through it; it shall be uninhabited forty years.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:15 - It shall be the most lowly of the kingdoms, and never again exalt itself above the nations. And I will make them so small that they will never again rule over the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:14 - All this is in order that no trees by the waters may grow to towering height or set their tops among the clouds,[fn] and that no trees that drink water may reach up to them in height. For they are all given over to death, to the world below, among the children of man,[fn] with those who go down to the pit.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:7 - When I blot you out, I will cover the heavens
and make their stars dark;
I will cover the sun with a cloud,
and the moon shall not give its light.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:13 - I will destroy all its beasts
from beside many waters;
and no foot of man shall trouble them anymore,
nor shall the hoofs of beasts trouble them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:4 - then if anyone who hears the sound of the trumpet does not take warning, and the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:6 - But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, that person is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman's hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:8 - If I say to the wicked, O wicked one, you shall surely die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, that wicked person shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:9 - But if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, that person shall die in his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:12 - “And you, son of man, say to your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him when he transgresses, and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it when he turns from his wickedness, and the righteous shall not be able to live by his righteousness[fn] when he sins.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:13 - Though I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, yet if he trusts in his righteousness and does injustice, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered, but in his injustice that he has done he shall die.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:15 - if the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has taken by robbery, and walks in the statutes of life, not doing injustice, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:16 - None of the sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him. He has done what is just and right; he shall surely live.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:28 - And I will make the land a desolation and a waste, and her proud might shall come to an end, and the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that none will pass through.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:31 - And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:32 - And behold, you are to them like one who sings lustful songs with a beautiful voice and plays[fn] well on an instrument, for they hear what you say, but they will not do it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:2 - “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy, and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord GOD: Ah, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:5 - So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd, and they became food for all the wild beasts. My sheep were scattered;
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:8 - As I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely because my sheep have become a prey, and my sheep have become food for all the wild beasts, since there was no shepherd, and because my shepherds have not searched for my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves, and have not fed my sheep,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:10 - Thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require my sheep at their hand and put a stop to their feeding the sheep. No longer shall the shepherds feed themselves. I will rescue my sheep from their mouths, that they may not be food for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:22 - I will rescue[fn] my flock; they shall no longer be a prey. And I will judge between sheep and sheep.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:28 - They shall no more be a prey to the nations, nor shall the beasts of the land devour them. They shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:29 - And I will provide for them renowned plantations so that they shall no more be consumed with hunger in the land, and no longer suffer the reproach of the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:9 - I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:12 - I will let people walk on you, even my people Israel. And they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no longer bereave them of children.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:15 - And I will not let you hear anymore the reproach of the nations, and you shall no longer bear the disgrace of the peoples and no longer cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord GOD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:30 - I will make the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field abundant, that you may never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:31 - Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominations.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:22 - And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:23 - They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. But I will save them from all the backslidings[fn] in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:10 - so that they will not need to take wood out of the field or cut down any out of the forests, for they will make their fires of the weapons. They will seize the spoil of those who despoiled them, and plunder those who plundered them, declares the Lord GOD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:6 - And the side chambers were in three stories, one over another, thirty in each story. There were offsets[fn] all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:14 - When the priests enter the Holy Place, they shall not go out of it into the outer court without laying there the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. They shall put on other garments before they go near to that which is for the people.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:2 - And the LORD said to me, “This gate shall remain shut; it shall not be opened, and no one shall enter by it, for the LORD, the God of Israel, has entered by it. Therefore it shall remain shut.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:19 - And when they go out into the outer court to the people, they shall put off the garments in which they have been ministering and lay them in the holy chambers. And they shall put on other garments, lest they transmit holiness to the people with their garments.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:21 - No priest shall drink wine when he enters the inner court.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:2 - The prince shall enter by the vestibule of the gate from outside, and shall take his stand by the post of the gate. The priests shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until evening.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:18 - The prince shall not take any of the inheritance of the people, thrusting them out of their property. He shall give his sons their inheritance out of his own property, so that none of my people shall be scattered from his property.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:20 - And he said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, in order not to bring them out into the outer court and so transmit holiness to the people.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:11 - But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they are to be left for salt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:12 - And on the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither, nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for healing.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:8 - But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king's food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:5 - The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, “The word from me is firm: if you do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you shall be torn limb from limb, and your houses shall be laid in ruins.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:9 - if you do not make the dream known to me, there is but one sentence for you. You have agreed to speak lying and corrupt words before me till the times change. Therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can show me its interpretation.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:18 - and told them to seek mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his companions might not be destroyed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:24 - Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He went and said thus to him: “Do not destroy the wise men of Babylon; bring me in before the king, and I will show the king the interpretation.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:6 - And whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:11 - And whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast into a burning fiery furnace.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:15 - Now if you are ready when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, well and good.[fn] But if you do not worship, you shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace. And who is the god who will deliver you out of my hands?”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:28 - Nebuchadnezzar answered and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel and delivered his servants, who trusted in him, and set aside[fn] the king's command, and yielded up their bodies rather than serve and worship any god except their own God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:19 - Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was dismayed for a while, and his thoughts alarmed him. The king answered and said, “Belteshazzar, let not the dream or the interpretation alarm you.” Belteshazzar answered and said, “My lord, may the dream be for those who hate you and its interpretation for your enemies!
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:10 - The queen,[fn] because of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banqueting hall, and the queen declared, “O king, live forever! Let not your thoughts alarm you or your color change.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:2 - and over them three high officials, of whom Daniel was one, to whom these satraps should give account, so that the king might suffer no loss.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:5 - Then these men said, “We shall not find any ground for complaint against this Daniel unless we find it in connection with the law of his God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:8 - Now, O king, establish the injunction and sign the document, so that it cannot be changed, according to the law of the Medes and the Persians, which cannot be revoked.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:17 - And a stone was brought and laid on the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet and with the signet of his lords, that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:11 - All Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, refusing to obey your voice. And the curse and oath that are written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because we have sinned against him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:19 - O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive. O Lord, pay attention and act. Delay not, for your own sake, O my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:12 - Then he said to me, “Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:19 - And he said, “O man greatly loved, fear not, peace be with you; be strong and of good courage.” And as he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said, “Let my lord speak, for you have strengthened me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:17 - He shall set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and he shall bring terms of an agreement and perform them. He shall give him the daughter of women to destroy the kingdom,[fn] but it shall not stand or be to his advantage.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:6 - She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the LORD said to him, “Call her name No Mercy,[fn] for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:4 - Upon her children also I will have no mercy,
because they are children of whoredom.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:6 - Therefore I will hedge up her[fn] way with thorns,
and I will build a wall against her,
so that she cannot find her paths.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:7 - She shall pursue her lovers
but not overtake them,
and she shall seek them
but shall not find them.
Then she shall say,
‘I will go and return to my first husband,
for it was better for me then than now.'
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:9 - Therefore I will take back
my grain in its time,
and my wine in its season,
and I will take away my wool and my flax,
which were to cover her nakedness.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:10 - Now I will uncover her lewdness
in the sight of her lovers,
and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:17 - For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 3:3 - And I said to her, “You must dwell as mine for many days. You shall not play the whore, or belong to another man; so will I also be to you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:6 - My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge;
because you have rejected knowledge,
I reject you from being a priest to me.
And since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:10 - They shall eat, but not be satisfied;
they shall play the whore, but not multiply,
because they have forsaken the LORD
to cherish
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:14 - I will not punish your daughters when they play the whore,
nor your brides when they commit adultery;
for the men themselves go aside with prostitutes
and sacrifice with cult prostitutes,
and a people without understanding shall come to ruin.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:15 - Though you play the whore, O Israel,
let not Judah become guilty.
Enter not into Gilgal,
nor go up to Beth-aven,
and swear not, “As the LORD lives.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:6 - With their flocks and herds they shall go
to seek the LORD,
but they will not find him;
he has withdrawn from them.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:13 - When Ephraim saw his sickness,
and Judah his wound,
then Ephraim went to Assyria,
and sent to the great king.[fn]
But he is not able to cure you
or heal your wound.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:5 - I have[fn] spurned your calf, O Samaria.
My anger burns against them.
How long will they be incapable of innocence?
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:1 - Rejoice not, O Israel!
Exult not like the peoples;
for you have played the whore, forsaking your God.
You have loved a prostitute's wages
on all threshing floors.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:15 - Every evil of theirs is in Gilgal;
there I began to hate them.
Because of the wickedness of their deeds
I will drive them out of my house.
I will love them no more;
all their princes are rebels.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:16 - Ephraim is stricken;
their root is dried up;
they shall bear no fruit.
Even though they give birth,
I will put their beloved children to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:9 - From the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, O Israel;
there they have continued.
Shall not the war against the unjust[fn] overtake them in Gibeah?
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:7 - My people are bent on turning away from me,
and though they call out to the Most High,
he shall not raise them up at all.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:9 - I will not execute my burning anger;
I will not again destroy Ephraim;
for I am God and not a man,
the Holy One in your midst,
and I will not come in wrath.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:11 - If there is iniquity in Gilead,
they shall surely come to nothing:
in Gilgal they sacrifice bulls;
their altars also are like stone heaps
on the furrows of the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:13 - The pangs of childbirth come for him,
but he is an unwise son,
for at the right time he does not present himself
at the opening of the womb.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:2 - Take with you words
and return to the LORD;
say to him,
“Take away all iniquity;
accept what is good,
and we will pay with bulls
the vows[fn] of our lips.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:3 - Assyria shall not save us;
we will not ride on horses;
and we will say no more, ‘Our God,'
to the work of our hands.
In you the orphan finds mercy.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:7 - Like warriors they charge;
like soldiers they scale the wall.
They march each on his way;
they do not swerve from their paths.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:8 - They do not jostle one another;
each marches in his path;
they burst through the weapons
and are not halted.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:13 - and rend your hearts and not your garments.”
Return to the LORD your God,
for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;
and he relents over disaster.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:17 - Between the vestibule and the altar
let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep
and say, “Spare your people, O LORD,
and make not your heritage a reproach,
a byword among the nations.[fn]
Why should they say among the peoples,
‘Where is their God?'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:26 - “You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied,
and praise the name of the LORD your God,
who has dealt wondrously with you.
And my people shall never again be put to shame.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:27 - You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel,
and that I am the LORD your God and there is none else.
And my people shall never again be put to shame.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:4 - “What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:21 - I will avenge their blood,
blood I have not avenged,[fn]
for the LORD dwells in Zion.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:11 - And I raised up some of your sons for prophets,
and some of your young men for Nazirites.
Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel?”
declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:12 - “But you made the Nazirites drink wine,
and commanded the prophets,
saying, ‘You shall not prophesy.'
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:14 - Flight shall perish from the swift,
and the strong shall not retain his strength,
nor shall the mighty save his life;
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:15 - he who handles the bow shall not stand,
and he who is swift of foot shall not save himself,
nor shall he who rides the horse save his life;
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:3 - “Do two walk together,
unless they have agreed to meet?
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:4 - Does a lion roar in the forest,
when he has no prey?
Does a young lion cry out from his den,
if he has taken nothing?
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:7 - “For the Lord GOD does nothing
without revealing his secret
to his servants the prophets.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:8 - so two or three cities would wander to another city
to drink water, and would not be satisfied;
yet you did not return to me,”
declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:2 - “Fallen, no more to rise,
is the virgin Israel;
forsaken on her land,
with none to raise her up.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:5 - but do not seek Bethel,
and do not enter into Gilgal
or cross over to Beersheba;
for Gilgal shall surely go into exile,
and Bethel shall come to nothing.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:6 - Seek the LORD and live,
lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph,
and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel,
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:11 - Therefore because you trample on[fn] the poor
and you exact taxes of grain from him,
you have built houses of hewn stone,
but you shall not dwell in them;
you have planted pleasant vineyards,
but you shall not drink their wine.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:14 - Seek good, and not evil,
that you may live;
and so the LORD, the God of hosts, will be with you,
as you have said.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:21 - “I hate, I despise your feasts,
and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:25 - “Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:10 - And when one's relative, the one who anoints him for burial, shall take him up to bring the bones out of the house, and shall say to him who is in the innermost parts of the house, “Is there still anyone with you?” he shall say, “No”; and he shall say, “Silence! We must not mention the name of the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:14 - “For behold, I will raise up against you a nation,
O house of Israel,” declares the LORD, the God of hosts;
“and they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath
to the Brook of the Arabah.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:6 - The LORD relented concerning this:
“This also shall not be,” said the Lord GOD.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:8 - And the LORD said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said,
“Behold, I am setting a plumb line
in the midst of my people Israel;
I will never again pass by them;
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:10 - Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:13 - but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:16 - Now therefore hear the word of the LORD.
“You say, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel,
and do not preach against the house of Isaac.'
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:2 - And he said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the LORD said to me,
“The end[fn] has come upon my people Israel;
I will never again pass by them.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:12 - They shall wander from sea to sea,
and from north to east;
they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the LORD,
but they shall not find it.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:14 - Those who swear by the Guilt of Samaria,
and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,'
and, ‘As the Way of Beersheba lives,'
they shall fall, and never rise again.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:1 - I saw the Lord standing beside[fn] the altar, and he said:
“Strike the capitals until the thresholds shake,
and shatter them on the heads of all the people;[fn]
and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword;
not one of them shall flee away;
not one of them shall escape.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:9 - “For behold, I will command,
and shake the house of Israel among all the nations
as one shakes with a sieve,
but no pebble shall fall to the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:10 - All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword,
who say, ‘Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.'
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:15 - I will plant them on their land,
and they shall never again be uprooted
out of the land that I have given them,”
says the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:12 - But do not gloat over the day of your brother
in the day of his misfortune;
do not rejoice over the people of Judah
in the day of their ruin;
do not boast[fn]
in the day of distress.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:6 - So the captain came and said to him, “What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, call out to your god! Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we may not perish.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:14 - Therefore they called out to the LORD, “O LORD, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not on us innocent blood, for you, O LORD, have done as it pleased you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:7 - And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water,
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:9 - Who knows? God may turn and relent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:10 - Tell it not in Gath;
weep not at all;
in Beth-le-aphrah
roll yourselves in the dust.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:3 - Therefore thus says the LORD:
behold, against this family I am devising disaster,[fn]
from which you cannot remove your necks,
and you shall not walk haughtily,
for it will be a time of disaster.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:6 - “Do not preach”—thus they preach—
“one should not preach of such things;
disgrace will not overtake us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:8 - But as for me, I am filled with power,
with the Spirit of the LORD,
and with justice and might,
to declare to Jacob his transgression
and to Israel his sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:11 - Its heads give judgment for a bribe;
its priests teach for a price;
its prophets practice divination for money;
yet they lean on the LORD and say,
“Is not the LORD in the midst of us?
No disaster shall come upon us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:3 - He shall judge between many peoples,
and shall decide disputes for strong nations far away;
and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war anymore;
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:9 - Now why do you cry aloud?
Is there no king in you?
Has your counselor perished,
that pain seized you like a woman in labor?
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:7 - Then the remnant of Jacob shall be
in the midst of many peoples
like dew from the LORD,
like showers on the grass,
which delay not for a man
nor wait for the children of man.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:8 - And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations,
in the midst of many peoples,
like a lion among the beasts of the forest,
like a young lion among the flocks of sheep,
which, when it goes through, treads down
and tears in pieces, and there is none to deliver.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:13 - and I will cut off your carved images
and your pillars from among you,
and you shall bow down no more
to the work of your hands;
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:10 - Can I forget any longer the treasures[fn] of wickedness in the house of the wicked,
and the scant measure that is accursed?
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:14 - You shall eat, but not be satisfied,
and there shall be hunger within you;
you shall put away, but not preserve,
and what you preserve I will give to the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:15 - You shall sow, but not reap;
you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil;
you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:5 - Put no trust in a neighbor;
have no confidence in a friend;
guard the doors of your mouth
from her who lies in your arms;[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:8 - Rejoice not over me, O my enemy;
when I fall, I shall rise;
when I sit in darkness,
the LORD will be a light to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:15 - [fn] Behold, upon the mountains, the feet of him
who brings good news,
who publishes peace!
Keep your feasts, O Judah;
fulfill your vows,
for never again shall the worthless pass through you;
he is utterly cut off.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:13 - Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts, and I will burn your[fn] chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no longer be heard.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:2 - O LORD, how long shall I cry for help,
and you will not hear?
Or cry to you “Violence!”
and you will not save?
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:5 - “Look among the nations, and see;
wonder and be astounded.
For I am doing a work in your days
that you would not believe if told.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:12 - Are you not from everlasting,
O LORD my God, my Holy One?
We shall not die.
O LORD, you have ordained them as a judgment,
and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:13 - You who are of purer eyes than to see evil
and cannot look at wrong,
why do you idly look at traitors
and remain silent when the wicked swallows up
the man more righteous than he?
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:3 - For still the vision awaits its appointed time;
it hastens to the end—it will not lie.
If it seems slow, wait for it;
it will surely come; it will not delay.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:5 - “Moreover, wine[fn] is a traitor,
an arrogant man who is never at rest.[fn]
His greed is as wide as Sheol;
like death he has never enough.
He gathers for himself all nations
and collects as his own all peoples.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:8 - Was your wrath against the rivers, O LORD?
Was your anger against the rivers,
or your indignation against the sea,
when you rode on your horses,
on your chariot of salvation?
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:6 - those who have turned back from following the LORD,
who do not seek the LORD or inquire of him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:12 - At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps,
and I will punish the men
who are complacent,[fn]
those who say in their hearts,
‘The LORD will not do good,
nor will he do ill.'
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:13 - Their goods shall be plundered,
and their houses laid waste.
Though they build houses,
they shall not inhabit them;
though they plant vineyards,
they shall not drink wine from them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:18 - Neither their silver nor their gold
shall be able to deliver them
on the day of the wrath of the LORD.
In the fire of his jealousy,
all the earth shall be consumed;
for a full and sudden end
he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:5 - The LORD within her is righteous;
he does no injustice;
every morning he shows forth his justice;
each dawn he does not fail;
but the unjust knows no shame.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:6 - “I have cut off nations;
their battlements are in ruins;
I have laid waste their streets
so that no one walks in them;
their cities have been made desolate,
without a man, without an inhabitant.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:7 - I said, ‘Surely you will fear me;
you will accept correction.
Then your[fn] dwelling would not be cut off
according to all that I have appointed against you.'[fn]
But all the more they were eager
to make all their deeds corrupt.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:11 - “On that day you shall not be put to shame
because of the deeds by which you have rebelled against me;
for then I will remove from your midst
your proudly exultant ones,
and you shall no longer be haughty
in my holy mountain.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:13 - those who are left in Israel;
they shall do no injustice
and speak no lies,
nor shall there be found in their mouth
a deceitful tongue.
For they shall graze and lie down,
and none shall make them afraid.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:16 - On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem:
“Fear not, O Zion;
let not your hands grow weak.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:4 - Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.' But they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:5 - Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:12 - Then the angel of the LORD said, ‘O LORD of hosts, how long will you have no mercy on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, against which you have been angry these seventy years?'
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:5 - “Say to all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted?
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:10 - do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:11 - But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:12 - They made their hearts diamond-hard lest they should hear the law and the words that the LORD of hosts had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of hosts.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:13 - “As I[fn] called, and they would not hear, so they called, and I would not hear,” says the LORD of hosts,
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:6 - Thus says the LORD of hosts: If it is marvelous in the sight of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my sight, declares the LORD of hosts?
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:17 - do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, declares the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:5 - Ashkelon shall see it, and be afraid;
Gaza too, and shall writhe in anguish;
Ekron also, because its hopes are confounded.
The king shall perish from Gaza;
Ashkelon shall be uninhabited;
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:8 - Then I will encamp at my house as a guard,
so that none shall march to and fro;
no oppressor shall again march over them,
for now I see with my own eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:10 - I will bring them home from the land of Egypt,
and gather them from Assyria,
and I will bring them to the land of Gilead and to Lebanon,
till there is no room for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:6 - For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of this land, declares the LORD. Behold, I will cause each of them to fall into the hand of his neighbor, and each into the hand of his king, and they shall crush the land, and I will deliver none from their hand.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:16 - For behold, I am raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for those being destroyed, or seek the young or heal the maimed or nourish the healthy, but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:7 - “And the LORD will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not surpass that of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:2 - For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:17 - And if any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, there will be no rain on them.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:18 - And if the family of Egypt does not go up and present themselves, then on them there shall be no rain;[fn] there shall be the plague with which the LORD afflicts the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:19 - This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:2 - If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the LORD of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:15 - Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union?[fn] And what was the one God[fn] seeking?[fn] Godly offspring. So guard yourselves[fn] in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:16 - “For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her,[fn] says the LORD, the God of Israel, covers[fn] his garment with violence, says the LORD of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:5 - “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:10 - Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:11 - I will rebuke the devourer[fn] for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the LORD of hosts.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:18 - Then once more you shall see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 4:1 - [fn] “For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the LORD of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 4:6 - And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”[fn]
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