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ὡς — 1441x G5613 ὡς
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CONJ
Occurrences: 1141 times in 965 verses
Speech: Conjunction
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:5 - “For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:22 -

Then Yahweh God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us [fn]to know good and evil; and now, lest he send forth his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat and live forever”—

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:4 - The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:3 - “Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; as with the green plant, I give all to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:9 - He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before Yahweh.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:12 - and it will be when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife'; and they will kill me, but they will let you live.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:10 - Then Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the [fn]valley of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywherethis was before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt as you go to Zoar.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:16 - “And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth, so that if anyone can number the dust of the earth, then your seed can also be numbered.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6 - But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your servant-woman is in your [fn]hand; do to her what is good in your [fn]sight.” So Sarai afflicted her, and she fled from her presence.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:23 - Then Abraham came near and said, “Will You indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:25 - “Far be it from You to do [fn]such a thing, to put to death the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do justice?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:33 - And as soon as He had finished speaking to Abraham, Yahweh departed, and Abraham returned to his place.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:31 - Then the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man [fn]on earth to come in to us after the manner of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:17 - indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of his enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:4 - “And I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and I will give your seed all these lands; and by your seed all the nations of the earth [fn]shall be blessed;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:4 - and prepare a savory dish for me such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, so that my soul may bless you before I die.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:9 - “Go now to the flock and [fn]get for me two choice [fn]young goats from there, that I may prepare them as a savory dish for your father, such as he loves.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:12 - “Perhaps my father will feel me, then I will be as a mocker in his sight, and I will bring upon myself a curse and not a blessing.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:23 - And he did not recognize him because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands; so he blessed him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:27 - So he came near and kissed him; and he smelled the smell of his garments, and then he blessed him and said,

“See, the smell of my son

Is like the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed;

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:30 -

Now it happened that as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had hardly gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:14 - “And your seed will also be like the dust of the earth, and you will [fn]spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and in you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:17 - And he was afraid and said, “How fearsome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - Now it happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, Jacob came near and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well and gave water to the flock of Laban his mother's brother to drink.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:13 -

So it happened that when Laban heard the report of Jacob his sister's son, he ran to meet him, and he embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Then he recounted to Laban all these things.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:20 - So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they were in his sight but a few days because of his love for her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:25 -

Now it happened when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place and to my own land.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:38 - And he set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the trough, that is, in the watering channels, where the flocks came to drink; and they [fn]mated when they came to drink.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:2 - And Jacob saw the face of Laban, and behold, it was not friendly toward him as formerly.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:5 - and he said to them, “I see your father's face, that it is not friendly toward me as formerly, but the God of my father has been with me.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:15 - “Are we not counted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us and has also [fn]entirely consumed [fn]our purchase price.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:26 - Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done [fn]by deceiving me and carrying away my daughters like captives of the sword?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:12 - “For You said, ‘I will surely [fn]prosper you and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which is too great to be numbered.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:10 - And Jacob said, “No, please, if now I have found favor in your sight, then take my present from my hand, [fn]for I see your face as one sees the face of God, and you have received me favorably.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:7 - Now the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it; and the men were grieved, and they were very angry because he had done a [fn]disgraceful thing in Israel [fn]by lying with Jacob's daughter, for such a thing ought not to be done.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:15 - “Only on this condition will we consent to you: if you will become like us, in that every male among you be circumcised,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:16 - then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters for ourselves, and we will [fn]live with you and become one people.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:29 - And then it happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out. So she said, “What a breach you have made for yourself!” So he was named [fn]Perez.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:13 - Now it happened, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled outside,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:18 - and as I raised my voice and [fn]screamed, he left his garment beside me and fled outside.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:19 -

Now it happened that when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, “[fn]This is what your slave did to me,” his anger burned.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:13 - within three more days Pharaoh will [fn]lift up your head and restore you to your [fn]office; and you will put Pharaoh's cup into his hand according to your former custom when you were his cupbearer.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:30 - “The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly with us and took us for spies of the country.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:10 - So he said, “Now let it also be according to your words; he with whom it is found shall be my slave, but the rest of you shall be innocent.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:8 - “So now, it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has set me as a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:5 - “So now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:20 - And he blessed them that day, saying,

“By you Israel will pronounce blessing, saying,

‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh!'”

Thus he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:4 -

[fn]Uncontrolled 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 49:9 -

“Judah is a lion's whelp;

From the prey, my son, you have gone up.

He [fn]crouches, he lies down as a lion,

And as a lioness, who [fn]dares rouse him up?

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:20 - “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to do [fn]what has happened on this day, to keep many people alive.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:19 - Then the midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife can come to them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:4 - And Yahweh saw that he turned aside to look, so God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:12 - Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried out to Yahweh concerning the frogs which He had set upon Pharaoh.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:14 - “For this time I will send all My plagues against your heart and amongst your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:27 - that you shall say, ‘It is a Passover sacrifice to Yahweh who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians, but delivered our homes.'” And the people bowed low and worshiped.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:8 - “And you shall tell your son on that day, saying, ‘It is because of what Yahweh did for me when I came out of Egypt.'
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:11 -

“And it will be when Yahweh brings you to the land of the Canaanite, as He swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:17 -

Now it happened that when Pharaoh had let the people go, God did not guide them by the way of the land of the Philistines, even though it was near; for God said, “Lest the people change their minds when they see war, and return to Egypt.”

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:7 -

“And in the greatness of Your [fn]exaltation You pull down those who rise up against You;

You send forth Your burning anger, and it devours them as chaff.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:31 -

And the house of Israel named it [fn]manna, and it was like coriander seed, white, and its taste was like wafers with honey.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:32 - Then Moses said, “This is [fn]what Yahweh has commanded, ‘Let an omerful of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread that I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:18 - Now Mount Sinai was all in smoke because Yahweh descended upon it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain trembled violently.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:43 - “They shall be on Aaron and on his sons when they come into the tent of meeting or when they approach the altar to minister in the holy place, so that they do not incur [fn]guilt and die. It shall be a perpetual statute to him and to his seed after him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:9 - And it happened whenever Moses entered the tent, that the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent; and [fn]Yahweh would speak with Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:11 - Thus Yahweh used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend. Then [fn]Moses would return to the camp, and his attendant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:29 -

Now it happened when Moses was coming down from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets of the testimony were in Moses' hand as he was coming down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because of his speaking with Him.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:24 - They made pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet material and twisted linen on the hem of the robe.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:10 - ‘The second he shall then prepare as a burnt offering according to the legal judgment. So the priest shall make atonement on his behalf for his sin which he has [fn]committed, and it will be forgiven him.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:13 - ‘So the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin which he has [fn]committed from one of these, and it will be forgiven him; then the rest shall become the priest's, like the grain offering.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:16 - He also brought near the burnt offering and [fn]offered it according to the legal judgment.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:43 - “Then the priest shall look at him; and if the swelling of the infection is reddish-white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the [fn]body,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:34 -

“When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you for a possession, and I put a mark of leprosy on a house in the land of your possession,

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:24 - “And he shall bathe his [fn]body with water in a holy place and put on his clothes and come forth, and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people and make atonement for himself and for the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:18 - ‘You shall not take vengeance, and you shall not keep your anger against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:34 - ‘The sojourner who sojourns with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:27 - “When an ox or a sheep or a goat is born, it shall [fn]remain seven days [fn]with its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be accepted as a sacrifice of an offering by fire to Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:19 - ‘If a man [fn]injures his neighbor, just as he has done, so it shall be done to him:
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:35 -

‘Now if a brother of yours becomes poor and his [fn]means with regard to you falter, then you are to sustain him, like a sojourner or a foreign resident, that he may live with you.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:40 - ‘He shall be with you as a hired man, as if he were a foreign resident; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50 - ‘He then with his purchaser shall calculate from the year when he sold himself to him up to the year of jubilee; and the price of his sale shall correspond to the number of years. It is like the days of a hired man that he shall be with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:53 - ‘Like a man hired year by year he shall be with him; he shall not have dominion over him with brutality in your sight.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:36 - ‘As for those of you who may remain, I will also bring weakness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a driven leaf will pursue them, and even when no one is pursuing they will flee [fn]as though from the sword, and they will fall.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:14 -

‘Now if a man sets his house apart as holy to Yahweh, then the priest shall value it [fn]as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:17 -

“Then the tent of meeting shall set out with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps; just as they camp, so they shall set out, every man in his place by their standards.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:15 -

Now on the day that the tabernacle was erected the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony, and in the evening it was like the appearance of fire over the tabernacle until morning.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:25 - Then Yahweh came down in the cloud and spoke to him; and He took of the Spirit who was upon him and placed Him upon the seventy elders. And when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But they did not do it again.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:15 - As for the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the sojourner who sojourns with you, a perpetual statute throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the sojourner be before Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:20 - ‘Of the first of your [fn]dough you shall [fn]raise up a cake as a [fn]contribution offering; as the [fn]contribution offering of the threshing floor, so you shall raise it up.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:31 -

And it happened that as he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split open;

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:27 - ‘And your contribution offering shall be reckoned to you as the grain from the threshing floor or the full produce from the wine vat.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:30 - “And you shall say to them, ‘When you have raised up from it the best of it, then the rest shall be accounted to the Levites as the product of the threshing floor and as the product of the wine vat.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:4 - Then Moab said to the elders of Midian, “Now this assembly will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field.” And Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:10 -

“Who can number the dust of Jacob,

Or count the fourth part of Israel?

Let [fn]me die the death of the upright,

And let my end be like his!”

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:19 -

“God is not a man, that He should lie,

Nor a son of man, that He should repent;

Has He said, and will He not do it?

Or has He spoken, and will He not establish it?

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:22 -

“God brings them out of Egypt,

He is for them like the horns of the wild ox.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:24 -

“Behold, a people rises like a lioness,

And as a lion it lifts itself;

It will not lie down until it devours the prey,

And drinks the blood of the slain.”

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:5 -

How fair are your tents, O Jacob,

Your dwellings, O Israel!

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:8 -

“God brings him out of Egypt,

He is for him like the horns of the wild ox.

He will devour the nations who are his adversaries,

And will gnaw their bones in pieces,

And [fn]shatter them with his arrows.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:9 -

“He [fn]crouches, he lies down as a lion,

And as a [fn]lion, who [fn]dares rouse him?

Blessed is everyone who blesses you,

And cursed is everyone who curses you.”

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:1 -

These are the journeys of the sons of Israel, by which they came out from the land of Egypt by their armies, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:11 - ‘May Yahweh, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand-fold more than you are and bless you, just as He has [fn]promised you!
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:31 - and in the wilderness where you saw how Yahweh your God carried you, just as a man carries his son, in all the way which you have walked until you came to this place.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:44 - “And the Amorites who [fn]lived in that hill country came out to meet you and pursued you as bees do and crushed you from Seir to Hormah.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:30 - “But Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing for us to pass [fn]through his land, for Yahweh your God stiffened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, in order to give him over into your hand, as he is today.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:7 - “For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as is Yahweh our God whenever we call on Him?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:20 - “But Yahweh has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be a people for His own inheritance, as today.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:23 - “Now it happened that when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:26 - ‘For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:19 - the great trials which your eyes saw and the signs and the wonders and the mighty hand and the outstretched arm by which Yahweh your God brought you out. So shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:5 - “Thus you shall know in your heart that Yahweh your God was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:18 - “But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:3 - “So I made an ark of acacia wood and carved out two tablets of stone like the former ones and went up on the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:4 - and what He did to Egypt's army, to its horses and its chariots, when He made the water of the [fn]Red Sea to [fn]engulf them while they were pursuing you, and Yahweh made them perish [fn]utterly;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:15 -

“However, you may sacrifice and eat meat within any of your gates, [fn]whatever you desire, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:16 - “Only you shall not eat the blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:22 - “Just as a gazelle or a deer is eaten, so you will eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:24 - “You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:22 - “You shall eat it within your gates; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it, as a gazelle or a deer.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:23 - “Only you shall not eat its blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:15 -

“Yahweh your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers; you shall listen to him.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:26 - “But you shall do nothing to the girl; there is no sin in the girl worthy of death, for just as a man rises against his neighbor and murders him, so is this case.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:19 - and [fn]that He will set you high above all nations which He has made, for praise, a name, and beauty; and that you shall be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as He has spoken.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:3 - and write on them all the words of this law when you cross over, so that you may enter the land which Yahweh your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, [fn]promised you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:4 - “So it will be when you cross the Jordan, you shall set up on Mount Ebal, these stones, [fn]as I am commanding you today, and you shall coat them with lime.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:1 -

“Now it will be, if you diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I am commanding you today, Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:16 - for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:1 -

“So it will be, when all of these things have come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you cause these things to return to your heart in all the nations where Yahweh your God has banished you,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:2 -

“Let what I have learned drop as the rain,

My speech distill as the dew,

As the droplets on the fresh grass

And as the showers on the herb.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:8 -

“When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,

When He separated the sons of [fn]man,

He set the boundaries of the peoples

According to the number of the [fn]sons of Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:10 -

“He found him in a desert land,

And in the howling waste of a wilderness;

He encircled him; He cared for him;

He guarded him as the pupil of His eye.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:11 -

“Like an eagle that stirs up its nest,

That hovers over its young,

He spread His wings and caught them;

He carried them on His pinions.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:31 -

“Indeed their rock is not like our Rock,

Even our enemies [fn]themselves judge this.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:41 -

If I sharpen My [fn]flashing sword,

And My hand takes hold on judgment,

I will render vengeance on My adversaries,

And I will repay those who hate Me.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:20 -

Of Gad he said,

“Blessed is the one who enlarges Gad;

He lies down as a [fn]lion,

And tears the arm, also the top of the head.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:25 -

“Your locks will be iron and bronze,

And according to your days, so your fortitude will be.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:10 - And there has not yet arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew face to face,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:5 - “Now it happened when it was time to shut the gate at dark, that the men went out; I do not know where the men went. Pursue them quickly, for you may overtake them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:7 - So the men pursued them on the road to the Jordan to the fords; and as soon as those who were pursuing them had gone out, they shut the gate.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:14 - So the men said to her, “Our [fn]life [fn]for yours if you do not tell this business of ours; and it will be when Yahweh gives us the land that we will show lovingkindness and truth to you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:8 - “Moreover, you shall command the priests who are carrying the ark of the covenant, saying, ‘When you come to the edge of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:13 - “And it will be that when the soles of the feet of the priests who carry the ark of Yahweh, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan will be cut off, and the waters which are [fn]flowing down from above [fn]will stand in one heap.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:15 - and when those who carried the ark came into the Jordan, and the feet of the priests carrying the ark were dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the days of harvest),
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:7 - then you shall say to them, ‘Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh; when it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off.' So these stones shall become a memorial to the sons of Israel forever.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:11 - And it happened when all the people had completed crossing, that the ark of Yahweh and the priests crossed before the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:18 - So it happened when the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of Yahweh had come up from the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were [fn]lifted up to the dry ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and went over all its banks as before.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:1 -

Now it happened when all the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard how Yahweh had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the sons of Israel until [fn]they had crossed, that their hearts melted, and there was no spirit in them any longer because of the sons of Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:13 -

Now it happened when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand, and Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us or for our adversaries?”

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:5 - “And it will be that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city will fall down [fn]beneath itself, and the people will go up every man [fn]straight ahead.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:20 - So the people shouted, and [fn]the priests blew the trumpets; and when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down [fn]beneath itself, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight [fn]ahead, and they took the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:3 - Then they returned to Joshua and said to him, “Do not have all the people go up; only about two or three thousand men need go up to strike down Ai; do not have all the people toil up there, for they are few.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:5 - “Then I and all the people who are with me will come near the city. And it will be that when they come out to meet us as at the first, we will flee before them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:6 - “And they will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, ‘They are fleeing before us as at the first.' So we will flee before them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:14 - Now it happened that when the king of Ai saw it, the men of the city hurried and rose up early and went out to meet Israel in battle, he and all his people at the appointed place before the desert plain. But he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
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Now it happened that when Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field in the wilderness where they pursued them, and all of them fell by the edge of the sword until they were completely destroyed, then all Israel turned back to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.

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Now it happened when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country and in the [fn]Shephelah and on all the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, heard of it,

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:25 - “So now, behold, we are in your hands; do as it seems good and right in your sight to do to us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:1 -

Now it happened that when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and had devoted it to destruction (just as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king), and that the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were [fn]within their land,

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:20 - Now it happened when Joshua and the sons of Israel had finished striking them with a very great slaughter until they were completely destroyed, and the survivorsthose of them who survived[fn]had entered the fortified cities,
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Now it happened, when Jabin king of Hazor heard of it, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon and to the king of Shimron and to the king of Achshaph,

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:4 - So it happened that when the angel of Yahweh spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:19 - But it happened when the judge died, that they would turn back and act more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them and bow down to them; they did not abandon their practices or their stubborn ways.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:18 - And it happened when he had finished bringing the tribute near, that he sent away the people who had carried the tribute.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:8 -

[fn]God chose new leaders;

Then war was in the gates.

Not a shield or a spear was seen

Among forty thousand in Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:5 - For they would go up with their livestock and their tents; they would come in like locusts for number, both they and their camels were innumerable; and they came into the land to make it a ruin.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:27 - So Gideon took ten men of his servants and did as Yahweh had spoken to him; and now it happened that because he was too afraid of his father's household and the men of the city to do it by day, he did it by night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:5 - So he brought the people down to the water. And Yahweh said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps the water with his tongue as a dog laps, you shall set him aside by himself, and so also everyone who kneels to drink.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:12 - Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the sons of the east were lying in the valley as numerous as locusts; and their camels were without number, as numerous as the sand on the seashore.
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Now it happened that when Gideon heard the account of the dream and its interpretation, he bowed in worship. Then he returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Arise, for Yahweh has given the camp of Midian into your hands.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:17 - Then he said to them, “Look at me and do likewise. And behold, I will come to the outskirts of the camp, and it will be that just as I do so you do likewise.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:18 -

Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men were they whom you killed at Tabor?” And they said, “They were like you, each one [fn]resembling the son of a king.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:21 - Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Rise up yourself, and smite us; for as the man, so is his might.” So Gideon arose and killed Zebah and Zalmunna and took the crescent ornaments which were on their camels' necks.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:33 -

Then it happened, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the sons of Israel turned back and played the harlot with the Baals and made Baal-berith their god.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:17 - for my father fought for you and [fn]risked his life and delivered you from the hand of Midian;
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:36 - Then Gaal saw the people and said to Zebul, “Behold, people are coming down from the tops of the mountains.” But Zebul said to him, “You are seeing the shadow of the mountains as if they were men.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:48 - So Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him; and Abimelech took [fn]an axe in his hand and cut down a branch from the trees and lifted it and laid it on his shoulder. Then he said to the people who were with him, “What you have seen me do, hurry and do [fn]likewise.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:6 - Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, “A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of God, very awesome. And I did not ask him where he came from, nor did he tell me his name.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:7 - Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh cords that have not been dried, then I will become weak and be like any other man.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:11 - And he said to her, “If they bind me tightly with new ropes [fn]which have not been used for work, then I will become weak and be like any other man.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:12 - So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” Now the men lying in wait were sitting in the inner room. But he snapped [fn]the ropes from his arms like a thread.
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Then Delilah said to Samson, “Up to now you have deceived me and told me lies; tell me [fn]how you may be bound.” And he said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web [fn][and fasten it with a pin, then I will become weak and be like any other man.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:11 - And the Levite was willing to remain with the man, and the young man became to him like one of his sons.
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Then all the sons of Israel from Dan to Beersheba, including the land of Gilead, came out, and the congregation assembled as one man to Yahweh at Mizpah.

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Then all the people arose as one man, saying, “Not one of us will go to his tent, nor will any of us turn aside to his house.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:11 - Thus all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, united as one man.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:21 - and watch; and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to [fn]take part in the dances, then you shall come out of the vineyards, and each of you shall catch his wife from the daughters of Shiloh and go to the land of Benjamin.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:4 - They took for themselves Moabite women as wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. And they lived there about ten years.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:13 - Then she said, “May I find favor in your eyes, my lord, for you have comforted me and indeed have spoken to the heart of your servant-woman, though I am not like one of your servant-women.”
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So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an [fn]ephah of barley.

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:11 - And all the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May Yahweh grant the woman who is coming into your home to be like Rachel and Leah, both of whom built the house of Israel, and so you shall [fn]achieve [fn]excellence in Ephrathah and shall [fn]proclaim your name in Bethlehem.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:12 - “Moreover, may your house be like the house of Perez whom Tamar bore to Judah, through the seed which Yahweh will grant you by this young woman.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:2 -

“There is no one holy like Yahweh;

Indeed, there is no one besides You,

Nor is there any rock like our God.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:13 - And this was the legal judgment for the priests with the people: when any man was offering a sacrifice, the priest's young man would come while the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged fork in his hand.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:16 - Then the man would say to him, “They must surely offer up the fat in smoke [fn]first, and then take as much as your soul desires,” then he would say, “No, you shall give it now; and if not, I will take it by force.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:10 -

Then Yahweh came and stood and called as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel said, “Speak, for Your slave is listening.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:5 -

And it happened that as the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth was thrown into confusion.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:18 - And it happened that when he mentioned the ark of God, [fn]Eli fell off the seat backward beside the gate, and his neck was broken, and he died, for the man was old and heavy. Thus he judged Israel forty years.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:10 - So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And as the ark of God came to Ekron the Ekronites cried out, saying, “They have brought the ark of the God of Israel around to [fn]us, to put [fn]us and [fn]our people to death.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:11 - They sent therefore and gathered 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, so that it will not put [fn]us and [fn]our people to death.” For there was a deadly confusion throughout the city; the hand of God was very glorious there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:6 - “Why then do you [fn]harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh [fn]hardened their hearts? When He had abused them, did they not allow [fn]the people to go, and they went?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:1 -

And it happened when Samuel was old that he appointed his sons judges over Israel.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:6 - But the thing was evil in the sight of Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” And Samuel prayed to Yahweh.
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 until he comes because he must bless the sacrifice; afterward those who are invited will eat. So now, go up for you will find him at once.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:16 - “About this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be ruler over My people Israel; and he will save My people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have regarded My people because their cry has come to Me.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:26 - And they arose early; and at the [fn]breaking of dawn Samuel called to Saul on the roof, saying, “Get up, that I may send you away.” So Saul arose, and both he and Samuel went out into the street.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:27 - As they were going down to the edge of the city, Samuel said to Saul, “Say to the young man that he might pass before us and pass onwards, but you remain standing now, that I may cause you to hear the word of God.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:2 - “When you go from me today, then you will find two men close to Rachel's tomb in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say to you, ‘The donkeys which you went to search for have been found. Now behold, your father has [fn]ceased to be concerned about the donkeys and is anxious for you, saying, “What shall I do about my son?”'
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:5 - “Afterward you will come to [fn]the hill of God where the Philistine garrison is; and it shall be as soon as you have come there to the city, that you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and a lyre before them, and they will be prophesying.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:1 -

And Nahash the Ammonite came up and [fn]besieged Jabesh-gilead; and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Cut a covenant with us, and we will serve you.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:6 - Then the Spirit of God [fn]came upon Saul mightily when he heard these words, and [fn]he burned with anger exceedingly.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:7 - Then he took a pair of oxen and cut them in pieces and sent them throughout the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, “Whoever does not come out after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen.” Then the dread of Yahweh fell on the people, and they came out as one man.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:8 - “When Jacob went into Egypt and your fathers cried out to Yahweh, then Yahweh sent Moses and Aaron [fn]who brought your fathers out of Egypt and settled them in this place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:5 -

Now the Philistines assembled to fight with Israel, 30,000 chariots and 6,000 horsemen and people like the sand which is on the seashore in abundance; and they came up and camped in Michmash, east of Beth-aven.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:8 -

So he waited seven days, according to the appointed time set by Samuel, but Samuel did not come to Gilgal; and the people were scattering from him.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:10 - And as soon as he finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him and to [fn]greet him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:11 - But Samuel said, “What have you done?” And Saul said, “Because I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the appointed days, and that the Philistines were assembling at Michmash,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:13 - And Samuel said to Saul, “You have acted foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which He commanded you, for now Yahweh would have established your kingdom [fn]over Israel forever.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:15 -

Then Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul [fn]numbered the people who were present with him, about six hundred men.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:2 - And Saul was staying in the outskirts of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree which is in Migron. And the people who were with him were about six hundred men,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:7 - And his armor bearer said to him, “Do all that is in your heart; turn yourself, and here I am with you according to your heart.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:14 - And that first slaughter which Jonathan and his armor bearer made was about twenty men within about half a furrow in an [fn]acre of land.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:19 - And it happened that while Saul talked to the priest, the commotion in the camp of the Philistines continued and increased; so Saul said to the priest, “Withdraw your hand.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:23 - So Yahweh saved Israel that day, and the battle [fn]spread beyond Beth-aven.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:2 - “Thus says Yahweh of hosts, ‘I will [fn]punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way while he was coming up from Egypt.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:22 - And Samuel said,

“Has Yahweh as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices

As in obeying the voice of Yahweh?

Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,

And to heed than the fat of rams.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:29 - “Also the Eternal One of Israel will not lie or have regret; for He is not a man that He should have regret.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:7 - But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for [fn]God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:36 - “Your servant has struck down both the lion and the bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, since he has [fn]reproached the battle lines of the living God.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:15 - Then Saul saw that he was [fn]prospering greatly, so he dreaded him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:12 -

Then Jonathan said to David, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, be witness! When I have examined my father about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if there is good feeling toward David, shall I not then send to you and reveal it in your ear?

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:25 - And the king sat on his seat as usual, the seat by the wall; then Jonathan rose up, and Abner sat down by Saul's side, but David's place was missing.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:41 - When the young man was gone, David rose from the south side and fell on his [fn]face to the ground and bowed three times. And they kissed each other and wept together, but David wept more.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:42 - And Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, inasmuch as we have sworn to each other in the name of Yahweh, saying, ‘Yahweh will be between me and you, and between my seed and your seed forever.'” [fn]Then he rose and departed, while Jonathan went into the city.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:2 - Then everyone who was in distress, and everyone who [fn]was in debt, and everyone who was bitter of soul, gathered to him; and he became a commander over them. Now there were about four hundred men with him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:8 - “For all of you have conspired against me so that there is no one who reveals in my ear when my son cuts a covenant with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me or reveals in my ear that my son has caused my servant to rise up against me to lie in ambush, as it is this day.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:13 - Saul then said to him, “Why have you and the son of Jesse conspired against me, in that you have given him bread and a sword and have asked of God on his behalf, so that he would rise up against me by lying in ambush as it is this day?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:14 -

Then Ahimelech answered the king and said, “And who among all your servants is as faithful as David, even the king's son-in-law, who [fn]is captain over your guard, and is honored in your house?

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:13 - Then David and his men, about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah, and they went wherever they could go. Now it was told to Saul that David had escaped from Keilah, so he ceased going out in pursuit.
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Now when Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, saying, “Behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:4 - Then the men of David said to him, “Behold, this is the day of which Yahweh said to you, ‘Behold, I am about to give your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it seems good in your eyes.'” Then David arose and cut off the edge of Saul's robe secretly.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:10 - “Behold, this day your eyes have seen that Yahweh had given you today into my hand in the cave, and some said to kill you, but my eye had pity on you; and I said, ‘I will not send forth my hand against my lord, for he is the anointed of Yahweh.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:16 -

Now it happened that when David had finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, “Is this your voice, my son David?” Then Saul lifted up his voice and wept.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:18 - “And you have declared today that you have done good to me, that Yahweh surrendered me into your hand, and yet you did not kill me.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:13 - Then David said to his men, “Each of you gird on his sword.” So each man girded on his sword. And David also girded on his sword, and about four hundred men went up behind David, and two hundred stayed with the baggage.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:16 - “They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the time we were with them shepherding the sheep.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:26 -

“So now, my lord, as Yahweh lives and as your soul lives, since Yahweh has restrained you from [fn]shedding blood, and from saving yourself by your own hand, so now, let your enemies and those who seek evil against my lord, be as Nabal.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:36 -

Then Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; so she did not tell him anything small or great until the morning light.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:37 - But in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him so that he became as a stone.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:23 - “Now Yahweh will repay each man for his righteousness and his faithfulness; for Yahweh gave you into my hand today, but I was not willing to send forth my hand against the anointed of Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:9 - But the woman said to him, “Behold, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off those who are mediums and spiritists from the land. Why are you then laying a snare for my life to bring about my death?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:34 -

“Your hands were not bound, nor your feet put in fetters;

As one falls before the [fn]unrighteous, you have fallen.”

And all the people continued to weep over him.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:8 - Then they brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron and said to the king, “Behold, the head of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life; thus Yahweh has given my lord the king vengeance this day on Saul and his seed.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:10 - when one told me, saying, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,' and [fn]thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:20 - So David came to Baal-perazim, and there David struck them down; and he said, “Yahweh has broken through my enemies before me, like the breakthrough of waters.” Therefore he named that place [fn]Baal-perazim.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:1 -

Then David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:22 - “For this reason You are great, O Lord Yahweh; for there is none like You, and there is no God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:23 - “And what one nation on the earth is like Your people Israel, whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people and to make a name for Himself, and to do a great thing for You and awesome things for Your land, before Your people whom You have redeemed for Yourself from Egypt, from nations and their gods?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:3 -

“But the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb

Which he bought and nourished;

And it grew up together with him and his children.

It would eat his morsel of bread and drink of his cup and lie in his bosom,

And was like a daughter to him.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:13 - “As for me, where could I [fn]get rid of my reproach? And as for you, you will be like one of the wicked fools in Israel. So now, please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:28 -

Then Absalom commanded his young men, saying, “See now, when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,' then put him to death. Do not fear; have not I myself commanded you? Be strong and be [fn]valiant.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:2 - So Joab sent to Tekoa and [fn]brought a wise woman from there and said to her, “Please pretend to be a mourner, and put on mourning garments now, and do not anoint yourself with oil, but be like a woman who has been mourning for the dead many days;
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:13 - Then the woman said, “Why then have you thought up such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring back his banished one.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:25 -

Now in all Israel was no one as handsome as Absalom, so highly praised; from the sole of his foot to the top of his head there was no defect in him.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:26 - When he shaved the hair of his head (and it was at the end of every year that he shaved it, for it was heavy on him so he shaved it), he weighed the hair of his head at [fn]200 shekels by the king's weight.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:10 - But the king said, “What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah? If he curses, and if Yahweh has told him, ‘Curse David,' then who shall say, ‘Why have you done so?'”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:8 - Then Hushai said, “You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men and they are bitter of soul, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. And your father is a man of war, and will not spend the night with the people.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:11 - “But I counsel that all Israel be utterly gathered to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea in abundance, and that [fn]you personally go into battle.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:12 - “So we shall come to him in one of the places where he can be found, and we will set down on him as the dew falls on the ground; and of him and of all the men who are with him, not even one will be left.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:3 - But the people said, “You should not go out; for if we indeed flee, they will not set their heart on us; even if half of us die, they will not set their heart on us. But now [fn]you are worth ten thousand of us; so now it is better that you be ready to help us from the city.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:27 - And the watchman said, “I see that the running of the first one is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.” And the king said, “This is a good man and comes with good news.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:32 - Then the king said to the Cushite, “Is there peace with the young man Absalom?” And the Cushite answered, “Let the enemies of my lord the king, and all who rise up against you for evil, be as that young man!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:14 - Thus he inclined the hearts of all the men of Judah as one man, so they sent word to the king, saying, “Return, you and all your servants.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:27 - “Moreover, he has slandered your servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king is like the angel of God, therefore do what is good in your sight.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:36 - “Your servant would merely pass over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king compensate me with this reward?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:19 - There was war with the Philistines again at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim the Bethlehemite struck down [fn]Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:34 -

“He makes [fn]my feet like hinds' feet,

And sets me on my high places.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:43 -

“Then I beat them fine as the dust of the earth;

I pulverized and stamped them as the mire of the streets.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:4 -

Is as the light of the morning when the sun rises,

A morning without clouds,

From brightness of the sun after rain.'

With the tender grass springing from the earth,

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:21 - He had also struck down an Egyptian, [fn]an impressive man. Now in the Egyptian's hand was a spear, but he went down to him with a club and snatched the spear from the Egyptian's hand and killed him with his own spear.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:21 - “Otherwise it will be, as soon as my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be considered [fn]offenders.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:32 - “And Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he and killed them with the sword, but my father David did not know it: Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:6 - Then Solomon said, “You have shown great lovingkindness to Your slave David my father, according to how he walked before You in [fn]truth and righteousness and uprightness of heart toward You; and You have kept for him this great lovingkindness, that You have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:12 - behold, I have done according to your words. Behold, I have given you a wise and discerning heart, so that there has been no one like you before you, nor shall one like you arise after you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:13 - “I have also given you what you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there will not be any among the kings like you all your days.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:14 - “Now if you walk in My ways, keeping My statutes and commandments, as your father David walked, then I will prolong your days.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:19 - “And this woman's son died in the night because she lay on him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:29 -

And God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment and breadth of understanding in his heart, like the sand that is on the seashore.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:26 - And it was a [fn]handbreadth thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, as a lily blossom; it could hold [fn]two thousand baths.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:10 - Now it happened that when the priests came out of the holy place, the cloud filled the house of Yahweh,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:23 - And he said, “O Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no god like You in heaven above or upon earth beneath, keeping covenant and lovingkindness to Your slaves who walk before You with all their heart,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:24 - who have kept with Your [fn]servant, my father David, that which You have [fn]promised him; indeed, You have [fn]promised with Your mouth and have fulfilled it by Your hand as it is this day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:38 - whatever prayer or supplication is made by any man or by all Your people Israel, each of whom knows the [fn]affliction of his own heart, and spreads his [fn]hands toward this house;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:53 - “For You have separated them from all the peoples of the earth as Your inheritance, as You spoke by the hand of Moses Your [fn]servant, when You brought our fathers forth from Egypt, O Lord Yahweh.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:54 -

Now it happened that when Solomon had [fn]finished praying this entire prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling on his knees with his [fn]hands spread toward heaven.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:61 - “Let your heart therefore be [fn]wholly devoted to Yahweh our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as at this day.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:1 -

Now it happened when Solomon had completed building the house of Yahweh, and the king's house, and all [fn]that Solomon desired to do,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:27 - The king also made silver as plentiful as stones in Jerusalem, and he made cedars as plentiful as sycamore trees that are in the [fn]Shephelah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:6 - And Solomon did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and did not follow Yahweh fully, as David his father had done.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:27 - Now this was the reason why he [fn]raised his hand against the king: Solomon built the [fn]Millo, and closed up the breach of the city of his father David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:33 - because they have forsaken Me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the sons of Ammon; and they have not walked in My ways to do what is right in My sight and to keep My statutes and My judgments, as his father David did.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:43 - And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David, and his son Rehoboam became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:20 -

Now it happened when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, that they sent and called him to the congregation and made him king over all Israel. None but the tribe of Judah followed the house of David.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:4 - Now it happened that when the king heard the word of the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, “Seize him.” But his hand which he stretched out against him dried up, so that he could not draw it back to himself.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:3 - And he walked in all the sins of his father which he had committed before him; and his heart was not [fn]wholly devoted to Yahweh his God, like the heart of his father David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:5 - because David did what was right in the sight of Yahweh, and had not turned aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the case of Uriah the Hittite.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:11 - And Asa did what was right in the sight of Yahweh, like David his father.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:21 - Now it happened that when Baasha heard of it, he ceased building up Ramah and remained in Tirzah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:29 - Now it happened that as soon as he was king, he struck down all the household of Jeroboam. He did not leave to Jeroboam anyone who drew breath, until he had destroyed them, according to the word of Yahweh, which He spoke by the hand of His servant Ahijah the Shilonite,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:30 - and because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, because of his provocation with which he provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:34 - And he did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he made Israel sin.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:3 - behold, I am going to sweep away Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:13 - for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and which they made Israel sin, provoking Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their [fn]idols.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:18 - Now it happened that when Zimri saw that the city was captured, he went into the citadel of the king's house and burned the king's house over him with fire, and died,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:19 - because of his sins which he sinned, doing what is evil in the sight of Yahweh, walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, making Israel sin.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:17 -

Now it happened when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, “Is this you, you troubler of Israel?”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:29 - Now it happened when noon had passed, that they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice; but there was no voice, no one answered, and no [fn]one paid attention.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:31 - Then Elijah took twelve stones according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of Yahweh had come, saying, “Israel shall be your name.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:44 - Now it happened at the seventh time, that he said, “Behold, a cloud as small as a man's hand is coming up from the sea.” And he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘[fn]Prepare your chariot and go down, so that the rain does not stop you.'”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:13 - Now it happened that when Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave. And behold, a voice came to him and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:11 - Then the king of Israel answered and said, “Speak to him, ‘Let not him who girds on his armor boast like him who takes it off.'”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:39 - Now it happened that as the king was passing by, he cried out to the king and said, “Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and behold, a man turned aside and brought a man to me and said, ‘Guard this man; if for any reason he is missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a [fn]talent of silver.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:15 -

Now it happened that when Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:16 - Now it happened that when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab arose to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:19 - “And you shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “Have you murdered and also taken possession?”' And you shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “In the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth the dogs will lick up your blood, even yours.”'”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:22 - and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, because of the provocation with which you have provoked Me to anger, and because you have made Israel sin.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:25 -

Surely there was no one who sold himself to do what is evil in the sight of Yahweh like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:27 -

Now it happened when Ahab heard these words, that he tore his clothes and put [fn]on sackcloth and fasted, and he lay in sackcloth and went about [fn]despondently.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:29 - “Do you see how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the evil in his days, but I will bring the evil upon his house in his son's days.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:6 - Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle or shall I refrain?” And they said, “Go up, for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:17 - So he said,

“I saw all Israel

Scattered on the mountains,

Like sheep which have no shepherd.

And Yahweh said,

‘These have no master.

Let each of them return to his house in peace.'”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:32 - Now it happened that when the commanders of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “Surely it is the king of Israel,” and they turned aside to fight against him, and Jehoshaphat cried out.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:33 - So it happened that when the commanders of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:18 - Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:1 -

Now it happened when Yahweh was about to take up Elijah by a [fn]whirlwind to heaven, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:11 - As they were going along and talking, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire and horses of fire, and it separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a [fn]whirlwind to heaven.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:2 - And he did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, though not like his father and his mother; and he took away the sacred pillar of Baal which his father had made.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:7 - Then he went and sent word to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me to fight against Moab?” And he said, “I will go up; I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:15 - “So now bring me a musician.” And it came about, when the musician played, that the hand of Yahweh came upon him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:16 - Then he said, “At this season [fn]next year you will embrace a son.” And she said, “No, my lord, O man of God, do not lie to your servant-woman.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:17 -

Then the woman conceived and bore a son at that season [fn]the next year, as Elisha had said to her.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:25 - So she went and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel.

Now it happened that when the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to Gehazi his young man, “Behold, [fn]there is the Shunammite.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:6 -

And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying,

“So now as this letter comes to you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may cure him of his leprosy.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:7 -

Now it happened that when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to put to death and to make alive, that this man is sending word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? But know now, and see how he is seeking [fn]a quarrel against me.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:8 -

Now it happened when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent word to the king, saying, “Why have you torn your clothes? Now let him come to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:14 - So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a young boy and he was clean.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:20 -

Now it happened that when they had come into Samaria, Elisha said, “O Yahweh, open the eyes of these men, that they may see.” So Yahweh opened their eyes and they saw; and behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:21 - Then the king of Israel when he saw them, said to Elisha, “My father, shall I strike them down? Shall I strike them down?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:30 - Now it happened that when the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes—now he was passing by on the wall—and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth [fn]beneath on his [fn]body.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:1 -

Then Elisha said, “Listen to the word of Yahweh; thus says Yahweh, ‘About this time tomorrow a [fn]seah of fine flour will be sold for a [fn]shekel, and two [fn]seahs of barley for a [fn]shekel, in the gate of Samaria.'”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:7 - Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and forsook their tents and their horses and their donkeys, even the camp just as it was, and fled for their life.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:10 - So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city, and they told them, saying, “We came to the camp of the Arameans, and behold, there was no one there, nor the voice of man, only the horses tied and the donkeys tied, and the tents just as they were.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:18 - So it happened just as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, “Two [fn]seahs of barley for a shekel and a [fn]seah of fine flour for a shekel will be sold tomorrow about this time at the gate of Samaria.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:5 - Now it happened as he was recounting to the king how he had restored to life the one who was dead, that behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life was crying out to the king for her house and for her field. And Gehazi said, “My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:9 - ‘And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:22 - Now it happened that when [fn]Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” And he [fn]answered, “What peace, so long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her sorceries are so many?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:37 - and the corpse of Jezebel will be as dung on the face of the field in the [fn]property of Jezreel, so they cannot say, “This is Jezebel.”'”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:2 - “So now, when this letter comes to you, [fn]since your master's sons are with you, [fn]as well as the chariots and horses and a fortified city and the weapons,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:6 - Then he wrote a letter to them a second time saying, “If you are on my side, and you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men, your master's sons, and come to me about this time tomorrow at Jezreel.” Now the king's sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were rearing them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:7 - Now it happened that when the letter came to them, they took the king's sons and slaughtered them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him at Jezreel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:25 -

Now it happened that as soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the [fn]guard and to the royal officers, “Come in, strike them down; let none come out.” And they struck them down with the edge of the sword; and the [fn]guard and the royal officers threw them out and went to the [fn]inner room of the house of Baal.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:10 - Now it happened that when they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's scribe and the high priest came up and tied it in bags and counted the money which was found in the house of Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:7 - For he did not leave to Jehoahaz any people for the army except 50 horsemen and 10 chariots and 10,000 foot soldiers, for the king of Aram had caused them to perish and made them like the dust at threshing.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:2 - And he did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, only not as the kings of Israel who were before him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:32 - until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive oil and honey, that you may live and not die.” But do not listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:1 -

Now it happened that when King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and entered the house of Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:4 - And he built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My name.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:11 -

Now it happened that when the king heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:19 - because your heart was soft and you humbled yourself before Yahweh when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants that they should become an object of horror, and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I truly have heard you,” declares Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:9 -

Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother named him Jabez saying, “Because I bore him with pain.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:27 -

Now Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers did not have many sons, nor did all their family multiply like the sons of Judah.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:23 - He had also struck down an Egyptian, [fn]an impressive man, [fn]five cubits tall. Now in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam, but he went down to him with a club and snatched the spear from the Egyptian's hand and killed him with his own spear.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:8 -

From the Gadites, mighty men of valor separated themselves to David in the stronghold in the wilderness, men of war who had gone out for military duty, who could [fn]handle large shield and spear, and whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the gazelles on the mountains.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:22 - For day by day men came to David to help him, until there was a great camp like the camp of God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:11 - So they came up to [fn]Baal-perazim, and there David struck them down; and David said, “God has broken through my enemies by my hand, like the breakthrough of waters.” Therefore they named that place [fn]Baal-perazim.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:15 - And the sons of the Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles thereon, as Moses had commanded according to the word of Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:19 -

When you were only a few men in number,

Of little account, and sojourners in it,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:1 -

Now it happened when David inhabited his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I inhabit a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh is under tent curtains.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:13 - “I will be a father to him and he will be a son to Me; and I will not remove My lovingkindness from him, as I removed it from him who was before you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:17 - “And this was a small thing in Your eyes, O God; but You have spoken of the house of Your slave concerning the distant future, and have regarded me according to the standard of a man of high degree, O Yahweh God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:21 - “And what one nation in the earth is like Your people Israel, whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people, to make You a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed out of Egypt?
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:2 - So David said, “I will show lovingkindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed lovingkindness to me.” So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. And David's servants came into the land of the sons of Ammon to Hanun to comfort him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:5 - And there was war with the Philistines again, and Elhanan the son of Jair struck down Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:3 - But Joab said, “May Yahweh add to His people a hundred times as many as they are! But, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? Why does my lord seek this thing? Why should he be a cause of guilt to Israel?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:15 - And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it; but as he was about to destroy it, Yahweh saw and [fn]relented concerning the calamity, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough! Now relax your hand.” And the angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of [fn]Ornan the Jebusite.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:11 - “Now, my son, Yahweh be with you that you may be successful, and build the house of Yahweh your God just as He has spoken concerning you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:19 -

These were their assignments for their service when they came in to the house of Yahweh according to the legal judgment rendered to them by the hand of Aaron their father, just as Yahweh, the God of Israel, had commanded him.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:23 -

But David did not take up a count of those twenty years of age and under, because Yahweh had said He would multiply Israel as the stars of heaven.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:7 - ‘And I will establish his kingdom forever if he will be strong to do My commandments and My judgments, as [fn]is done now.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:15 - “For we are sojourners before You, and foreign residents, like all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:13 - in unison when the trumpeters and the singers were to make themselves heard with one voice to praise and to give thanks to Yahweh, and when they lifted up their voice accompanied by trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and when they praised Yahweh saying, “He indeed is good for His lovingkindness endures forever,” then the house, the house of Yahweh, was filled with a cloud,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:15 - who have kept with Your [fn]servant David, my father, that which You have [fn]promised him; indeed You have promised with Your mouth and have fulfilled it by Your hand, as it is this day.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:16 - “So now, O Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with Your servant David my father, that which You have promised him, saying, ‘You shall not have a man cut off from before Me who is to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your sons keep their way to walk in My law as you have walked before Me.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:30 - then listen from heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive, and give to each according to all his ways, whose heart You know, for You alone know the hearts of the sons of men,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:33 - then listen from heaven, from Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know Your name even to [fn]fear You, as do Your people Israel, and to know that Your name is called upon this house which I have built.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:1 -

Now when Solomon had [fn]finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of Yahweh filled the house.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:17 - “As for you, if you will walk before Me as your father David walked, even to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep My statutes and My judgments,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:18 - then I will establish your royal throne as I cut a covenant with your father David, saying, ‘[fn]You shall not have a man cut off as ruler in Israel.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:27 - The king also made silver as plentiful as stones in Jerusalem, and he made cedars as plentiful as sycamore trees that are in the [fn]Shephelah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:2 - And it happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was in Egypt where he had fled from the presence of King Solomon), Jeroboam returned from Egypt.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:12 -

So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day as the king had spoken, saying, “Return to me on the third day.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:1 -

Now it happened that when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and strong, he and all Israel with him forsook the law of Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:7 -

When Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves, the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves so I will not bring them to ruin, but I will grant them some measure of escape, and My wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:4 - but sought the God of his father, walked in His commandments, and did not act as Israel did.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:23 - Indeed, the sons of Ammon and Moab stood against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to devote them to destruction and to utterly eradicate them; and when they had finished with the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to bring one another to ruin.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:37 - Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat saying, “Because you have allied yourself with Ahaziah, Yahweh has destroyed your works.” So the ships were broken and could not go to Tarshish.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:7 - However, Yahweh was not willing to make the house of David a ruin because of the covenant which He had cut with David, and since He had promised to give a lamp to him and his sons forever.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:13 - but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot as the house of Ahab played the harlot, and you have also killed your brothers, [fn]your own family, who were better than you,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:19 - Now it happened in the course of time, at the end of two years, that his bowels came out because of his sickness and he died with this greatly painful disease. And his people made no fire for him like the fire for his fathers.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:8 - Now it happened when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, he found the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah's brothers attending to Ahaziah, and killed them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:11 - Now it happened that whenever the chest was brought in to the king's officer by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, then the king's scribe and the chief priest's officer would come, empty the chest, take it, and return it to its place. Thus they did daily and collected much money.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:22 - Thus Joash the king did not remember the lovingkindness which his father Jehoiada had shown him, but he killed his son. And as he died he said, “May Yahweh see and [fn]avenge!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:3 - Now it happened as soon as the kingdom was [fn]strong in his grasp, that he killed his servants who had struck down the king his father.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:4 - But he did not put their sons to death, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, which Yahweh commanded, saying, “Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor sons be put to death for their fathers, but each shall be put to death for his own sin.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:16 -

But when he became strong, his heart was so [fn]proud that he acted corruptly, and he was unfaithful to Yahweh his God. And he entered the temple of Yahweh to burn incense on the altar of incense.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:3 -

In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of Yahweh and repaired them.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:8 - “Therefore the wrath of Yahweh was against Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, of horror, and of hissing, as you see with your own eyes.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:29 -

Now at the completion of the burnt offerings, the king and all who were present with him bowed down and worshiped.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:10 -

So the [fn]couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulun, but they were laughing at them to scorn and mocking them.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:1 -

Now when all this was completed, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, shattered the pillars, cut the [fn]Asherim in pieces, and tore down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until the destruction was completed. Then all the sons of Israel returned to their cities, each to his possession.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:5 - As soon as the word spread forth, the sons of Israel provided in abundance the first fruits of grain, new wine, oil, honey, and of all the produce of the field; and they brought in abundantly the tithe of all.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:12 - And when he was in distress, he entreated Yahweh his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:19 - His prayer also and how God was entreated by him, and all his sin, his unfaithfulness, and the sites on which he built high places and erected the [fn]Asherim and the graven images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the chronicles of the [fn]Hozai.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:22 - And he did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had done, and Amon sacrificed to all the graven images which his father Manasseh had made, and he served them.
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Now it happened that when the king heard the words of the law, he tore his clothes.

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:64 -

The whole assembly together was 42,360,

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:69 - According to their ability, they gave to the treasury for the work 61,000 gold [fn]drachmas and 5,000 silver [fn]minas and 100 priestly tunics.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:1 -

Then the seventh month came, and the sons of Israel were in the cities. And the people gathered together as one man to Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:4 - They celebrated the Feast of [fn]Booths, as it is written, and offered [fn]the fixed number of burnt offerings daily, according to the legal judgment, as each day required;
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:2 - so they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers' households and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we, like you, seek your God; and we have been sacrificing to Him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us up here.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:3 - But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of fathers' households of Israel said to them, “You have nothing in common with us in building a house to our God; but we ourselves will together build to Yahweh, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus, the king of Persia has commanded us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:18 -

“And whatever seems good to you and to your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and gold, you may do according to the will of your God.

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“And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God which is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges that they may judge all the people who are in the province beyond the River, even all those who know the laws of your God; and to anyone who does not know the laws, you shall make them known.

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:28 - and has extended lovingkindness to me before the king and his counselors and before all the king's mighty princes. Thus I was strengthened according to the hand of Yahweh my God upon me, and I gathered [fn]chief men from Israel to go up with me.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:18 - So, according to the good hand of our God upon us, they brought us a man of insight of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel, namely Sherebiah, and his sons and brothers, 18 men;
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:1 -

Now when these things had been completed, the princes approached me, saying, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, according to their abominations, those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians and the Amorites.

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:3 - When I heard about this matter, I tore my garment and my robe, and pulled some of the hair from my head and my beard, and sat down in consternation.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:7 - “Since the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt, and on account of our iniquities we, our kings and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to plunder and to [fn]open shame, as it is this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:13 - “After all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and our great guilt, since You our God have requited us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us an escaped remnant as this,
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:15 - “O Yahweh, the God of Israel, You are righteous, for we have been left an escaped remnant, as it is this day; behold, we are before You in our guilt, for no one can stand before You because of this.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:1 -

Now while Ezra was praying and making confession, weeping and prostrating himself before the house of God, a very large assembly, men, women, and children, gathered to him from Israel; for the people wept bitterly.

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:3 - “So now let us cut a covenant with our God to put away all the wives and [fn]their children, according to the counsel of [fn]my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:8 - and that whoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the prince and the elders, all his possessions should be devoted to destruction and he himself separated from the assembly of the exiles.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:8 - and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the fortress which is by the house of God, for the wall of the city and for the house to which I will go.” And the king granted them to me because the good hand of my God was on me.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:12 - Now it happened when the Jews who lived near them came and said to us ten times, “[fn]They will come up against us from every place where you may turn,”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:5 - “But now our flesh is like the flesh of our brothers, our children like their children. Yet behold, we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters are forced into subjugation, and we have no power in our hands to help, and our fields and vineyards belong to others.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:11 - “Please, give back to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money and of the grain, the new wine and the oil that you are exacting from them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:12 - Then they said, “We will give it back and will require nothing from them; we will do exactly as you are saying.” So I called the priests and made them swear that they would do according to this word.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:3 - So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:4 - And they sent messages to me four times in this manner, and I responded to them in the same manner.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:8 -

Then I sent a message to him, saying,

“Such words as you are saying have not been done, but you are devising them in your own heart.”

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:14 - Remember, O my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these works of theirs, and also Noadiah the prophetess and the rest of the prophets who were trying to make me afraid.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:2 - that I commanded Hanani my brother and Hananiah the commander of the fortress, to be over Jerusalem, for he was a faithful man and feared God more than many.
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The whole assembly together was 42,360,

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:1 -

And all the people gathered as one man at the square which was in front of the Water Gate, and they said to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses which Yahweh had commanded to Israel.

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Then Nehemiah, who was the [fn]governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites, who provided the people with understanding, said to all the people, “This day is holy to Yahweh your God; do not mourn or weep.” For all the people were weeping when they heard the words of the law.

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:10 -

“Then You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh,

Against all his servants and all the people of his land;

For You knew that they acted presumptuously toward them,

And made a name for Yourself as it is this day.

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“You made their sons numerous as the stars of heaven,

And You brought them into the land

Which You had said for their fathers to enter and possess.

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“So their sons entered and possessed the land.

And You subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites,

And You gave them into their hand, with their kings and the peoples of the land,

To do with them according to their desire.

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“But as soon as they had rest, they returned to do evil before You;

Therefore You forsook them in the hand of their enemies, so they had dominion over them.

Then they returned and cried to You. And You listened from heaven,

And many times You delivered them according to Your compassion,

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:37 -

“Its abundant produce is for the kings

Whom You have put over us because of our sins;

They also rule over our bodies

And over our cattle according to their desire,

So we are in great distress.

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:34 -

Likewise we cast lots for the supply of wood among the priests, the Levites, and the people, in order to bring it to the house of our God, according to our fathers' households, at fixed times annually, to burn on the altar of Yahweh our God, as it is written in the law;

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:36 - and to bring to the house of our God the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, and the firstborn of our herds and our flocks as it is written in the law, for the priests who are ministering in the house of our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:45 - And they kept their responsibility given by their God and the responsibility of cleansing, together with the singers and the gatekeepers, according to the commandment of David and his son Solomon.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:3 - So when they heard the law, they separated all foreigners from Israel.
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Thus I cleansed them from everything foreign and ensured that the responsibilities stood for the priests and the Levites, each in his work,

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:15 - “According to law, what is to be done with Queen Vashti, because she did not do the declaration of King Ahasuerus delivered by the hand of the eunuchs?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:17 - “For the word about the queen will get out to all the women causing them to despise their husbands in their eyes by saying, ‘King Ahasuerus said for Queen Vashti to be brought in to his presence, but she did not come.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:1 -

After these things when the wrath of King Ahasuerus had subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what had been decided against her.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:11 - And the king said to Haman, “The silver is [fn]yours, and the people also, to do with them according to what is good in your eyes.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:12 -

Then the king's scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and it was written just as Haman commanded to the king's satraps, to the governors who were over each province, and to the princes of each people, each province according to its script, each people according to its tongue, being written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king's signet ring.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:8 - He also gave him a copy of the written law which had been given in Susa for their destruction, in order to show Esther and to tell her and to command her to go in to the king to implore his favor and to seek him out for her people.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:14 - “For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, and you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not reached royalty for such a time as this?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:1 -

Now it happened on the third day, that Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king's house in front of the king's [fn]rooms, and the king was sitting on his royal throne in the [fn]throne room, opposite the entrance to his house.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:2 - Now it happened that when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, she advanced in favor in his eyes; and the king extended to Esther the golden scepter which was in his hand. So Esther came near and [fn]reached out and touched the top of the scepter.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:11 - Then Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches and the [fn]number of his sons and every instance where the king had magnified him and how he had [fn]advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:2 - And it was found written what Mordecai had told concerning Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs from those who were doorkeepers, that they had sought to send forth their hand against King Ahasuerus.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:8 - “Now you write to the Jews, according to what is good in your eyes, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's signet ring; for a written decree which is written in the name of the king and sealed with the king's signet ring may not be turned back.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:11 - [fn]In them the king gave the Jews who were in each and every city the right to assemble and to make a stand for their lives, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish the entire military force of any people or province which would act as their adversaries, including little ones and women, and to plunder their spoil,
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:25 - But when it came before the king, he said by letter that his evil scheme, which he had [fn]devised against the Jews, should return on his own head and that he and his sons should be hanged on the [fn]gallows.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:5 - Now it happened when the days of feasting had completed their cycle, that Job would send and set them apart as holy. And he would rise up early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, “Perhaps my sons have sinned and [fn]cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:6 -

Now it was the day that the sons of God came to stand before [fn]Yahweh, and [fn]Satan also came among them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:13 -

Now it happened that on the day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the firstborn,

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:21 - And he said,

“Naked I came from my mother's womb,

And naked I shall return there.

Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away.

Blessed be the name of Yahweh.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:1 -

Again it was the day that the sons of God came to stand before Yahweh, and Satan also came among them to stand himself before Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:3 -

“For then it would be heavier than the sand of the seas;

Therefore my words have been rash.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:25 -

“How painful are upright words!

But what does your reproof prove?

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:4 -

“If I lie down I say,

‘When shall I arise?'

But the twilight continues,

And I am saturated with tossing until dawn.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:8 -

Who alone stretches out the heavens,

And [fn]tramples down the waves of the sea;

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:6 -

“The tents of the destroyers are complacent,

And those who provoke God are secure,

[fn]Whom God brings into their power.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:25 -

“Will You cause a driven leaf to tremble?

Or will You pursue the dry chaff?

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:14 -

“What is man, that he should be pure,

Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:33 -

“He will drop off his unripe grape like the vine,

And will cast off his flower like the olive tree.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:11 -

“They send forth their little ones like the flock,

And their children skip about.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:24 -

And put your [fn]gold in the dust,

And the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks,

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:14 -

“The murderer arises at dawn;

He kills the afflicted and the needy,

And at night he is as a thief.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:10 -

“Will he take delight in the Almighty?

Will he call on God at all times?

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:3 -

When His lamp shone over my head,

And by His light I walked through darkness,

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:14 -

“As through a wide breach they come,

[fn]Amid the storm they roll on.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:15 -

“Did not He who made me in the womb make him,

And the same one fashion us in the womb?

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(But from my youth he grew up with me as with a father,

And from the womb of my mother I guided her),

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:6 -

“Behold, I belong to God like you;

I too have been [fn]formed out of the clay.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:15 -

“In a dream, a vision of the night,

When deep sleep falls on men,

While they slumber in their beds,

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:5 -

“Look at the heavens and see;

And perceive the clouds—they are higher than you.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:14 -

“How much less when you say you do not perceive Him,

The case is before Him, and you must wait for Him!

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:10 -

“From the breath of God ice is made,

And the expanse of the waters is frozen.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:18 -

“Can you, with Him, spread out the skies,

Strong as a molten mirror?

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:17 -

“It hangs its tail like a cedar;

The sinews of its thighs are knit together.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:24 -

“Its heart is as hard as a stone,

Even as hard as a lower millstone.

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“Clubs are regarded as stubble;

It laughs at the rattling of the javelin.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 1:3 -

And he will be like a tree firmly planted by [fn]streams of water,

Which yields its fruit in its season

And its [fn]leaf does not wither;

And [fn]in whatever he does, he prospers.

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The wicked are not so,

But they are like chaff which the wind drives away.

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‘You shall [fn]break them with a [fn]rod of iron,

You shall shatter them like a potter's vessel.'”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 5:12 -

For it is You who blesses the righteous one, O Yahweh,

You surround him with favor as with a large shield.

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Lest he tear [fn]my soul like a lion,

Rending me in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:1 -

For the choir director. According to the Gittith. A Psalm of David.

O Yahweh, our Lord,

How majestic is Your name in all the earth,

Who [fn]displays Your splendor above the heavens!

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:9 -

O Yahweh, our Lord,

How majestic is Your name in all the earth!

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He lies in wait in a hiding place as a lion in his [fn]lair;

He lies in wait to catch the afflicted;

He catches the afflicted when he draws him into his net.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 11:1 -

For the choir director. Of David.

In Yahweh I take refuge;

How can you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your mountain;

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:8 -

Keep me as [fn]the apple of the eye;

Hide me in the shadow of Your wings

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He makes my feet like hinds' feet,

And sets me upon my high places.

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Then I beat them fine as the dust before the wind;

I emptied them out as the mire of the streets.

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Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber;

It rejoices as a strong man to run his course.

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You will make them as a fiery oven in the time of your [fn]anger;

Yahweh will swallow them up in His wrath,

And fire will devour them.

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They open wide their mouth at me,

As a lion that tears and roars.

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My strength is dried up like a potsherd,

And my tongue cleaves to my jaws;

And You lay me [fn]in the dust of death.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:5 -

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;

You [fn]have anointed my head with oil;

My cup overflows.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 29:6 -

He makes Lebanon skip like a calf,

And Sirion like a young wild ox.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:19 -

How great is Your goodness,

Which You have stored up for those who fear You,

Which You have worked for those who take refuge in You,

Before the sons of men!

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Do not be as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding,

Whose harness are bit and bridle to control them,

Otherwise they will not come near you.

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He gathers the waters of the sea [fn]as a heap;

He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

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I walked about as though it were my friend or brother;

I bowed down [fn]mourning, as one who sorrows for a mother.

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How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God!

And the sons of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings.

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He will bring forth your righteousness as the light

And your judgment as the noonday.

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Resh

I have seen a wicked, ruthless man

Spreading himself like a luxuriant [fn]tree in its native soil.

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“With reproofs You chasten a man for iniquity;

You consume as a moth what is precious to him;

Surely every man is vanity. Selah.

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You give us as sheep [fn]to be eaten

And have scattered us among the nations.

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But for Your sake we are killed all day long;

We are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

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[fn]Panic seized them there,

Anguish, as of a woman in childbirth.

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As sheep they are appointed for Sheol;

Death will shepherd them;

And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning,

And their form shall be for Sheol to consume,

Far away from his habitation.

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You have taken account of my wanderings;

Put my tears in Your bottle.

Are they not in Your book?

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Let them flow away like water that runs off;

When he [fn]aims his arrows, let them be as [fn]headless shafts.

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They return at evening, they howl like a dog,

And go around the city.

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They return at evening, they howl like a dog,

And go around the city.

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How long will you assail a man,

That you may murder him, all of you,

Like a leaning wall, like a fence thrust down?

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Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword.

They aimed bitter speech as their arrow,

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Say to God, “How [fn]fearsome are Your works!

Because of the abundance of Your strength Your enemies will [fn]cower before You.

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For You have tested us, O God;

You have refined us as silver is refined.

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As smoke is driven away, so drive them away;

As wax melts before the fire,

So let the wicked perish before God.

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[fn]May he come down like rain upon the mown grass,

Like showers that water the earth.

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A Psalm of Asaph.

Surely God is good to Israel,

To those who are pure in heart!

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Their eye [fn]bulges from fatness;

The delusions of their heart overflow.

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Each seems like one who lifts up

[fn]An axe against the undergrowth of trees.

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And now its carved work altogether

They smash with hatchet and [fn]hammers.

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O God, Your way is holy;

What god is great like God?

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You led Your people like a flock

By the hand of Moses and Aaron.

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And not be like their fathers,

A stubborn and rebellious generation,

A generation that did not [fn]prepare its heart

And whose spirit was not faithful to God.

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He was splitting the rocks in the wilderness

And so gave them abundant drink like the ocean depths.

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He brought forth streams also from the cliff face

And caused waters to run down like rivers.

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When He performed His signs in Egypt

And His miracles in the field of Zoan,

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But He led forth His own people like sheep

And guided them in the wilderness like a flock;

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Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep,

As if He were a warrior [fn]overcome by wine.

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And He built His sanctuary like the heights,

Like the earth which He has founded forever.

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They have poured out their blood like water round about Jerusalem;

And there was no one to bury them.

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How long, O Yahweh? Will You be angry forever?

Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

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“Nevertheless you will die like men

And you will fall like any one of the princes.”

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Do to them as to Midian,

As to Sisera, and Jabin at the river of Kishon,

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Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb

And all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

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O my God, make them like the [fn]whirling dust,

Like chaff before the wind.

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Like fire that burns the forest

And like a flame that burns up the mountains,

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For the choir director. According to the [fn]Gittith. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.

How lovely are Your dwelling places,

O Yahweh of hosts!

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And singers, just like the dancers, will all say,

“All my springs are in you.”

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I am counted among those who go down to the pit;

I am like a man without strength,

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They have surrounded me like water all day long;

They have encompassed me altogether.

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You Yourself crushed [fn]Rahab like one who is slain;

You scattered Your enemies with Your strong arm.

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“So I will set up his seed to endure forever

And his throne as the days of heaven.

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“His seed shall endure forever

And his throne as the sun before Me.

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“It shall be established forever like the moon,

And the witness in the sky is faithful.” [fn]Selah.

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How long, O Yahweh?

Will You hide Yourself forever?

Will Your wrath burn like fire?

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For a thousand years in Your sight

Are like yesterday when it passes by,

[fn]Or as a watch in the night.

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For all our days have declined in Your fury;

We have finished our years like a [fn]sigh.

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How great are Your works, O Yahweh!

Your [fn]thoughts are very deep.

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That when the wicked flourished like grass

And all the workers of iniquity blossomed,

It was only that they might be destroyed forevermore.

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But You have raised up my horn like that of the wild ox;

I have [fn]been anointed with fresh oil.

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The righteous man will [fn]flourish like the palm tree,

He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

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Do not harden your hearts, as at [fn]Meribah,

As in the day of [fn]Massah in the wilderness,

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“Therefore I swore in My anger,

They shall never enter into My rest.”

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Mem

Oh how I love Your law!

It is my meditation all the day.

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Jerusalem, which is built

As a city joined altogether;

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Behold, as the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master,

As the eyes of a servant-girl to the hand of her mistress,

So our eyes look to Yahweh our God,

Until He is gracious to us.

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Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the trapper;

The snare is broken and we have escaped.

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A Song of Ascents.

Those who trust in Yahweh

Are as Mount Zion, which will not be shaken but will abide forever.

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A Song of Ascents.

When Yahweh [fn]returned [fn]the captive ones of Zion,

We were like those who dream.

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Restore our captivity, O Yahweh,

As the [fn]streams in the Negev.

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Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine

In the innermost parts of your house,

Your children like olive plants

All around your table.

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Let them be like grass upon the rooftops,

Which dries up before it [fn]grows up;

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Surely I have soothed and quieted my soul,

Like a weaned child with his mother,

Like a weaned child is my soul [fn]within me.

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How he swore to Yahweh

And vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob,

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It is like the good oil upon the head,

Coming down upon the beard,

Aaron's beard,

Coming down upon the edge of his robes.

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It is like the dew of Hermon

Coming down upon the mountains of Zion;

For there, Yahweh commanded the blessing—life forever.

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Even the darkness is not too dark for You,

And the night is as bright as the day.

Darkness and light are alike to You.

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May my prayer be established as incense before You;

The lifting up of my hands as the evening offering.

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For the enemy has pursued my soul;

He has crushed my life to the ground;

He has made me inhabit dark places, like those who have long been dead.

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I stretch out my hands to You;

My soul reaches for You like a weary land. [fn]Selah.

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That our sons would be as grown-up plants in their youth,

And our daughters as corner pillars [fn]fashioned as for a palace;

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:4 -

If you seek her as silver

And search for her as for hidden treasures;

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She is a tree of life to those who seize her,

And all those who hold her fast are blessed.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:8 -

Prepares her food in the summer

And gathers her provision in the harvest.

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When you walk about, [fn]they will lead you;

When you sleep, [fn]they will keep watch over you;

And when you awake, [fn]they will speak to you.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:18 -

A man lacking a heart of wisdom strikes his [fn]hands in pledge

And becomes guarantor in the presence of his neighbor.

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The first [fn]to plead his case seems right,

Until [fn]another comes and examines him.

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A brother offended is harder to win over than a strong city,

And contentions are like the bars of a citadel.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:13 - And I saw that there is an advantage in wisdom over simpleminded folly as light has an advantage over darkness.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:15 - Then I said in my heart, “As is the fate of the fool, so will my fate be also. Why then have I been extremely wise?” So I said in my heart, “This too is vanity.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:19 - For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same fate for each of them. As one dies so dies the other, and they all have the same breath. So there is no advantage for man over beast, for all is [fn]vanity.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:15 - As he had come naked from his mother's womb, so will he return as he came. He will carry nothing from the fruit of his labor that he can bring in his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:6 -

For as the crackling sound of thorn bushes under a pot,

So is the laughter of the fool;

And this too is vanity.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:12 -

For wisdom is a shadow of protection as money is a shadow of protection,

And the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the lives of its masters.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:14 -

There is vanity which is done on the earth, that is, there are righteous men to whom it [fn]happens according to the works of the wicked. On the other hand, there are wicked men to whom it [fn]happens according to the works of the righteous. I say that this too is vanity.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:1 -

For I have given all this to my heart and explain [fn]it that righteous men, wise men, and their service are in the hand of God. Man does not know whether it will be love or hatred; anything may be before him.

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It is the same for all. There is one fate for the righteous and for the wicked; for the good, for the clean and for the unclean; for the man who offers a sacrifice and for the one who does not sacrifice. As the good man is, so is the sinner; as the swearer is, so is the one who [fn]is afraid to swear.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:10 -

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no working or explaining or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol where you are going.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:12 - Moreover, man does not know his time: like fish seized in an evil net and birds seized in a trap, so the sons of men are ensnared at an evil time when it suddenly falls on them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:5 -

There is an evil I have seen under the sun, like a mistake which goes forth from the one in power

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:7 - I have seen slaves riding on horses and princes walking like slaves on the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:5 - Just as you do not know [fn]the path of the wind and how bones are formed in the womb of the [fn]pregnant woman, so you do not know the work of God who works all things.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:7 - then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the [fn]spirit will return to God who gave it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:11 -

The words of wise men are like goads, and masters of these collections are like [fn]well-driven nails; they are given by one Shepherd.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:5 -

[fn]I am black but lovely,

O daughters of Jerusalem,

Like the tents of Kedar,

Like the curtains of Solomon.

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“Tell me, O you whom my soul loves,

Where do you shepherd your flock,

Where do you make it lie down at noon?

For why should I be like one who [fn]veils herself

Beside the flocks of your companions?”

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“Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments,

Your neck with strings of [fn]beads.”

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:2 -

[fn]Like a lily among the thorns,

So is my darling among the daughters.”

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:3 -

[fn]Like an [fn]apple tree among the trees of the forest,

So is my beloved among the sons.

In his shade I had great desire and sat down,

And his fruit was sweet to my [fn]taste.

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“Scarcely had I passed them by

When I found him whom my soul loves;

I seized him and would not let him go

Until I had brought him to my mother's house,

And into the chamber of her who conceived me.”

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:6 -

[fn]Who is this coming up from the wilderness

Like columns of smoke,

As rising incense of myrrh and frankincense,

With all scented powders of the merchant?

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[fn]Behold, you are beautiful, my darling,

Behold, you are beautiful!

Your eyes are like doves behind your veil;

Your hair is like a flock of goats

That have leapt down from Mount Gilead.

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“Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn ewes

Which have come up from their washing,

All of which bear twins,

And not one among them has [fn]lost her young.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:3 -

“Your lips are like a scarlet thread,

And your mouth is lovely.

Your temples are like a slice of a pomegranate

Behind your veil.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:4 -

“Your neck is like the tower of David,

Built [fn]with rows of stones

On which are hung one thousand shields,

All the small shields of the mighty men.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:5 -

“Your two breasts are like two fawns,

Twins of a gazelle

Which [fn]feed among the lilies.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:11 -

“Your lips, my bride, drip honey from the comb;

Honey and milk are under your tongue,

And the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:11 -

“His head is like gold, fine gold;

His locks are like clusters of dates

And black as a raven.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:12 -

“His eyes are like doves

Beside streams of water,

Washed in milk,

And sitting in their setting.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:13 -

“His cheeks are like a bed of spices,

Towers of sweet-scented herbs;

His lips are lilies

Dripping with liquid myrrh.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:15 -

“His legs are pillars of marble

Set on bases of fine gold;

His appearance is like Lebanon

Choice as the cedars.

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[fn]You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my darling,

As lovely as Jerusalem,

As majestic as [fn]an army with banners.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:5 -

“Turn your eyes away from me,

For they have overwhelmed me;

Your hair is like a flock of goats

That have leapt down from Gilead.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:6 -

“Your teeth are like a flock of ewes

Which have come up from their washing,

All of which bear twins,

And not one among them has [fn]lost her young.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:7 -

“Your temples are like a slice of a pomegranate

Behind your veil.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:10 -

‘Who is this that looks down like the dawn,

As beautiful as the full moon,

As pure as the sun,

As majestic as [fn]an army with banners?'

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:13 -

[fn],[fn]Come back, come back, O Shulammite;

Come back, come back, that we may behold you!”

[fn]Why should you behold the Shulammite,

As at the dance of [fn]the two companies?

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:3 -

“Your two breasts are like two fawns,

Twins of a gazelle.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:4 -

“Your neck is like a tower of ivory,

Your eyes like the pools in Heshbon

By the gate of Bath-rabbim;

Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon,

Which faces toward Damascus.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:5 -

“Your head [fn]crowns you like Carmel,

And the flowing locks of your head are like purple threads;

The king is captivated by your tresses.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:8 -

“I said, ‘I will climb the palm tree;

I will seize its fruit stalks.'

Oh, may your breasts be like clusters of the vine,

And the fragrance of your [fn]breath like [fn]apples,

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:9 -

And your [fn]mouth like the best wine!”

[fn]It goes down smoothly for my beloved,

Flowing gently through the lips of those who fall asleep.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:6 -

“Put me like a [fn]seal over your heart,

Like a seal on your arm.

For love is as strong as death,

[fn]Jealousy is as severe as Sheol;

Its flashes are flashes of fire,

[fn]The very flame of [fn]Yah.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:10 -

[fn]I was a wall, and my breasts were like towers;

Then I became in his eyes as one who finds peace.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:16 -

In that day the Egyptians will become like women, and they will tremble and be in dread because of the waving of the hand of Yahweh of hosts, which He is going to wave over them.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:1 -

The wilderness and the desert will be delighted,

And the [fn]Arabah will rejoice and flourish;

Like the crocus

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:3 -

“I clothe the heavens with blackness

And make sackcloth their covering.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:7 -

Even now Lord Yahweh helps Me,

Therefore, I am not dishonored;

Therefore, I have set My face like flint,

And I know that I will not be ashamed.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:10 -

“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven,

And do not return there without watering the earth

And making it bear and sprout,

And giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:1 -

The righteous man perishes, and no man puts it upon his heart;

And men of lovingkindness are gathered away, while no one understands.

For the righteous man is gathered away from evil,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:10 -

And if you [fn]offer your soul to the hungry

And satisfy the soul of the afflicted,

Then your light will rise in darkness

And your thick darkness will become like midday.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:18 -

According to [fn]what they deserve, [fn]so He will pay in full,

Wrath to His adversaries, [fn]what is deserved to His enemies;

To the coastlands He will [fn]pay what they deserve.

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I will rejoice greatly in Yahweh;

My soul will rejoice in my God,

For He has clothed me with garments of salvation,

He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness,

As a bridegroom decks himself with a headdress,

And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:16 - “I will speak My judgments on them concerning all their evil, whereby they have forsaken Me and have burned incense to other gods and worshiped the works of their own hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:18 - “Now behold, I have given you today as a fortified city and as a pillar of iron and as walls of bronze against the whole land, to the kings of Judah, to its princes, to its priests, and to the people of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:26 -

“As the thief is shamed when he is found,

So the house of Israel is shamed;

They, their kings, their princes,

And their priests and their prophets,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:30 -

“In vain I have struck your sons;

They received no discipline.

Your sword has devoured your prophets

Like a destroying lion.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:4 -

“Have you not just now called to Me,

‘My Father, You are the [fn]close companion of my youth?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:20 -

“Surely, as a woman treacherously departs from her [fn]lover,

So you have dealt treacherously with Me,

O house of Israel,” declares Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:4 -

“Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh

And remove the foreskins of your heart,

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.”

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“Behold, he goes up like clouds,

And his chariots like the whirlwind;

His horses are swifter than eagles.

Woe to us, for we are devastated!”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:17 -

‘Like watchmen of a field they are against her round about

Because she has rebelled against Me,' declares Yahweh.

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For I heard a sound as of a woman in labor pains,

The distress as of one giving birth to her first child,

The sound of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath,

Stretching out her [fn]hands, saying,

“Ah, woe is me, for my soul faints before murderers.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:27 -

‘Like a cage full of birds,

So their houses are full of deceit;

Therefore they have become great and rich.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:7 -

“Like a well [fn]keeps its waters fresh,

So she [fn]keeps fresh her evil.

Violence and devastation are heard in her;

Sickness and wounds are continually before Me.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:9 -

Thus says Yahweh of hosts,

“They will thoroughly glean as the vine the remnant of Israel;

Pass your hand again like a grape gatherer

Over the branches.”

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“They take hold of bow and spear;

They are cruel and have no compassion;

Their voice roars like the sea,

And they ride on horses,

Arranged as a man for the battle

Against you, O daughter of Zion!”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:24 -

We have heard the report of it;

Our hands are limp.

Distress has taken hold of us,

Pain as of a woman in childbirth.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:6 -

“I have given heed and heard,

They have spoken what is not right;

No man regretted his evil,

Saying, ‘What have I done?'

Everyone turned to his course,

Like a horse charging into the battle.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:21 -

For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am broken;

I mourn, desolation has taken hold of me.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:3 -

“They bend their tongue like their bow;

Lies and unfaithfulness prevail in the land,

For they go onward from evil to evil,

And they do not know Me,” declares Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:12 -

Who is the wise man that may understand this? And who is he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished, turned into ruin like a desert, so that no one passes through?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:22 -

Speak, “Thus declares Yahweh,

‘The corpses of men will fall like dung on the open field

And like the sheaf after the reaper,

But no one will gather them.'”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:19 -

But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter;

And I did not know that they had devised thoughts against me, saying,

“Let us make the tree with its [fn]fruit a ruin,

And let us cut him off from the land of the living,

That his name be remembered no more.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:8 -

“My inheritance has become to Me

Like a lion in the forest;

She has given forth its voice against Me;

Therefore I have come to hate her.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:24 -

“Therefore I will scatter them like chaff passing away

Into the wilderness wind.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:25 -

“This is your lot, the portion measured to you

From Me,” declares Yahweh,

“Because you have forgotten Me

And trusted in lies.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:8 -

“O Hope of Israel,

Its Savior in time of distress,

Why are You like a sojourner in the land

Or like a traveler who has pitched his tent to lodge for the night?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:9 -

“Why are You like a man confused,

Like a mighty man who cannot save?

Yet You are in our midst, O Yahweh,

And we are called by Your name;

Do not leave us!”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:10 -

Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me

As a man of strife and a man of contention to all the land!

I have not lent, nor have men lent money to me,

Yet everyone curses me.

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You who know, O Yahweh,

Remember me, take notice of me,

And take vengeance for me on my persecutors.

Do not, in view of Your patience, take me away;

Know that for Your sake I endure reproach.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:18 -

Why has my pain been perpetual

And my wound incurable, refusing to be healed?

Will You indeed be to me like a deceptive stream

With water that is unreliable?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:19 -

Therefore thus says Yahweh,

“If you return, then I will cause you to return

Before Me you will stand;

And if you extract the precious from the worthless,

You will become [fn]My mouthpiece.

They for their part may turn to you,

But as for you, you must not turn to them.

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“Then I will make you to this people

A fortified wall of bronze;

And they will fight against you,

But they will not prevail against you,

For I am with you to save you

And deliver you,” declares Yahweh.

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O Yahweh, my strength and my strong defense,

And my refuge in the day of distress,

To You the nations will come

From the ends of the earth and say,

“Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies,

Futility and [fn]things of no profit.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:6 -

“And he will be like a juniper in the desert

And will not see when prosperity comes,

But will dwell in stony wastes in the wilderness,

A land of salt [fn]which is not inhabited.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:8 -

“And he will be like a tree planted by the water,

That sends forth its roots by a stream

And will not fear when the heat comes;

But its leaves will be green,

And it will not be anxious in a year of drought

Nor refrain from yielding fruit.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:6 - “Can I not, O house of Israel, deal with you as this potter does?” declares Yahweh. “Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:17 -

‘Like an east wind I will scatter them

Before the enemy;

I will [fn]show them My back and not My face

In the day of their disaster.'”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:12 - “This is what I will do to this place and its inhabitants,” declares Yahweh, “so as to make this city like Topheth.
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But if I say, “I will not remember Him

Or speak anymore in His name,”

Then in my heart it becomes like a burning fire

Shut up in my bones;

And I am weary of holding it in,

And I cannot prevail.

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But let that man be like the cities

Which Yahweh overthrew without [fn]relenting,

And let him hear an outcry in the morning

And a [fn]shout of war at noon,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:12 - O house of David, thus says Yahweh:

“Render justice [fn]every morning;

And deliver the person who has been robbed from the [fn]power of his oppressor,

Lest My wrath go forth like fire

And burn with none to extinguish it,

Because of the evil of their deeds.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:23 -

“You who inhabit Lebanon,

Nested in the cedars,

How you will groan when pangs come upon you,

Pain like a woman in childbirth!

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:28 -

“Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered jar?

Or is he an undesirable vessel?

Why have he and his seed been hurled out

And cast into a land that they had not known?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:9 -

As for the prophets:

My heart is broken within me;

All my bones tremble;

I have become like a drunken man,

Even like a man overcome with wine,

Because of Yahweh

And because of His holy words.

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“Also among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen an appalling thing:

The committing of adultery and walking in lying;

And they strengthen the hands of evildoers,

So that no one has turned back from his evil.

All of them have become to Me like Sodom,

And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:29 - “Is not My word like fire?” declares Yahweh, “and like a hammer which shatters a rock?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:2 - One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, and the other basket had very rotten figs which could not be eaten due to rottenness.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:5 - “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Like these good figs, so I will recognize as good the exiles of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:8 -

‘But like the rotten figs which cannot be eaten due to rottenness—indeed, thus says Yahweh—so I will give over Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land and the ones who inhabit the land of Egypt.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:14 - “But as for me, behold, I am in your hands; do with me as is good and right in your eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:18 - [fn]Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Thus Yahweh of hosts has said,

“Zion will be plowed as a field,

And Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins,

And the mountain of the house will become [fn]the high places of a forest.”'

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:22 - ‘And because of them a curse will be [fn]used by all the exiles from Judah who are in Babylon, saying, “May Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:20 -

[fn]Their children also will be as formerly,

And [fn]their congregation shall be established before Me;

And I will punish all [fn]their oppressors.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:10 -

Hear the word of Yahweh, O nations,

And declare in the coastlands far away,

And say, “He who dispersed Israel will gather him

And keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:20 - who has set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and even to this day both in Israel and among mankind; and You have made a name for Yourself, as at this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:24 - ‘Behold, the siege ramps have come to the city to capture it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, who fight against it, because of the sword, the famine, and the pestilence; and what You have spoken has happened; and behold, You see it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:5 - ‘You will die in peace; and as spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so they will burn spices for you; and they will lament for you, “Alas, lord!”' For I have spoken the word,” declares Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:16 - Now it happened that when they heard all the words, they turned in dread one to another and said to Baruch, “We will surely declare all these words to the king.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:32 -

Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the son of Neriah, the scribe, and he wrote on it at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and many [fn]similar words were added to them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:1 -

But it happened that as soon as Jeremiah, whom Yahweh their God had sent, had finished speaking to all the people all the words of Yahweh their God—that is, all these words

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:6 - ‘Therefore My wrath and My anger were poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, so they have become a waste place and a desolation as it is this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:13 - ‘And I will punish those who live in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:18 - “But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have [fn]met our end by the sword and by famine.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22 - “So Yahweh was no longer able to bear it, because of the evil of your deeds, because of the abominations which you have done; thus your land has become a waste place, an object of horror, and an imprecation, without an inhabitant, as it is this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:7 -

Who is this that rises like the Nile,

Like the rivers whose waters toss about?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:18 -

“As I live,” declares the King

Whose name is Yahweh of hosts,

“Surely one shall come who looms up like Tabor among the mountains,

Or like Carmel by the sea.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:22 -

“Its sound moves along like a serpent;

For they move on [fn]like a military force

And come to her as woodcutters with axes.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:28 -

“Leave the cities and dwell among the crags,

O inhabitants of Moab,

And be like a dove that nests

Beyond the mouth of the chasm.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:32 -

“More than the weeping for Jazer

I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah!

Your branches stretched across the sea,

They reached to the sea of Jazer;

Upon your summer fruits and your grape harvest

The destroyer has fallen.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:38 - “On all the rooftops of Moab and in its open squares [fn]there is lamentation everywhere; for I have broken Moab like an undesirable vessel,” declares Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:9 -

“If grape gatherers came to you,

Would they not have gleanings remain?

If thieves came by night,

They would ruin only [fn]until they had enough.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:22 - Behold, [fn]He will mount up and swoop like an eagle and spread out His wings [fn]against Bozrah; and the hearts of the mighty men of Edom in that day will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:9 -

“For behold, I am going to arouse and bring up against Babylon

An assembly of great nations from the land of the north,

And they will arrange their battle lines against her;

From there she will be taken captive.

Their arrows will be like [fn]a warrior who makes one childless

Who does not return empty-handed.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:11 -

“Because you are glad, because you exult,

O you who plunder My inheritance,

Because you skip about [fn]like a threshing heifer

And neigh like [fn]valiant steeds,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:26 -

Come to her from the [fn]farthest border;

Open up her barns;

Pile her up like heaps,

And [fn]devote her to destruction;

Let nothing of her remain.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:42 -

“They seize their bow and [fn]javelin;

They are cruel and have no compassion.

Their voice roars like the sea;

And they ride on horses,

Arranged like a man for the battle

Against you, O daughter of Babylon.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:43 -

“The king of Babylon has heard the report about them,

And his hands hang limp;

Distress has taken hold of him,

Agony like a woman in childbirth.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:25 -

“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain,

Who destroys the whole earth,” declares Yahweh,

“And I will stretch out My hand against you

And roll you down from the crags,

And I will make you a burnt out mountain.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:27 -

Lift up a standard in the land,

Blow a trumpet among the nations!

Set apart the nations against her;

Summon against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz;

Appoint a marshal against her;

Bring up the horses like bristly locusts.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:33 -

For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel:

“The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor

At the time [fn]it is stamped firm;

Yet in a little while the time of harvest will come for her.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:34 -

“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me and brought me into confusion;

He has set me down like an empty vessel;

He has swallowed me like a sea monster;

He has filled his stomach with my delicacies;

He has rinsed me away.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:38 -

“They will roar together like young lions;

They will growl like lions' cubs.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:40 -

“I will bring them down like [fn]lambs to the slaughter,

Like rams together with male goats.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:53 -

“Though Babylon should ascend to the heavens,

And though she should fortify [fn]her lofty stronghold,

From Me destroyers will come to her,” declares Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:55 -

For Yahweh is going to destroy Babylon,

And He will make her loud [fn]noise [fn]vanish from her.

And their waves will roar like many waters;

The rumbling of their voices [fn]sounds forth.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:1 -

Aleph

How lonely sits the city

That was great with people!

She has become like a widow

Who was once great among the nations!

She who was a princess among the [fn]provinces

Has become a forced laborer!

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:6 -

Vav

So all her majesty

Has gone out from the daughter of Zion;

Her princes have become like deer

That have found no pasture;

So they have [fn]fled without strength

Before the pursuer.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:3 -

Gimel

In [fn]hot anger He has cut in pieces

[fn]All the strength of Israel;

He has turned back His right hand

From before the enemy.

And He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire

Devouring round about.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:4 -

Daleth

He has bent His bow like an enemy;

He has set His right hand like an adversary

And killed all that were desirable to the eye;

In the tent of the daughter of Zion

He has poured out His wrath like fire.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:5 -

He

The Lord has become like an enemy.

He has swallowed up Israel;

He has swallowed up all its palaces;

He has brought its strongholds to ruin

And multiplied in the daughter of Judah

Mourning and moaning.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:6 -

Vav

And He has violently treated His [fn]tabernacle like a garden booth;

He has brought His appointed [fn]meeting place to ruin.

Yahweh has caused to be forgotten

The appointed time and sabbath in Zion,

And He has spurned king and priest

In the indignation of His anger.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:7 -

Zayin

The Lord has rejected His altar;

He has abandoned His sanctuary;

He has delivered into the hand of the enemy

The walls of her palaces.

They have made a noise in the house of Yahweh

As in the day of an appointed time.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:12 -

Lamedh

They say to their mothers,

“Where is grain and wine?”

As they faint like a wounded man

In the open squares of the city,

As their life is poured out

On their mothers' bosom.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:18 -

Tsadhe

Their heart cried out to the Lord,

“O wall of the daughter of Zion,

Let your tears run down like a river day and night;

Give yourself no relief;

Let [fn]your eyes not be still.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:19 -

Qoph

“Arise, cry aloud in the night

At the head of the night watches;

Pour out your heart like water

Before the presence of the Lord;

Lift up your hands to Him

For the life of your infants

Who are faint because of hunger

At the head of every street.”

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:22 -

Tav

You called as in the day of an appointed time

My terrors on every side;

And there was no one who escaped or survived

In the day of Yahweh's anger.

Those whom I [fn]gave birth to and reared,

My enemy consumed them.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:6 -

Dark places He has made me inhabit,

Like those who have long been dead.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:12 -

He bent His bow

And set me as a target for the arrow.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:52 -

Tsadhe

My enemies without cause

Hunted me down like a bird;

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:3 -

Gimel

Even jackals offer the breast;

They nurse their young;

But the daughter of my people has become cruel

Like ostriches in the wilderness.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:3 -

We have become orphans without a father;

Our mothers are like widows.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:10 -

Our skin has become as hot as an oven

Because of [fn]the burning heat of famine.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:4 -

Then I looked, and behold, a storm wind was coming from the north, a great cloud with fire flashing forth continually and a bright light all around it, and in its midst something like the gleam of glowing metal in the midst of the fire.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:5 - And within it there were figures with the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:7 - And their legs were straight, and [fn]their feet were like a calf's hoof, and they sparkled like the gleam of burnished bronze.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:13 - [fn]As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, [fn]like the appearance of torches going back and forth among the living creatures. The fire was bright, and lightning was [fn]flashing from the fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:16 - The appearance of the wheels and their workmanship was like the gleam of beryl, and all four of them had the same likeness, their appearance and workmanship being as if [fn]one wheel were within another.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:22 -

Now over the heads of the living [fn]creatures there was something with the likeness of an expanse, like the awesome gleam of [fn]crystal, spread out over their heads above.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:24 - I also heard the sound of their wings like the sound of many waters as they went, like the [fn]sound of [fn]the Almighty, a sound of tumult like the sound of an army camp; whenever they stood still, they dropped their wings.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:26 -

Now above the expanse that was over their heads there was something in the likeness of a throne, like sapphire stone in appearance; and upon the likeness of the throne, high up, was the likeness of one with the appearance of a man.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:27 - Then I saw from the appearance of His loins and upward something like the gleam of [fn]glowing metal with the appearance of fire all around within it, and from the appearance of His loins and downward I saw something with the appearance of fire; and there was a radiance all around Him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:28 - As the appearance of the rainbow [fn]in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the radiance all around. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Yahweh. And I saw this, and I fell on my face and heard a sound of a voice speaking.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:3 - And He said to me, “Son of man, [fn]feed your stomach and fill your [fn]body with this scroll which I am giving you.” Then I ate it, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:2 - Then I looked, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of [fn]one on fire; from His loins and downward there was the appearance of fire, and from His loins and upward the appearance of brightness, like the gleam of [fn]glowing metal.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:16 -

Then He brought me into the inner court of the house of Yahweh. And behold, at the entrance to the temple of Yahweh, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of Yahweh and their faces toward the east; and they were [fn]prostrating themselves eastward toward the sun.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:17 - He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to do the abominations which they have done here, that they have filled the land with violence and provoked Me to anger still more? For behold, they are sending forth the twig to their nose.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:1 -

Then I looked, and behold, in the [fn]expanse that was over the heads of the cherubim something like a sapphire stone, in appearance in the likeness of a throne, appeared above them.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:5 - Moreover, the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of [fn]God Almighty when He speaks.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:9 -

Then I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like the gleam of a [fn]Tarshish stone.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:1 -

Moreover, the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the house of Yahweh which faced eastward. And behold, at the entrance of the gate, there were twenty-five men, and I saw among them Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, officials of the people.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:21 - [fn]But as for those whose hearts walk after their detestable things and abominations, I will give what is due for their way on their heads,” declares Lord Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:4 - “Bring your baggage out by day in their sight, as baggage for exile. Then you will go out at evening in their sight, as those going into exile.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:7 -

I did so, as I had been commanded. By day I brought out my baggage like the baggage of an exile. Then in the evening I dug through the wall with my hands; I went out in the dark and carried the baggage on my shoulder in their sight.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:4 - “O Israel, your prophets have been like foxes among waste places.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:20 - “Moreover, you took your sons and daughters, whom you had borne to Me, and sacrificed them to [fn]idols to be devoured. Were your harlotries so small a matter?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:31 - “When you built your shrine at the head of every way and made your high place in every square, in disdaining your earnings, you were not like a harlot.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:59 - For thus says Lord Yahweh, “I will also do with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:23 - “Do I have any pleasure in the death of the wicked,” declares Lord Yahweh, “is it not that he should turn from his ways and live?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:10 -

‘Your mother was like a vine in your [fn]vineyard,

Planted by the waters;

It was fruitful and full of branches

Because of abundant waters.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:32 - “And what comes upon your spirit will not happen, when you say: ‘We will be like the nations, like the families of the lands, to minister to wood and stone.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:23 - “And it will be to them like a worthless divination in their eyes; they have sworn solemn oaths. But he brings iniquity to remembrance, that they may be seized.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:25 - “There is a conspiracy of her prophets in her midst like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have devoured lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in the midst of her.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:27 - “Her princes within her are like wolves tearing the prey by shedding blood and destroying lives in order to get greedy gain.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:20 - “She lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:3 - therefore thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and I will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:10 - “Because of the abundance of his horses, the fine dust raised by them will cover you; your walls will shake at the noise of horsemen and [fn]wagons and chariots when he enters your gates as men enter a city that is breached.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:19 -

For thus says Lord Yahweh, “When I make you a city laid waste, like the cities which 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 bring you down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you inhabit the lower parts of the earth, like the ancient waste places, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not [fn]be inhabited; but I will set glory in the land of the living.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:2 - “Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh,

“Because your heart is lofty

And you have said, ‘I am a god;

I sit enthroned in the seat of [fn]gods

In the heart of the seas';

Yet you are a man and not God,

Although you make your heart like the heart of God

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:6 -

Therefore thus says Lord Yahweh,

‘Because you have made your heart

Like the heart of God,

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:2 - “Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him,

‘You liken yourself to a young lion of the nations,

Yet you are like the monster in the seas;

And you burst forth in your rivers

And muddied the waters with your feet

And [fn]fouled their rivers.'”

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:14 -

“Then I will make their waters settle

And will cause their rivers to [fn]run like oil,”

Declares Lord Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:11 - “Say to them, ‘As I live!' declares Lord Yahweh, ‘I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil ways! Why then will you die, O house of Israel?'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:31 - “They come to you as people come and sit before you as My people and hear your words, but they do not do them, for they do the lustful desires expressed by their mouth, and their heart goes after their greedy gain.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:32 - “Behold, you are to them like a lustful song by one who has a beautiful voice and plays well on an instrument; for they hear your words but they do not do them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:11 - ‘I will multiply on you man and beast; and they will multiply and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited as you were formerly and will [fn]treat you better than at the first. Thus you will know that I am Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:35 - “And they will say, ‘This desolate land has become like the garden of Eden; and the waste, desolate, and [fn]ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:37 -

‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “This also I will let the house of Israel inquire of Me to do for them: I will increase their men like a flock.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:38 - “Like the flock for holy offerings, like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed times, so will the waste cities be filled with flocks of men. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”'”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:9 - “And you will go up; you will come like a storm; you will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your troops and many peoples with you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:16 - and you will come up against My people Israel like a cloud to cover the land. It will be in the last days that I will bring you against My land so that the nations may know Me when I prove Myself holy through you before their eyes, O Gog.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:12 -

The building that was in front of the separate area at the side toward the west was [fn]seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits [fn]thick all around, and its length was [fn]ninety cubits.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:21 -

The doorposts of the nave were square; as for the front of the sanctuary, the appearance of one doorpost was like that of the other.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:12 - Corresponding to the openings of the chambers which were toward the south was an opening at the head of the way, the way in front of the wall toward the east, as one enters them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:2 - and behold, the glory of the God of Israel was coming from the way of the east. And His voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shone with His glory.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:8 - by putting their threshold by My threshold and their door post beside My door post, with only the wall between Me and them. And they have defiled My holy name by their abominations which they have done. So I have consumed them in My anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:7 -

“Now the prince shall have land on either side of the holy contribution and the city's possession of land, adjacent to the holy contribution and the city's possession of land, on the west side toward the west and on the east side toward the east, and in length comparable to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:5 - Again he measured one thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass through, for the water had become highenough water to swim in, a river that could not be passed through.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:10 - “And it will be that fishermen will stand beside it; from Engedi to Eneglaim there will be a place for the spreading of nets. Their fish will be according to their kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea, very many.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:22 - “And it will be that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance among yourselves and among the sojourners who sojourn in your midst, who bring forth sons in your midst. And they shall be to you as the native-born among the sons of Israel. They shall be allotted an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:8 -

But Daniel set in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king's choice food or with the wine which he drank; so he sought permission from the commander of the officials that he might not defile himself.

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:40 - “Then there will be a fourth kingdom as strong as iron; inasmuch as iron crushes and shatters all things, so, like iron that breaks in pieces, it will crush and break all these in pieces.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:15 - “Now if you are ready, at the time you hear the sound of the horn, flute, [fn]lyre, trigon, psaltery, and bagpipe and all kinds of music, then you shall fall down and worship the image that I have made. But if you do not worship, you will [fn]immediately be cast into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire; and what god is there who can save you out of my hands?”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:3 -

“How great are His signs,

And how strong are His wonders!

His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,

And His [fn]dominion is from generation to generation.

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:25 - that you be driven away from mankind and your place of habitation be with the beasts of the field, and you be given grass to eat like cattle and be drenched with the dew of heaven; and seven [fn]periods of time will pass over you, until you know that the Most High is the powerful ruler over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whomever He wishes.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:32 - and you will be driven away from mankind, and your place of habitation will be with the beasts of the field. You will be given grass to eat like cattle, and seven [fn]periods of time will pass over you until you know that the Most High is the powerful ruler over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whomever He wishes.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:33 - “Immediately the word concerning Nebuchadnezzar was accomplished; and he was driven away from mankind and began eating grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until his hair had grown like eagles' feathers and his nails like birds' claws.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:35 -

“And all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing,

But He does according to His will in the host of heaven

And among the inhabitants of earth;

And no one can strike against His hand

Or say to Him, ‘What have You done?'

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:21 - “He was also driven away from the sons of [fn]men, and his heart was made like that of beasts, and his place of habitation was with the wild donkeys. He was given grass to eat like cattle, and his body was drenched with the dew of the sky until he knew that the Most High God is the powerful ruler over the kingdom of mankind and that He sets up over it whomever He wishes.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:14 -

Then, as soon as the king heard this word, he was greatly distressed within himself and set his mind on saving Daniel; and even until sunset he kept exerting himself to deliver him.

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:13 -

“I kept looking in the night visions,

And behold, with the clouds of heaven

One like a Son of Man was coming,

And He came up to the Ancient of Days

And came near before Him.

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:15 -

Now it happened when I, Daniel, had seen the vision, that I sought [fn]to understand it; and behold, standing before me was one [fn]who had the appearance of a man.

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:25 -

“And through his insight

He will cause deceit to succeed by his hand;

And he will magnify himself in his heart,

And he will [fn]destroy many while they are [fn]at ease.

He will even stand against the Prince of princes,

But he will be broken without hands.

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:7 -

“To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us [fn]open shame, as it is this day—to the men of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and all Israel, those who are nearby and those who are far away in all the countries to which You have banished them, because of their unfaithful deeds which they have committed against You.

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:15 -

“So now, O Lord our God, who have brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand and have made a name for Yourself, as it is this day—we have sinned; we have acted wickedly.

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:6 - His body also was like [fn]beryl, his face [fn]had the appearance of lightning, his eyes were like flaming torches, his arms and feet like the gleam of burnished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a multitude.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:16 -

And behold, one [fn]in the likeness of the sons of men was touching my lips; then I opened my mouth and spoke and said to him who was standing before me, “O my lord, as a result of the vision that appeared, pains have come upon me, and I have retained no might.

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:18 -

Then this one with the appearance of a man touched me again and strengthened me.

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:4 - “But as soon as he stands, his kingdom will be broken up and parceled out toward the four winds of [fn]heaven, but not to his own descendants, nor according to his [fn]domination with which he [fn]dominated, for his kingdom will be uprooted and given to others besides [fn]them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:29 -

“At the appointed time he will return and come into the South, but [fn]this last time it will not happen the way it did before.

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:3 - [fn]And those who have insight will shine brightly like the brightness of the [fn]expanse of heaven, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:10 -

[fn]Yet the number of the sons of Israel

Will be like the sand of the sea,

Which cannot be measured or numbered;

And it will be that in the place

Where it is said to them,

“You are not My people,”

It will be said to them,

You are the sons of the living God.”

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:3 -

Lest I strip her naked

And set her forth as on the day when she was born

And make her like a wilderness

And [fn]make her like dry land

And put her to death with thirst.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:4 -

Yet let no man contend, and let no man offer reproof;

Indeed, your people are like those who contend with the priest.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:6 -

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

Because you have rejected knowledge,

I also will reject you from ministering as My priest.

Since you have forgotten the law of your God,

I Myself also will forget your children.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:16 -

Since Israel is stubborn

Like a stubborn heifer,

[fn]Can Yahweh now feed them

Like a lamb in a large field?

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:1 -

Hear this, O priests!

Give heed, O house of Israel!

Give ear, O house of the king!

For the judgment is for you,

For you have been a snare at Mizpah

And a net spread out on Tabor.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:10 -

The princes of Judah have become like those who move a boundary;

On them I will pour out My wrath like water.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:12 -

Therefore I am like a moth to Ephraim

And like rottenness to the house of Judah.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:14 -

For I will be like a lion to Ephraim

And like a young lion to the house of Judah.

I, even I, will tear to pieces and go away;

I will carry away, and there will be none to deliver.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:3 -

“So let us know, let us pursue to know Yahweh.

His going forth is established as the dawn;

And He will come to us like the rain,

Like the [fn]late rain watering the earth.”

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:4 -

What shall I do with you, O Ephraim?

What shall I do with you, O Judah?

For your lovingkindness is like a morning cloud

And like the dew which goes away early.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:5 -

Therefore I have hewn them in pieces by the prophets;

I have killed them by the words of My mouth;

And the judgments on you are like the light that goes forth.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:7 -

But like [fn]Adam they have trespassed against the covenant;

There they have dealt treacherously against Me.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:2 -

And they do not say to their hearts

That I remember all their evil.

Now their deeds are all around them;

They are before My face.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:4 -

They are all adulterers,

Like an oven heated by the baker

Who ceases to stir up the fire

From the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:6 -

For their hearts are like an oven

As they draw near in their [fn]plotting;

Their [fn]anger [fn]smolders all night;

In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:7 -

All of them are hot like an oven,

And they devour their judges;

All their kings have fallen.

None of them calls on Me.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:11 -

So Ephraim has become like a silly dove, without a heart of wisdom;

They call to Egypt; they go to Assyria.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:16 -

They turn, but not [fn]upward;

They are like a deceitful bow;

Their princes will fall by the sword

Because of the [fn]indignation of their tongue.

This will be their scoffing in the land of Egypt.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:1 -

Put the trumpet to your [fn]mouth!

Like an eagle the enemy comes against the house of Yahweh

Because they have trespassed against My covenant

And transgressed against My law.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:8 -

Israel is swallowed up;

They are now among the nations

Like a vessel in which no one delights.

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They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to Yahweh;

Their sacrifices will not please Him.

Their bread will [fn]be like [fn]mourners' bread;

All who eat of it will be defiled,

For their bread will be for [fn]themselves alone;

It will not enter the house of Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:10 -

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness;

I saw your fathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season.

But they came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to [fn]shame,

And they became as detestable as that which they loved.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:11 -

As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird

No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:4 -

They speak mere words;

[fn]With worthless oaths they cut covenants;

And judgment flourishes like gall in the furrows of the field.

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Samaria will be ruined with her king

Like a stick on the surface of the water.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:14 -

Therefore a rumbling will arise among your people,

And all your fortifications will be destroyed,

As Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle,

When mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:4 -

I led them with cords of a man, with bonds of love,

And I became to them as one who lifts the yoke from their jaws;

And I bent down and fed them.

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How can I give you up, O Ephraim?

How can I surrender you, O Israel?

How can I give you over to be like Admah?

How can I make you like Zeboiim?

My heart is turned over within Me;

[fn]All My compassions are stirred.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:10 -

They will walk after Yahweh;

He will roar like a lion;

Indeed, He will roar,

And His sons will come trembling from the west.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:11 -

They will come trembling like birds from Egypt

And like doves from the land of Assyria;

And I will settle them in their houses, declares Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:11 -

Is there wickedness in Gilead?

Surely they are worthless.

In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls;

Yes, their altars are like the stone heaps

Beside the furrows of the field.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:3 -

Therefore they will be like the morning cloud

And like dew which [fn]soon disappears,

Like chaff which is blown away from the threshing floor

And like smoke from a [fn]chimney.

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So I will be like a lion to them;

Like a leopard I will [fn]lie in wait by the wayside.

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I will encounter them like a bear robbed of her cubs,

And I will tear open [fn]the chest enclosing their heart;

There I will also devour them like a lioness,

As a beast of the field would rip them open.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:13 -

The pains of childbirth come upon him;

He is not a wise son,

For [fn]it is not the time that he should delay at the opening of the womb.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:5 -

I will be like the dew to Israel;

He will flourish like the lily,

And he will [fn]take root like the cedars of Lebanon.

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His shoots will go forth,

And his splendor will be like the olive tree

And his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:7 -

Those who live in his shadow

Will [fn]again raise grain,

And they will flourish like the vine.

His name of remembrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.

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O Ephraim, what more have I to do with idols?

It is I who answer and look after [fn]you.

I am like a luxuriant cypress;

From Me [fn]comes your fruit.

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Alas for the day!

For the day of Yahweh is near,

And it will come as destruction from the [fn]Almighty.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:2 -

A day of darkness and thick darkness,

A day of clouds and dense gloom.

As the dawn is spread over the mountains,

So there is a numerous and mighty people;

There has never been anything like it,

Nor will there be again after it

For the years from generation to generation.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:3 -

A fire consumes before them,

And behind them a flame burns.

The land is like the garden of Eden before them

But a desolate wilderness behind them,

And nothing at all escapes them.

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Their appearance is like the appearance of horses;

And like war horses, so they run.

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[fn]With a noise as of chariots

They leap on the tops of the mountains,

Like the [fn]crackling of a flame of fire consumes the stubble,

Like a mighty people arranged for battle.

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Before them the peoples are writhing;

All faces [fn]turn pale.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:7 -

They run like mighty men;

They climb up the wall like men of war;

And they each march [fn]in line,

And they do not deviate from their paths.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:9 -

They rush on the city;

They run on the wall;

They climb up into the houses;

They enter through the windows like a thief.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:9 -

“Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them,

[fn]Though his height was like the height of cedars,

And he was strong as the oaks;

I even destroyed his fruit above and his root below.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:11 -

“I overthrew you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,

And you were like a firebrand [fn]delivered from a blaze;

Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:5 -

“But do not seek Bethel,

And do not come to Gilgal,

Nor cross over to Beersheba;

For Gilgal will certainly go into [fn]exile,

And Bethel will become [fn]evil.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:6 -

“Seek Yahweh that you may live,

Lest He come mightily like a fire, [fn]O house of Joseph,

And it will consume with none to quench it for Bethel,

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:24 -

“But let justice roll down like waters

And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:5 -

Who improvise to the [fn]sound of the harp,

And like David have [fn]composed songs for themselves,

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:8 -

“Because of this will not the land tremble

And everyone who inhabits it mourn?

Indeed, all of it will rise up like the Nile,

And it will be tossed about

And subside like the Nile of Egypt.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:10 -

“Then I will overturn your feasts into mourning

And all your songs into [fn]lamentation;

And I will bring up sackcloth on everyone's loins

And baldness on every head.

And I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son,

And the end of it will be like a bitter day.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:5 -

Now Lord Yahweh of hosts,

The One who touches the land so that it melts,

And all those who inhabit it mourn,

And all of it rises up like the Nile

And subsides like the Nile of Egypt;

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:7 -

“Are you not as the sons of Ethiopia to Me,

O sons of Israel?” declares Yahweh.

“Have I not brought up Israel from the land of Egypt,

And the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans from Kir?

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:4 -

“Though you build loftily like the eagle,

Though you set your nest among the stars,

From there I will bring you down,” declares Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:11 -

“On the day that you stood aloof,

On the day that strangers took his wealth captive

And foreigners entered his gate

And cast lots for Jerusalem

You too were as one of them.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:4 -

The mountains will melt under Him,

And the valleys will be split,

Like wax before the fire,

Like water poured down a steep place.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:8 -

Because of this I must lament and wail;

I must go barefoot and naked;

I must make a lament like the jackals

And a mourning like the ostriches.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:16 -

Make yourself bald and cut off your hair,

Because of the children of your delight;

Extend your baldness like the eagle,

For they will go from you into exile.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:12 -

“I will surely assemble all of you, Jacob;

I will surely gather the remnant of Israel.

I will put them together like sheep in the fold;

Like a flock in the midst of its pasture

They will be noisy with men.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:3 -

And who eat the flesh of my people,

Strip off their skin from them,

Break their bones,

And spread them out as for the pot

And as meat in a caldron.”

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:12 -

Therefore, on account of you

Zion will be plowed as a field;

Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins,

And the mountain of the house of God will become high places of a forest.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:9 -

“Now, why do you make a loud shout?

Is there no king among you,

Or has your counselor perished,

That writhing has taken hold of you like a woman in childbirth?

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:10 -

“Writhe and labor to give birth,

Daughter of Zion,

Like a woman in childbirth;

For now you will go out of the city,

Dwell in the field,

And go to Babylon.

There you will be delivered;

There Yahweh will redeem you

From the hand of your enemies.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:12 -

“But they do not know the thoughts of Yahweh,

And they do not understand His counsel;

For He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:7 -

Then the remnant of Jacob

Will be among many peoples

Like dew from Yahweh,

Like showers on vegetation

Which do not hope for man

Or wait for the sons of men.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:8 -

Then the remnant of Jacob

Will be among the nations,

Among many peoples

Like a lion among the beasts of the forest,

Like a young lion among flocks of sheep,

Which, if it passes through,

Tramples down and tears,

And there is none to deliver.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:1 -

Woe is me! For I am

Like the fruit pickers, like the grape gatherers.

There is not a cluster of grapes to eat,

Or a first-ripe fig which my soul desires.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:4 -

The best of them is like a briar,

The most upright like a thorn hedge.

The day when you post your watchmen,

Your punishment will come.

[fn]At that time their panic will happen.

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Then my enemy will see,

And shame will cover her who said to me,

“Where is Yahweh your God?”

My eyes will look on her;

[fn]At that time she will [fn]be trampled down

Like mire of the streets.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:17 -

They will lick the dust like a serpent,

Like crawling things of the earth.

They will come trembling out of their [fn]fortresses;

To Yahweh our God they will come in dread,

And they will be afraid before You.

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:10 -

Like tangled thorns,

And like those who are drunken with their drink,

They are consumed

As stubble fully dried up.

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:4 -

The chariots race madly in the streets;

They rush wildly in the [fn]squares;

Their appearance is like torches;

They dash to and fro like lightning flashes.

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:8 -

Though Nineveh was like a pool of water throughout her days,

Now they are fleeing;

“Stand! Stand!”

But no one [fn]turns back.

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:10 -

She is emptied! Yes, she is emptied out and eviscerated!

Hearts are melting and knees knocking!

Also anguish is in all their loins,

And all their faces [fn]turn pale!

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:13 -

Behold, your people are women in your midst!

The gates of your land are opened wide to your enemies;

Fire consumes your gate bars.

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:15 -

There, fire will consume you;

The sword will cut you down;

It will consume you as the locust does.

Multiply yourself like the creeping locust,

Multiply yourself like the swarming locust.

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:17 -

Your [fn]guardsmen are like the swarming locust.

Your marshals are like a locust-swarm

Encamping in the stone walls on a cold day.

The sun rises, and they flee,

And the place where they are is not known.

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:8 -

“Their horses are swifter than leopards

And [fn]sharper than wolves in the evening.

Their [fn]horsemen come galloping;

Their horsemen come from afar;

They fly like an eagle swooping down to devour.

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:9 -

“All of them come for violence.

[fn]Their horde of faces moves forward.

And they gather captives like sand.

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:14 -

And You have made men like the fish of the sea,

Like creeping things without a ruler over them.

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:5 -

“And indeed, wine betrays the haughty man

So that he does not stay at home.

He enlarges his appetite like Sheol,

And he is like death, never satisfied.

He also gathers to himself all nations

And assembles to himself all peoples.

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:14 -

“For the earth will be filled

With the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh,

As the waters cover the sea.

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:4 -

His brightness is like the sunlight;

He has rays flashing from His hand,

And there is the hiding of His strength.

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:14 -

You pierced with his own sharpened rods

The head of his [fn]throngs.

They stormed in to scatter [fn]us;

Their exultation was like those

Who devour the afflicted in secret.

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:17 -

I will bring distress on men

So that they will walk like the blind

Because they have sinned against Yahweh;

And their blood will be poured out like dust

And their flesh like dung.

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:2 -

Before the decree [fn]takes effect

The day passes like the chaff

Before the burning anger of Yahweh comes upon you,

Before the day of Yahweh's anger comes upon you.

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:9 -

“Therefore, as I live,” declares Yahweh of hosts,

The God of Israel,

“Surely Moab will be like Sodom

And the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah

A place possessed by nettles and salt pits,

And a perpetual desolation.

The remnant of My people will plunder them,

And the remainder of My nation will inherit them.”

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:13 -

And He will stretch out His hand against the north

And cause Assyria to perish,

And He will make Nineveh a desolation,

Parched like the wilderness.

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:3 -

Her princes in her midst are roaring lions;

Her judges are wolves at evening;

They leave nothing to gnaw for the morning.

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:17 -

“Yahweh your God is in your midst,

A mighty one who will save.

He will be joyful over you with gladness;

He will [fn]be quiet in His love;

He will rejoice over you with joyful singing.

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:23 - ‘On that day,' declares Yahweh of hosts, ‘I will take you, Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, My servant,' declares Yahweh, ‘and I will make you like a [fn]signet ring, for I have chosen you,'” declares Yahweh of hosts.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:8 - For thus says Yahweh of hosts, “After [fn]glory He has sent Me against the nations which have taken you as spoil, for he who touches you, touches the [fn]apple of His eye.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:2 - And Yahweh said to Satan, “Yahweh rebuke you, Satan! Indeed, Yahweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is this not a brand delivered from the fire?”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:9 - Then I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, two women were coming out with the wind in their wings; and they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heavens.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:3 -

So Tyre built herself a tight fortification

And tied up silver like dust

And fine gold like the mire of the streets.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:7 -

And I will remove their blood from their mouth

And their detestable things from between their teeth.

Then they also will be a remnant for our God,

And be like a [fn]clan in Judah,

And Ekron like a Jebusite.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:13 -

For I will bend Judah [fn]as My bow;

I will fill the bow with Ephraim.

And I will rouse up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O [fn]Greece;

And I will make you like a mighty man's sword.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:14 -

Then Yahweh will appear over them,

And His arrow will go forth like lightning;

And Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet

And will go in the storm winds of the south.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:15 -

Yahweh of hosts will defend them.

And they will consume and trample on the stones of a sling;

And they will drink and roar as with wine;

And they will be filled like a sacrificial bowl,

Drenched like the corners of the altar.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:16 -

And Yahweh their God will save them in that day

As the flock of His people;

For they are as the stones of a crown,

[fn]Sparkling in His land.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:2 -

For the teraphim speak wickedness,

And the diviners behold [fn]false visions

And speak worthless dreams;

They comfort in vain.

Therefore the people journey like sheep;

They are afflicted because there is no shepherd.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:3 -

“My anger burns against the shepherds,

And I will visit punishment upon the [fn]male goats;

For Yahweh of hosts has visited His flock, the house of Judah,

And will make them like His splendid horse in battle.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:5 -

“And they will be as mighty men,

Treading down the enemy in the mire of the streets in battle;

And they will battle, for Yahweh will be with them;

And the riders on horses will be put to shame.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:7 -

“And Ephraim will be like a mighty man,

And their heart will be glad as if from wine;

Indeed, their children will see it and be glad;

[fn]Their heart will rejoice in Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:2 - “Behold, I am going to make Jerusalem a cup [fn]that causes reeling to all the peoples all around. Now the one in siege against Jerusalem will also be against Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:6 -

“In that day I will make the clans of Judah like a fiery laver among pieces of wood and a fiery torch among sheaves, so they will consume on the right hand and on the left all the surrounding peoples, while Jerusalem will again be inhabited in its own place—in Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:8 - “In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the one who stumbles among them in that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of Yahweh before them.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:10 -

“And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem [fn]the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:11 - “In that day there will be great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the [fn]plain of [fn]Megiddo.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 13:9 -

“And I will bring the third part through the fire

And refine them as silver is refined

And test them as gold is tested.

[fn]They will call on My name,

And I will answer them;

I will say, ‘They are My people,'

And they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.'”

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:20 -

In that day there will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, “Holy to Yahweh.” And the pots in the house of Yahweh will be like the bowls before the altar.

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:2 - “But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a smelter's fire and like [fn]fullers' soap.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:3 - “And He will sit as a smelter and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, so that they may present to Yahweh [fn]offerings in righteousness.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 4:1 -

[fn]For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every worker of wickedness will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them aflame,” says Yahweh of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.”

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 4:2 - “But for you who [fn]fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall.
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Speech: Adverb
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:10 -

Then he said, “Tomorrow.” So he said, “May it be according to your word, that you may know that there is no one like Yahweh our God.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:29 - And Moses said to him, “As soon as I go out of the city, I will spread out my [fn]hands to Yahweh; the [fn]thunder will cease, and there will be hail no longer, that you may know that the earth is Yahweh's.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:1 -

Now Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and [fn]how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:32 -

Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. And the king sent a man from his presence; but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, “Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and [fn]hold the door shut against him. Is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:6 - But the sons of those who struck him down he did not put to death, according to what is written in the book of the Law of Moses, which Yahweh commanded, saying, “Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor sons be put to death for their fathers; but each shall be put to death for his own sin.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:3 -

Then Solomon sent word to [fn]Huram the king of Tyre, saying, “As you dealt with David my father and sent him cedars to build him a house to live in, so do for me.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:6 - And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done, for Ahab's daughter was his wife; and he did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:4 - And he did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh like the house of Ahab, for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:14 - When they had completed, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada; and it was made into utensils for the house of Yahweh, utensils for the ministry and the burnt offering, and pans and utensils of gold and silver. And they were offering burnt offerings in the house of Yahweh continually all the days of Jehoiada.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:1 -

Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and he did not do what was right in the sight of Yahweh, as David his father had done.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:19 - And they spoke [fn]of the God of Jerusalem as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, the work of men's hands.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:23 - Moreover, he did not humble himself before Yahweh as his father Manasseh had humbled himself, but Amon multiplied guilt.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:12 - Then they took away the portions for the burnt offerings that they might give them to the sections of the fathers' households of the lay people to bring near to Yahweh, as it is written in the book of Moses. They did this also with the bulls.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:18 - And there had not been celebrated a Passover like it in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; nor had any of the kings of Israel celebrated such a Passover as Josiah celebrated with the priests, the Levites, all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:7 -

[fn]Now it happened that when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the [fn]repair of the walls of Jerusalem went on, and that the places broken down began to be closed, they were very angry.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:27 -

When your dread comes like a storm

And your disaster comes like a whirlwind,

When distress and anguish come upon you.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:23 -

Until an arrow pierces through his liver;

As a bird hastens to the snare,

And he does not know that it will cost him his [fn]soul.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:28 -

When He made firm the skies above,

When the springs of the deep became strong,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:8 -

The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard,

Like a watchman's hut in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:9 -

Unless Yahweh of hosts

Had left us a few survivors,

We would be like Sodom,

We would be like Gomorrah.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:18 -

“Come now, and let us reason together,”

Says Yahweh,

“Though your sins are as scarlet,

They will be as white as snow;

Though they are red like crimson,

They will be like wool.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:26 -

“Then I will have your judges return as at the first,

And your counselors as at the beginning;

Afterwards you will be called the city of righteousness,

A faithful town.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:30 -

For you will be like [fn]an oak whose leaf withers away

Or as a garden that has no water.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:31 -

And the strong man will become tinder,

His work also a spark.

Thus they shall both burn together,

And there will be none to quench them.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:6 -

For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob,

Because they are filled with influences from the east,

And they are soothsayers like the Philistines,

And they strike bargains with the children of foreigners.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:9 -

[fn]The expression of their faces answers against them,

And they declare their sin like Sodom;

They do not even conceal it.

Woe to their soul!

For they have dealt out evil on themselves.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:5 - then Yahweh will create over the whole area of Mount Zion and over her convocation a cloud by day, even smoke, and the brightness of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:6 -

“I will lay it waste;

It will not be pruned or hoed,

But briars and thorns will come up.

I will also command the clouds to rain no rain on it.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:17 -

Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture,

And sojourners will eat in the waste places of the [fn]wealthy.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:18 -

Woe to those who drag iniquity with the cords of worthlessness,

And sin as if with cart ropes,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:24 -

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble

And dry grass collapses into the flame,

So their root will become like rot and their blossom [fn]blow away as dust;

For they have rejected the law of Yahweh of hosts

And the word of the Holy One of Israel they have spurned.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:25 -

On this account, the anger of Yahweh has burned against His people,

And He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them down.

And the mountains trembled, and their corpses [fn]lay like refuse in the middle of the streets.

For all this His anger is not turned back,

But His hand is still stretched out.

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[fn]Its arrows are sharp and all its bows are bent;

The hoofs of its horses [fn]seem like flint and its chariot wheels like a whirlwind.

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Its roaring is like a lioness, and it roars like young lions;

It growls and seizes the prey

And carries it off with no one to deliver it.

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And it will growl over it in that day like the roaring of the sea.

If one looks to the land, behold, there is darkness and distress;

Even the light is darkened by its clouds.

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“Yet there will be a tenth portion in it,

And it will again be subject to burning,

Like a terebinth or like an oak

Whose stump remains when it is felled.

The holy seed is its stump.”

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“Then He shall become a sanctuary;

But to both the houses of Israel, a stone to strike and a rock to stumble over,

And a snare and a trap for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:20 - To the [fn]law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:21 - And they will pass through [fn]the land hard-pressed and hungry, and it will be that when they are hungry, they will be angry and curse [fn]their king and their God as they face upward.
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You shall multiply the nation,

You shall [fn]make great [fn]their gladness;

They will be glad in Your presence

As with the gladness [fn]of harvest,

As [fn]men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

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For You shall shatter the yoke of their burden and the staff on their shoulders,

The rod of their taskmaster, as [fn]at the battle of Midian.

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For wickedness burns like a fire;

It consumes briars and thorns;

It even sets the thickets of the forest aflame,

And they roll upward in a column of smoke.

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By the fury of Yahweh of hosts the land is burned up,

And the people are like fuel for the fire;

No man spares his brother.

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And my hand reached for the wealth of the peoples like a nest,

And as one gathers abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth;

And there was not one that flapped its wing or opened its beak or chirped.”

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And He will bring to an end the glory of his forest and of his fruitful orchard, both soul and body,

And it will be as when a sick man wastes away.

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For though your people, O Israel, may be like the sand of the sea,

Only a remnant within them will return;

A destructive end is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.

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They will do no evil nor act corruptly in all My holy mountain,

For the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh

As the waters cover the sea.

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And there will be a highway from Assyria

For the remnant of His people who will remain,

Just as there was for Israel

In the day that they came up out of the land of Egypt.

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They will be terrified,

Pains and labor pangs will take hold of them;

They will writhe like a woman in labor,

They will look at one another in astonishment,

Their faces aflame.

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And it will be that like a hunted gazelle,

Or like sheep with none to gather them,

They will each turn to his own people,

And each one flee to his own land.

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“But you have been cast out of your grave

Like an abhorred branch,

[fn]Clothed with those killed who are pierced with a sword,

Who go down to the stones of the pit

Like a trampled corpse.

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Therefore I will weep bitterly for Jazer, for the vine of Sibmah;

I will drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh;

For the shouting over your summer fruits and your harvest has fallen away.

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Therefore my [fn]inner being moans like a harp for Moab

And my [fn]inward feelings for Kir-hareseth.

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Yet gleanings will remain in it like the [fn]shaking of an olive tree,

Two or three olives on the topmost branch,

Four or five on the twigs of a fruitful tree,

Declares Yahweh, the God of Israel.

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In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in,

And in the morning you cause your seed to flourish;

But the harvest will be a heap

In a day of sickliness and incurable pain.

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Alas, the uproar of many peoples

Who roar like the roaring of the seas,

And the rumbling of nations

Who rumble on like the rumbling of mighty waters!

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The nations rumble on like the rumbling of many waters,

But He will rebuke them, and they will flee far away,

And be pursued like chaff in the mountains before the wind,

Or like whirling dust before a whirlwind.

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All you inhabitants of the world and dwellers on earth,

As soon as a standard is raised on the mountains, you will see it,

And as soon as the trumpet is blown, you will hear it.

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For thus Yahweh has told me,

“I will look [fn]from My dwelling place quietly

Like dazzling heat in the [fn]sunshine,

Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

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Yahweh has mixed within her a spirit of distortion;

They have led Egypt astray in all [fn]that it does,

As a drunken man [fn]strays into his vomit.

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The [fn]oracle concerning the [fn]wilderness of the sea.

As whirlwinds in the [fn]Negev sweep on,

It comes from the wilderness, from a fearsome land.

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For this reason my loins are full of anguish;

Pains have seized me like the pains of a woman in labor.

I am so bewildered I cannot hear, so terrified I cannot see.

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For thus the Lord said to me, “In a year, as [fn]a hired man would count it, all the glory of Kedar will end;

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And I will clothe him with your tunic

And tie your sash securely about him.

I will give your [fn]authority into his hand,

And he will become a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.

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And were on many waters.

The [fn]grain of [fn]Shihor, the harvest of the Nile was her revenue;

And she was the nations' gain.

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Now it will be in that day, that Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:2 - And the people will be like the priest, the male slave like his master, the female slave like her mistress, the buyer like the seller, the lender like the borrower, the creditor like the debtor.
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The earth reels to and fro like a drunkard

And it totters like a [fn]shack,

For its transgression is heavy upon it,

And it will fall, never to rise again.

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Like heat in a dry land, You subdue the rumbling of strangers;

Like heat by the shadow of a cloud, the song of the ruthless is [fn]silenced.

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As the [fn]woman with child draws near to the time to give birth,

She writhes and cries out in her pangs of labor,

Thus were we before You, O Yahweh.

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Like the striking of Him who has struck them, has He struck them?

Or like the slaughter of those of His who were killed, [fn]have they been killed?

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Therefore through this, Jacob's iniquity will be atoned for;

And this will be the whole fruit of the turning away of his sin:

When he makes all the altar stones like pulverized chalk stones,

When [fn]Asherim and incense altars will not stand.

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For the fortified city is isolated,

A [fn]haunt [fn]forlorn and forsaken like the desert;

There the calf will graze,

And there it will lie down and [fn]feed on its twigs.

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Behold, the Lord has a strong and courageous agent;

As a storm of hail, a tempest of destruction,

Like a storm of mighty overflowing waters,

He has set it down to the earth with His hand.

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And the fading flower of its glorious beauty,

Which is at the head of the [fn]fertile valley,

Will be like the first-ripe fig prior to summer,

Which [fn]one sees,

And [fn]as soon as it is in his [fn]hand,

He swallows it.

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And I will camp against you [fn]encircling you,

And I will fortify siegeworks against you,

And I will raise up fortifications against you.

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Then you will be brought low;

From the earth you will speak,

And from the dust where you are prostrate

Your words will come.

Your voice will also be like that of a [fn]spirit from the ground,

And your speech will whisper from the dust.

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But it will be that the multitude of your [fn]enemies will become like fine dust,

And the multitude of the ruthless ones like the chaff which [fn]blows away;

And it will happen instantly, suddenly.

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And it will be that the multitude of all the nations who wage war against [fn]Ariel,

Even all who wage war against her and her stronghold, and who distress her,

Will be like a dream, a vision of the night.

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And it will be as when a hungry man dreams

And behold, he is eating;

But he awakens, and his soul is empty,

Or as when a thirsty man dreams

And behold, he is drinking,

But he awakens, and behold, he is faint,

And his soul is not quenched.

Thus the multitude of all the nations will be

Who wage war against Mount Zion.

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The entire vision will be to you like the words of a sealed [fn]book, which when they give it to the one who [fn]is literate, saying, “Please read this,” he will say, “I cannot, for it is sealed.”

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You turn things around!

Shall the potter be considered [fn]as equal with the clay,

That what is made would say to its maker, “He did not make me”;

Or what is formed say to him who formed it, “He has no understanding”?

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Is it not yet just a little while

[fn]Before Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful orchard,

And the fruitful orchard will be counted as a forest?

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Therefore this iniquity will be to you

Like a breach about to fall,

A bulge in a high wall,

Whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant,

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Whose breaking is like the breaking of a potter's jar,

[fn]So ruthlessly shattered

That a potsherd will not be found among its pieces

To [fn]take fire from a hearth

Or to scoop water from a cistern.”

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One thousand will flee at the threat of one man;

You will flee at the threat of five,

Until you are left as a [fn]flag on a mountain top

And as a [fn]standard on a hill.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:22 - And you will defile your graven images overlaid with your silver, and your molten images plated with your gold. You will scatter them as an impure thing and say to [fn]them, “Be gone!”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:26 - And the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, on the day Yahweh binds up the fracture of His people and heals the bruise [fn]He has inflicted.
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Behold, the name of Yahweh comes from afar;

Burning is His anger and heavy is His [fn]smoke;

His lips are filled with indignation

And His tongue is like a consuming fire;

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His breath is like an overflowing torrent,

Which reaches to the neck,

To shake the nations back and forth in a [fn]sieve of worthlessness,

And to put in the jaws of the peoples the bridle which staggers one to ruin.

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And Yahweh will cause [fn]His splendid voice to be heard,

And the [fn]descending of His arm to be seen in raging anger,

And in the flame of a consuming fire

In cloudburst, downpour, and hailstones.

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For [fn]Topheth has long been ready,

Indeed, it has been prepared for the king.

He has made it deep and large,

[fn]A pyre of fire with plenty of wood;

The breath of Yahweh, like a torrent of brimstone, sets it afire.

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Like [fn]flying birds so Yahweh of hosts will defend Jerusalem.

He will defend and deliver it;

He will pass over and provide a way of escape.

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“His rock will pass away because of terror,

And his princes will be dismayed at the standard,”

Declares Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

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Each will be like a refuge from the wind

And a shelter from the storm,

Like [fn]streams of water in a dry country,

Like the shade of a [fn]huge rock in [fn]a weary land.

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And it will hail when the forest comes down,

And the city will be utterly laid low.

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Woe to you, O destroyer,

While you were not destroyed;

And he who is treacherous, while others did not deal treacherously with him.

As soon as you finish destroying, you will be destroyed;

As soon as you cease to deal treacherously, others will deal treacherously with you.

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“The peoples will be burned to lime,

Like cut thorns which are burned in the fire.

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And all the host of heaven will rot away,

And the sky will be rolled up like a scroll;

All their hosts will also wither away

As a leaf withers from the vine,

Or as one withers from the fig tree.

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[fn]And its streams will be turned into pitch,

And its dust into brimstone,

And its land will become burning pitch.

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Then the lame will leap like a deer,

And the tongue of the mute will shout for joy.

For waters will break forth in the wilderness

And streams in the [fn]Arabah.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:17 - until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:11 - ‘Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, devoting them to destruction. So will you be delivered?
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“So their inhabitants were short of power;

They were dismayed and put to shame;

They were as the plant of the field and as the green herb,

As grass on the rooftops [fn]is scorched before it rises.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:3 - and said, “Remember now, O Yahweh, I beseech You, how I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart and have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept [fn]greatly.
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“Like a shepherd's tent my dwelling is pulled up and removed from me;

As a weaver I rolled up my life.

He cuts me off from the loom;

From day until night You make an end of me.

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“I soothed my soul until morning.

Like a lion—so He shatters all my bones;

From day until night You make an end of me.

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“Like a swallow, like a crane, so I chirped;

I moan like a dove;

My eyes look wistfully to the heights;

O Lord, I am oppressed, be my security.

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A voice says, “Call out.”

Then [fn]he answered, “What shall I call out?”

All flesh is grass, and all its lovingkindness is like the flower of the field.

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Like a shepherd He will shepherd His flock;

In His arm He will gather the lambs

And carry them in His bosom;

He will gently lead the nursing ewes.

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Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket,

And are counted as a speck of dust on the scales;

Behold, He lifts up the coastlands like fine dust.

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All the nations are as nothing before Him;

They are counted by Him as non-existent and utterly formless.

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It is He who [fn]inhabits above the [fn]circle of the earth,

And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;

It is He who stretches out the heavens like a curtain

And spreads them out like a tent to inhabit.

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It is He who reduces rulers to nothing,

Who makes the [fn]judges of the earth utterly formless.

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[fn]Scarcely have they been planted;

[fn]Scarcely have they been sown;

[fn]Scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth,

But He merely blows on them, and they [fn]wither,

And the storm carries them away like stubble.

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Yet those who hope in Yahweh

Will gain new power;

They will [fn]mount up with [fn]wings like eagles;

They will run and not get tired;

They will walk and not become weary.

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“Who has awakened one from the east

Whom He calls in righteousness to His [fn]feet?

He gives up nations before him

And [fn]has dominion over kings.

He makes them like dust with his sword,

As the wind-driven chaff with his bow.

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“Behold, all those who are angered at you will be shamed and dishonored;

Those who contend with you will be as nothing and will perish.

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“You will seek those who quarrel with you, but will not find them,

Those who war with you will be as nothing and non-existent.

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“Behold, I have made you a new, sharp threshing sledge with double edges;

You will thresh the mountains and pulverize them,

And will make the hills like chaff.

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“I have awakened one from the north, and he has come;

From the rising of the sun he will call on My name;

And he will come upon officials as upon mortar,

Even as the potter treads clay.”

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“I have kept silent for a long time;

I have kept still and restrained Myself.

Now like a woman in labor I will groan;

I will both gasp and pant.

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Who brings forth the chariot and the horse,

The military force and the mighty man;

They will lie down together and not rise again;

They have been extinguished and quenched like a wick:

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And they will spring up [fn]among the grass

Like poplars by streams of water.'

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:13 - Another crafts wood, he extends a measuring line; he outlines it with [fn]a stylus. He makes it with planes and outlines it with a compass and makes it like the form of a man, like the glory of man, so that it may sit in a house.
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“I have wiped out your transgressions like a thick cloud

And your sins like a cloud.

Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.”

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“Woe to the one who contends with his [fn]Maker

An earthenware vessel [fn]among the vessels of earth!

Will the clay say to the [fn]potter, ‘What are you doing?'

Or the thing you are making say, ‘He has no hands'?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:20 -

“Gather yourselves and come;

Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations;

They do not know,

Who carry about their graven image of wood

And pray to a god who cannot save.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:1 -

Bel has bowed down, Nebo stoops over;

Their images are on the beasts and the cattle.

The things [fn]that you carry are burdensome,

A load for the weary beast.

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“Behold, they have become like stubble,

Fire burns them;

They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame;

There will be no coal to warm by

Nor a fire to sit before!

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He has set My mouth like a sharp sword;

In the shadow of His hand He has concealed Me;

And He has also set Me as a [fn]select arrow;

He has hidden Me in His quiver.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:18 -

“Lift up your eyes and look around;

All of them gather together; they come to you.

As I live,” declares Yahweh,

“You will surely put on all of them as [fn]jewels and bind them on as a bride.

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“I will feed those who mistreat you with their own flesh,

And they will become drunk with their own blood as with sweet wine;

And all flesh will know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior

And your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

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Behold, Lord Yahweh helps Me;

Who is he who condemns Me?

Behold, they will all wear out like a garment;

The moth will eat them.

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Indeed, Yahweh will comfort Zion;

He will comfort all her waste places.

And her wilderness He will make like Eden,

And her desert like the garden of Yahweh;

Joy and gladness will be found in her,

Thanksgiving and sound of a melody.

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“My righteousness is near, My salvation has gone forth,

And My arms will judge the peoples;

The coastlands will hope in Me,

And for My arm they will wait expectantly.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:6 -

“Lift up your eyes to the sky,

Then look to the earth beneath;

For the sky will vanish like smoke,

And the earth will wear out like a garment,

And its inhabitants will die [fn]in like manner;

But My salvation will be forever,

And My righteousness will not be dismayed.

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“For the moth will eat them like a garment,

And the grub will eat them like wool.

But My righteousness will be forever,

And My salvation to all generations.”

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Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Yahweh;

Awake as in the days of old, the generations of long ago.

Was it not You who chopped Rahab in pieces,

Who pierced the dragon?

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Your sons have fainted;

They lie helpless at the head of every street,

Like an antelope in a net,

Full of the wrath of Yahweh,

The rebuke of your God.

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Why is Your clothing red,

And Your garments like the one who treads in the wine press?

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“I have trodden the wine trough alone,

And from the peoples there was no man with Me.

I also trod them in My anger

And trampled them in My wrath;

And their [fn]lifeblood is sprinkled on My garments,

And I [fn]stained all My clothes.

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Who led them through the depths?

Like the horse in the wilderness, they did not stumble;

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As the cattle which go down into the valley,

The Spirit of Yahweh gave [fn]them rest.

So You led Your people,

To make for Yourself a glorious name.

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We have become like those over whom You have never ruled,

Like those who were not called by Your name.

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[fn]As fire kindles the brushwood, as fire causes water to boil

To make Your name known to Your adversaries,

That the nations may tremble at Your presence!

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For all of us have become like one who is unclean,

And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment;

And all of us wither like a leaf,

And our iniquities, like the wind, carry us away.

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Your holy cities have become a wilderness;

Zion has become a wilderness,

Jerusalem a desolation.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:25 - “The wolf and the lamb will graze together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox; and dust will be the serpent's food. They will do no evil nor act corruptly in all My holy mountain,” says Yahweh.
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But he who slaughters an ox is the one who strikes down a man;

He who sacrifices a lamb is the one who breaks a dog's neck;

He who offers a grain offering is the one who offers swine's blood;

He who offers a memorial offering of frankincense is the one who blesses wickedness.

As they have chosen their own ways,

And their soul takes pleasure in their detestable things,

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For thus says Yahweh, “Behold, I stretch out peace to her like a river,

And the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream;

And you will [fn]be nursed; you will be carried on the [fn]hip and played with on the knees.

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“As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you;

And you will be comforted in Jerusalem.”

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Then you will see this, and your heart will be joyful,

And your bones will flourish like the new grass;

And the hand of Yahweh will be made known to His slaves,

But He will be indignant toward His enemies.

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For behold, Yahweh will come in fire

And His chariots like the whirlwind,

To return His anger with wrath,

And His rebuke with flames of fire.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:20 - “Then they shall bring all your brothers from all the nations as a grain offering to Yahweh, on horses, in chariots, in litters, on mules, and on camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says Yahweh, “just as the sons of Israel bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of Yahweh.
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Occurrences: 79 times in 61 verses
Speech: Particle, Disjunctive Particle
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:15 - So David said to Abner, “Are you not a man? And who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not guarded your lord the king? For one of the people came to destroy the king your lord.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:3 - And he did what was right in the sight of Yahweh, yet not like David his father; he did according to all that Joash his father had done.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:2 - Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and he did not do what was right in the sight of Yahweh his God, as David his father had done.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:9 - “Now, O Yahweh God, let Your [fn]promise to my father David [fn]endure, for You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:12 - wisdom and knowledge have been given to you. And I will give you riches and wealth and glory, [fn]such as none of the kings who were before you had nor those who will [fn]come after you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:15 - The king also made silver and gold as plentiful as stones in Jerusalem, and he made cedars as plentiful as sycamore trees that are in the [fn]Shephelah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:8 - “Send me also cedar, cypress and algum timber from Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut timber of Lebanon; and behold, my servants will work with your servants,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:5 - And it was a [fn]handbreadth thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, as a lily blossom; it could hold 3,000 baths.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:10 - And he put the sea on the right [fn]side of the house toward the southeast.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:3 - And Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, “Will you go with me against Ramoth-gilead?” And he said to him, “I am as you are, and my people as your people, and we will be with you in the battle.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:12 -

Now the messenger who went to summon Micaiah spoke to him saying, “Behold, the words of the prophets, as if from one mouth, are good to the king. So please let your word be like one of them and speak that which is good.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:16 - So he said,

“I saw all Israel

Scattered on the mountains,

Like sheep which have no shepherd;

And Yahweh said,

‘These have no master.

Let each of them return to his house in peace.'”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:31 - Now it happened that when the commanders of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “It is the king of Israel,” and they turned to fight against him. But Jehoshaphat cried out, and Yahweh helped him, and God incited them away from him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:32 - So it happened that when the commanders of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:17 - He also wrote letters to [fn]reproach Yahweh, the God of Israel, and to speak against Him, saying, “As the gods of the nations of the lands [fn]have not delivered their people from my hand, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver His people from my hand.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:26 -

[fn]Even they will perish, but You will remain;

And all of them will wear out like a garment;

Like clothing You will change them and they will be changed.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:5 -

Who satisfies your [fn]years with good things,

So that your youth is renewed like the eagle.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:2 -

Wrapping Yourself with light as with a cloak,

Stretching out the heavens like a tent curtain.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:6 -

You covered it with the deep as with a garment;

The waters were standing above the mountains.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:24 -

How numerous are Your works, O Yahweh!

[fn]In wisdom You have made them all;

The earth is full of Your [fn]possessions.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:22 -

To [fn]imprison his princes [fn]at will,

And that he might teach his elders wisdom.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:9 -

Thus He rebuked the [fn]Red Sea and it dried up,

And He led them through the deeps, as through the wilderness.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:27 -

They staggered and swayed like a drunken man,

And all their wisdom was swallowed up.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:41 -

But He sets the needy [fn]securely on high away from affliction,

And makes his families like a flock.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:18 -

But he clothed himself with cursing as his garment,

And it came into his inward parts like water

And like oil into his bones.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:19 -

Let it be to him as a garment with which he wraps himself,

And for a belt with which he constantly girds himself.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 113:5 -

Who is like Yahweh our God,

The One who sits on high,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 114:4 -

The mountains skipped like rams,

The hills, like lambs.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 114:6 -

O mountains, that you skip like rams?

O hills, like lambs?

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:14 -

I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies,

[fn]As much as in all riches.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:70 -

Their heart is [fn]covered with fat,

But I delight in Your law.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:83 -

For I am like a wineskin in the smoke,

But I do not forget Your statutes.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:85 -

The arrogant have dug pits for me,

Men who are not [fn]in accord with Your law.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:103 -

How sweet is Your [fn]word to my [fn]taste!

Sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:162 -

I rejoice at Your [fn]word,

As one who finds much spoil.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:176 -

I have wandered off like a lost sheep; search for Your slave,

For I have not forgotten Your commandments.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:1 -

Send the tribute lamb to the ruler of the land,

From [fn]Sela by way of the wilderness to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:2 -

Then, like [fn]fleeing birds or scattered [fn]nestlings,

The daughters of Moab will be at the fords of the Arnon.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:18 -

“If only you had paid attention to My commandments!

Then your peace would have been like a river,

And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:19 -

“Your seed would have been like the sand,

And the offspring from your loins like its grains;

Their name would never be cut off or destroyed from My presence.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:7 -

How lovely on the mountains

Are the feet of him who proclaims good news,

Who [fn]announces [fn]peace

And proclaims good news of good things,

Who [fn]announces salvation,

And says to Zion, “Your God [fn]reigns!”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:2 -

For He grew up before Him like a tender [fn]shoot,

And like a root out of parched ground;

He has no stately form or majesty

That we should look upon Him,

Nor appearance that we should desire Him.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:6 -

All of us like sheep have gone astray,

Each of us has turned to his own way;

But Yahweh has caused the iniquity of us all

To [fn]fall on Him.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:7 -

He was oppressed and He was afflicted,

Yet He did not open His mouth;

Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,

And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,

So He did not open His mouth.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:6 -

“For Yahweh has called you,

Like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit,

Even like a wife of one's youth when she is rejected,”

Says your God.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:16 -

“Behold, I Myself have created the craftsman who blows the fire of coals

And brings out a weapon for its work;

And I have created the bringer of ruin to wreak destruction.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:9 -

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

So are My ways higher than your ways

And My thoughts than your thoughts.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:1 -

“Call out from your throat, do not hold back;

Raise your voice like a trumpet,

And declare to My people their transgression

And to the house of Jacob their sins.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:2 -

“Yet they seek Me day by day and find pleasure in knowing My ways,

As a nation that has done righteousness

And has not forsaken the judgment of their God.

They ask Me for righteous judgments;

They find pleasure in the nearness of God.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:4 -

“Behold, you fast for contention and quarreling and to strike with a wicked fist.

You do not fast like you do today to make your voice heard on high.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:5 -

“Is it a fast like this which I choose, a day for a man to afflict himself?

Is it for bowing [fn]one's head like a reed

And for spreading out sackcloth and ashes as a bed?

Will you call this a fast, even an acceptable day to Yahweh?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:11 -

“And Yahweh will continually guide you,

And satisfy your soul in scorched places,

And fortify your bones;

And you will be like a watered garden,

And like a spring of water whose waters do not [fn]fail.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:10 -

We grope along the wall like blind men;

We grope like those who have no eyes;

We stumble at midday as in the twilight,

Among those who are vigorous we are like dead men.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:11 -

All of us growl like bears,

And moan sadly like doves;

We hope for justice, but there is none,

For salvation, but it is far from us.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:17 -

He put on righteousness like a breastplate,

And a helmet of salvation on His head;

And He put on garments of vengeance for clothing

And wrapped Himself with zeal as a mantle.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:19 -

So they will fear the name of Yahweh from the west

And His glory from the rising of the sun,

For He will come like a [fn]rushing stream

Which the wind of Yahweh makes flee.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:8 -

“Who are these who fly like a cloud

And like the doves to their [fn]lattices?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:10 -

I will rejoice greatly in Yahweh;

My soul will rejoice in my God,

For He has clothed me with garments of salvation,

He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness,

As a bridegroom decks himself with a headdress,

And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:11 -

For as the earth brings forth its branches,

And as a garden causes the things sown in it to branch out,

So Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise

To branch out before all the nations.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:1 -

For Zion's sake I will not keep silent,

And for Jerusalem's sake I will not keep quiet,

Until her righteousness goes forth like brightness,

And her salvation like a torch that is burning.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:5 -

For as a young man marries a virgin,

So your sons will marry you;

And as the [fn]bridegroom rejoices over the bride,

So your God will rejoice over you.

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