Lexicon :: Strong's H4513 - mānaʿ

Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God? He has withheld offspring[fn] from you! ”

They came to Balaam and said to him, “This is what Balak son of Zippor says: ‘Let nothing keep you from coming to me,

“Now go to your home! I said I would reward you richly, but look, the LORD has denied you a reward.”

“Now my lord, as surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live ​— ​it is the LORD who kept you from participating in bloodshed and avenging yourself by your own hand—may your enemies and those who intend to harm my lord be like Nabal.

“Otherwise, as surely as the LORD God of Israel lives, who prevented me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, Nabal wouldn’t have had any males[fn] left by morning light.”

“Where could I ever go with my humiliation? And you ​— ​you would be like one of the outrageous fools in Israel! Please, speak to the king, for he won’t keep me from you.”

Then the king of Israel called for all the elders of the land and said, “Recognize[fn] that this one is only looking for trouble, for he demanded my wives, my children, my silver, and my gold, and I didn’t turn him down.”

You sent your good Spirit to instruct them.

You did not withhold your manna from their mouths,

and you gave them water for their thirst.

though he cherishes it and will not let it go

but keeps it in his mouth,

You gave no water to the thirsty

and withheld food from the famished,

If I have refused the wishes of the poor

or let the widow’s eyes go blind,

Light[fn] is withheld from the wicked,

and the arm raised in violence is broken.

You have given him his heart’s desire

and have not denied the request of his lips.Selah

For the LORD God is a sun and shield.

The LORD grants favor and honor;

he does not withhold the good

from those who live with integrity.

my son, don’t travel that road with them

or set foot on their path,

When it is in your power,[fn]

don’t withhold good from the one to whom it belongs.

People will curse anyone who hoards grain,

but a blessing will come to the one who sells it.

Don’t withhold discipline from a youth;

if you punish him with a rod, he will not die.

Two things I ask of you;

don’t deny them to me before I die:

All that my eyes desired, I did not deny them. I did not refuse myself any pleasure, for I took pleasure in all my struggles. This was my reward for all my struggles.

Keep your feet from going bare

and your throat from thirst.

But you say, “It’s hopeless;

I love strangers,

and I will continue to follow them.”

This is why the showers haven’t come —

why there has been no spring rain.

You have the brazen look of a prostitute[fn]

and refuse to be ashamed.

“Your guilty acts have diverted these things from you.

Your sins have withheld my bounty from you,

This is what the LORD says:

Keep your voice from weeping

and your eyes from tears,

for the reward for your work will come —

this is the LORD’s declaration —

and your children will return from the enemy’s land.

So the prophet Jeremiah said to them, “I have heard. I will now pray to the LORD your God according to your words, and I will tell you every word that the LORD answers you; I won’t withhold a word from you.”

The one who does

the LORD’s business deceitfully[fn] is cursed,

and the one who withholds

his sword from bloodshed is cursed.

“ ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: I caused grieving on the day the cedar went down to Sheol. I closed off the underground deep because of it:[fn] I held back the rivers of the deep, and its abundant water was restrained. I made Lebanon mourn on account of it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it.

Dress in sackcloth and lament, you priests;

wail, you ministers of the altar.

Come and spend the night in sackcloth,

you ministers of my God,

because grain and drink offerings

are withheld from the house of your God.

I also withheld the rain from you

while there were still three months until harvest.

I sent rain on one city

but no rain on another.

One field received rain

while a field with no rain withered.