68 Bible Verses about Cessation

Joy and rejoicing have been removed from the orchard;
no one is singing or shouting for joy in the vineyards.
No one tramples grapes in the winepresses.
I have put an end to the shouting.

Joy and celebration are taken from the fertile field
and from the land of Moab.
I have stopped the flow of wine from the winepresses;
no one will tread with shouts of joy.
The shouting is not a shout of joy.

Beware, I am against you.
This is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts.
I will make your chariots go up in smoke
and the sword will devour your young lions.
I will cut off your prey from the earth,
and the sound of your messengers
will never be heard again.

Then Samson told them, “Because you did this, I swear that I won’t rest until I have taken vengeance on you.”

“This is what the Lord God says: Look, I am against the shepherds. I will demand My flock from them and prevent them from shepherding the flock. The shepherds will no longer feed themselves, for I will rescue My flock from their mouths so that they will not be food for them.

All of them commit adultery;
they are like an oven heated by a baker
who stops stirring the fire
from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

Abraham and Sarah were old and getting on in years. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

And she conceived again, gave birth to a son, and said, “This time I will praise the Lord.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then Leah stopped having children.

When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her slave Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

But at 50 years old he is to retire from his service in the work and no longer serve.

If you stop listening to correction, my son,
you will stray from the words of knowledge.

Otherwise, wouldn’t they have stopped being offered, since the worshipers, once purified, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?

I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sound of joy and gladness and the voices of the groom and the bride, for the land will become a desolate waste.

For this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am about to eliminate from this place, before your very eyes and in your time, the sound of joy and gladness, the voice of the groom and the bride.

I will eliminate the sound of joy and gladness from them—the voice of the groom and the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

the light of a lamp
will never shine in you again;
and the voice of a groom and bride
will never be heard in you again.
All this will happen
because your merchants
were the nobility of the earth,
because all the nations were deceived
by your sorcery,

I will put an end to the noise of your songs, and the sound of your lyres will no longer be heard.

The joyful tambourines have ceased.
The noise of the jubilant has stopped.
The joyful lyre has ceased.

I will put an end to all her celebrations:
her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—
all her festivals.

Joy has left our hearts;
our dancing has turned to mourning.

Therefore, they will now go into exile
as the first of the captives,
and the feasting of those who sprawl out
will come to an end.

you will sing this song of contempt about the king of Babylon and say:

How the oppressor has quieted down,
and how the raging has become quiet!

Then Joab blew the ram’s horn, and all the troops stopped; they no longer pursued Israel or continued to fight.

When the chariot commanders saw that he was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.

Babylon’s warriors have stopped fighting;
they sit in their strongholds.
Their might is exhausted;
they have become like women.
Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze,
her gate bars are shattered.

But Jesus responded, “No more of this!” And touching his ear, He healed him.

Taking along soldiers and centurions, he immediately ran down to them. Seeing the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

So the king set out, and all the people followed him. They stopped at the last house

Then He came up and touched the open coffin, and the pallbearers stopped. And He said, “Young man, I tell you, get up!”

Nineveh has been like a pool of water
from her first days,
but they are fleeing.
“Stop! Stop!” they cry,
but no one turns back.

After hearing the king, they went on their way. And there it was—the star they had seen in the east! It led them until it came and stopped above the place where the child was.

Jesus stopped, called them, and said, “What do you want Me to do for you?”

Jesus stopped and commanded that he be brought to Him. When he drew near, He asked him,

Then he ordered the chariot to stop, and both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized him.

“Wash yourselves. Cleanse yourselves.
Remove your evil deeds from My sight.
Stop doing evil.

“This is what the Lord God says: You have gone too far, princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression and do what is just and right. Put an end to your evictions of My people.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

For I will remove the names of the Baals
from her mouth;
they will no longer be remembered by their names.

So I will put an end to indecency in the land, and all the women will be admonished not to imitate your indecent behavior.

Then they will burn down your houses and execute judgments against you in the sight of many women. I will stop you from being a prostitute, and you will never again pay fees for lovers.

So I will put an end to your indecency and sexual immorality, which began in the land of Egypt, and you will not look longingly at them or remember Egypt anymore.

Instantly her flow of blood ceased, and she sensed in her body that she was cured of her affliction.

Then I said, “Lord God, please stop! How will Jacob survive since he is so small?”

So from there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city.

When Baasha heard about it, he quit building Ramah and stayed in Tirzah.

And our enemies said, “They won’t know or see anything until we’re among them and can kill them and stop the work.”

So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and go down to you?”

Moses said to him, “When I have left the city, I will extend my hands to Yahweh. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know the earth belongs to Yahweh.

Moses went out from Pharaoh and the city, and extended his hands to the Lord. Then the thunder and hail ceased, and rain no longer poured down on the land.

When Pharaoh saw that the rain, hail, and thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart, he and his officials.

But when Pharaoh saw there was relief, he hardened his heart and would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.

Then they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped its raging.

When they got into the boat, the wind ceased.

Then He got into the boat with them, and the wind ceased. They were completely astounded,

He got up, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Silence! Be still!” The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

When the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, come to rest in the Jordan’s waters, its waters will be cut off. The water flowing downstream will stand up in a mass.”

you should tell them, ‘The waters of the Jordan were cut off in front of the ark of the Lord’s covenant. When it crossed the Jordan, the Jordan’s waters were cut off.’ Therefore these stones will always be a memorial for the Israelites.”

Why has my pain become unending,
my wound incurable,
refusing to be healed?
You truly have become like a mirage to me—
water that is not reliable.

When they were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another container.”

But he replied, “There aren’t any more.” Then the oil stopped.

And the day after they ate from the produce of the land, the manna ceased. Since there was no more manna for the Israelites, they ate from the crops of the land of Canaan that year.

He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was halted.

Aaron then returned to Moses at the entrance to the tent of meeting, since the plague had been halted.

But Phinehas stood up and intervened,
and the plague was stopped.

Therefore say to them: This is what the Lord God says: I will put a stop to this proverb, and they will not use it again in Israel. But say to them: The days draw near, as well as the fulfillment of every vision.

As I live”—this is the declaration of the Lord God—“you will no longer use this proverb in Israel.

For there will no longer be any false vision or flattering divination within the house of Israel.

Love never ends.
But as for prophecies,
they will come to an end;
as for languages, they will cease;
as for knowledge, it will come to an end.

So I will bring the most evil of nations
to take possession of their houses.
I will put an end to the pride of the strong,
and their sacred places will be profaned.

The day will be dark in Tehaphnehes,
when I break the yoke of Egypt there
and its proud strength
comes to an end in the city.
A cloud will cover Tehaphnehes,
and its villages will go into captivity.