'Great' in the Bible

The Lord is my great helper: I will see my desire against my haters.

See how great is my desire for your orders: give me life in your righteousness.

The men of pride have made great sport of me; but I have not been turned from your law.

My mouth was open wide, waiting with great desire for your teachings.

O Lord, great is your righteousness, and upright are your decisions.

You have commanded Your testimonies in righteousnessAnd in great faithfulness.

Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments.

Great is the number of those who are against me; but I have not been turned away from your unchanging word.

See how great is my love for your orders: give me life, O Lord, in keeping with your mercy.

I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.

Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

My soul has kept your unchanging word; great is my love for it.

Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.

The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.

Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young (let Israel now say);

{A Song of degrees of David.} LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.

For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.

Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings;

To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever.

To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever:

To him which smote great kings: for his mercy endureth for ever:

I will bow down in worship toward your holy Temple and give thanks to your name for your gracious love and truth, for you have done great things to carry out your word consistent with your name.

When my cry came to your ears you gave me an answer, and made me great with strength in my soul.

Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is the glory of the LORD.

I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious.

How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;

Because our sons are as plants, Becoming great in their youth, Our daughters as hewn stones, Polished -- the likeness of a palace,

Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.

People will speak about the might of your great deeds, and I will announce your greatness.

They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.

The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.

Praise Yahweh from the earth-- great sea creatures and all deeps,

Hallelujah! Praise God in his Holy Place. Praise him in his great expanse.

Give him praise for his acts of power: give him praise in the measure of his great strength.

Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth;

Listen, my child, take my sayings, and [the] years of your life shall be great.

He will die because there is no discipline,and be lost because of his great stupidity.

She leads him astray with great persuasion; with flattering lips she seduces him.

For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army.

By the blessing of the upright man the town is made great, but it is overturned by the mouth of the evil-doer.

There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.

Wealth from vanity becometh little, And whoso is gathering by the hand becometh great.

Without oxen a stall is clean, And great is the increase by the power of the ox.

He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

Righteousness makes a nation great, but sin diminishes any people.

The house of the righteous has great wealth,but trouble accompanies the income of the wicked.

Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.

Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.

An offering of money is like a stone of great price in the eyes of him who has it: wherever he goes, he does well.

He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.

A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.

Wealth makes a great number of friends; but the poor man is parted from his friend.

Great numbers will make attempts to get the approval of a ruler: and every man is the special friend of him who has something to give.

A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.

There is gold and a store of corals: but the lips of knowledge are a jewel of great price.

Privately given gifts pacify wrath, and payments made secretly appease great anger.

There is a store of great value in the house of the wise, but it is wasted by the foolish man.

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.

And put a knife to your throatIf you are a man of great appetite.

The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

A wise man has great power; and a knowledgeable man increases strength;

Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men:

The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.

A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these.

When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.

The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.

A man of good faith will have great blessing, but one attempting to get wealth quickly will not go free from punishment.

He who gives to the poor will never be in need, but great curses will be on him who gives no attention to them.

The approval of a ruler is desired by great numbers: but the decision in a man's cause comes from the Lord.

Put far from me all false and foolish things: do not give me great wealth or let me be in need, but give me only enough food:

I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

For with great wisdom comes great frustration; whoever increases his knowledge merely increases his heartache.

I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:

I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:

So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.

So I said {to myself}, "{If I also suffer the same fate as the fool}, {what advantage is my great wisdom}?" So I said {to myself}, "This also [is] vanity!"

For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great.

As a dream comes from much business, so the voice of a foolish man comes with words in great number.

There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.

And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?

Furthermore, all his days he lives in darkness with great sorrow, anger, and affliction.

There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it is great on man:

If a man doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, 'Better than he is the untimely birth.'

A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth.

Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.

This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:

There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:

Dead flies make the oil of the perfumer give out an evil smell; more valued is a little wisdom than the great glory of the foolish.

If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.

Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.

If an iron axhead is blunt and a workman does not sharpen its edge, he must exert a great deal of effort; so wisdom has the advantage of giving success.

Indeed, if a man should live many years, let him rejoice in them all, and let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything that is to come will be futility.

And because the Preacher was wise he still gave the people knowledge; searching out, testing, and putting in order a great number of wise sayings.

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

Come out, young women of Zion, and see King Solomon with the crown with which his mother crowned him on his wedding day his day of great delight.

Much water may not put out love, or the deep waters overcome it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would be judged a price not great enough.

I [was] a wall, and my breasts [were] like the towers, {so [my betrothed] viewed me with great delight}.