'Lay' in the Bible

You brought us into the net;You laid an oppressive burden upon our loins.

The bird also has found a house,And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young,Even Your altars, O Lord of hosts,My King and my God.

Even there Your hand will lead me,And Your right hand will lay hold of me.

Her feet go down to death,Her steps take hold of Sheol.

“I will lay it waste;It will not be pruned or hoed,But briars and thorns will come up.I will also charge the clouds to rain no rain on it.”

On this account the anger of the Lord has burned against His people,And He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them down.And the mountains quaked, and their corpses lay like refuse in the middle of the streets.For all this His anger is not spent,But His hand is still stretched out.

A harsh vision has been shown to me;The treacherous one still deals treacherously, and the destroyer still destroys.Go up, Elam, lay siege, Media;I have made an end of all the groaning she has caused.

And he will spread out his hands in the middle of itAs a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim,But the Lord will lay low his pride together with the trickery of his hands.

The unassailable fortifications of your walls He will bring down,Lay low and cast to the ground, even to the dust.

And every blow of the rod of punishment,Which the Lord will lay on him,Will be with the music of tambourines and lyres;And in battles, brandishing weapons, He will fight them.

The tree snake will make its nest and lay eggs there,And it will hatch and gather them under its protection.Yes, the hawks will be gathered there,Every one with its kind.

“I will lay waste the mountains and hillsAnd wither all their vegetation;I will make the rivers into coastlandsAnd dry up the ponds.

“O afflicted one, storm-tossed, and not comforted,Behold, I will set your stones in antimony,And your foundations I will lay in sapphires.

Then lay siege against it, build a siege wall, raise up a ramp, pitch camps and place battering rams against it all around.

“As for you, lie down on your left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; you shall bear their iniquity for the number of days that you lie on it.

I will also lay the dead bodies of the sons of Israel in front of their idols; and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

in order to lay hold of the hearts of the house of Israel who are estranged from Me through all their idols.”’

and say,‘What was your mother?A lioness among lions!She lay down among young lions,She reared her cubs.

As they gather silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into the furnace to blow fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you in My anger and in My wrath and I will lay you there and melt you.

therefore thus says the Lord God, “I will also stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off man and beast from it. And I will lay it waste; from Teman even to Dedan they will fall by the sword.

I will lay My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel. Therefore, they will act in Edom according to My anger and according to My wrath; thus they will know My vengeance,” declares the Lord God.

I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes; and they will know that I am the Lord when I lay My vengeance on them.”’”

“I will lay your flesh on the mountainsAnd fill the valleys with your refuse.

“There also are the chiefs of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who in spite of the terror resulting from their might, in shame went down with the slain. So they lay down uncircumcised with those slain by the sword and bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit.

“I will lay waste your citiesAnd you will become a desolation.Then you will know that I am the Lord.

For the burnt offering there were four tables of hewn stone, a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide and one cubit high, on which they lay the instruments with which they slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice.

Then he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers, which are opposite the separate area, they are the holy chambers where the priests who are near to the Lord shall eat the most holy things. There they shall lay the most holy things, the grain offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering; for the place is holy.

When they go out into the outer court, into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they have been ministering and lay them in the holy chambers; then they shall put on other garments so that they will not transmit holiness to the people with their garments.

I saw a dream and it made me fearful; and these fantasies as I lay on my bed and the visions in my mind kept alarming me.

‘Now these were the visions in my mind as I lay on my bed: I was looking, and behold, there was a tree in the midst of the earth and its height was great.

‘I was looking in the visions in my mind as I lay on my bed, and behold, an angelic watcher, a holy one, descended from heaven.

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel saw a dream and visions in his mind as he lay on his bed; then he wrote the dream down and related the following summary of it.

For I will make Samaria a heap of ruins in the open country,Planting places for a vineyard.I will pour her stones down into the valleyAnd will lay bare her foundations.

You went forth for the salvation of Your people,For the salvation of Your anointed.You struck the head of the house of the evilTo lay him open from thigh to neck. Selah.

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal;

Jesus *said to him, “The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.”

While He was saying these things to them, a synagogue official came and bowed down before Him, and said, “My daughter has just died; but come and lay Your hand on her, and she will live.”

Then some children were brought to Him so that He might lay His hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them.

They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with so much as a finger.

and *implored Him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death; please come and lay Your hands on her, so that she will get well and live.”

They *brought to Him one who was deaf and spoke with difficulty, and they *implored Him to lay His hand on him.

they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

So they came in a hurry and found their way to Mary and Joseph, and the baby as He lay in the manger.

And Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.”

for I was afraid of you, because you are an exacting man; you take up what you did not lay down and reap what you did not sow.’

He *said to him, ‘By your own words I will judge you, you worthless slave. Did you know that I am an exacting man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow?

The scribes and the chief priests tried to lay hands on Him that very hour, and they feared the people; for they understood that He spoke this parable against them.

“But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you to the synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for My name’s sake.

While I was with you daily in the temple, you did not lay hands on Me; but this hour and the power of darkness are yours.”

In these lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, and withered, [waiting for the moving of the waters;

even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.

For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again.

No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own initiative. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This commandment I received from My Father.”

Peter *said to Him, “Lord, why can I not follow You right now? I will lay down my life for You.”

Jesus *answered, “Will you lay down your life for Me? Truly, truly, I say to you, a rooster will not crow until you deny Me three times.

Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.

and lay them at the apostles’ feet, and they would be distributed to each as any had need.

saying, “Give this authority to me as well, so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”

and he has seen in a vision a man named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him, so that he might regain his sight.”

“For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these essentials:

But as the sailors were trying to escape from the ship and had let down the ship’s boat into the sea, on the pretense of intending to lay out anchors from the bow,

just as it is written,“Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense,And he who believes in Him will not be disappointed.”

The night is almost gone, and the day is near. Therefore let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.

For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit,

Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.

Do not lay hands upon anyone too hastily and thereby share responsibility for the sins of others; keep yourself free from sin.

And,“You, Lord, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth,And the heavens are the works of Your hands;

Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

For this is contained in Scripture:“Behold, I lay in Zion a choice stone, a precious corner stone,And he who believes in Him will not be disappointed.”

We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.