'Lays' in the Bible

At that time Joshua made this solemn declaration: "The man who attempts to rebuild this city of Jericho will stand condemned before the Lord. He will lose his firstborn son when he lays its foundations and his youngest son when he erects its gates!"

"The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight and disease, or a locust invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land, or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs.

"The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight, and disease, or a locust invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land, or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs.

“You say, ‘God stores away [the punishment of] man’s wickedness for his children.’Let God repay him so that he may know and experience it.

“Do you know how God establishes and commands them,And makes the lightning of His [storm] cloud shine?

He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap;He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

Of the pestilence that stalks in darkness,Or of the destruction that lays waste at noon.

He lays the beams of his roof loft on the water above, making clouds his chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.

He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;

Like one who takes off a garment in cold weather, or like [a reactive, useless mixture of] vinegar on soda,Is he who [thoughtlessly] sings [joyful] songs to a heavy heart.

He who hates disguises it with his lips,But he lays up deceit in his heart.

She stretches out her hands to the distaff,And her hands hold the spindle [as she spins wool into thread for clothing].

If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don't leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.

When a man lays hold of his brother in his father’s house, saying,“You have a cloak, you shall be our ruler,And these ruins will be under your charge,”

Behold, the Lord lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts its surface and scatters its inhabitants.

He brings down the high fortifications of your walls and lays them low; he will raze them to the ground, right down to the dust.

For he has made drunk the inhabitants of the height, the lofty city. He lays it low to the ground casting it down to the dust,

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

“Blessed (happy, fortunate) is the man who does this,And the son of man who takes hold of it,Who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it,And keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

The righteous man perishes [at the hand of evil], and no one takes it to heart;Faithful and devout men are taken away, while no one understandsThat the righteous person is taken away [to be spared] from disaster and evil.

“Their tongue is a murderous arrow;It speaks deceit;With his mouth one speaks peace to his neighbor,But in his heart he lays traps and waits in ambush for him.

“It has been made a desolation,Desolate, it mourns before Me;The whole land has been made desolate,Because no man lays it to heart.

A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and the wailing of the principal of the flock! for Yahweh lays waste their pasture.

For Yahweh lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the great voice; and their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is uttered:

The tongue of the nursling cleaves to its palate in thirst. Children beg [for] food, {no one lays it out before them}.

He builds His upper chambersin the heavensand lays the foundation of His vaulton the earth.He summons the waters of the seaand pours them out on the face of the earth.Yahweh is His name.

His radiance is like sunlight; beams of light shine from his hand, where his strength lays hidden.

A declaration: a message from the LORD to Israel. "The LORD, who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who frames the spirit of man within himself, declares,

and whenever it seizes him [intending to do harm], it throws him down, and he foams [at the mouth], and grinds his teeth and becomes stiff. I told Your disciples to drive it out, and they could not do it.”

He is like a man building a house, who digs and goes deep, and lays the foundation on the rock; and when a flood comes, the torrent bursts upon that house, but is unable to shake it, because it is securely built.

Thus is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

Otherwise, if he lays a foundation and can't finish the building, everyone who watches will begin to ridicule him

and having found it, he lays it upon his own shoulders, rejoicing;

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

rises from supper and lays aside his garments, and having taken a linen towel he girded himself:

No one shows greater love than when he lays down his life for his friends.

For Moses lays down in writing the righteousness which is of the law, The man who has practised those things shall live by them.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness (absurdity, stupidity) before God; for it is written [in Scripture], “[He is] The one who catches the wise and clever in their craftiness;”

“And behold, I am coming quickly. Blessed (happy, prosperous, to be admired) is the one who heeds and takes to heart and remembers the words of the prophecy [that is, the predictions, consolations, and warnings] contained in this book (scroll).”