'Place' in the Bible

Let them exalt him in the assembly of the people! Let them praise him in the place where the leaders preside!

A fruitful land becometh a barren place, For the wickedness of its inhabitants.

He makes a waste land into a place of water, and a dry land into water-springs.

They devise evil against me instead of good, and hatred in place of my love.

I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.

To give him a place among the rulers, even with the rulers of his people.

Judah became his sanctuary and Israel his place of dominion.

The cords and sorrows of death encompassed me,And the terrors of Sheol came upon me;I found distress and sorrow.

I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.

Then I can answer the one who insults me, for I place my trust in your word.

I will walk freely in an open placebecause I seek Your precepts.

Your faith is unchanging from generation to generation: you have put the earth in its place, and it is not moved.

Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.

I get up before dawn and cry for help; I place my hope in your word.

Those whose hope is in the Lord are like the mountain of Zion, which may not be moved, but keeps its place for ever.

Place your hope in the LORD, Israel, both now and forever. A Song of Ascents

Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.

The LORD made an oath to David from which he will not retreat: "One of your sons I will set in place on your throne.

Lift up your hands in the holy placeand praise the Lord!

Behind and before Thou hast besieged me, And Thou dost place on me Thy hand.

If I ascend to heaven, You are there;If I make my bed in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead), behold, You are there.

My frame was not hidden from you while I was being crafted in a hidden place, knit together in the depths of the earth.

Truly, the upright will give praise to your name: the holy will have a place in your house.

O Lord, place a guard on my mouth! Protect the opening of my lips!

Just as one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered near the entrance to the place of the dead.

Looking to my right side, I saw no man who was my friend: I had no safe place; no one had any care for my soul.

I have made my cry to you, O Lord; I have said, You are my safe place, and my heritage in the land of the living.

Reach down your hand from your high place; rescue me and deliver me from mighty waters, from the control of foreigners.

Do not place trust in princes, in a son of humankind with whom there is no deliverance.

He set them in place to last forever and ever; he gave the command and will not rescind it.

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

Let us swallow them alive like Sheol (the place of the dead),Even whole, as those who go down to the pit [of death];

She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,

For her house sinks down to death, and her paths lead to the place of the departed spirits.

By wisdom the LORD laid the earth's foundations, and by understanding he set the heavens in place.

Put her in a high place, and you will be lifted up by her; she will give you honour, when you give her your love.

She will place a garland of grace on your head;she will give you a crown of beauty.”

Her feet go down to death;Her steps take hold of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),

Her house is the way to Sheol,Descending to the chambers of death.

At the top of the highways, at the meeting of the roads, she takes her place;

Take my teaching, and not silver; get knowledge in place of the best gold.

From eternal days I was given my place, from the birth of time, before the earth was.

before the mountains were set in place -- before the hills -- I was born,

Happy is the man who gives ear to me, watching at my doors day by day, keeping his place by the pillars of my house.

But he does not know that the spirits of the dead are there,And that her guests are [already] in the depths of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead).

To the upright, the way of the LORD is a place of safety, but it's a place of ruin to those who practice evil.

The righteous one is rescued from trouble;in his place, the wicked one goes in.

Evil-doers are overturned and never seen again, but the house of upright men will keep its place.

Where there are no oxen, their food-place is clean; but much increase comes through the strength of the ox.

In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.

The wicked person is thrown down by his own wrongdoing, but the righteous person has a place of safety in death.

The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) and Abaddon (the abyss, the place of eternal punishment) lie open before the Lord—How much more the hearts and inner motives of the children of men.

The [chosen] path of life leads upward for the wise,That he may keep away from Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) below.

The man whose ear is open to the teaching of life will have his place among the wise.

The wrath of the king is like those who give news of death, but a wise man will put peace in place of it.

A prudent servant will rule in place of a disgraceful son and will share in the inheritance among brothers.

The wicked is a ransom for the righteous,And the treacherous is in the place of the upright.

Do not move an ancient boundary stone which was put in place by your ancestors.

Have you seen a man who is expert in his business? he will take his place before kings; his place will not be among low persons.

You shall swat him with the reed-like rodAnd rescue his life from Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead).

Wisdom is outside the power of the foolish: he keeps his mouth shut in the public place.

Do not lie in wait like the wicked against the place where the righteous live; do not assault his home.

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

For it is better to have it said to you, Come up here; than for you to be put down in a lower place before the ruler.

[Like] cold water upon a weary soul, [so too is] good news from a distant place.

As the door turns on its hinges,So does the lazy person on his bed [never getting out of it].

As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.

Sheol (the place of the dead) and Abaddon (the underworld) are never satisfied;Nor are the eyes of man ever satisfied.

The fear of man is a cause of danger: but whoever puts his faith in the Lord will have a safe place on high.

Sheol, and the barren womb,Earth that is never satisfied with water,And fire that never says, “It is enough.”

A hated woman when she is married; and a servant-girl who takes the place of her master's wife.

Conies are a people not strong, And they place in a rock their house,

Her husband is a man of note in the public place, when he takes his seat among the responsible men of the land.

Give her credit for what her hands have made: let her be praised by her works in the public place.

The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.

That which was, now is; and that which will be, already is; and God examines what has already taken place.

And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

I observed everyone who lives and walks on earth, along with the youth who will take the king's place.

Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

In the day of prosperity, rejoice! But in the day of adversity, consider! For God made one in place of another so that mortals cannot find out what will happen {in the future}.

And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to see the activities [of mankind] that take place upon the earth—how some men seem to sleep neither day nor night—

Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, because there is neither work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave, the place where you will eventually go.

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 the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.

Furthermore, men are afraid of a high place and of terrors on the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags himself along, and the caperberry is ineffective. For man goes to his eternal home while mourners go about in the street.

My dove, in clefts of the rock, In a secret place of the ascent, Cause me to see thine appearance, Cause me to hear thy voice, For thy voice is sweet, and thy appearance comely.

Your teeth are like a flock of newly-shorn sheep coming up from the washing place; each of them has a twin, and not one of them is missing.

(The Shulammite Bride)“Under the apple tree I awakened you [to my love];There your mother was in labor with you,There she was in labor and gave you birth.“Put me like a seal on your heart,Like a seal on your arm;For love is as strong as death,Jealousy is as severe and cruel as Sheol (the place of the dead).Its flashes are flashes of fire,[A most vehement flame] the very flame of the Lord!

Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me.

And left hath been the daughter of Zion, As a booth in a vineyard, As a lodge in a place of cucumbers -- as a city besieged.

And men will go into cracks of the rocks, and into holes of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

To take cover in the cracks of the rocks, and in the holes of the hills, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

The LORD is taking his place to argue his case; he's standing up to judge the people.

And in the place of sweet spices will be an evil smell, and for a fair band a thick cord; for a well-dressed head there will be the cutting-off of the hair, and for a beautiful robe there will be the clothing of sorrow; the mark of the prisoner in place of the ornaments of the free.

Then hath Jehovah prepared Over every fixed place of Mount Zion, And over her convocations, A cloud by day, and smoke, And the shining of a flaming fire by night, That, over all honour a safe-guard,