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Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.

Verse ConceptsGiftsBribery, Results OfExploitationsWicked RulersOppression, Nature OfOrphansReward, HumanRiches, Dangers OfRulersStealingLeadershipRulers, WickedCovetousness, Example OfEvil AssociationsCompanionshipNot Helping Widows

And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face: for this cause there will be no forgiveness for their sin.

Verse ConceptsUnforgivenessGod Not Forgiving

The Lord is ready to take up his cause against his people, and is about to come forward as their judge.

Verse ConceptsGod, As Judge

For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.

Verse ConceptsDangers Of IgnorancePoverty, SpiritualSuffering, Causes OfPeople Exiled

For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it.

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheThe Glory Of ManThe Fact Of Death

Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.

Verse ConceptsAcquittalGuiltAcquitting The Guilty

For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Verse ConceptsRejecting God's WordDecayGrassRejection Of GodStrawRejection Of God's WordWord Of GodRootsPeople RottingBurning Plants

For this cause the Lord is sending on them the waters of the River, deep and strong, even the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it will come up through all its streams, overflowing all its edges:

Verse ConceptsChaosLike A Flood

For this cause the Lord has made strong the haters of Israel, driving them on to make war against him;

For this cause the Lord took away from Israel head and tail, high and low, in one day.

Verse ConceptsBeheadingA Short TimeTailsShort Time For ActionHead As ChiefFake Friends

For the guides of this people are the cause of their wandering from the right way, and those who are guided by them come to destruction.

Verse ConceptsGuidance, Need For God'sBeing MisleadMisleading ChildrenLeaders

For this cause the Lord will have no pleasure in their young men, and no pity on their widows and the children without fathers: for they are all haters of God and evil-doers, and foolish words come from every mouth. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Verse ConceptsOrphansSin, Nature OfWidowsDecadenceGod's HandVirtues Of Young PeopleGod's Hands Stretched OutLack Of RejoicingNot Helping WidowsHypocrisy

Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.

Verse ConceptsFraudThe NeedyPlunderingHuntingOppression, Nature OfPoverty, Attitudes TowardsPoor, Oppression OfExtortionNo JusticeNot Helping WidowsHelping The Pooroppression

For this cause it will be that, when the purpose of the Lord against Mount Zion and Jerusalem is complete, I will send punishment on the pride of the heart of the king of Assyria, and on the glory of his uplifted eyes.

Verse ConceptsCondemned HeartsExile, in assyriaHeart, Fallen And RedeemedPride, Results OfSuperiorityBusiness EthicsAssyria, Prophecies OfHaughtinessThe Prophecy Towards AssyriaHumbling The ProudEnd Of ActionsGod Opposes The Proud

For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, will make his fat become wasted; and in his inner parts a fire will be lighted like a burning flame.

Verse ConceptsFire Emanating From God

For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, says, O my people living in Zion, have no fear of the Assyrian, even if his rod comes on your back, and his stick is lifted up as in Egypt.

Verse ConceptsSpecial Revelation

But he will do right in the cause of the poor, and give wise decisions for those in the land who are in need; and the rod of his mouth will come down on the cruel, and with the breath of his lips he will put an end to the evil-doer.

Verse ConceptsBreath Of GodFace Of GodWaistsMillennial KingdomSpirit Of ChristThe Sword Of The SpiritGod Beating PeopleGod KillingChrist SpeakingGod KillsRighteousness Of ChristStriking People With A Stafffairness

For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water;

Verse ConceptsHeart, HumanHuman EmotionLosing Courage

For this cause the heavens will be shaking, and the earth will be moved out of its place, in the wrath of the Lord of armies, and in the day of his burning passion.

Verse ConceptsGod ShakingThe Universe DestroyedThe Coming Day Of God's Wrath

As for your fathers, you will not be united with them in their resting-place, because you have been the cause of destruction to your land, and of death to your people; the seed of the evil-doer will have no place in the memory of man.

Verse ConceptsBad ParentsParents SinSins Of The Fathers

Heshbon is crying out, and Elealeh; their voice is sounding even to Jahaz: for this cause the heart of Moab is shaking; his soul is shaking with fear.

For this cause they will take away their wealth, and the stores they have got together, over the stream of the water-plants.

For this cause everyone in Moab will give cries of grief for Moab: crushed to the earth, they will be weeping for the men of Kir-hareseth.

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Expression OfLamentingDried Fruit

For this cause my sorrow for the vine of Sibmah will be like the weeping for Jazer: my eyes are dropping water on you, O Heshbon and Elealeh! For they are sounding the war-cry over your summer fruits and the getting in of your grain;

Verse ConceptsGod, Suffering OfHarvestDestroying VineyardsI Mourn CatastropheSummer Fruit

For this cause the cords of my heart are sounding for Moab, and I am full of sorrow for Kir-heres.

Verse ConceptsGod, Suffering OfHarps

For you have not given honour to the God of your salvation, and have not kept in mind the Rock of your strength; for this cause you made a garden of Adonis, and put in it the vine-cuttings of a strange god;

Verse ConceptsFortressesGod, The RockRocksMetaphorical Plantingmindfulness

The chiefs of Zoan have become foolish, the chiefs of Noph are tricked, the heads of her tribes are the cause of Egypt's wandering out of the way.

Verse ConceptsCornerstoneMemphisFoolish PeopleStrong Delusion

And the land of Judah will become a cause of great fear to Egypt; whenever its name comes to mind, Egypt will be in fear before the Lord of armies because of his purpose against it.

Verse ConceptsFearing Other Peopleterrorism

For this cause I am full of bitter grief; pains like the pains of a woman in childbirth have come on me: I am bent down with sorrow at what comes to my ears; I am shocked by what I see.

Verse ConceptsAgony, Of BodyBodyPunishment, Nature OfLabour Pains

For this cause I have said, Let your eyes be turned away from me in my bitter weeping; I will not be comforted for the wasting of the daughter of my people.

Verse ConceptsBeing Earnest For IsraelSorrowNo Comfort

For this cause the earth is given up to the curse, and those in it are judged as sinners: for this cause those living on the earth are burned up, and the rest are small in number.

Verse ConceptsFew PeopleGod CursingGuiltThe Earth

For this cause will the strong people give glory to you, the town of the cruel ones will be in fear of you.

Verse ConceptsApprovalAcclaimingPraising God

The dead will not come back to life: their spirits will not come back to earth; for this cause you have sent destruction on them, so that the memory of them is dead.

Verse ConceptsSpiritsThe Finality Of DeathDeath Is FinalLiveTrust In Relationships

When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.

Verse ConceptsSympathyDullnessFirewoodGod Without Mercy

For this cause the word of the Lord will be to them rule after rule, line after line, here a little, there a little; so that they may go on their way, and falling back may be broken, and taken in the net.

Verse ConceptsGraduallyReprobatesGod's OrdersExposition Of The ScripturesFalling Backwards

For this cause I will again do a strange thing among this people, a thing to be wondered at: and the wisdom of their wise men will come to nothing, and the sense of their guides will no longer be seen.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfIntelligencePhilosophyReasonShrewdnessThoughtWisdom, Source Of HumanInventionsFalse WisdomWorldly WisdomDiscernment

Who give help to a man in a wrong cause, and who put a net for the feet of him who gives decisions in the public place, taking away a man's right without cause.

Verse ConceptsInjustice, Examples OfTrapUncharitablenessBusiness At The GatewayMan Trapping

For this cause the Holy One of Israel says, Because you will not give ear to this word, and are looking for help in ways of deceit and evil, and are putting your hope in them:

Verse ConceptsRejecting God's WordRejection Of GodRejection Of God's Wordoppression

For this cause the Lord will be waiting, so that he may be kind to you; and he will be lifted up, so that he may have mercy on you; for the Lord is a God of righteousness: there is a blessing on all whose hope is in him.

Verse ConceptsGod, Compassion OfJusticeCommendationGod Is GraciousGod, Justice OfTendernessWaiting On GodLongsuffering Of GodDivine FavourGod WaitingGod Showed MercyGod's InterventionWaiting On The LordWaiting For God's Timingjournaling

Then the Assyrian will come down by the sword, but not of man; the sword, not of men, will be the cause of his destruction: and he will go in flight from the sword, and his young men will be put to forced work.

Verse ConceptsSwordsGod KillingGod Will Kill The PeoplesForced Labour

Your heart will give thought to the cause of your fear: where is the scribe, where is he who made a record of the payments, where is he by whom the towers were numbered?

Verse ConceptsCensusOfficersCounting BuildingsFear Will Cometerrorismaccounting

Who among all the gods of these countries have kept their country from falling into my hand, to give cause for the thought that the Lord will keep Jerusalem from falling into my hand?

Verse ConceptsSalvation By Other Things

For this cause the Lord says about the king of Assyria, He will not come into this town, or send an arrow against it; he will not come before it with arms, or put up an earthwork against it.

Verse ConceptsAttacks On Jerusalem Turned Back

I make cries like a bird; I give out sounds of grief like a dove: my eyes are looking up with desire; O Lord, I am crushed, take up my cause.

Verse ConceptsdovesdiscouragementPrayer In DiscouragementSwallowsCauses of failure in

O Lord, for this cause I am waiting for you, give rest to my spirit: make me well again, and let me come back to life.

Verse ConceptsRevival, PersonalRecovery

Come quietly before me, O sea-lands, and let the peoples get together their strength: let them come near; then let them say what they have to say: let us put forward our cause against one another.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual RenewalIslandsGod Giving StrengthGod Gives StrengthPay Attention To God!Renewal

Have no fear, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will be your helper, says the Lord, even he who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerRedemption, In OtTypesNames And Titles For ChristMan, Insignificance OfMaggotsOther Unimportant PeopleDo Not Fear For God Will Helpbugsworms

Put forward your cause, says the Lord; let your strong argument come out, says the King of Jacob.

Verse ConceptsJacob, The PatriarchSuing GodDoing Your Bestprocess

The Lord, who has taken up your cause, the Holy One of Israel, says, Because of you I have sent to Babylon, and made all their seers come south, and the Chaldaeans whose cry is in the ships.

Verse ConceptsReturn From BabylonRedemption, In OtSeafaringShipsFor The Sake Of God's People

Put me in mind of this; let us take up the cause between us: put forward your cause, so that you may be seen to be in the right.

Verse ConceptsLogicReasoningSuing GodThe Pastremembrancepastvindication

The Lord, the King of Israel, even the Lord of armies who has taken up his cause, says, I am the first and the last, and there is no God but me.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerAlpha And OmegaendBeginningKingsKingship, DivineMonotheismOld Age, Attitudes ToOne GodSyncretismUniquenessAncient Of DaysBeginning And EndNo Other Is God

I have put your evil doings out of my mind like a thick cloud, and your sins like a mist: come back to me; for I have taken up your cause.

Verse ConceptsClouds, Figurative UseMistMorningOffenceRepentance, Importance OfSin, Deliverance From GodSin BearerWeather, As God's JudgmentRepentanceGod Has Forgivenredeemed

Make a song, O heavens, for the Lord has done it: give a loud cry, you deep parts of the earth: let your voices be loud in song, you mountains, and you woods with all your trees: for the Lord has taken up the cause of Jacob, and will let his glory be seen in Israel.

Verse ConceptsGlory, Revelation OfForestsEarth, God's GloryGod's Glory In IsraelShoutingSingingSongs

The Lord, who has taken up your cause, and who gave you life in your mother's body, says, I am the Lord who makes all things; stretching out the heavens by myself, and giving the earth its limits; who was with me?

Verse ConceptsGod, Feminine Descriptions OfAbortionBaby dedicationArtificial InseminationEarth, Creation OfGod, The CreatorUniverseGod HimselfmyselfOccult Being Powerless Before God

Give the word, put forward your cause, let us have a discussion together: who has given news of this in the past? who made it clear in early times? did not I, the Lord? and there is no God but me; a true God and a saviour; there is no other.

Verse ConceptsGod, Righteousness OfGod Speaking Of OldNo Other Is God

Says the Lord who takes up our cause; the Lord of armies is his name, the Holy One of Israel.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerRedemption, In Ot

The Lord who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel, says, I am the Lord your God, who is teaching you for your profit, guiding you by the way in which you are to go.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerAbundant Lifediscipline, divinedecisionsGod's WaysLife, Of FaithRedemption, In OtGod As Our TeacherFollowing GodTrue GainBusinessCareer SuccessMillionaire Mentalityinvesting

Go out of Babylon, go in flight from the Chaldaeans; with the sound of song make it clear, give the news, let the word go out even to the end of the earth: say, The Lord has taken up the cause of his servant Jacob.

Verse ConceptsReturn From BabylonHeraldRedemption, In OtComing Out From Evil

And I said, I have undergone weariness for nothing, I have given my strength for no purpose or profit: but still the Lord will take up my cause, and my God will give me my reward.

Verse ConceptsFutilityLabor, Spiritual Aspects OfHand Of GodReward, DivineUseless LabourTrusting God's PlanNatural DisastersSuccess And Hard Workenergyvindication

The Lord who takes up Israel's cause, even his Holy One, says to him whom men make sport of, who is hated by the nations, a servant of rulers: Kings will see and get up from their places, and chiefs will give worship: because of the Lord who keeps faith; even the Holy One of Israel who has taken you for himself.

Verse ConceptsRedemption, In OtProphecies Concerning ChristBowing Before MessiahMessianic Prophecies

But the Lord says, Even the prisoners of the strong will be taken from him, and the cruel made to let go his goods: for I will take up your cause against your haters, and I will keep your children safe.

Verse ConceptsBlood, Figurative UsePromises To Stand on

And the flesh of your attackers will be taken by themselves for food; and they will take their blood for drink, as if it was sweet wine: and all men will see that I the Lord am your saviour, even he who takes up your cause, the Strong One of Jacob.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerAlcoholDrunkenness, Figurative OfKnowledge, Of GodMission, Of IsraelOppression, God's Attitude ToPeople Consuming BloodThose OppressedGod Making DrunkMighty OneKnowing About God's Kingdomoppression

Why, then, when I came, was there no man? and no one to give answer to my voice? has my hand become feeble, so that it is unable to take up your cause? or have I no power to make you free? See, at my word the sea becomes dry, I make the rivers a waste land: their fish are dead for need of water, and make an evil smell.

Verse ConceptsdrynessProvidenceRebukeSeaThe Shortness Of TimeGod's WeaknessGod Drying Things UpNo One AvailableOthers Not Answering

He who takes up my cause is near; who will go to law with me? let us come together before the judge: who is against me? let him come near to me.

Verse ConceptsGod, Present EverywhereGod, Righteousness OfSalvation, Nature OfNearness To GodGod Vindicatesaccusationsvindication

This is the word of the Lord your master, even your God who takes up the cause of his people: See, I have taken out of your hand the cup which overcomes, even the cup of my wrath; it will not again be given to you:

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahStaggeringGod Making DrunkGod SuingThe Coming Day Of God's Wrathrelentless

For the Lord God says, My people went down at first into Egypt, to get a place for themselves there: and the Assyrian put a cruel yoke on them without cause.

Verse ConceptsBeginningOppression, Nature Of

Now then, what have I here? says the Lord, for my people are taken away without cause; they are made waste and give cries of sorrow, says the Lord, and all the day the nations put shame on my name.

Verse ConceptsCurses, HumanBlasphemy, At GodLaw, Letter And Spirit OfMockeryProfaning God's Name

For this cause I will make my name clear to my people; in that day they will be certain that it is my word which comes to them; see, here am I.

Verse ConceptsspeakingA New DayKnowing Godpeople

Give sounds of joy, make melody together, waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord has given comfort to his people, he has taken up the cause of Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsJerusalem, Significance OfSingingSongsArchaeologyWaste Places RestoredDestruction Of JerusalemGod Has ComfortedFinding Comfort In God

For this cause he will have a heritage with the great, and he will have a part in the goods of war with the strong, because he gave up his life, and was numbered with the evil-doers; taking on himself the sins of the people, and making prayer for the wrongdoers.

Verse ConceptsBeing BetrayedHumiliationPrayer, For OthersCarrying SinForetelling Christ's DeathJesus PrayingDividing The SpoilMessianic Prophecies

In overflowing wrath my face was veiled from you for a minute, but I will have pity on you for ever, says the Lord who takes up your cause.

Verse ConceptsGentlenessFace Of GodGod's attitude towards peopleKindnessAnger Of God, Saved FromLoving Kindness Of GodGod HidingGod Will Show Mercywrathcredibility

No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.

Verse ConceptsemptinessUnreliabilityCharacter Of Wicked

For this cause our right is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us: we are looking for light, but there is only the dark; for the shining of the sun, but our way is in the night.

Verse ConceptsDespair, Description OfNightShadowsWalkingWalking In DarknessOvertaken By DarknessFar From OneNo Justice

Yes, faith is gone; and he whose heart is turned from evil comes into the power of the cruel: and the Lord saw it, and he was angry that there was no one to take up their cause.

Verse ConceptsHuntingDivine DispleasureDispleasureGod Paid Attention To ThemMissing Someoneshunning

And he saw that there was no man, and was surprised that there was no one to take up their cause: so his arm gave salvation, and he made righteousness his support.

Verse ConceptsHelpfulnessRevival, Nature OfGod's Salvation Made KnownMessianic PropheciesGod HimselfNo One AvailableGod's InterventionSupportsurprises

And you will take the milk of the nations, flowing from the breast of kings; and you will see that I, the Lord, am your saviour, and he who takes up your cause, the Strong One of Jacob.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerAssurance, basis ofGod, Power OfKnowing God, Nature OfMilkNames And Titles For ChristMighty Onebreastsroyalty

For you are our father, though Abraham has no knowledge of us, and Israel gives no thought to us: you, O Lord, are our father; from the earliest days you have taken up our cause.

Verse ConceptsGod, Fatherhood OfGod, As RedeemerAdoption, nature ofFamily, Showing God's RelationshipPeople Of God, In OtPrayer, As A Relationship With GodRedemption, In OtSpiritual AdoptionNot Knowing People

For this cause says the Lord God, My servants will have food, but you will be in need of food: my servants will have drink, but you will be dry: my servants will have joy, but you will be shamed:

Verse ConceptsThirstBeing UnsatisfiedFamine Coming From GodYou Will Rejoice In Salvationhunger

The wolf and the lamb will take their food together, and the lion will make a meal of grass like the ox: but dust will be the snake's food. There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain, says the Lord.

Verse ConceptsLambsLionsMessianic AgeMillenniumRenewal, Of Natural OrderRest, EternalSnakesStomachsStrawAbstaining From MeatsDeliverance From LionsPower Over SnakesWolvesNoting What Animals EatAnimals Going To HeavenSleeping Peacefully