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Let them be like grass on [the] housetops, that withers before it grows up,

Verse ConceptsGrassHousetopsGrass WitheredLike GrassGrowing

I pour out my complaint before him; I declare my trouble before him.

Verse ConceptsComplaintsResentment, Against GodPouring

[he] throws his hail like crumbs. Who can stand before his cold?

Verse ConceptsCold, Figurative UseCrumbsCold Weather

For before the eyes of Yahweh [are] {human ways}, and all his paths he examines.

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeMan's WaysGod, All knowingGod Seeing All People

Beside gates, before towns, [at the] entrance of doors, she cries out:

Verse ConceptsBusiness At The Gateway

Before mountains had been shaped, before hills, I was brought forth.

Verse ConceptsHills

I was {beside} him, a master workman, and I was delighting day by day, rejoicing before him {always},

Verse ConceptsGod, The CreatorUnceasingAlways Being ActiveGod Has Been With YouBeing ContentThe Presence Of Godcraftsmanship

The evil bow down before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

A person who lacks {sense} {pledges}; he becomes security before his neighbor.

Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyBeing In DebtPledgesSecurityShaking HandsDebt

The gift of a person will open doors for him, and before the great, it gives him access.

Verse ConceptsEffect Of BribesAccessTalentsGifts And TalentsA Good Manspace

When you sit to eat with a ruler, you shall surely observe what [is] before you,

Verse ConceptsSittingovereating

Remove the wicked before a king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

Verse Conceptsethics, socialCivic RighteousnessAuthorityRemoving People From Your Lifewickedness

Do not promote yourself before the king, and in the place of the great ones do not stand.

Verse ConceptsSelf ExaltationSeeking HonourNetworkingBeing YourselfThe Presence Of Godimportance

For [it is] better [that] he say to you, "Ascend here," than he humble you before a noble. What your eyes have seen,

Verse ConceptsHumiliationSelf ExaltationMoving UpwardsAbasing PeopleWaiting Till Marriage

[Like] a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is the righteous who gives way before the wicked.

Verse Conceptsdouble mindednessFountainsProverbsSpring Of Waterpressure

Cruel [is] wrath and overwhelming [is] anger, but who will stand before jealousy?

Verse ConceptsEnvyJealousyAble To StandPassionBeing Overwhelmedwrath

Two things I ask from you; do not deny me before I die:

Verse ConceptsTwo Intangible ThingsBefore Death

There is a thing [of] which it is said, "Look at this! This is new!" [But] it already existed in ages past before us.

Verse ConceptsInventionsNothing New

I acquired male slaves and female slaves, as well as children [born in my] house. I also had livestock, cattle, and flocks more than anyone who [was] before me in Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsOwning LivestockGroups Of Slaves

Thus, {I accomplished far more} than anyone who [was] before me in Jerusalem--indeed, my wisdom stood by me.

Verse ConceptsGreat Individuals

I know everything God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, and nothing can be taken from it, for God so acts that humans might stand in awe before him.

Verse ConceptsAdding To GodSubtracting From God

There is no end to all the people, to all who were before him. Yet the later generation will not rejoice in him, for this also [is] vanity and chasing wind!

Verse ConceptsVanityUseless Endeavour

Do not be rash with your mouth, and do not let your heart be quick to utter a word before God. For God is in heaven, and you [are] on earth; therefore, let your words be few.

Verse ConceptsMan's Conduct Towards GodCurbing SpeechDo Not Be RashMaking DecisionsDecision MakingThe Presence Of Godlimitationsimpulsivenessevangelising

When prosperity increases, those who consume it increase. {So its owner gains nothing, except to see his wealth before it is spent}.

Verse ConceptsGrowth In WealthFinancesFamily ProblemsWealth And ProsperitySaving Money

Do not act excessively wicked, and do not be a fool, lest you die before your time.

Verse ConceptsEuthanasiaEarly DeathFools Becoming WiseDeathAssisted Suicide

If the snake bites before the charming, {the snake charmer will not succeed}.

Verse ConceptsBabblersSnakebites

Before the silver cord is snapped and the golden bowl is broken; and the jar at the foundation is broken, and the wheel at the cistern is broken.

Verse ConceptsBreaking ContainersWater ContainersCordsWheelsThings Like GoldThings Like SilverNervousnessBreaking Chainslungs

Turn away your eyes from before me, for they overwhelm me. Your hair [is] like a flock of the goats that moves down from Gilead.

When you come to appear before me, who asked for this from your hand: you trampling my courts?

Verse ConceptsPilgrimageTrampling Places

Your princes [are] rebels and companions of thieves. Every one loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend [the] orphan and [the] legal dispute of [the] widow does not come before them.

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

For before the boy knows to reject the evil and to choose the good, {the land whose two kings you dread will be abandoned.}

Verse ConceptsLand Becoming EmptyRejectionParents Being Wrongmanhood

For before the boy knows to call 'my father' and 'my mother,' [one] will carry away the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria in the presence of the king of Assyria."

Verse ConceptsThe Prophecy Towards AssyriaThe Prophecy Towards DamascusLimitations Of Youthdamascus

And their children will be dashed into pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered, and their wives will be raped.

Verse ConceptsHorrors Of WarSeeing SituationsChild AbuseKilling Sons And Daughters

[The] nations roar like [the] roar of many waters, but he will rebuke him, and he will flee far away. And they are chased like chaff of [the] mountains before [the] wind and like tumbleweed before [the] storm.

Verse ConceptsChaffWindWhirlwindsLight As ChaffRoar Of NationsGod Requite Them!

At [the] time of evening, and look, terror! Before morning he is no more. This [is] the fate of those who plunder us and [the] lot of those who plunder us.

Verse ConceptsMorningAt Morning And EveningFear Will Cometerrorism

For before [the] harvest, {when the blossom is complete} and a blossom becomes ripening fruit, and one cuts off the shoots with pruning hooks, and one removes, tears away the tendrils.

Verse ConceptsPruningKnivesToolsCutting Off Branches

On that day, Egypt will be like women, and will tremble and be afraid before the waving hand of Yahweh of hosts that he [is] waving against it.

Verse ConceptsHand Of GodPowerlessnessEffeminacyGod's HandWaving The HandGroups TremblingWeak WomenTerror Of GodGod's Hands In Opposition

And this shall happen: her merchandise and her harlot's wages [will be] set apart for Yahweh; it will not be stored up, and it will not be hoarded, but her merchandise will be for those who live before the {presence} of Yahweh, for eating to satiation and for fine clothing.

Verse ConceptsMerchandiseStoring Treasure On EarthWages Of A Prostitute

and [the] withering flower of the glory of its beauty which [is] at [the] head of {the rich valley} will be like its early fig before summer, {which the one who sees it swallows} while it [is] still in his hand.

Verse ConceptsFig treeHarvestNo BeautyWorse

And Hezekiah took the letter from the hand of the messengers, and he read it. Then he went up [to] the temple of Yahweh, and Hezekiah spread it out before the {presence} of Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsLettersSpreading

And their inhabitants [are] {weak}; they are dismayed, and they are ashamed; they have become [like] plants of [the] field, and [like] greens of grass, [like] grass on [the] roofs and a cultivated field {before} the standing grain.

Verse ConceptsGrassPlantsTendernessMan As GrassScorchingLike GrassNo Strength Left

and he said, "O Yahweh, please remember how I have walked before your {presence} in faithfulness with a whole heart, and I have done the good in your eyes!" And Hezekiah wept [with] great weeping.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, Examples OfLoyaltyOthers MourningOne's Deedsdevotion

All the nations [are] like nothing before him; they are counted by him as nothing and emptiness.

Verse ConceptsOther Unimportant People

Look! the former things have come, and I declare new things. I {announce} [them] to you before they sprout up."

Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingFutureForeknowledgeGod's Foreknowledgea new beginningThe Pastspringtime

"You [are] my witnesses," {declares} Yahweh, "and my servant whom I have chosen so that you may know and believe {in} me and understand that I [am] he. No god was formed before {me}, and none shall be after me.

Verse ConceptsAffirmationsIsrael As The ElectGod, Immutability OfMonotheismOne GodUnderstandingWitnessing, Importance OfBeforeNo Other Is GodKnowing That There Is A GodTrust In God!God As The Object Of Faith

"I myself will go before you, and I will level [the] {mountains}. I will break [the] doors of bronze and cut through[the] bars of iron.

Verse ConceptsBattlesIronCrookednessBrassStraighteningSmoothnessGod Going BeforeIron ObjectsBronze GatesSolar EclipseBreaking Chains

Look! They are like stubble; [the] fire burns them completely. They cannot deliver {themselves} from [the] {power} of [the] flame; there is no coal {for warming oneself}, [no] fire before which to sit.

Verse ConceptsCoal, Uses OfBurning PeopleSaving Oneself

And I declared [them] to you from of old; I { announced} [them] to you before they came [to pass] so that you would not say, 'My idol did them, and my image and my cast image commanded them.'

Verse ConceptsSculptureWoodGod Speaking Of OldGod Opposes IdolatryEverything Happening For A Reasonimage

Now they are created, and not from {of old}, and before today, and you have not heard them so that you could not say, "Look! I knew them."

Verse ConceptsNow

Look, I have inscribed you on the palms of [my] hands; your walls [are] continually before me.

Verse ConceptsengravingArtCherishingGod's HandWalled TownsWriting On Peoplescars

For you shall not go out in haste, and you shall not go in flight, for Yahweh [is] going before you, and your rear guard [is] the God of Israel.

Verse ConceptsGuardsRashnessShieldsGod Going BeforeflyingDivine Protection

For he went up like shoot before him, and like root from dry ground. He had no form and no majesty that we should see him, and no appearance that we should take pleasure in him.

Verse ConceptsRiddlesTendernessProphecies Concerning ChristMessianic PropheciesGrowing UpDry PlacesNo BeautyAppearances ofChrist's Naturedignity

For you shall go out in joy, and you shall be led in peace. The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you, rejoicing and all the trees of the field shall clap hands.

Verse ConceptsFigures Of SpeechClappingecstasyHillsJoy, Of IsraelSingingSongsThankfulnessPeace, Promised ToApplauseGoing In PeaceJoyjoyfuljoyfulness

For I will not attack forever, and I will not be angry forever, for [the] spirit will grow faint before me, and [the] breaths [that] I myself I have made.

Verse ConceptsBreath Of LifeAnger Of God, Saved FromGod Giving BreathGod SuingGod Will No More Be AngryDespairbreath

For our transgressions are numerous before you, and our sins {testify} against us. Indeed, our transgressions [are] with us, and we know our iniquities:

Verse ConceptsOffenceWitness Against OneselfSin Made Known

For as the earth {produces} its sprout, and as a garden makes its plants sprout, so the Lord Yahweh will make righteousness sprout, and praise before all the nations.

Verse ConceptsPlantsSprouting PlantsGod Doing RightDoing RightSproutingPraise The Lord!GardensGrowingSpilling Your Seed On The Groundspringtimeanniversarysowing

Look! Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth: Say to daughter Zion, "Look, your salvation [is] coming! Look, his reward [is] with him, and his reward before him.

Verse ConceptsReward, For God's PeopleGod's Salvation Made KnownProclaimingMessianic Prophecies

{who made} his magnificent arm move {at} the right hand of Moses, {who divided} [the] waters {before them}, to make an everlasting name for himself,

Verse ConceptsArmsPower Of God, DescribedArm Of GodDivision Of WatersWaters DividedBlessings For The Right Hand

Would that you would tear [the] heavens [and] come down; [the] mountains would quake before you,

Verse ConceptsMountainsMountains QuakingGod Going Downepiphany

Look! [It] is written before me: I will not be silent, but I will repay; and I will repay in the fold of their garment

Verse ConceptsNot Being StillGod Will RequiteNot Still

Before she was in labor she gave birth; before labor pains came to her, she gave birth to a son.

Verse ConceptsChildbirthBeforechildbearing

And this shall happen: From {new moon to new moon} and from {Sabbath to Sabbath} all flesh shall come to bow in worship before me," says Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsBowingMonthMoonThe New CreationBowing Before Goda new beginningWorshiping GodWorshiping TogetherA New DayThe Moonhumanitycelebrating

But you, you must gird your loins, and stand, and speak to them all that I command you. {Do not be afraid of them}, or I will shatter you {before} them.

Verse ConceptsReadinessReady To SpeakSpeaking The Word God Gives

Yet I planted you [as] a choice vine, all of it a seed of trustworthiness. How then have you altered before me [into something that is] degenerate, the foreign vine?

Verse ConceptsDebaucheryRejection Of God, Results OfVines

I looked and behold, the fruitful land [was] a desert, and all of its cities were ruined before Yahweh, before the face of {his burning anger}.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of Citiesfruitfulness

For I heard a voice like an ill woman, anxiety like [a woman who] bears her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion. She is gasping for breath, she is spreading out her hands: "Woe is me, for I am becoming tired before killers."

Verse ConceptsPunishment, Nature OfVoicesLabour PainsHaving No BreathFaintingJudged As Murderers

Do you not revere me?" {declares} Yahweh, "Do you not tremble {before me}? For I have placed [the] sand [as] a boundary for the sea, {as an everlasting limit}, and it cannot pass over it, and they rise and fall loudly, but they cannot prevail, and its waves roar, but they cannot pass over it.

Verse ConceptsBoundariesSandSeaAttitudes Of RespectOceansAweWavesDivine Power Over NatureBarriersEternal WorldLimits For The SeaSand And GravelFear God!

As a water well keeps its water cool, so she keeps cool her wickedness. Violence and destruction are heard within her, sickness and wounds [are] continually {before me}.

Verse ConceptsViolence In The EarthFountainsWellsContinuing In SinFreshWells, Figurative Use

{Therefore} thus says Yahweh: "Look, I [am] about to put before this people stumbling blocks, and they will stumble against them, fathers and children together, neighbor and his friend will perish."

Verse ConceptsStumblingFathers And SonsFriends FailingGod HinderingHindrances

And then you come and you stand {before} me in this house, which is called {by my name}, and you say, 'we are safe {to go on doing} all of these detestable things.'

Verse ConceptsA Place For God's Name

And they shall spread them out before the sun, and before the moon, and before all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and which they have gone after, and which they have inquired about, and to which they have bowed in worship. They shall not be gathered, and they shall not be buried; they will be like dung on the surface of the ground.

Verse ConceptsFalse ReligiondirtAstrologyMoonStarsDefecationBonesNo BurialsIdolatrous Worship Of The MoonGod Judging Star WorshippersThe Moon

And Yahweh said, "Because of their forsaking my law that I set {before} them, and they have not obeyed my voice, and have not walked in it,

Verse ConceptsDisobedience, To GodForsaking God's ThingsBreaking God's Law

Give glory to Yahweh your God {before} he brings darkness, and {before} your feet stumble on the mountains at twilight. And you will hope for light, but he makes it as gloom, he makes [it] as thick darkness.

Verse ConceptsHope, Nature OfProcrastinationStumblingThe Insecurity Of The WickedPeople Stumbling

Then Yahweh said to me, "[Even] if Moses and Samuel stood {before me}, my heart [would] not [be] to this people. Send [them] away from my {sight}, and let them go out.

Verse ConceptsCalling upon GodRejection Of God, Results OfReprobates

Their widows will be more numerous before me than [the] sand of [the] seas. I have brought to them, against [the] mothers of young men, a destroyer at noon. I will suddenly drop on her anguish and horror.

Verse ConceptsNoonSandWidowsThe Insecurity Of The WickedSudden DestructionThose Who DestroyMany In Israel