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And the Assyrian shall fall by the sword, not of man, and the sword, not of men, shall devour him. But he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become subject to task work.

Verse ConceptsSwordsGod KillingGod Will Kill The PeoplesForced Labour

until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest.

Verse ConceptsGift Of The Holy SpiritThe Spirit Of GodPromises Of The Holy SpiritThe Holy Spirit Giving LifeIncreasing FruitChange And GrowthSpilling Your Seed On The Groundfruitfulness

And the streams of [Edom] shall be turned into pitch, and the dust of it into brimstone. And the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

Verse ConceptsBitumen and tarMineralsBrimstoneFire Of JudgementSulphur

And the glowing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. In the habitation of jackals, where they lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual RenewalGrassPapyrusReedsPoolsMetaphorical Springs

Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. And the crooked shall become straight, and the rough places smooth.

Verse ConceptsFilling PlacesMountains RemovedSmoothnessPutting Things DownThings Lifted UpHighways

And now says LORD who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, and that Israel be gathered to him (for I am honorable in the eyes of LORD, and my God has become my strength),

Verse ConceptsGod, Feminine Descriptions OfRestoring NationsWombFrom The WombChrist's Own GloryGod Our Strengthmums

Their webs shall not become garments, nor shall they cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

Verse ConceptsViolenceGarments

The little one shall become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation. I, LORD, will hasten it in its time.

Verse ConceptsMinoritiesRight Time For GodOther Unimportant PeopleFamiliesGod's TimingGods TimingWaiting For God's Timinggroups

We have become as those over whom thou never bore rule, as those who were not called by thy name.

Verse ConceptsNames Blotted Out

Thy holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Thus says LORD: What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?

Verse ConceptsFutilityFalse ReligionIdolatry, Objections ToPrayerlessnessSyncretismWord Of GodEstrangementVanityBeing Found OutUseless PeopleIs God Unjust?

Is Israel a servant? Is he a home-born [slave]? Why has he become a prey?

Verse ConceptsSlavery, In Otslavery

And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them.

Verse ConceptsWindWord Of GodProphecy Abolishedprophets

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grown rich.

Verse ConceptsCagesMen DeceivingGetting RichBirds

To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken. Behold, the word of LORD has become to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

Verse ConceptsConvincingDeafnessHearingIndifferenceOffencePleasureRejection Of GodRejection Of God's WordWord Of GodSpiritual DeafnessRejecting God's WordRefusing To HearWitnessing

Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says LORD.

Verse ConceptsRespect, For God's CharacterStealingDensStatus Of The TempleA Place For God's Namethieves

Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, for the land shall become a waste.

Verse ConceptsBridegroomBridesMarriage, Customs ConcerningVoicesWeddingsCessationStopping RejoicingLack Of Rejoicing

Every man has become brutish, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image. For his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfIdolatry, Objections ToHaving No BreathFoolishness Of MenShame Of IdolatryDisappointmentHinduism

My heritage has become to me as a lion in the forest. She has uttered her voice against me. Therefore I have hated her.

Verse ConceptsForestsHatredLionsGod Hating People

Therefore deliver up their sons to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword, and let their wives become childless, and widows, and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men smitten of the sword in battl

Verse ConceptsRevenge, Examples OfFamine KillingApproval To Kill

O LORD, thou have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. Thou are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughing-stock all the day; everyone mocks me.

Verse ConceptsAbuse, To God's PeopleCruelty, examples ofMockeryPainRidicule, Objects OfDerisionAmbivalenceGod DeceivingDeception

But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, says LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.

Verse ConceptsRuinsRefusing To Hear

In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing. They commit adultery, and walk in lies. And they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none returns from his wickedness. They have all of them become to me as So

Verse Conceptsencouragement, examples ofImmorality, Examples Of SexualSodom And GomorrahEvildoersWicked ProphetsThose Who Committed Adultery

He has left his covert as the lion. For their land has become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppressing [sword], and because of his fierce anger.

Verse ConceptsGod Like A LionLike Creatures

Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says LORD of hosts: Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of

Verse ConceptsForestsProphecy, Methods Of OtZion, As A SymbolArchaeologyProphesyingDestruction Of JerusalemMetaphorical PloughingNamed Prophets Of The Lord

Hearken not to them. Serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why should this city become a desolation?

Verse ConceptsKeeping Oneself AliveServing KingsServingSurrender

So that LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as i

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine GiftMade A HorrorUnbearable Things

O thou daughter who dwells in Egypt, prepare thyself to go into captivity. For Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant.

Verse ConceptsRuinsArchaeologyMemphisExiled ForeignersBurning CitiesBaggagePreparing To Travel

Thus says LORD: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall become an overflowing stream, and shall overflow the land and all that is therein, the city and those who dwell therein. And the men shall cry, and all the inhabita

Verse ConceptsOut Of The NorthLike A FloodFloods

Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get her away. And her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein.

Verse ConceptsEmpty Cities

From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz they have uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath-shelishiyah. For the waters of Nimrim also shall become desolate.

Verse Conceptsdryness

How it is broken down! [How] they do wail! How Moab has turned the back with shame! So Moab shall become a derision and a horror to all who are round about him.

Verse ConceptsTurning One's BackMade A HorrorShame Has Come

Therefore, behold, the days come, says LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the sons of Ammon, and it shall become a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire. Then Israel shall pos

Verse ConceptsArchaeologyBurning CitiesTrumpets For Battle

For I have sworn by myself, says LORD, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse, and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.

Verse ConceptsMade A Horror

And Edom shall become an astonishment. Everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues of it.

Verse ConceptsRidicule, Nature OfScoffingDisdainHissingMade A Horror

How the hammer of the whole earth is cut apart and broken! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!

Verse ConceptsBabylonToolsHammers

A sword is upon the boasters, and they shall become fools. A sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfGod's Attitude To Fools

A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mixed people who are in the midst of her, and they shall become as women. A sword is upon her treasures, and they shall be robbed.

Verse ConceptsChariotsBabylonPowerlessnessMixed MultitudeEffeminacyDestroying ChariotsWeak Women

Every man has become brutish, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his image, for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Verse ConceptsCraftsmenFools, Characteristics OfHaving No BreathFoolishness Of MenShame Of IdolatryThose Who Were Ignorant

The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting; they remain in their strongholds. Their might has failed. They have become as women. Her dwelling-places are set on fire. Her bars are broken.

Verse ConceptsGatesPowerlessnessEffeminacyCessationStopping FightingWeak WomenBurning CitiesNo Strength LeftWomen's Strength

And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

Verse ConceptsRuinsArchaeologyAstonishmentDesecrationBabylon Left DesolateEmpty CitiesHissingMade A Horror

How Sheshach is taken, and the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!

Verse ConceptsBabylon DestroyedMade A HorrorCapturing Cities

Her cities have become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, nor does any son of man pass thereby.

Verse ConceptsEmpty CitiesDry PlacesMade A Horror

LORD has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. And he has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.

Verse ConceptsLamentingSongsGrowth Of EvilSwallowingGod As EnemyHouses Under Attack

How the gold has become dim, the most pure gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.

Verse ConceptsPeople As RocksTragedy On The StreetsThings Like Gold

Even the jackals draw out the breast; they give suck to their young ones. The daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

Verse ConceptsBreasts, Nursing MothersNursesBirds, Types Of BirdsAnimals SucklingOstrichesStrictnessDeserts Used Figuratively

Their visage is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like a stick.

Verse ConceptsSkinSticksHuman SkinSootPeople WitheredNot Recognising PeopleBlack Peoplelimitations

And your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of Satan's WorksFate Of IdolatersIn Frontpoop

Thou have become guilty in thy blood that thou have shed, and are defiled in thine idols which thou have made. And thou have caused thy days to draw near, and have come even to thy years. Therefore I have made thee a reproach to th

Verse ConceptsSheddingPeople Polluting ThemselvesFound GuiltyJudged As Murderers

Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace. They are the dross of silver.

Verse ConceptsCopperdrossIronTinWicked Described AsFurnacesThings Like SilverUseless People

Therefore thus says lord LORD: Because ye have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem

Verse ConceptsGathered By God

She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken it, says lord LORD. And she shall become a spoil to the nations,

Verse ConceptsNetsSpreadingFishing

The merchants among the peoples hiss at thee. Thou have become a horror, and thou shall nevermore have any being.

Verse ConceptsPeople Passing AwayHissing

All those who know thee among the peoples shall be astonished at thee. Thou have become a horror, and thou shall nevermore have any being.

Verse ConceptsKnowing PeopleIndividuals Passing AwayPeople Appalled

And they shall say, This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. And the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.

Verse ConceptsGarden Of Eden, TheEdenInhabitation

And join them one to another into one stick for thyself, that they may become one in thy hand.

Verse ConceptsJoining Things

it is thou, O king, who have grown and become strong. For thy greatness has grown, and reaches to heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.

Verse ConceptsStrong IndividualsThe Kingdom Of Others

And after the league made with him, he shall work deceitfully, for he shall come up, and shall become strong, with a small people.

Verse ConceptsMen DeceivingFew People

Their drink has become sour. They play the harlot continually. Her rulers dearly love shame.

Verse ConceptsShameAlcohol ConsumptionEnjoying Shame

Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of rebuke. I have made known that which shall surely be among the tribes of Israel.

Verse ConceptsWasteFaithful SayingsNorthern Kingdom Of Israel

Though he be fruitful among his brothers, an east wind shall come, the breath of LORD coming up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up. He shall make spoil of the treasure of all go

Verse ConceptseastShepherds, As OccupationsTreasureOut Of The EastWaters Drying UpGod Dispensing WindFailing RiversTaking PossessionsFamineThe East Wind

Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth, and sat under it in the shade, till he might see what would become of the city.

Verse ConceptsWaitingBoothsPeople Sitting Downjonah

Therefore for your sake Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

Verse ConceptsZion, As A SymbolArchaeologyDestruction Of JerusalemMetaphorical PloughingThings On HighWhy It Happened

And their wealth shall become a spoil, and their houses a desolation. Yea, they shall build houses, but shall not inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards, but shall not drink the wine of it.

Verse ConceptsVineyardPlanting VineyardsDestruction Of HousesLiving In HousesNot Drinking WineDrawbacks To RichesHouses Under Attack

This is the joyous city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none besides me. How she has become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.

Verse ConceptsFalse ConfidencePride, Examples OfRidicule, Nature OfArrogant ExistenceAbasement, Examples OfHissingUnique NationsDwellings Of CreaturesOther Dwellings Of Creatures

If a man bears holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt touches bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any food, shall it become holy? And the priests answered and said, No.

Verse ConceptsFringe Of ClothesTouching Holy ThingsDissent

Who are thou, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel [thou shall become] a plain, and he shall bring forth the top stone with shoutings of Grace, grace, to it.

Verse ConceptsCapstoneDuplicating WordsMountains RemovedWhat Is This?Beauty Of ThingsArt Of CelebratingGraceHindrances

Ye are the salt material of the earth. But if the salt material becomes ineffective, by what will it be salted? It is potent for nothing further, except to be cast outside and to be trodden down by men.

Verse ConceptsBeing A Lightdisciples, characteristics ofDecayResponsibility, For God's WorldSaltSanctification, Means And ResultsTastePersonal ContactSending Things AwayTastelessnessRestoring ThingsTastelessSournessMoral Decay

And no man puts a patch of new cloth upon an old garment, for the patch of it pulls from the garment, and a tear becomes worse.

Verse ConceptsClothNewnessParables Of ChristSchismsSewingOld ThingsRepairingUnusedWorse

It is enough for the pupil that he becomes like his teacher, and the bondman like his lord. If they have called the house-ruler Beelzebub, how much more those of his household.

Verse ConceptsFalse Accusations, Examples OfChristlikenessBeelzebubGrowth Of EvilSlavesBecoming Like PeopleRelatives Also InvolvedAccused Of Being Demonised

Then it goes, and takes with itself seven other spirits more evil than itself, and having enter in, they dwell there. And the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. So it will also be to this evil generation.

Verse Conceptsevil, origins ofSevenEvil GenerationsSeven SpiritsDemons EnteringMore ThanWorseBackslidersDemonsCasting Out Demonshomecoming

Which indeed is smaller than all seeds, but when it is grown, it is greater than the plants, and becomes a tree, so as for the birds of the sky to come and lodge in the branches of it.

Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalSmall Things God UsesBig ThingsSmall ThingsPlants Growing UpHerbsBirdsPlanting SeedsChange And GrowthSeedssoaring

And having become evening, his disciples came to him, saying, The place is desolate, and the hour is now past. Send the multitudes away, so that having gone into the villages, they may buy food for themselves.

Verse ConceptsEveningVillagesCrowds AvoidedIsolated PersonsChrist Driving Out PeopleBuying FoodThe Disciples ReactionsEvenings For Jesus And His Disciples

And having become angry, his lord delivered him to the tormentors until he would pay all that was due to him.

Verse ConceptsTortureJudicial PunishmentSettling AccountsDebtAnger And Forgiveness

And having become evening, the lord of the vineyard says to his manager, Call the workmen, and render to them their wage, having begun from the last until the first.

Verse ConceptsBeginningMastersOverseersMetaphorical VineyardsBeginning And EndIn TurnLast OnesOthers Summoning

But it shall not be so among you. Rather whoever wants to become great among you, he shall be your helper,

Verse ConceptsBeing A LeaderDifferent TeachingsHumbling OneselfLeadersServant LeadershipBeing Differentgreatness

Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and of the platter, so that the outside of them may also become clean.

Verse ConceptsMiracles Of ChristCleaningFirst ActionsInside And OutThe Inward BeingCleanlinessPurityFocusInner Beautycleansingmathpharisees

Now learn a parable from the fig tree. When its branch now becomes tender, and sprouts leaves, ye know that the summer is near.

Verse ConceptsSpringTendernessSummerSoftnessNear The Time GenerallyParable Of The Fig TreeSeasons Changingspringtimerebirth

But having become morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people held consultation against Jesus in order to condemn him to death.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Jesus Christelders, as community leadersChief priestsPlottingChrist Would Be KilledMan's CounselJesus Deathpriests

And having become evening, there came a rich man from Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was discipled by Jesus.

Verse ConceptsAffluenceEvenings For Jesus And His DisciplesWealthy People

And having become evening when the sun set they brought to him all who were faring badly, and those who were demon-possessed.

Verse ConceptsDemon PossessionThe SunEvenings For Jesus And His DisciplesThose Demonised

And no man sews a new patch of cloth on an old garment, otherwise the patch of it pulls away, the new from the old, and a tear becomes worse.

Verse ConceptsNewnessSewingBad SituationsRepairingUnused

For there is not anything hid, except that it may be revealed, nor become secret, but that it may come to be visible.

Verse ConceptsDisclosuresFrom Darkness To LightHidden ThingsAvoiding SecrecyEverything Happening For A Reason