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“May burning coals fall upon them;
May they be cast into the fire,
Into deep pits from which they cannot rise.

Verse ConceptsBurning People

For many are the victims she has cast down,
And numerous are all her slain.

Verse ConceptsDealing With Many PeopleA Good Woman

The first to plead his case seems right,
Until another comes and examines him.

Verse ConceptsBeing FirstDo Not Be RashPerspectiveexams

The cast lot puts an end to strife
And decides between the mighty ones.

Verse ConceptsCasting LotsResolving Conflict

For the Lord will plead their case
And take the life of those who rob them.

Verse ConceptsExploitationsGod DefendingGod Suing

For their Redeemer is strong;
He will plead their case against you.

Verse ConceptsGod, Titles And Names OfGod DefendingGod Suing

Do not go out hastily to argue your case;
Otherwise, what will you do in the end,
When your neighbor humiliates you?

Verse ConceptsLitigationRashnessAttorneyLawsuitsHasteShaming PeopleHurt And Betrayalstriving

Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for you will find it after many days.

Verse ConceptsShips For TradingBreadinvesting

In that day men will cast away to the moles and the bats
Their idols of silver and their idols of gold,
Which they made for themselves to worship,

Verse ConceptsGoldThrowing AwayAnimals, Types OfBatsMolesAbandoning Idols

“But you have been cast out of your tomb
Like a rejected branch,
Clothed with the slain who are pierced with a sword,
Who go down to the stones of the pit
Like a trampled corpse.

Verse ConceptsThe DeadCovering The BodyPitsWicked Described AsUnburied BodiesPits As A Term For Graves

Give us advice, make a decision;
Cast your shadow like night at high noon;
Hide the outcasts, do not betray the fugitive.

Verse ConceptsNoonOutcastsrelentless

And the fishermen will lament,
And all those who cast a line into the Nile will mourn,
And those who spread nets on the waters will pine away.

Verse ConceptsFishesLamentingNetsOccupationsFishermen

And roll you tightly like a ball,
To be cast into a vast country;
There you will die
And there your splendid chariots will be,
You shame of your master’s house.’

Verse ConceptsTrusting In ChariotsRollingShame Has Come

The unassailable fortifications of your walls He will bring down,
Lay low and cast to the ground, even to the dust.

Verse ConceptsStrongholdsFortsPutting Things Downdust

Behold, the Lord has a strong and mighty agent;
As a storm of hail, a tempest of destruction,
Like a storm of mighty overflowing waters,
He has cast it down to the earth with His hand.

Verse ConceptsBitingHailRainGod Giving StrengthGod Gives Strength

For in that day every man will cast away his silver idols and his gold idols, which your sinful hands have made for you as a sin.

Verse ConceptsGoldThrowing AwayAbandoning Idols

He has cast the lot for them,
And His hand has divided it to them by line.
They shall possess it forever;
From generation to generation they will dwell in it.

Verse ConceptsHand Of God

and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

Verse ConceptsMonotheismStonesWoodBurning Idolatrous ThingsWood And Stonestatues

“Lo, for my own welfare I had great bitterness;
It is You who has kept my soul from the pit of nothingness,
For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

Verse ConceptsReinstatementSuffering, Of BelieversBeing BitterGod Has ForgivenPits Symbolizing GriefHope In Hard TimesBitternesscorruption

Present your case,” the Lord says.
“Bring forward your strong arguments,”
The King of Jacob says.

Verse ConceptsJacob, The PatriarchSuing GodDoing Your Bestprocess

Put Me in remembrance, let us argue our case together;
State your cause, that you may be proved right.

Verse ConceptsLogicReasoningSuing GodThe Pastremembrancepastvindication

Who has fashioned a god or cast an idol to no profit?

Verse ConceptsProfitsUseless Idolsimage

Declare and set forth your case;
Indeed, let them consult together.
Who has announced this from of old?
Who has long since declared it?
Is it not I, the Lord?
And there is no other God besides Me,
A righteous God and a Savior;
There is none except Me.

Verse ConceptsGod, Righteousness OfGod Speaking Of OldNo Other Is God

He who vindicates Me is near;
Who will contend with Me?
Let us stand up to each other;
Who has a case against Me?
Let him draw near to Me.

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

For thus says the Lord of hosts,
Cut down her trees
And cast up a siege against Jerusalem.
This is the city to be punished,
In whose midst there is only oppression.

Verse ConceptsOppression, Nature OfSuffering, HardshipFelling Trees

“Were they ashamed because of the abomination they have done?
They were not even ashamed at all;
They did not even know how to blush.
Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;
At the time that I punish them,
They shall be cast down,” says the Lord.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsRegretCorrupted ConsciencesThe Insecurity Of The WickedBlushingPeople StumblingRed FacesUnknown ThingsAbsence Of RegretFeeling Lost

I will cast you out of My sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, all the offspring of Ephraim.

Verse ConceptsRejection Of God, Results OfDriven From God's Presence

Cut off your hair and cast it away,
And take up a lamentation on the bare heights;
For the Lord has rejected and forsaken
The generation of His wrath.’

Verse ConceptsGenerationsHairsLamentingMourningRejection Of God, Results OfSongsBarbersAnger Of God, ConsequencesCutting HairAccompaniments Of Mourning

“For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion,
How are we ruined!
We are put to great shame,
For we have left the land,
Because they have cast down our dwellings.’”

Righteous are You, O Lord, that I would plead my case with You;
Indeed I would discuss matters of justice with You:
Why has the way of the wicked prospered?
Why are all those who deal in treachery at ease?

Verse ConceptsFaithlessness, As DisobedienceGod, Righteousness OfQuestionsApparent InjusticePartialityDoubting God's JusticeProsperity Of The WickedThe Wicked ProsperprosperingQuestioning Life

“Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered jar?
Or is he an undesirable vessel?
Why have he and his descendants been hurled out
And cast into a land that they had not known?

Verse ConceptsInferiorityThrowing PeopleUnknown ThingsExile In Prospectpot

Therefore behold, I will surely forget you and cast you away from My presence, along with the city which I gave you and your fathers.

Verse ConceptsBanishmentDriven From God's PresenceGod Forgetting

And they brought Uriah from Egypt and led him to King Jehoiakim, who slew him with a sword and cast his dead body into the burial place of the common people.

Verse ConceptsCemeteryInadequate Burials

Thus says the Lord,
If the heavens above can be measured
And the foundations of the earth searched out below,
Then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel
For all that they have done,” declares the Lord.

Verse ConceptsHeaven, Nature OfEarth's FoundationFinding ThingsGod Not ForsakingThe EarthRejectionisraelexploringmeasurement

Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah, “He shall have no one to sit on the throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat of the day and the frost of the night.

Verse ConceptsHeatFrostNo BurialsThe Dynasty Of David

Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchijah the king’s son, which was in the court of the guardhouse; and they let Jeremiah down with ropes. Now in the cistern there was no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank into the mud.

Verse ConceptsDungeonsInjuryMonotonyPersecution, Forms OfPersecution, Nature OfPrisonersPunishment, Legal Aspects OfRopesSuffering, Causes OfCisternsLowering PeopleMarshes

“My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet whom they have cast into the cistern; and he will die right where he is because of the famine, for there is no more bread in the city.”

Verse ConceptsHunger, Examples OfDungeonsAfflicted To DeathFamine Killing

Yet it turned out that as soon as they came inside the city, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the men that were with him slaughtered them and cast them into the cistern.

Verse ConceptsCorpses Of Other PeopleKilling Within Israel

Now as for the cistern where Ishmael had cast all the corpses of the men whom he had struck down because of Gedaliah, it was the one that King Asa had made on account of Baasha, king of Israel; Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.

Verse ConceptsCorpses Of Other PeopleList Of Kings Of Israel

then in that case listen to the word of the Lord, O remnant of Judah. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “If you really set your mind to enter Egypt and go in to reside there,

“Their Redeemer is strong, the Lord of hosts is His name;
He will vigorously plead their case
So that He may bring rest to the earth,
But turmoil to the inhabitants of Babylon.

Verse Conceptsdefence, divineRedemption, In OtStrength Of GodGod DefendingHis Name Is The LordGod Is Strong

Therefore thus says the Lord,
“Behold, I am going to plead your case
And exact full vengeance for you;
And I will dry up her sea
And make her fountain dry.

Verse Conceptsdrynessdefence, divineWellsGod Drying Things UpGod DefendingWells, Figurative UseFamineRevenge

For through the anger of the Lord this came about in Jerusalem and Judah until He cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

Verse ConceptsRebellion, Against Human AuthorityRejection Of God, Results OfDriven From God's Presence

How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion
With a cloud in His anger!
He has cast from heaven to earth
The glory of Israel,
And has not remembered His footstool
In the day of His anger.

Verse ConceptsFootstoolsZion, As A SymbolGod ForgettingLosing HonourThe Coming Day Of God's WrathFeelings Of Alienation

O Lord, You have seen my oppression;
Judge my case.

Verse ConceptsWronging Other People

Behold, six men came from the direction of the upper gate which faces north, each with his shattering weapon in his hand; and among them was a certain man clothed in linen with a writing case at his loins. And they went in and stood beside the bronze altar.

Verse ConceptsSix PeopleComing To GatesFacing NorthWriting On ObjectsWeapons Of GodSetting Up The Bronze AltarDeath Penalty For Killing

Then the glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub on which it had been, to the threshold of the temple. And He called to the man clothed in linen at whose loins was the writing case.

Verse ConceptsGod, Glory OfGlory, Revelation OfDivine ManifestationsCherubim, Functions OfGod's Glory In IsraelGod's Shekinah GloryGod Appearing At The DoorwayCherubim

Then behold, the man clothed in linen at whose loins was the writing case reported, saying, “I have done just as You have commanded me.”

Verse ConceptsWritingWe Obey

Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company will not help him in the war, when they cast up ramps and build siege walls to cut off many lives.

Verse ConceptsFortsAttempting To KillSiege MoundsEarthly Armies

‘But it was plucked up in fury;
It was cast down to the ground;
And the east wind dried up its fruit.
Its strong branch was torn off
So that it withered;
The fire consumed it.

Verse ConceptsRootsWindDestruction Of PlantsOut Of The EastBurning PlantsPutting Things Down

I said to them, ‘Cast away, each of you, the detestable things of his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.’

Verse ConceptsAbominations, Judgments OfAbominations, Sin IsSending Things AwayEvil EyesPollution ForbiddenAvoiding IdolatryI Will Be Their God

But they rebelled against Me and were not willing to listen to Me; they did not cast away the detestable things of their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt.Then I resolved to pour out My wrath on them, to accomplish My anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsRebellion, Of IsraelSin, And God's CharacterRebellion Against God, Shown InSending Things AwayEvil EyesIdol WorshipRebellion against God

Into his right hand came the divination, ‘Jerusalem,’ to set battering rams, to open the mouth for slaughter, to lift up the voice with a battle cry, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up ramps, to build a siege wall.

Verse ConceptsBattering ramsBattle CriesAttacks On Jerusalem ForetoldEvil For The Right HandSiege Mounds

Therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, bear now the punishment of your lewdness and your harlotries.’”

Verse ConceptsThrowing AwaySpiritual Harlotryconsequences

He will slay your daughters on the mainland with the sword; and he will make siege walls against you, cast up a ramp against you and raise up a large shield against you.

Verse ConceptsFortsKilled With The SwordSiege MoundsThe Nations Attacked

And they will make their voice heard over you
And will cry bitterly.
They will cast dust on their heads,
They will wallow in ashes.

Verse ConceptsSorrowSprinklingVoicesDust On The HeadAshes Of Humiliation

“By the abundance of your trade
You were internally filled with violence,
And you sinned;
Therefore I have cast you as profane
From the mountain of God.
And I have destroyed you, O covering cherub,
From the midst of the stones of fire.

Verse ConceptsProfanityTradeUnity, God's Goal OfPursuing ViolenceAngelsJudgment Of DemonsJudgment Of Fallen Angels

“Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty;
You corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor.
I cast you to the ground;
I put you before kings,
That they may see you.

Verse ConceptsBeautifulFalse WisdomAspects Of People Made KnownGentile RulersPeople Have Honour

“I will leave you on the land;
I will cast you on the open field.
And I will cause all the birds of the heavens to dwell on you,
And I will satisfy the beasts of the whole earth with you.

Verse ConceptsThrowing PeopleAnimals Eating PeopleWild Animals Devouring

But whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately be cast into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire.”

Verse ConceptsFurnacesDeath penaltyMartyrdom, Reasons ForPunishment, Legal Aspects OfThrowing PeopleHow Not To Worship

But whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire.

Verse ConceptsMartyrdom, Methods OfThrowing PeopleFurnacesHow Not To Worship

Now if you are ready, at the moment you hear the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon, psaltery and bagpipe and all kinds of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, very well. But if you do not worship, you will immediately be cast into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire; and what god is there who can deliver you out of my hands?”

Verse ConceptsPersecution, Forms OfPride, Examples OfImpietyInfidelity To GodBoastersThrowing PeopleFurnacesCymbalsHarpsLyresFlutesNo Help In Other Gods

He commanded certain valiant warriors who were in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego in order to cast them into the furnace of blazing fire.

Verse ConceptsTying Up

Then these men were tied up in their trousers, their coats, their caps and their other clothes, and were cast into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire.

Verse ConceptsRopesDressClothing OthersThrowing PeopleFurnaces

Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astounded and stood up in haste; he said to his high officials, “Was it not three men we cast bound into the midst of the fire?” They replied to the king, “Certainly, O king.”

Verse ConceptsMiracles, Responses ToAmazement, Of God's ActionsAstonishmentThree MenHasty ActionPeople Getting UpTying Up

Therefore, O king, may my advice be pleasing to you: break away now from your sins by doing righteousness and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, in case there may be a prolonging of your prosperity.’

Verse ConceptsGood Human Adviceevil, believers' responses toKindnessWise CouncelRenunciationRepentance, Nature OfAction For A Long TimePeople Showing MercyMan's Counsel

All the commissioners of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the high officials and the governors have consulted together that the king should establish a statute and enforce an injunction that anyone who makes a petition to any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, shall be cast into the lions’ den.

Verse ConceptsExamples Of FaithAgreeing For EvilConsultationsGovernorsLionsMartyrdom, Reasons ForProclamationsSuffering, Causes OfOne MonthThrowing PeopleIn Danger From LionsNot Praying

Then they approached and spoke before the king about the king’s injunction, “Did you not sign an injunction that any man who makes a petition to any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, is to be cast into the lions’ den?” The king replied, “The statement is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which may not be revoked.”

Verse ConceptsAuthority, of human institutionsOne MonthThrowing PeopleHuman LawNot PrayingUnchanging Relationships

Then the king gave orders, and Daniel was brought in and cast into the lions’ den. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Your God whom you constantly serve will Himself deliver you.”

Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyPunishment, Legal Aspects OfAmbivalenceDensThrowing PeopleGod Saves The NeedyIn Danger From Lionsorder

The king then gave orders, and they brought those men who had maliciously accused Daniel, and they cast them, their children and their wives into the lions’ den; and they had not reached the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.

Verse ConceptsFaultsBitingLionsBones BrokenThrowing PeopleChildren SufferingIn Danger From LionsOther WivesPeople Accusing PeopleWork Soon Doneaccusations

Then the king of the North will come, cast up a siege ramp and capture a well-fortified city; and the forces of the South will not stand their ground, not even their choicest troops, for there will be no strength to make a stand.

Verse ConceptsThe Nations Attackedtechnology

Listen to the word of the Lord, O sons of Israel,
For the Lord has a case against the inhabitants of the land,
Because there is no faithfulness or kindness
Or knowledge of God in the land.

Verse ConceptsLitigationForgetting GodFaithfulness, To GodProphecy, Methods Of OtWord Of GodCharacter Of WickedNot Knowing GodPeople Without Mercy

My God will cast them away
Because they have not listened to Him;
And they will be wanderers among the nations.

Verse ConceptsThe HomelessWanderersDriven Away By God

It has made my vine a waste
And my fig tree splinters.
It has stripped them bare and cast them away;
Their branches have become white.

Verse ConceptsWhiteThings StrippedFoliage

“They have also cast lots for My people,
Traded a boy for a harlot
And sold a girl for wine that they may drink.

Verse ConceptsAlcoholProstitutionTradeWineGetting WinePrice Of PeopleWages Of A ProstituteChild AbusePrice Set On Individualsteenager

“You will go out through breaches in the walls,
Each one straight before her,
And you will be cast to Harmon,” declares the Lord.

Verse ConceptsWallsGapsNot Turning Aside

For those who turn justice into wormwood
And cast righteousness down to the earth.”

Verse ConceptsBitter FoodNo JusticeBitterness

The songs of the palace will turn to wailing in that day,” declares the Lord God. “Many will be the corpses; in every place they will cast them forth in silence.”

Verse ConceptsSingersCurbing SpeechPeople Mourning Catastrophe

“On the day that you stood aloof,
On the day that strangers carried off his wealth,
And foreigners entered his gate
And cast lots for Jerusalem—
You too were as one of them.

Each man said to his mate, “Come, let us cast lots so we may learn on whose account this calamity has struck us.” So they cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah.

Verse ConceptsGuidance, Receiving God'sCasting LotsWho Is The One?Why Does This Happen?

“For You had cast me into the deep,
Into the heart of the seas,
And the current engulfed me.
All Your breakers and billows passed over me.

Verse ConceptsChaosHeart, HumanMonotonySevere AfflictionsThrowing PeopleSinkingIn The Heart Of The SeaSwampedDeep Seaswaterfalls

Hear now what the Lord is saying,
“Arise, plead your case before the mountains,
And let the hills hear your voice.

Verse ConceptsPay Attention To God!Man Defending

“Listen, you mountains, to the indictment of the Lord,
And you enduring foundations of the earth,
Because the Lord has a case against His people;
Even with Israel He will dispute.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsJustification, Necessity OfIngratitude To GodEarth's Foundation

I will bear the indignation of the Lord
Because I have sinned against Him,
Until He pleads my case and executes justice for me.
He will bring me out to the light,
And I will see His righteousness.

Verse ConceptsAfflicted SaintsGod, Righteousness OfGod Giving LightGod DefendingGod Does Right For PeopleGod Angry With Individuals

He will again have compassion on us;
He will tread our iniquities under foot.
Yes, You will cast all their sins
Into the depths of the sea.

Verse ConceptsGod, Compassion OfObliviondepthGod, Patience OfSeaForgettingPromises To Stand onGod Will Show MercyIn The Heart Of The SeaThe Oceancats

Yet she became an exile,
She went into captivity;
Also her small children were dashed to pieces
At the head of every street;
They cast lots for her honorable men,
And all her great men were bound with fetters.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofChainsNoblesPeople Cut In PiecesExiled ForeignersStriking To DeathTragedy On The StreetsChildren Suffering

Then he said, “This is Wickedness!” And he threw her down into the middle of the ephah and cast the lead weight on its opening.

Verse ConceptsSealing ThingsPutting Things DownThe Entrance Of Sinwickednessweight

Behold, the Lord will dispossess her
And cast her wealth into the sea;
And she will be consumed with fire.

Verse ConceptsBurning CitiesBecoming PoorIn The Heart Of The Seapossessions

Then I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of the ground; nor will your vine in the field cast its grapes,” says the Lord of hosts.

Verse ConceptsVinesLand ProducingFinancesrebukingbugs

Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’

Verse ConceptsExorcismsdriving outLying WondersPeople Casting Out DemonsIn The Name Of ChristSpeaking In Christ's NameThe Fact Of That DayDemonsCasting Out DemonsDemonic Influence

The demons began to entreat Him, saying, “If You are going to cast us out, send us into the herd of swine.”

Verse ConceptsBeggarsDemons, Punishment OfJesus Casting Out DemonsPigsDemonsThe DevilCasting Out Demonsporkjumping

If I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? For this reason they will be your judges.

Verse ConceptsExorcismsJesus Casting Out DemonsPeople Casting Out DemonsAccused Of Being DemonisedCasting Out Demonsempowerment