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The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: the LORD gave them both eyes with which to see.

Verse ConceptsVisionBigotryRacismLight In The WorldGod Helps The Poor

I also accumulated silver, gold, and the wealth of kings and their kingdoms. I gathered around me both male and female singers, along with what delights a man all sorts of mistresses.

Verse ConceptsChoirsThe Vanity Of Human KnowledgeSingersSupplied With Money

I also examined on earth: where the halls of justice were supposed to be, there was lawlessness; and where the righteous were supposed to be, there was lawlessness. 17I told myself, "God will judge both the righteous and the wicked, because there is a time set to judge every event and every work."

Verse ConceptsUnder The SunInjusticeSunfairnesswickedness

Better than both of them is someone who has not yet been born, because he hasn't experienced evil on earth.

Verse ConceptsUnder The SunBabies Sinful From Birth

Don't be surprised when you see the poor oppressed and the violent perverting both justice and verdicts in a province, for one high official watches another, and there are ones higher still over them.

Verse ConceptsOppressorsAuthorityNot Helping The PoorInjusticeoppressionsurprises

I have seen it all during my pointless life: both a righteous person who dies while he is righteous, and a wicked person who lives to an old age, while remaining wicked.

Verse ConceptsApparent InjusticeProsperity Of The WickedThe Righteous PerishingBad DaysDoing The Right ThingEnjoying Life

I committed myself to understand, to learn, to search for wisdom and explanations, and to understand both the evil that is foolishness and the stupidity that is delusion.

Verse ConceptsInvestigatingStudying Insanity

Whoever obeys his commands will not experience harm, and the wise in heart will discern both the appropriate time and response.

Verse ConceptsThe Right TimeWhat Manner?Man's Wisdom

Sow your seed in the morning, and don't stop working until evening, since you don't know which of your endeavors will do well, whether this one or that, or even if both will do equally well.

Verse ConceptsBusynessVegetationNot Knowing The FutureAt Morning And EveningFrom Morning Till EveningCareer SuccessReaping What You SowPlanting SeedsSeedsSuccess And Hard WorkSowing Seedssowing

The mandrakes give off their fragrance, and over our doors are all the choice fruits, both old and new, that I've stored up for you, my beloved.

Your strong one will be like tinder, and your work a spark; both of them will burn together, with no one to quench the flames that burn them."

Verse ConceptsBurning PeopleNot Extinguishing

Then he will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel he'll also be a stone with which someone strikes himself, a rock one stumbles over, a trap and a snare to those who live in Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsFaith, Necessity OfGod, The RockStumblingZion, As A SymbolProphecies Concerning ChristCapstoneDownfall Of IsraelStumbling Over ChristChrist The RockGod TrappingMessianic Prophecies

The splendor of its forest and its fruitful land the LORD will destroy both soul and body and Assyria will be as when a dying man wastes away.

Verse ConceptsEcological ConcernsHarming Trees

so the king of Assyria will lead away the Egyptian captives and exiles from Cush, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot with even their buttocks uncovered to the shame of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsBarefeetPrisonersAfrica

Both of these things will overtake you suddenly on a single day: loss of children and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, despite the multitude of your incantations and the great power of your spells."

Verse ConceptsPleasure SeekersSuddenlyBereavementDeath Of A ChildLosing SomeonemagicwitchesOccult Being Powerless Before God

both your iniquities and your ancestors' iniquities together,'' says the LORD. "Because they offered incense on the mountains and insulted me on hills, I'll measure into their laps full payment for their earlier actions."

Verse ConceptsdefianceWagesSins Of The FathersBurning SacrificesSacrificing On The High PlacesMaking Mistakes

"Let us lie down in our shame, and let our humiliation cover us, because both we and our ancestors have sinned against the LORD our God from our youth until this present time. We haven't obeyed the LORD our God."

Verse ConceptsSin, Effects OfParents SinSelf AbasementBeing Evil From YouthShame Has ComeWe Have Sinned

For both the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been utterly unfaithful to me," declares the LORD.

Verse ConceptsUnfaithfulness, To GodUnfaithful

They don't say to themselves, "Let's fear the LORD our God, who gives rain in its season, both the autumn and the spring rain. He sets aside for us the weeks appointed for the harvest.'

Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with Noahdrought, physicalHarvestPentecostWeather, God's Sovereignty OverWeeksGod Sending RainLatenessRight Time For GodNo Fear Of GodSeasons Changing

I'm full of the wrath of the LORD, and I'm tired of holding it back. Pour it out on the children in the street and on the groups of young men gathered together. Indeed, both husband and wife will be caught in it, the old and the very old.

Verse ConceptsYoung People SufferingJudgement On Old PeopleGod Has AngerTired In Activitywrathtiredventing

I'll weep and mourn for the mountains, and lament for the desert pastures, because they are desolate and no one passes through them. They don't hear the lowing of the cattle. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled. They're gone!

Verse ConceptsAnimals, religious role ofLamentingSongsWailingLand Becoming EmptyI Mourn Catastrophe

If I go out into the field, I see those slain by the sword! If I go into the city, I see the ravages of the famine! Indeed, both prophet and priest ply their trade in the land, but they don't know anything.'"

Verse ConceptsThe CountrysideCities Under AttackUnknown ThingsWicked ProphetsFamine ComingFamine Will Come

Both the most and the least important people will die in this land, and they won't be buried. People won't mourn for them. They won't cut themselves, nor will they shave their heads for them.

Verse ConceptsThe DeadBaldnessHairsKnivesUnburied BodiesNo BurialsGreat And SmallGashing BodiesNot Mourning

I'll strike down the residents of this city, both people and animals, and they'll die from a terrible plague.

Verse ConceptsPestilenceDeath Of CreaturesBoth Men And Animals KilledDeath Of Other Groups

Indeed, both priest and prophet are ungodly. Even in my house I find evil," declares the LORD.

Verse ConceptsLeaders, SpiritualWicked ProphetsPeople Being Unclean

For I didn't send them," declares the LORD, "and they're falsely prophesying in my name, so I will drive both you and the prophets who prophesy to you out of the land."

Verse ConceptsWicked ProphetsGod Not SendingProphets Who Were Not Sent

Indeed, after I turned away, then I repented. And after I came to understand, I slapped my forehead. I was both ashamed and humiliated because I bear the disgrace of my youth.'"

Verse ConceptsHumiliationSelf RespectExamining YourselfThighsBeating OneselfRepentanceShame Has Come

Then I took the deed of purchase both the sealed one with the terms and conditions and the open one

Verse ConceptsReal Estate

"This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "Take these deeds both this sealed deed of purchase and this open deed and put them in a clay pot so they'll last for a long time.

Verse ConceptsClayStaying A Long Time

You are the one who performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt and continue to do so until this day, both in Israel and among the rest of humanity. You made a reputation for yourself that continues to this day.

Verse ConceptsSigns And Wonders Before Christ

Then the officials told Baruch, "Go, hide yourself, both you and Jeremiah, and don't let anyone know where you are."

Verse ConceptsHiding From People

Concerning Jehoiakim, king of Judah, you are to say, "This is what the LORD says: "You burned this scroll, all the while saying, "Why did you write on it that the king of Babylon will definitely come, destroy this land, and eliminate both people and animals from it?'"

Verse ConceptsLand Becoming EmptyBoth Men And Animals KilledKings of judah

So Jeremiah told Zedekiah, "This is what the LORD God of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "If you will immediately surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then you will live, and this city won't be burned with fire. Both you and your family will live.

Verse ConceptsKeeping Oneself AliveSurrender

The nations have heard of your disgrace, and your cry of distress fills the earth. Indeed, one warrior stumbles over another, and both of them fall down together."

Verse ConceptsWarriorsDisorganizationPeople StumblingShame Has Come

against Kerioth, Bozrah, and all the towns in the land of Moab, both far and near.

For a nation from the north will go up against her. It will make her land into an object of horror, and no one will live in it. Both people and animals will wander off, and they'll leave.

Verse ConceptsEmpty CitiesOut Of The NorthBoth Men And Animals Affected

Lift up the battle standard against Babylon's walls. Strengthen the guard; post watchmen. Set men in position for an ambush. For the LORD will both plan and carry out what he has declared against the inhabitants of Babylon.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerGuardsWatchmanBabylon DestroyedAmbushFlagsThe judgment of babylon

The captain of the guard took away the bowls, the fire pans, the basins, the pots, the lamp stands, the pans, and the bowls for libations, both those made of gold and those made of silver.

Verse ConceptsThe Golden LampstandSilverTaking Mixed Metals

The Lord swallowed up without pity all of Jacob's habitations. In his wrath he tore down the strongholds of fair Judah. He cast to the ground in dishonor both her kingdom and its rulers.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toFortificationsFortressesAnger Of God, ConsequencesJacob, The PatriarchDestruction Of StrongholdsSwallowingPeople Being PollutedNot Sparing

He plowed under his Temple like a garden, spoiling his tent. The LORD abolished in Zion both festivals and Sabbaths. In his fierce wrath he despised both king and priest.

Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalDecayDestruction Of The TempleGod Living In The TabernacleBoothsForgetting ThingsDeposed PriestsFestivals DisregardedSabbath Violated

The LORD planned to destroy the walls of cherished Zion. He measured them with his line. He did not withhold his hand from destruction. He made both ramparts and defensive walls mourn; they languish together.

Verse ConceptsPlumb LineWallsGod DestroyingDestruction Of Jerusalem's WallMourning Due To Catastrophe

Jerusalem's gates collapsed to the ground; he destroyed and broke the bars of her gates. Both king and prince have gone into captivity. There is no instruction, and the prophets receive no vision from the LORD.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual Famine,Poverty, SpiritualVisionsSpiritual DestitutionBreaking SticksDestruction Of JerusalemKings ExiledCity GatesNo VisionsProphecy AbolishedPutting Things Down

being unrolled right in front of me! Written on both sides were lamentations, mourning, and cries of grief.

Verse ConceptsBooks In ProphecyFront And Back

"Son of Man, when a nation sins against me by a treacherous act, I'll reach out to oppose it, destroying its source of food, by sending famine against it, and by destroying both people and beast within it.

Verse ConceptsUnfaithfulness, To GodStretching OutGod's HandDestruction Of All CreaturesGod's Hands Stretched OutBoth Men And Animals KilledUnfaithful

"Or if I were to bring war to that land and say, "Hey, sword! Pass throughout the land so I can destroy both man and beasts in it,'

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of All CreaturesBoth Men And Animals Killed

"Or if I were to send a pestilence against that land and pour out my anger in it with bloodshed, destroying both man and beast in it,

Verse ConceptsPestilenceDestruction Of All CreaturesCovered With BloodBoth Men And Animals Killed

This is what the Lord GOD says, "I'm sending four of my most destructive judgments military invasion, famine, wild animals, and pestilence into Jerusalem to destroy both human beings and livestock in it.

Verse ConceptsPlaguesPestilenceDestruction Of All CreaturesFamine Coming From GodFour Other ThingsBoth Men And Animals Killed

And now, you house of Israel, this is what the Lord GOD says, "Go ahead and serve your idols, both now and later, but later you'll listen to me, and you won't profane my sacred name again by your offerings and idols.

Verse ConceptsGiftsIrreverenceProfanityProfaning God's NameNot Worshipping IdolsPaying Attention To GodMisusing God's Name

Declare to Israel, "This is what the LORD says: "Watch out! I'm against you! I'm going to unsheathe my sword to kill both the righteous and the wicked among you.

Verse ConceptsSwordsThings StrippedGod OpposingGod Will Kill His PeopleGod's Sword

Since I'm going to kill both the righteous and the wicked among you, I'll be unsheathing my sword against everyone from south to north.

Verse ConceptsNorthSouthNorth And SouthGod KillingAll PeopleGod KillsGod Will Kill His People

"Now, Son of Man, demarcate two pathways by which the sword of Babylon's king will arrive in the land. Both pathways will lead from a single land.

Verse ConceptsTwo Intangible Things

Those who are both near and far away from you will scoff at you, because your reputation will be infamous and full of turmoil.

I saw that she was defiled, because the two of them both were on the same path.

Verse ConceptsEvil WaysPeople Polluting ThemselvesLike People In Character

"This is what the Lord GOD says: "You'll drink from your sister's cup, which is both large and deep. You'll become a laughing stock and an object of derision, since the cup is so full!

Verse ConceptsRidicule, Nature OfDeep Things

Then the LORD spoke to me. "Son of Man, speak out in judgment of both Oholah and Oholibah. Make their detestable practices widely known,

Verse ConceptsSin Made Known

"I'm coming to attack Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and I'm going to break both of his arms, the strong one and the wounded one. That will make him drop his sword. I'm going to scatter Egypt throughout the surrounding nations and disperse them throughout the world.

Verse ConceptsScattering The Peoples

"They'll die along with others who are killed violently. Egypt has been given over to violence, which will carry off both it and its hordes."

Verse ConceptsKilled With The Sword

I'll make both the population and the livestock increase throughout your territories. They'll increase and be fruitful. I'll make your territories to be settled like you were in the past, and you will be treated better than you ever were before. At that time you will know that I am the LORD.

Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, NaturalKnowledge, Of GodInhabitationGod Doing GoodGod Multipling PeoplePeople MultiplyingBoth Men And Animals SavedfruitfulnessReproduction, After Kind

including up to the doorway, up to the Temple (both within and without) and all around both sides of the inner wall, according to his measurement.

Shielded windows and palm trees were visible on both sides; that is, on the sides of the porch, the side chambers of the Temple, and on its thresholds.

Verse ConceptsWindows For The Temple

"This is what the Lord GOD says, "No foreigner who is both uncircumcised in heart and flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the Israelis is to enter my sanctuary.

Verse ConceptsForeignersExclusivenessForeigners In The Holy PlacesStrangers in israel

"The Regent Prince is to have a portion on both sides of the consecrated allotment for the sanctuary and the city's land allotment, adjacent to both on the west and the east sides, comparable in length to one of the portions from the west border to the east border.

Verse ConceptsWest Sides

On that day, the Regent Prince is to provide, both for himself and for all the people who live in the land, a bull for a sin offering.

Verse ConceptsSacrificing Cattle

As we were coming back, I was amazed to see that there were many, many trees lining both banks of the river.

Verse ConceptsMetaphorical TreesTwo Sidedrelaxing

In reply the king told the Chaldeans, "Here is what I have commanded: If you don't tell me both the dream and its meaning, you'll be destroyed and your houses will be reduced to rubble.

Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyPeople Torn To PiecesRubbishHouses Under Attack

Just as their toes and feet are part iron and part clay, so will the kingdom be both strong and brittle.

Verse ConceptsToesIron ObjectsStrong Nationstoughness

"Then I heard one holy person speaking, and another holy person addressed the one who was speaking: "In the vision about the regular burnt offering, how much time elapses while the desecration terrifies and both the Holy Place and the Heavenly Army are trampled?'

Verse ConceptsBefore God ActsTrampling PlacesSurrender

"To you, Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us, open humiliation even to this day, to the men of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, both those who are nearby and those who are far away in all the lands to which you drove them because of their unfaithful acts that they committed against you.

Verse Conceptsdispersion, theSelf Righteousness, And The GospelUnfaithfulness, To GodPeople ExiledShame Has ComeUnfaithful

Then after the 62 weeks, the anointed one will be cut down (but not for himself). Then the people of the Coming Commander will destroy both the city and the Sanctuary. Its ending will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war, with desolations having been decreed.

Verse ConceptsFlood, TheNothing100 Years And MoreDestruction Of The TempleForetelling Christ's DeathChrist's OriginFour Horsemen Of The Apocalypse

He will make a binding covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he will suspend both the sacrifice and grain offerings. Destructive people will cause desolation on the pinnacle until it is complete and what has been decreed is poured out on the desolator.'"

Verse ConceptsAbominationsTribulation PeriodAbomination Of DesolationThree And A Half YearsSeven YearsThe DestroyerIsrael In TribulationPeace And SafetyThe World Ruler

Destroyed will be the high places of Aven, that are the sin of Israel. Both thorn and thistle will grow up over their altars. They will call out to the mountains, "Cover us!' and to the hills, "Fall on us!'

Verse ConceptsJerusalem, Significance OfSuicideThornsBarren, LandThistlesDestruction Of Satan's WorksEscaping To MountainsDesire For Death

Both grain offering and wine offering have been removed from the LORD's Temple; the priests and ministering servants of the LORD are mourning."

Verse ConceptsMaking Cereal Offerings And LibationsPeople Mourning CatastropheMeat offerings

And so be glad, children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, because he has given you the right amount of early rain, and he will cause the rain to fall for you, both the early rain and the later rain as before.

Verse ConceptsWeather, God's Sovereignty OverAbundance, MaterialNames And Titles For The ChristianGod Sending RainLatenessspringtimevindication

I will wreck both the winter house and the summer house, and the ivory houses will fall. These palaces will surely fall," declares the LORD.

Verse ConceptsAdornment, Of BuildingsArtHousesIvoryProperty, HousesSummerDestruction Of HousesSummer And WinterHouses Under Attack

No man or animal, herd or flock, is to taste anything, graze, or drink water. Instead, let both man and animal clothe themselves with sackcloth and cry out to God forcefully. Let every person turn from his evil ways and from his tendency to do violence.

Verse ConceptsImportunity, Towards GodAvoiding ViolenceBoth Men And Animals Affectedjonah

And speaking of evil, they practice it eagerly with both hands! Both leader and judge demand a bribe, the famous confess their perverted desires, and they scheme together.

Verse ConceptsGiftsAliancesAmbition, negative aspects ofWicked RulersJudgesPower, HumanReward, HumanSkillRulers, WickedCharacter Of WickedGuileAmbidextrousTwo Of Body PartsContinuing In SinLording It

"I'll consume both human beings and animals I'll consume the birds of the sky, the fish in the sea, and the wicked along with their sin, when I eliminate human beings from the land," declares the LORD.

Verse ConceptsAnimals, religious role ofBoth Men And Animals KilledMan's Sinful NatureWeedFish

I will overthrow royal thrones. I will annihilate the strength of national governments. I will overthrow chariots along with those who drive them. Both horses and their riders will fall, each one by means of his comrade's weapon.

Verse ConceptsChariotsBackKingdomsUnreliabilityRiding HorsesDestroying ChariotsDeposingKilling One Another

"At that time, I will make the leaders of Judah like a brazier filled with blazing wood, or like a torch setting fire to harvested grain. They will devour all the invading armies, both on the right hand and on the left. As a result, Jerusalem will again be inhabited in its rightful place as the real Jerusalem.'"

Verse ConceptsWoodFire Of JudgementBurning Plants

"At that time," declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "I will eliminate the names of the idols from the land, and they will not be remembered anymore. I will also force both prophet and demon to leave the land.

Verse ConceptsImpurityNames Blotted OutAbandoning IdolsProphets Of Other Gods

"If you don't listen, and if you don't choose to give honor to my name," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "then I'll curse both you and your blessings. I've even cursed them already, because none of you are taking it to heart.

Verse ConceptsFailureHonorListeningBlessing And CurseGod CursingMoney BlessingscursesDishonoring God

"Remember the Law of Moses my servant that I gave him at Horeb for all Israel both the decrees and laws.

Verse ConceptsTaking The Law To Heartthe Law of moses

Nor do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will spill out, and the skins will be ruined. Instead, they pour new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved."

Verse ConceptsAlcoholBottles, Figurative UseNewnessWineParables Of ChristAlcohol ConsumptionPutting Off The Old ManBreaking ContainersOld ThingsUnusedFreshPeople KeepingWineskins And Vatstoughness

Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, "Gather the weeds first and tie them in bundles for burning, but bring the wheat into my barn."'"

Verse ConceptsBinding cornHarvestSicklesBindingEternal JudgmentMixed MultitudeJoining ThingsGathering FoodBurning PlantsGod's StorehousesPlants Growing UpGrowing

Then he told them, "That is why every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom from heaven is like the master of a household who brings both new and old things out of his treasure chest."

Verse ConceptsHousesKeysTeachers Of The LawChristian TraditionsPeople Of The KingdomtrainingNew

Both the crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed him kept shouting, "Hosanna to the Son of David! How blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest heaven!"

Verse ConceptsdoxologyCovenant, God's with DavidPraise, Manner And Methods OfJesus As Son Of DavidCrowds Around JesusGroups ShoutingSpecific Praising Of GodThings On HighSave Us!The Fact Of His ComingIn God's Namemath

And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will make the skins burst, and both the wine and the skins will be ruined. Instead, new wine is poured into fresh wineskins."

Verse ConceptsBottle, UsesNewnessWineAlcohol ConsumptionBreaking ContainersOld ThingsUnusedFreshWineskins And Vatstoughness

Both of them were righteous before God, having lived blamelessly according to all of the commandments and regulations of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsBehaviourReligionCharacter Of SaintsGood Wives Examplesluckcouples

They had no children because Elizabeth was barren and because both of them were getting old.

Verse ConceptsBarrenness, Examples OfChildren, responsibilities to parentsChildlessnessInfertilityHaving A Babyluck

So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. They came and filled both boats until the boats began to sink.

Verse ConceptsSinkingGroups Helpingpartnership