You were patient with them for many years, warning them by your Spirit through your prophets. But they would not listen, so you turned them over to the control of people in other lands.

joined with their relatives and their leaders. They entered into an oath enforced by a curse to walk in God's Law that was given through God's servant Moses, and to be careful to obey all of the commands of the LORD, our Lord, as well as his regulations and statutes:

Then the king told Haman, "Quick! Take the clothes and the horse just as you have suggested and do this for Mordecai the Jew who sits in the king's gate. And don't let anything you've suggested fall through the cracks."

But when Esther came before the king, he ordered through a letter that the evil plot that Haman had devised against the Jewish people be rescinded, and that he and his sons be hanged on poles.

"He will deliver you through six calamities; and calamity won't touch you throughout the seventh.

"Look! We have thought all this through, and what we've said is true; So please listen and learn for your own good!"

"Can you search through God's complex things? Can you uncover the limits of the Almighty?

He withdraws understanding from national leaders of the world, causing them to wander through uncharted wilderness.

To them alone was the land given, when no invader passed through their midst.

Attack follows attack as he breaks through my defenses! He runs over me like a mighty warrior.

Mockers surround me; I cannot stop staring at their hostility all through the night.

It will impale him and come out through his back; the point will glisten as it protrudes through his gall bladder, and he will be terrified.

You've asked, "What does God know? Can he sort through pitch black darkness?'

He'll even deliver the guilty, who will be delivered through your innocence."

He cuts a channel through the rocks, while his eyes search for anything of value.

when his lamp used to shine over my head, so I could walk through the dark,

They come like those who breach through a wall; as everything crashes around me they'll roll on and on!

Haven't I wept for the one who is going through hard times? Haven't I grieved for the needy?

He'll deliver the afflicted through their afflictions and open their ears when they are oppressed."

"Beneath him he is armored as with sharp potsherds; he tears through muddy ground like a threshing sledge through grain.

I am weary from my groaning. Every night my couch is drenched with tears, my bed is soaked through.

birds in the sky, fish in the sea whatever moves through the currents of the oceans.

With your help I will run through an army, with help from my God I leap over walls.

Even when I walk through a valley of deep darkness, I will not be afraid because you are with me. Your rod and your staff they comfort me.

Through you we will knock down our oppressors; through your name we will tread down those who rise up against us.

You made your people go through hard times; you had us drink wine that makes us stagger.

Through God we will fight valiantly; and it is he who will crush our enemies. To the Director: A composition by David for stringed instruments.

You caused men to ride over us. You brought us through fire and water, but you led us to abundance.

God, when you led out your people, when you marched through the desert, Interlude

that your feet may wade through blood. The tongues of your dogs will have their portions from your enemies."

May his fame be eternal as long as the sun may his name endure, and may they be blessed through him, and may all nations call him blessed.

As one blazes a trail through a forest with an ax,

Your way was through the sea, and your path through mighty waters, but your footprints cannot be traced.

They will pass through the Baca Valley where he will prepare a spring for them; even the early rain will cover it with blessings.

You spoke to your faithful ones through a vision: "I will set a helper over a warrior. I will raise up a chosen one from the people.

You have broken through all his walls; you have laid his fortresses in ruin.

Will destructive national leaders, who plan wicked things through misuse of the Law, be allied with you?

I say, "My God, whose years continue through all generations, do not take me in the middle of my life.

but when the wind blows through it, it withers away and no one remembers where it was.

There, the ships pass through; Leviathan, which you created, frolics in it.

He shouted at the Reed Sea and it dried up; and led them through the sea as though through a desert.

He humbled them through suffering, as they stumbled without a helper.

For he shattered bronze gates and cut through iron bars.

sustained through all eternity, and fashioned in both truth and righteousness.

Open for me the righteous gates so I may enter through them to give thanks to the LORD.

This is the LORD's gate The righteous will enter through it.

Look, I long for your precepts; revive me through your righteousness. Vav

and made Israel pass through the middle of it, for his gracious love is everlasting

Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I come through. A Davidic Song, when he was in the cave. A prayer.

For from a window in my house I peered through the lattice work,

Kings reign by me, and rulers dispense justice through me.

By what he says, the godless person can destroy his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous escape.

Through the blessing of the righteous a city is built up, but what the wicked say tears it down.

A nation falls through a lack of guidance, but victory comes through the counsel of many.

The field of the poor may produce much food, but it can be swept away through injustice.

Where there are no oxen, the feeding trough is clean, but profits come through the strength of the ox.

Iniquity is atoned for by gracious love and truth, and through fear of the LORD people turn from evil.

Kings detest wrongdoing, for through righteousness the throne is established.

Gracious love and truth preserve a king; through love his throne is made secure.

By wisdom a house is built; it is made secure through understanding.

For through wise counsel you will wage your war, and victory lies in an abundance of advisors.

Through patience a ruler may be persuaded; a gentle word can break a bone.

The rich man may be wise in his own opinion; but a discerning, poor man sees through him.

A king brings stability to a land through justice, but a man who takes bribes brings it to ruin.

it's better that you don't promise than that you do promise and not follow through.

Because many words lead to pointlessness, how do people benefit from this? 12Who knows what is best for people in this life, every day of their pointless lives that they pass through like a shadow? Who informs people on earth what will come along after them?

Sorrow is better than laughter, because the heart is made better through trouble.

Whoever digs a pit may fall into it, and whoever breaks through a wall may suffer a snake bite.

Through slothfulness the roof deteriorates, and a house leaks because of idleness.

when that day comes, the palace guards will tremble, strong men will stoop down, women grinders will cease because they are few, and the sight of those who peer through the lattice will grow dim.

My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, there he stands behind our wall, looking through the windows, gazing through the lattice.

The watchmen making their rounds through the city found me. They beat me, they bruised me. Those guarding the walls took my cloak from me.

"It's the king of Assyria and all of his arrogance! He will rise over all of the river's channels and run over all of its banks. He will sweep on into Judah, overflowing as he passes through, like flood waters reaching up to a person's neck. His outstretched wings will flow as wide as your land, O Immanuel!"

"They'll pass through the land, while greatly distressed and hungry. When they are hungry, they'll become enraged, and they'll curse their king and their god. They'll turn their faces upwards,

"The Assyrian commander has come upon Aiath and has passed through Migron; he stores his supplies at Michmash.

Whoever is captured will be thrust through, and whoever is caught will fall dead, killed by the sword.

It will never be inhabited or lived in through all generations; no Bedouin will pitch his tent there; no shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.

at that time the LORD spoke through Amoz's son Isaiah: "Go loosen the sackcloth that's around your waist, and take your sandals off your feet." So that's what he did: he went around naked and barefoot.

O LORD our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us, but through you alone we acknowledge your name.

Very well, then, through the mouths of foreigners and foreign languages the LORD will speak to this people

As often as it sweeps through, it will carry you away, for it will sweep by morning after morning in the day; but understanding this message will bring sheer terror at night,

There is only loathsome destruction through a people that cannot benefit them, who bring neither help nor profit, but only shame and disgrace."

An oracle about the animals of the Negev: "Through a land of trouble, dryness, and distress, of lionesses and roaring lions, where there is no water, a land of vipers and darting snakes, he carries their riches on donkeys' backs, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a nation that cannot benefit them,

It will burn night and day, and will never be extinguished. Its smoke will rise from generation to generation, and it will lie desolate forever and ever. And no one will pass through it.

then the lame will leap like deer, and the tongues of speechless people will sing for joy. Yes, waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams will run through the desert;

When you pass through the waters, I'll be with you; and through the rivers, they won't sweep over you. when you walk through fire you won't be scorched, and the flame won't set you ablaze.

This is what the LORD says who makes a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters,

"I myself will go before you, and he will make the mountains level; I'll shatter bronze doors and cut through iron bars.

Take millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, strip off your robes, bare your legs, and wade through the rivers.

They didn't thirst when he led him through the desolate places. He made water gush from a rock for them; he split open the rock, and water gushed out.

"Awake! Awake! Clothe yourself with strength, you arm of the LORD! Awake, as in days gone by, as in generations of long ago. Was it not you who split apart Rehob, who pierced that sea monster through?

Out of the suffering of his soul he will see light and find satisfaction. And through his knowledge his servant, the righteous one, will make many righteous, and he will bear their iniquities.

"Although you have been forsaken and despised, with no one traveling through, I will make you the everlasting pride, the joy of all generations.

"Pass through the gates! prepare the way for the people! Build up! Build up the highway! Clear it of stumbling stones, speak among the nations.

who led them through the depths? Like a horse in the open desert, they did not stumble;

"They didn't ask, "Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through the land of desert and pits, through the land of dryness and deep darkness, a land that people don't pass through, and where no one lives?'

You will also go out from this place with your hands over your heads. For the LORD has rejected those in whom you trust, and you won't prosper through them."

"Wander through the streets of Jerusalem. Look and investigate; search through her squares and see whether you find anyone even one person there doing justice and seeking truth. Then I'll forgive them.

"Go through her rows of vines and destroy them, but don't completely destroy them. Strip away her branches, because they aren't the LORD's.

"Stand at the gate of the LORD's Temple and proclaim this message there. Say, "Listen to this message from the LORD, all you people of Judah who come through these gates to worship the LORD.'"