Now while Ezra was praying and confessing in tears, having prostrated himself to the ground before the Temple of God, a very large crowd of Israelis men, women, and children gathered around him. Indeed, the people were crying bitterly.

I became very livid when I heard their complaining and these charges.

When all of our enemies including the surrounding nations heard this, they became very discouraged, since they saw that the work had been done by our God.

This very day the wives of the officials of Persia and Media who hear the report about the queen will speak in the same way to all the officials of the king, and there will be more than enough contempt and anger.

Mordecai had raised his cousin Hadassah, or Esther, because she had no father or mother. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was very attractive. After her mother and father died, Mordecai had taken her as his daughter.

Then the LORD told Satan, "Very well then, everything he owns is under your control, only you may not extend your hand against him." So Satan left the LORD's presence.

Then Job stood up, tore his robe, shaved his head, fell to the ground, bowed very low,

Then the LORD told Satan, "Very well then, he is under your control. Just preserve his life."

Your beginning may be small, but later years will be very great.

The enemy has perished, reduced to ruins forever. You uprooted their cities, the very memory of them vanished.

These things you did, and I kept silent, because you assumed that I was like you. But now I am going to rebuke you, and I will set forth my case before your very own eyes."

So they ate and were very satisfied, because he granted their desire.

Don't charge us for previous iniquity, but let your compassion come quickly to us, for we have been brought very low.

Your decrees are very trustworthy, and holiness always befits your house, LORD.

Bless the LORD, my soul; LORD, my God, you are very great. You are clothed in splendor and majesty;

When the Hebrews were few in number so very few and were sojourners in it,

I have observed that all things have their limit, but your commandment is very broad. Mem

You have ordered your decrees to us rightly, and they are very faithful.

Your word is very pure, and your servant loves it.

Pay attention to my cry, for I have been brought very low. Deliver me from my tormentors, for they are far too strong for me.

When they stop breathing, they return to the ground; on that very day their plans evaporate!

If you don't have the ability to pay, why should your very bed be taken from under you?

Whoever works his farmland will have abundant food, but whoever chases fantasies will become very poor.

Four things on earth are small, but they are very, very wise:

I opened the door for my beloved, but my beloved had turned away; he was gone! My very life went out when he departed. I searched for him, but couldn't find him. I called out to him, but he didn't answer.

"Your country lies desolate; your cities have been incinerated. Before your very eyes, foreigners are devouring your land they've brought devastation on it, while the land is overthrown by foreigners.

I will sing for my beloved my love-song concerning his vineyard: "The one I love had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.

This very day he will halt at Nob; he will shake his fists at the mountain that is the Daughter of Zion, at Jerusalem's hill.

"We've heard about Moab's pride so very proud he became! his arrogance, his pride, and his insolence; therefore he is alone.

But now the LORD has spoken again: "Within three years, like the years of a contract worker, Moab's glory will be brought into contempt, in spite of all its great multitude, and its survivors will be very few and of no importance."

at the time that you plant them, carefully making them grow, the very morning you make your seed to sprout, your harvest will be ruined in a time of grief and unbearable pain."

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

"In a very little while, will not Lebanon be turned into a garden of fruit, and the garden of fruit seem like a forest?

Then the king of Assyria sent his field commander, along with a very large army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. When the field commander stopped at the aqueduct at the Upper Pool on the road to Laundryman's Field,

And neither had you heard, nor did you understand, nor did you open your ear long ago. Indeed, I knew that you would act very deceitfully, and they would call you a rebel from birth.

"Look! My servant will prosper, and he will be exalted and lifted up, and will be very high.

"Indeed, go over to the coasts of Cyprus and see, send to Kedar and pay very close attention. See if there has ever been such a thing as this!

I planted you myself as a choice vine, from the very best seed. How did you turn against me into a degenerate and foreign vine?

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.

All of them are very rebellious, going around as slanderers. They're bronze and iron, and all of them are corrupt.

For a sound of mourning is heard from Zion: "How we're ruined! Our shame is very great, because we have left the land, because our houses are torn down.'"

"This is what you're to tell them: "This is what the LORD God of Israel says: "Every wineskin is to be filled with wine."' When they say to you, "Don't we know very well that every wineskin is to be filled with wine?',

Cursed is the person who brought the good news to my father, "A baby boy has been born to you," making him very happy.

One basket contained very good figs like the first figs that ripen on the tree. The other basket contained very bad figs that were too bad to be eaten.

The LORD told me, "What do you see?" I replied, "Figs. The good figs are very good, and the bad figs are very bad. They're too bad to be eaten."

Then I spoke to the priests and all of the people: "This is what the LORD says: "Don't listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you: "The vessels from the Temple are about to be returned from Babylon very soon now." Indeed, they're prophesying a lie to you.

"Moab's disaster is near at hand, and his calamity is coming very quickly.

We have heard about Moab's pride he's very proud his haughtiness, his arrogance, his insolence, and his conceit.

"Son of Man, I'm sending you to that rebellious people, the Israelis, who have rebelled against me the same way their ancestors did. And they're still rebels to this very day!

Very soon now, I'll pour out my burning anger on you. I'll complete expressing my anger at you, judge you according to your behavior, and repay you for all your detestable practices.

"Son of Man, write down the name of this day, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem on this very day.

therefore you'd better watch out! I'm going to tear open Moab's flanks, starting with its frontier cities the very glory of the nation! including Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim.

"Son of Man, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon made his army work very hard to attack Tyre. They tore their hair out and rubbed their shoulders raw! Despite all of that work trying to capture Tyre, neither he nor his army got paid from Tyre for all that!

I'll feed them in excellent pastures, and even the very heights of Israel's mountains will serve as verdant pastures for them in which they'll rest and feed yes, even on the fertile mountains of Israel!

"Therefore this is what you are to prophesy: "Here's what the Lord GOD says, "You've been turned into a desolate wasteland and crushed by everyone who surrounds you for a very, very good reason. You've become the property of all the other nations and you've become the object of gossip and whispering campaigns of the nations."'"

I'm going to affirm my great reputation that has been defiled among the nations (that is, that you have defiled in their midst), and those people will learn that I am the LORD," declares the Lord GOD, "when I affirm my holiness in front of their very eyes.

He led me here and there throughout the valley, and I was amazed to see that the surface of the entire valley was covered with myriads of very dry bones!

"This is what the Lord GOD says: "This is what's going to happen on the very day that you begin your invasion: You'll be thinking, making evil plans,

You'll come up to invade my people Israel like a storm cloud to cover the land. In the last days, Gog, I'll bring you up to invade my land so that the world will learn to know me when I show them how holy I am before their very eyes."'"

At the beginning of year 25 of our captivity, on the tenth day of the fourteenth year after the destruction of Jerusalem on that very day the LORD grabbed me in his hand and took me there.

God brought me in a series of visions to the land of Israel and placed me on top of a very high mountain, where to the south there was something that looked like the outline of a city.

Now, if you are ready at this very moment to obey "the sound of the trumpet, the flute, the lyre, the four-stringed lyre, and the harp,' and worship the image that I have made" If you do not so worship, you will immediately have cast yourselves into the middle of the blazing fire, and what god is there who can deliver you from my power?"

This is what I saw in the visions of my head while I was in bed: I was looking and listen carefully! I saw a tree in the middle of the earth, the height of which was very great.

"You've exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. "You've had the vessels from his Temple brought into your presence. "And you, your officials, and your wives and mistresses drank wine from them. "You praised gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which can't see, hear, or demonstrate knowledge. "But you didn't honor God, who holds in his power your very life and all your ways.

They offer sacrifices on the mountain tops, burning offerings on the hills, under oaks, poplars, and terebinth trees, since their shade is very good. Therefore your daughters are prostitutes and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.

The LORD will shout in the presence of his forces, because his encampment is very great; for powerful is he who carries out his message. Truly the Day of the LORD is great, and very terrifying. Who will be able to survive it?"

"Look, now! In those very days and at that time, when I restore prosperity to Judah and Jerusalem,

So Amaziah priest of Bethel sent a message to Jeroboam king of Israel. It said, "Amos has been conspiring against you in the very heart of the house of Israel! The land cannot bear everything he has to say,

"Very well then, hear this message from the LORD: "You are saying, "Don't prophesy against Israel, and don't preach against the house of Isaac."

Now Nineveh was a very large city, requiring a three-day journey to cross through it. As Jonah started into the city on the first day's journey, he proclaimed the message, "40 days more and Nineveh will be overthrown!"

Please listen to this, you leaders of the house of Jacob, you officials of the house of Israel, you who hate administering justice, who pervert the very meaning of equity,

Is there seed left in the granary? Up until now, neither the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, nor the olive tree has borne fruit, but from this very day I will bless you.'"

"The LORD was very angry with your ancestors.

Also Hamath, which borders on it along with Tyre and Sidon indeed they are very wise.

The LORD their God will save them at that time as his very own flock of people, because they are his crown jewels, exalted throughout his land.

His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem. Then the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a very large valley, with half of the mountain moving toward the north and half toward the south.

Once more the Devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, along with their splendor.

"Go," Jesus told the centurion, "and it will be done for you, just as you have believed." And his servant was healed that very hour.

When Jesus turned and saw her, he said, "Be courageous, daughter! Your faith has made you well." And from that very hour the woman was well.

When he found a very valuable pearl, he went and sold everything he had and bought it."

Then Jesus answered her, "Lady, your faith is great! What you want is granted." That very hour her daughter was healed.

Then Jesus rebuked the demon and it came out of him, and the boy was healed that very hour.

"When his fellow servants saw what had happened, they were very disturbed and went and reported to their master everything that had occurred.

a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume and poured it on his head while he sat at the table.

Then Jesus told them, "All of you will turn against me this very night, because it is written, "I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

Jesus told him, "I tell you with certainty, before a rooster crows this very night, you will deny me three times."

But Jesus did not reply at all, so that the governor was very surprised.

In the morning, while it was still very dark, Jesus got up and went to a deserted place and prayed there.

The whole crowd was very surprised to see Jesus and ran to welcome him.

While Jesus was in Bethany sitting at the table in the home of Simon the leper, a woman arrived with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume made from pure nard. She broke open the jar and poured the perfume on his head.

They began to be very sad and asked him, one after the other, "Surely I am not the one, am I?"

Jesus told him, "I tell you with certainty, today, this very night, before a rooster crows twice, you'll deny me three times."

Very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had just come up, they were going to the tomb.

Then they looked up and saw that the stone had been rolled away. (It was a very large stone.)

The angel answered him, "I am Gabriel! I stand in the very presence of God. I have been sent to speak to you and to announce this good news to you.

Now Anna, a prophetess, was also there. She was a descendant of Phanuel from the tribe of Asher. She was very old, having lived with her husband for seven years after her marriage,

But God told him, "You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you. Now who will get the things you've accumulated?'

Whoever is faithful with very little is also faithful with a lot, and whoever is dishonest with very little is also dishonest with a lot.

But when the official heard this he became sad, because he was very rich.

The king told him, "Well done, good servant! Because you have been trustworthy in a very small thing, take charge of ten cities.'