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Watch my enemies, for they outnumber me; they hate me and want to harm me.

Verse ConceptsHatredPeople Being Hated

Do not turn me over to my enemies, for false witnesses who want to destroy me testify against me.

Verse ConceptsFalsehoodWitnesses, FalseOvercoming EnemiesSurrenderProtection From Enemiesbreathing

All my bones will say, "LORD, who is like you? Who delivers the weak from the one who is stronger than he, and the weak and the needy from the one who wants to rob him?"

Verse ConceptsThe NeedyBad LeadershipBonesGod, The ProviderOppression, God's Attitude ToPoverty, Remedies ForPoverty, SpiritualRescueGod And The PoorCaring For OthersAnatomyWho Is Like God?

Don't let them say in their heart, "Aha! That's the way we want it!" Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him up!"

Verse ConceptsEvil Desires

May those who want to harm me be totally embarrassed and ashamed! May those who arrogantly taunt me be covered with shame and humiliation!

Verse ConceptsConfusionHumiliationClothed With Bad ThingsRejoicing In EvilHurt

Let those who want my vindication
shout for joy and be glad;
let them continually say,
“The Lord be exalted.
He takes pleasure in His servant’s well-being.”

Verse ConceptsShouting For JoyProsperityGod VindicatesRejoicing Over JusticeMillionaire MentalityvindicationwellnessGod As A Source Of Delight

Those who seek my life set traps,
and those who want to harm me threaten to destroy me;
they plot treachery all day long.

Verse ConceptsDeception In Fallen Human NaturePersecution, Forms OfEvil PlansTrapCharacter Of WickedMan TrappingAll DayAttempting To Kill Me

O Lord, my God, you have accomplished many things; you have done amazing things and carried out your purposes for us. No one can thwart you! I want to declare them and talk about them, but they are too numerous to recount!

Verse ConceptsAmazingGod, Perfection OfGuidance, God's Promises OfPlansGod, Works OfUncountableGod's ThoughtsGod's PlanTrusting God's PlanGods PlanWorking For GodThoughtsBeing BeautifulGod's Plan For UsWorking For The Lordworkingsurprisesdeeds

May those who are trying to snatch away my life be totally embarrassed and ashamed! May those who want to harm me be turned back and ashamed!

Verse ConceptsConfusiondisgraceAttempting To Kill MeHurtDisappointmenthurting

You made us retreat from the enemy. Those who hate us take whatever they want from us.

Verse ConceptsPlundering

Certainly you do not want a sacrifice, or else I would offer it; you do not desire a burnt sacrifice.

Verse ConceptsDelighting, Wrong Kinds OfDelight, God ExpressingPleasureNot Pleasing God

Look, I want to flee far away; I want to settle down in the wilderness. Interlude

Verse ConceptsSolitudeLiving In The WildernessFar From HerePsalm Interjections

I want to deliver myself quickly from this windstorm and tempest."

Verse ConceptsStormsHurricanesshelterThe Storms Of Life

Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

Verse ConceptsMusicThose OppressedAll Day

My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.

Verse ConceptsPride, Results OfMany EnemiesAll DayEnemy Attacksharassment

I am surrounded by lions; I lie down among those who want to devour me; men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are a sharp sword.

Verse ConceptsArrows, Figurative OfBitingLionsSpeech, Power And Significance OfSuffering, Of Jesus ChristTeethSharpnessEnemies Surrounding

May those who are trying to take my life be embarrassed and ashamed! May those who want to harm me be turned back and ashamed!

Verse ConceptsConfusionConfusion, Nature OfdisgraceSuffering, Of The InnocentAttempting To Kill MeHurthurting

Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.

Verse ConceptsBlamedisgraceHurt

My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long, for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want to harm me. By Solomon.

Verse ConceptsConfusionTongueHurt

I desperately want to be in the courts of the Lord's temple. My heart and my entire being shout for joy to the living God.

Verse ConceptsGod, Titles And Names OfHeart, And Holy SpiritRenewed HeartPassionThe SoulLiving For GodsoulHeartfelt Prayer To God

God, arrogant men rise up against me, while a company of ruthless individuals want to kill me. They do not have regard for you.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofenemies, of believersPride, Results OfArrogance, Characterizes The WickedAttempting To Kill MeIn Front

He shall die for want of discipline; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfFolly, Effects OfDeath For Other ReasonsFalling Away From God

So shall your poverty come upon you like a vagabond, and your want like an armed man.

Verse ConceptsBanditsAvoiding Poverty


The merciful and generous man benefits his soul [for his behavior returns to bless him],
But the cruel and callous man does himself harm.

Verse ConceptsUnkindnessGood ReboundingHurt

Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.

Verse ConceptsPoverty, Causes OfPlenty For The PoorAgricultureInjusticeFeeding The Poor

In the multitude of people is the king's honor: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.

Verse ConceptsMany CombatantsFew PeopleKings And PrideSource Of Honour

To whom wo? to whom want? to whom strife? to whom complaint? to whom wounds gratuitously? to whom dark fleshings of the eyes?

Verse ConceptsIntoxicationColors, ScarletDisfigurement Of SinDrunkennessComplainingResolving Conflictalcoholismscars

"They struck me," you will say, "but I never felt it. They beat me, but I never knew it When will I wake up? I want another drink."

Verse ConceptsAlcoholInsensibilityAccepting BeatingsAbsence Of FeelingWake Up!AlcoholicsOvercomingHurtFeeling Losthurtingdrunkards

That I not be full and deny You and say, “Who is the Lord?”
Or that I not be in want and steal,
And profane the name of my God.

Verse ConceptsIrreverenceDenying GodProfaning God's NameShortagesWho Is God?The poorBeing Contentdenial

Here is one, without a second, even son or brother, he hath none, yet is there no end to all his toil, even his eye, is not satisfied with riches, - neither saith he For whom, am I toiling, and letting my soul want good? Even this, was vanity, yea a vexatious employment, it was!

Verse ConceptsEnjoyment, Lack OfAffluenceDiscontentPhysical LabourBeing UnsatisfiedUseless EndeavourToiling In VainFamily And Friends

A man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he wants nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him not power to eat of it, but a stranger eats it: this is vanity, and it is an evil affliction.

Verse ConceptsUseless EndeavourSuffering From ForeignersGod Gives WealthTragedyBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeWealth And ProsperityEnjoying LifeMoney Blessingscatspossessionsempowerment

I used my wisdom to test all of this. I said, "I want to be wise," but it was beyond me.

Verse ConceptsTesting Other Things

Do not be in a hurry; leave his presence, and don’t persist in a bad cause, since he will do whatever he wants.

Verse ConceptsAuthorityTurning Against MenThe Presence Of God

Also of that which is high they are afraid, And of the low places in the way, And the almond-tree is despised, And the grasshopper is become a burden, And want is increased, For man is going unto his home age-during, And the mourners have gone round through the street.

Verse ConceptsGrasshoppersFeeblenessMournersAlmond TreesAcrophobiaSlownessWhite HairMourning DeathCondition Of The SpiritFear Will Comeenergymarketing

Thy navel a bowl of roundness, it will not want mixed wine; thy belly a heap of wheat enclosed with lilies.

I want to climb the palm tree, and take hold of its fruit stalks. May your breasts be like the clusters of grapes, and may the fragrance of your breath be like apricots!

I want you to swear, O daughters of Jerusalem,
Do not arouse or awaken my love
Until she pleases.”

Why do you want more beatings?
Why do you keep on rebelling?
The whole head is hurt,
and the whole heart is sick.

Verse ConceptsSinful HeartsHeart, Fallen And RedeemedRebellion Against God, Shown InOther References To The HeartPersistence

"Of what importance to me are your many sacrifices?" says the Lord. "I am stuffed with burnt sacrifices of rams and the fat from steers. The blood of bulls, lambs, and goats I do not want.

Verse ConceptsMultitudesGoatsBullsBlood Of SacrificesDelighting, Wrong Kinds OfGod, Will OfPleasureNot Pleasing GodMore Than EnoughSacrificesMeat offeringsRewards Of RitualSacrificetired

When you enter my presence, do you actually think I want this -- animals trampling on my courtyards?

Verse ConceptsPilgrimageTrampling Places

But Ahaz responded, "I don't want to ask; I don't want to put the Lord to a test."

Verse ConceptsdoubtersTesting GodNo SignsTests

If any man want light, let him look upon the law and the testimony whether they speak not after this meaning.

Verse ConceptsFalse ProphetsStudyOvertaken By DarknessExcellent LawLighttestimony

The watchman said,
“Morning has come, and also night.
If you want to ask, ask!
Come back again.”

Verse ConceptsDawnSpiritual DawnAt Morning And EveningProvision Of NightSleeping Peacefully

Seek ye out of the book of Jehovah, and read: no one of these shall be missing, none shall want her mate; for my mouth, it hath commanded, and his Spirit, it hath gathered them.

Verse ConceptsGod, As SpiritUnity, Of God's PeopleStudentsBible, Names OfThe Holy Spirit In CreationNothing MissingOld Testament Claims InspirationMissing SomeoneReading The BibleSoulmatesgatheringseekinghomecoming

Wherefore, When I came in, was there no one? When I called, was there none to answer? Is mine own hand, really shortened, that it cannot redeem? Or is there not, in me, strength to deliver? Lo! by my rebuke, I dry up the sea I make rivers a desert, Their fish Stinketh, for want of water, Yea dieth, for thirst:

Verse ConceptsdrynessProvidenceRebukeSeaThe Shortness Of TimeGod's WeaknessGod Drying Things UpNo One AvailableOthers Not Answering

He sprouted up like a twig before God, like a root out of parched soil; he had no stately form or majesty that might catch our attention, no special appearance that we should want to follow him.

Verse ConceptsRiddlesTendernessProphecies Concerning ChristMessianic PropheciesGrowing UpDry PlacesNo BeautyAppearances ofChrist's Naturedignity

As for foreigners who become followers of the Lord and serve him, who love the name of the Lord and want to be his servants -- all who observe the Sabbath and do not defile it, and who are faithful to my covenant --

Verse ConceptsForeignersUnited With GodForeigners Included Among The PeopleStrangers in israelImmigrantsAliens

Each one says, 'Come on, I'll get some wine! Let's guzzle some beer! Tomorrow will be just like today! We'll have everything we want!'

Verse ConceptsAbundance, MaterialFalse ConfidenceExcessWineSelf DelusionStrong DrinkFake Friendstomorrowbeeralcoholismdrunkards

They seek me day after day; they want to know my requirements, like a nation that does what is right and does not reject the law of their God. They ask me for just decrees; they want to be near God.

Verse ConceptseagernessAskingNominal ReligionHypocrites, Description OfNot Coming Near To GodMaking Decisions

Is this really the kind of fasting I want? Do I want a day when people merely humble themselves, bowing their heads like a reed and stretching out on sackcloth and ashes? Is this really what you call a fast, a day that is pleasing to the Lord?

Verse ConceptsHumilityReedsSackcloth And AshesBowing Heads Before GodAshes Of HumiliationHow To FastHumbling OneselfFastingHumble Yourselfhumbleness

No, this is the kind of fast I want. I want you to remove the sinful chains, to tear away the ropes of the burdensome yoke, to set free the oppressed, and to break every burdensome yoke.

Verse ConceptsYokesHow To FastPeople Releasing OthersInjusticeFastingFasting And PrayerBreaking Chainsliberation

“If you keep from desecrating the Sabbath,
from doing whatever you want on My holy day;
if you call the Sabbath a delight,
and the holy day of the Lord honorable;
if you honor it, not going your own ways,
seeking your own pleasure, or talking too much;

Verse ConceptsSabbath, In OtDesecrationSabbath Observed

Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear out and your throats become dry. But you say, 'It is useless for you to try and stop me because I love those foreign gods and want to pursue them!'

Verse ConceptsHopelessnessDebaucheryEvil AssociationsWithout Hope

Evil generation,
pay attention to the word of the Lord!
Have I been a wilderness to Israel
or a land of dense darkness?
Why do My people claim,
“We will go where we want;
we will no longer come to You”?

Verse ConceptsGenerationsInfidelity To GodComing To GodDeserts Used FigurativelyNot Seeking God

"If you, Israel, want to come back," says the Lord, "if you want to come back to me you must get those disgusting idols out of my sight and must no longer go astray.

Verse ConceptsImpenitence, Results OfReturning To GodStanding FirmRepenting Of Abominations

And you, devastated one, what are you doing
that you dress yourself in scarlet,
that you adorn yourself with gold jewelry,
that you enlarge your eyes with paint?
You beautify yourself for nothing.
Your lovers reject you;
they want to take your life.

Verse ConceptsCrimsonAdornment, Of WomenGoldCosmeticsRed ClothesUseless LabourAttempting To KillWearing Jewelleryloversmakeup

Therefore, lo! days are coming, Declareth Yahweh, When it shall not be called any more - The Topheth, nor The valley of Ben-hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter, - And they shall bury in Topheth, for want of place;

Verse ConceptsInadequate BurialsKilling Will HappenNo RoomBurying places

If people want to boast, they should boast about this: They should boast that they understand and know me. They should boast that they know and understand that I, the Lord, act out of faithfulness, fairness, and justice in the earth and that I desire people to do these things," says the Lord.

Verse ConceptsGod, Joy OfBoasting, LegitimateDelight, God ExpressingGod's attitude towards peopleGod, Righteousness OfGod, Will OfHappinessHeart, DivineJustification, Necessity OfKindnessPleasureUnderstandingGod Doing RightDoing RightI Am The LordExerciseBoasting

So I said to the Lord, "O Lord who rules over all, you are a just judge! You examine people's hearts and minds. I want to see you pay them back for what they have done because I trust you to vindicate my cause."

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeGod, Righteousness OfImagination, Inward DesiresVengeanceGod, All knowingGod Testing PeopleGod Knowing the Human Heart

Therefore, here is what the Lord says concerning the people of Anathoth who want to take your life. They warn, “You must not prophesy in the name of Yahweh, or you will certainly die at our hand.”

Verse ConceptsKilling ProphetsProphecy MuzzledAttempting To Kill Specific People

You are righteous, LORD, even when I bring a complaint to you. But I want to discuss justice with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper, while all who are treacherous are at ease?

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

The wild Asses shall stand in the Moss, and draw in their wind like the Dragons, their eyes shall fail for want of grass."

Verse ConceptsFamine, Characteristics OfHaving No BreathWild Donkeys

But they just keep saying, 'We do not care what you say! We will do whatever we want to do! We will continue to behave wickedly and stubbornly!'"

Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfHardened Heartsevil, origins ofHardness Of HeartHeart, Fallen And RedeemedPlansEvil DevicesGod's PlanGods PlanGod's Plan For Usimagination

I will spoil the plans of Judah and Jerusalem in this place. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hand of those who want to take their life. I will provide their corpses as food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals of the land.

Verse ConceptsGuidance, Need For God'sPlansAnimals Eating PeopleEating CorpsesKilling Israelites

I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and they will eat each other’s flesh in the siege and distress that their enemies, those who want to take their life, inflict on them.

Verse ConceptsBad ChildrenCannibalismAttacks On Jerusalem Foretold

and shalt say unto them - Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts - Thus and thus, will I break this people, and this city, As one breaketh the vessel of a potter, which cannot be made whole any more, - And in Topheth, shall they bury, for want of place to bury.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of JerusalemInadequate BurialsRepairingBurying places

Afterward’”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“‘King Zedekiah of Judah, his officers, and the people—those in this city who survive the plague, the sword, and the famine—I will hand over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, to their enemies, yes, to those who want to take their lives. He will put them to the sword; he won’t spare them or show pity or compassion.’

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofdefeatMercy, HumanNot SparingGod Will Cause DefeatPeople Without Mercy