And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us, but will you make it less; say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body;

For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

But a message from the LORD came to Shemaiah, a man of God:

But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the LORD, are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their business:

but at its trouble he returned to Yahweh, the God of Israel. They sought him, and he was found by them.

But as for you, be firm and let not your hands be weak; for there is a reward for your deeds.

Let there be an agreement between me and you as there was between my father and your father: see, I have sent you silver and gold; go and put an end to your agreement with Baasha, king of Israel, so that he may give up attacking me.

Then Baasha, hearing of it, put a stop to the building of Ramah, and let his work come to an end.

And Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, made himself iron horns and said, The Lord says, Pushing back the Aramaeans with these, you will put an end to them completely.

Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against thee.

But a man drew his bow without taking special aim and struck the king of Israel through the joints of his armor. So he said to the charioteer, “Turn around and take me out of the battle, for I am badly wounded!”

And the children of Ammon and Moab made an attack on the people of Mount Seir with a view to their complete destruction; and when they had put an end to the people of Seir, everyman's hand was turned against his neighbour for his destruction.

Then he brought out the king's son, put a crown on him, and presented him with the Testimony,

And the spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stepped up above the people and said to them, "Thus sayeth God: 'Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD? Ye shall therefore not prosper, but as ye have forsaken him, so shall he forsake you.'"

But, as for his sons, and the greatness of the oracle on him, and the foundation of the house of God, lo! there they are written, in the commentary of the Book of Kings, - and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

But he did not put their children to death, for he kept the orders of the Lord recorded in the book of the law of Moses, saying, The fathers are not to be put to death for their children or the children for their fathers, but a man is to be put to death for the sin which he himself has done.

But a man of God came to him, saying, “O king, do not let this army of Israel go with you, for the Lord is not with Israel nor with any of the sons of Ephraim.

But, as for the sons of the company which Amaziah sent back from going with him to the war, they spread themselves out against the cities of Judah, from Samaria, even unto Beth-horon, - and smote of them three thousand, and took great plunder.

And Joash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, "The thorn bush that [is] in Lebanon has sent to the cedar which [is] in Lebanon, saying, 'Give your daughter to my son as wife.' But a wild animal of the field that [was] in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thorn bush.

Thou thinkest, 'See, I have beaten the Edomites,' therefore thine heart ariseth to glorify thyself. Now bide at home: what needeth thee to provoke to evil, that thou perish and Judah with thee?"

But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth up unto heaven.

and the priests slaughtered them, and sin-cleansed, with their blood, the altar, to put a propitiatory-covering over all Israel,-because, for all Israel, did the king appoint the ascending-sacrifice and the offering for bearing sin.

For, the multitude of the people, many out of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not purified themselves, for they did eat the passover, otherwise than as was written, - for Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, May Yahweh the Good, put a propitiatory-covering about

He put an idolatrous image he had made in God's temple, about which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, "This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home.

After this he made an outer wall for the town of David, on the west side of Gihon in the valley, as far as the way into the town by the fish doorway; and he put a very high wall round the Ophel; and he put captains of the army in all the walled towns of Judah.

But a number of the priests and Levites and the heads of families, old men who had seen the first house, when the base of this house was put down before their eyes, were overcome with weeping; and a number were crying out with joy:

But at the evening offering I arose from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn, and I fell on my knees and stretched out my hands to the Lord my God;

In reply to them, I said, "The God of Heaven will prosper us. That's why we're preparing to build. But as far as you're concerned, there exists no ancestral heritage, no legal right, nor any historic claim in Jerusalem.

And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come into the midst of them and kill them, and put an end to the work.

But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.

I and my brethren, and my servants have lent them money and corn: but as for usury, let us leave it.

And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose. And beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Uriah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand, and on his left hand, Pedaiah, a

But as soon as they had relief,
they again did what was evil in Your sight.
So You abandoned them to the power of their enemies,
who dominated them.
When they cried out to You again,
You heard from heaven and rescued them
many times in Your compassion.

But in your great compassions you did not put an end to them, and you did not abandon them. For you are a gracious and compassionate God.

for the bread to set in array, and the continual meal-offering, and for the continual ascending-sacrifice, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the appointed feasts, and for things hallowed, and for victims bearing sin, to put a propitiatory-covering over Israel, - and for all the work of the house of our God.

Because they did not give the children of Israel bread and water when they came to them, but got Balaam to put a curse on them: though the curse was turned into a blessing by our God.

And the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won his favor and loyalty more than all the virgins, so he put a {royal crown} on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.

But it was not enough for him to make an attack on Mordecai only; for they had made clear to him who Mordecai's people were; so Haman made it his purpose to put an end to all the Jews, even Mordecai's people, through all the kingdom of Ahasuerus.

Then the king came back from the garden into the room where they had been drinking; and Haman was stretched out on the seat where Esther was. Then the king said, Is he taking the queen by force before my eyes in my house? And while the words were on the king's lips, they put a cloth over Haman's face.

Then Esther again came before the king, falling down at his feet, and made request to him with weeping, that he would put a stop to the evil purposes of Haman the Agagite and the designs which he had made against the Jews.

And the other Jews in every division of the kingdom came together, fighting for their lives, and got salvation from their haters and put seventy-five thousand of them to death; but they did not put a hand on their goods.

And King Ahasuerus put a tax on the land and on the islands of the sea.

Have You not put a hedge [of protection] around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands [and conferred prosperity and happiness upon him], and his possessions have increased in the land.

And the Lord said to the Satan, See, I give all he has into your hands, only do not put a finger on the man himself. And the Satan went out from before the Lord.

And his wife said to him, Are you still keeping your righteousness? Say a curse against God, and put an end to yourself.

Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake.

For my sighing will come before any bread, and my groanings shall be poured put as waters.

But a human being is born to trouble, and {they soar aloft} [like] {sparks}.

But as for me, I would seek unto God, And unto God would I commit my cause;

If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!

Remember that my life is but a breath.
My eye will never again see anything good.

Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?

I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

since we were born only yesterday and know nothing.
Our days on earth are but a shadow.

“But a hollow (empty-headed) man will become intelligent and wise
[Only] when the colt of a wild donkey is born as a man.

But you put a false face on things; all your attempts to put things right are of no value.

Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;

"Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.

But a man dieth, and is prostrate; yea, man expireth, and where is he?

“But as a mountain, if it falls, crumbles into nothing,
And as the rock is moved from its place,

The stones are crushed small by the force of the waters; the dust of the earth is washed away by their overflowing: and so you put an end to the hope of man.

My eyes have grown dim from grief,
and my whole body has become but a shadow.

But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last he will stand up upon the earth:

that the elation of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.

“In the fullness of his excess (great abundance) he will be in trouble;
The hand of everyone who suffers will come against him [he is miserable on every side].

"He will flee from an iron weapon, [but] an arrow of bronze will pierce him.

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; And the honorable man, he dwelt in it.

But as for my way, he knoweth it: and tryeth me as the gold in the fire.

how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot -- a son of man, who is only a worm!"

“Yet these are just the fringes of His ways [mere samples of His power],
The faintest whisper of His voice!
Who can contemplate the thunder of His [full] mighty power?”

The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart.

"Now, I've become the object of their mocking melodies; I'm nothing but a fool's proverb to them!

for the LORD hath opened his quiver: he hath hit me, and put a bridle in my mouth.

But a spirit is in man giving them perception, even the breath of the Almighty.

for I do not know [how] {to flatter}, [else] my Maker would {soon} put an end to me.

For God speaks time and again,
but a person may not notice it.

And now the light is not seen, for it is dark because of the clouds; but a wind comes, clearing them away.

When I put a cloud as the garment thereof, and a thick cloud as the swaddling-band thereof;

But as soon as she springs up, she laughs at the horse and its rider.

but as soon as he heareth the shawmes blow, 'Tush,' sayeth he; for he smelleth the battle afar off, the noise, the Captains and the shouting.

Who dare lay a hand on him openly, and undertake to catch him? Or, who dare put a hook through his nose, and lay a snare for him?

Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

"Will you play with him like a pet bird? Will you put a leash on him for your little girls?

Not so the wicked: But -- as chaff that wind driveth away!

"But as for me, I have set my king on Zion, my holy mountain."

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.

But as for the wicked, they do not speak truth at all. Inside them there is only wickedness. Their throat is an open grave, on their tongue is deceitful flattery.

But as for me, I will praise the LORD for his righteousness, and I will sing to the name of the LORD Most High. To the Director: On a stringed instrument. A Davidic Psalm.

From the mouths of children and nursing babies you have ordained praise on account of your adversaries, so that you might put an end to the vindictive enemy.

Yet You have made him a little lower than God,
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.

You have said sharp words to the nations, you have sent destruction on the sinners, you have put an end to their name for ever and ever.

O LORD, put a schoolmaster over them, that the Heathen may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

But as for me, I have trusted in your steadfast love. My heart will rejoice in your deliverance.

from men, LORD, by your hand from men who belong to this world, whose reward is only in this life. But as for your treasured ones, may their stomachs be full, may their children have an abundance, and may they leave wealth to their offspring.

But as for me, justified, I will behold your face; when I awake, your presence will satisfy me. To the Director: By the servant of the LORD, David, who spoke the words of this song to the LORD on the day when the LORD delivered him from the hands of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.

Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he put a tent for the sun,

For you go before him with the blessings of good things: you put a crown of fair gold on his head.