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Do not lie in wait [like] an outlaw against the home of the righteous; do not do violence [to] his dwelling place.

Verse ConceptsWaitingAmbush

and your poverty will come running, and your lack like an armed warrior.

Verse ConceptsBanditsIdleness Leads ToSloth, Leads ToAvoiding Povertyrelaxation

[Like] a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is the righteous who gives way before the wicked.

Verse Conceptsdouble mindednessFountainsProverbsSpring Of Waterpressure

Like snow in the summer and like rain at the harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.

Verse ConceptsHarvestSeasonsSummerAccoladesSnowThe Honourable Will Be HonouredUnfitting ThingsFools

Like the sparrow [is] to fluttering and like the swallow [is] to flying, so an undeserved curse does not go forth.

Verse ConceptsBirds, Types Of BirdsSwallowsSparrowsThose FlyingBirdsflyingcurseswandering

[Like] cutting off feet [or] drinking violence, so [is] he who sends messages in the hand of a fool.

Verse ConceptsPursuing ViolenceCutting Off Hands And Feet

[Like] legs that hang limp from a lame person, so [is] a proverb in the mouth of fools.

Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfLamenessLegsProverbsWise Proverbs

[Like] a thorn that goes up in the hand of a drunkard, so [is] a proverb in the mouth of fools.

Verse ConceptsProverbsWise Proverbsdrunkards

[Like] an archer who wounds everyone, so [is] he who hires a fool or he who hires passersby.

Verse ConceptsChanceHiringWounds

The words of a whisperer [are] like delicious morsels, and they go down to the inner parts of the body.

Verse ConceptsStomachsWhispering Of EvilOverlaid With SilverFirewoodCharcoalSavouriness

[Like] {impure silver} which overlays an earthen vessel, [so are] smooth lips and an evil heart.

Verse ConceptsCoatsNominal ReligionWicked Described AsProfessingArtificialnessOverlaid With SilverShowing Hypocrisy

She is like the ships of a merchant; from far off she brings her food;

Verse ConceptsMerchantsSeafaringShips For TradingGood Things From Far Away

I said to myself concerning {humans}, "God sifts them in order to show them that they are like beasts."

Verse ConceptsGod Testing PeopleEverything Happening For A ReasonTestshumanityordermyself

For the fate of {humans} and the fate of the beast is {the same}. The death of the one is like the death of the other, for {both are mortal}. Man has no advantage over the beast, for both are fleeting.

Verse ConceptsEquality Of FateUniversality Of DeathVanityAdvantagesUseless EndeavourCondition Of The BodyAnimals Having A Soulnatural Lifenatural DeathEverything Happening For A ReasonPetsThe Environmentbreathinghumanityfatebreath

Like the sound of thorns under a pot, so also the laughter of fools. This also [is] vanity!

Verse ConceptsVanityThornsUseless EndeavourWeedpot

Who [is] like the sage? Who knows [the] interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.

Verse ConceptsRadiancyShining FacesCountenanceRadiant LivesAurasLight Of God's PeopleMan's WisdomBoldness

But it will not go well with the wicked, and they will not prolong [their] days, like the shadow; because there is no fearing {God's presence}.

Verse ConceptsNo Fear Of GodTime PassingFearing God

For man does not know his time. Just as fish are caught in a cruel net and like birds who are seized in a snare, so also {humans} are ensnared at a cruel time when it falls suddenly upon them.

Verse ConceptsDisastersThe Right TimeThe Insecurity Of The WickedWithheld KnowledgeSudden DestructionSudden EventsUnreadinessNot Knowing The FutureGod TrappingBad DaysHard TimesBirdsGod's TimingTragedyGods TimingFishGetting Through Hard Timessurprises

I have even seen slaves [riding] on horses and princes walking like slaves on the earth!

Verse ConceptsPromotionRiding HorsesSlavesslaveryroyalty

The words of the wise [are] like cattle goads; the collections of the sages [are] like pricks inflicted by one shepherd.

Verse ConceptsNailsSharp Tools

I [am] black but beautiful, {O maidens of Jerusalem}, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

Tell me, [you] whom my {heart} loves, where do you pasture your flock, where do your sheep lie down at the noon? {For why should I be like} one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions?

Like a lily among the thorns, so [is] my love among the maidens.

My beloved is like a gazelle or {a young stag}. Look! {He is} standing behind our wall, gazing {through} the window, looking {through} the lattice.

Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved! {Be like} a gazelle or {young stag} on the cleft mountains.

What [is] this coming up from the desert like a column of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense from all the fragrant powders of the merchant?

{Oh my}! You [are] beautiful, my beloved! {Oh my}! You [are] beautiful! Your eyes [are] doves from behind your veil. Your hair [is] like a flock of goats that move down from the mountains of Gilead.

Your teeth [are] like a flock of shorn ewes that came up from the washing, all of them bearing twins, and there is none bereaved among them.

Your lips [are] like a thread of crimson, and your mouth [is] lovely. Your temple [is] like pomegranate from behind your veil.

Your neck [is] like the tower of David, built in courses; a thousand {ornaments} are hung on it, all the shields of the warriors.

Your two breasts [are] like two fawns, twins of a gazelle that feed among the lilies.

Your lips drip nectar, [my] bride; honey and milk [are] under your lips; the scent of your garments [is] like the scent of Lebanon.

His eyes [are] like doves beside springs of water, bathed in milk, {set like mounted jewels}.

His cheeks [are] like beds of spice, a tower of fragrances; his lips [are] lilies dripping liquid myrrh.

His legs [are] columns of alabaster, set on bases of gold; his appearance [is] like Lebanon, choice as {its cedars}.

Turn away your eyes from before me, for they overwhelm me. Your hair [is] like a flock of the goats that moves down from Gilead.

Your teeth [are] like a flock of the ewes that have come up from the washing, all of them bearing twins, and there is none bereaved among them.

Your cheeks {behind} your veil [are] like halves of a pomegranate.

"Who [is] this that looks down like the dawn, beautiful as the moon, {bright as the sun}, {overwhelming as an army with banners}?"

How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O royal princess! The curves of your {thighs} [are] like {jewels}, the work of the hands of a craftsman.

Your two breasts [are] like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.

Your neck [is] like a tower of ivory; your eyes [are] pools in Heshbon at the gate of Beth Rabbim. Your nose [is] like the tower of Lebanon {looking out over Damascus}.

{Your head crowns you like Carmel}; the flowing locks of your head [are] like {purple tapestry}; a king is held captive in the tresses!

{Your stature} [is] like the palm tree, and your breasts [are] like clusters.

I say, "I will climb up the palm tree; I will lay hold of its fruit clusters." Let your breasts [be pleasing] like clusters of the vine and the scent of your breath like the apples.

Your palate [is] like the best wine that goes down for my beloved, smoothly gliding over my lips and teeth.

I [was] a wall, and my breasts [were] like the towers, {so [my betrothed] viewed me with great delight}.

Flee, my beloved! {Be like a gazelle} or {a young stag} upon {the perfumed mountains}!

Your country [is] desolate, your cities [are] burned [with] fire; [As for] your land, aliens are devouring it in your presence, and [it is] desolate, like devastation [by] foreigners.

Verse ConceptsForeignersPeace, Human Destruction OfPoverty, Causes OfDestruction Of CountriesBurning CitiesSuffering From ForeignersStrangers in israelAliens

And the daughter of Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a shelter in a cucumber field, like a city that is besieged.

Verse ConceptsCucumbersFruitBoothsAttacks On Jerusalem Foretold

If Yahweh of hosts had not left us survivors, we would have been as few as Sodom, we would have become like Gomorrah.

Verse ConceptsRemnantMinoritiesSmall RemnantsSimilar Items

Your new moons and your appointed festivals my soul hates; they have become to me like burden, I am not able to bear [them].

Verse ConceptsLimitednessGod, Patience OfHatredPrayerlessnessFestivals DisregardedGod Growing WearyCelebrationtiredcelebrating

How has a faithful city become like a whore? Full of justice, righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

Verse ConceptsBabylonSpiritual HarlotryInjustice, Examples OfProstitutionHarlotswhores

And I will turn my hand against you; I will purify your dross like lye, and I will remove all [of] your tin.

Verse ConceptsTestingPurgingRefining Influences Of AfflictionClean Objects

For you shall be like an oak withering its leaves, and like a garden where there is no water for her.

Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalWicked Described AsDry PlacesPeople WitheredOaks

And the strong [man] shall become like tinder, and his work like a spark. And both of them shall burn together, and there is not one to quench [them]."

Verse ConceptsBurning PeopleNot Extinguishing

For you have forsaken your people, house of Jacob, because they are full from [the] east, and [of] soothsayers like the Philistines, and {they make alliances} with the offspring of foreigners.

Verse ConceptsAbandoning FriendsAbandonmentDivination, Practiced ByJacob, The PatriarchPagansSyncretismOut Of The EastRelations With ForeignersAliens

The look on their faces testifies against them and they declare their sin like Sodom; they do not hide [it]. Woe to their soul! For they have dealt out evil to themselves.

Verse ConceptsSodom And GomorrahFruits Of SinDisfigurement Of SinCountenanceExpressions On FacesSin Made KnownHarming OneselfWoe To Israel And JerusalemAppearances of

Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and dry grass sinks down [in the] flame, so their root will become like [the] stench, and their blossom will go up like [the] dust. For they have rejected the instruction of Yahweh of hosts, and they have treated the word of the holy one of Israel with contempt.

Verse ConceptsRejecting God's WordDecayGrassRejection Of GodStrawRejection Of God's WordWord Of GodRootsPeople RottingBurning Plants

Therefore {Yahweh's wrath was kindled} against his people, and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them, and the mountains quaked, and their corpses were like refuse in [the] middle of [the] streets.

Verse ConceptsdirtRoadsGod's HandMountains QuakingNo BurialsGod's Hands Stretched Out

Whose arrows are sharp, and all of his bows are bent. The hoofs of his horses are reckoned like flint, and his wheels like the storm wind.

Verse ConceptsFlintArrows, Described AsHorsesWheelsWhirlwindsSharpnessSharp ToolsHardnessGod Dispensing WindArrows

His roaring [is] like the lion, and he roars like young lions. And he growls and seizes his prey, and he carries [it] off, and not one can rescue [it].

Verse ConceptsHunting

And he will roar over him on that day like [the] roaring of [the] sea, and [if] one looks to the land, look! Darkness! Distress! And [the] light grows dark with its clouds.

Verse ConceptsDarkness, And God's JudgmentBlackSeaColors, BlackRoar Of NationsOvertaken By DarknessSea, Metaphorical ReferencesEclipse

And {even if only a tenth part remain}, {again she will be destroyed} like terebinth or like [an] oak, which although felled, a tree stump [remains] in them. [The] seed of holiness [will be] her tree stump."

Verse ConceptsRemnantNames And Titles For The ChristianTreesStumps Of A TreeA Tenth Of People

When it was reported to the house of David, saying "Aram stands by Ephraim," his heart and the heart of his people shook like the shaking of the trees of [the] forest because of [the] wind.

Verse ConceptsForestsdoubtersPessimismAllegiancesGroups Trembling

And [as for] all of the hills that they hoed with the hoe, you will not go there, [for] fear of briers and thornbushes. And it will become like pastureland [for] cattle and overtrodden land [for] sheep.

Verse ConceptsHillsTilling The SoilFear, Of NaturalCultivation

And he will become like a sanctuary and a stumbling-stone, and like a stumbling-rock for the two houses of Israel, like a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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

Look! I and the children whom Yahweh has given to me [are] like signs and portents in Israel from Yahweh of hosts, the one who dwells on the mountain of Zion.

Verse ConceptsChildren Of GodProphetic SignsSpiritual AdoptionChildren In The FaithOther MiraclesSigns And Wonders Before ChristFamily Conflict

for teaching and for testimony?" {surely they [who] speak like this have no dawn}.

Verse ConceptsFalse ProphetsStudyOvertaken By DarknessExcellent LawLighttestimony

For wickedness burned like fire; it consumed brier and thorn. And it kindled the thickets of the forest, and they swirled upward [in] a column of smoke.

Verse ConceptsForestsBriersDebaucheryThornsFruits Of SinFire Of Evil

The land was burned through the wrath of Yahweh of hosts, and the people became like fire fuel. {People had no compassion toward each other}.

Verse ConceptsWicked Described AsFire Of God's AngerNot Sparingwrath

I send him against a godless nation, and I command him against the people of my wrath, to capture spoil and to carry off plunder, and to make them a trampling place, like [the] clay of [the] streets.

Verse ConceptsPlunderingGodlessnessNationalismTrampling People

[Is] not Calno like Carchemish? [Is] not Hamath like Arpad? [Is] not Samaria like Damascus?

For he says, "I have done [it] by the strength of my hand and by my wisdom, for I have understanding, and I have removed [the] boundaries of peoples, and I have plundered their stores, and like a bull I have brought down {the inhabitants}.

Verse ConceptsPride, Examples OfWisdom, Human NatureFalse WisdomActing For Oneself

And my hand has found, like nest, the wealth of the peoples, and like the gathering of forsaken eggs, I myself have gathered all the earth. And [there] was no fluttering wing or open mouth or chirp."

Verse ConceptsNestsWingsWings Of BirdsBird Soundsrelentless

Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, will send leanness among his sturdy warriors, and a burning like [the] burning of fire will burn under his glory.

Verse ConceptsFire Emanating From God

And the light of Israel will become like a fire, and his holy one like a flame, and it will burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day.

Verse ConceptsBriersLight, SpiritualThornsShort Time For Action

And he will destroy the glory of his forest and orchard {completely}, and it will be like the wasting away of one who is sick.

Verse ConceptsEcological ConcernsHarming Trees

For though your people Israel was like the sand of the sea, [only] a remnant of it will return. Annihilation [is] determined, overflowing [with] righteousness.

Verse ConceptsGod, Righteousness OfRemnantGod Doing RightDoing RightEnd Of ActionsMany In IsraelSand And Gravel

And a cow and a bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together. And a lion shall eat straw like the cattle.

Verse ConceptsCowsFeedingStrawBearsYoung AnimalDeliverance From LionsNoting What Animals Eatcats

Wail, for the day of Yahweh [is] near; it will come like destruction from Shaddai!

Verse ConceptsLordship, Human And DivineGod DestroyingThe Fact Of That Day

and they will be dismayed. Pangs and labor pains will seize [them]; they will tremble like a woman giving birth. {They will stare at one another}, {their faces flushing}.

Verse ConceptsChildbirthPunishment, Nature OfTravailLabour Pains

And this shall happen: like a hunted gazelle or sheep {with none to gather them}, they will each turn to his [own] people, and they will each flee to his [own] land.

Verse ConceptsHuntingWatchfulness, DivineScattered Like SheepDeer Etc.Deerwandering

And Babylon, [the] glory of kingdoms, the splendor of the Chaldeans' pride, will be like {when God overthrew} Sodom and Gomorrah.

Verse ConceptsBabylon, History OfCityKingdomsPride, Results OfSodom And GomorrahWorldlinessBabylon Destroyed

All of them will respond and say to you, 'You yourself also were made weak like us! You have become the same as us!'

Verse ConceptsBecoming Like People