Don’t become obstinate now like your fathers did. Give your allegiance to Yahweh, and come to His sanctuary that He has consecrated forever. Serve the Lord your God so that He may turn His burning anger away from you,

For there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves [that is, become ceremonially clean and free from all sin]; so the Levites had to slaughter the Passover lambs for everyone who was not clean, in order to make them holy for the Lord.

Because they abandoned me and have burned incense to other gods, provoking me to become angry at everything they're doing, therefore my wrath is about to be poured out on this place, and it won't be quenched.'"'

and the archers shoot at king Josiah, and the king saith to his servants, 'Remove me, for I have become very sick.'

Jeremiah composed laments for Josiah which all the male and female singers use to mourn Josiah to this very day. It has become customary in Israel to sing these; they are recorded in the Book of Laments.

And beware ye of negligence in doing this; why doth the hurt become great to the loss of the kings?'

But because our predecessors provoked the God of Heaven to become angry, he handed them over to the control of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, the Chaldean who destroyed this Temple and transported the people to Babylon.

And the children of Israel, who had come back, and all those who were joined to them, after separating themselves from the evil ways of the people of the land to become the servants of the Lord, the God of Israel, took food together,

Indeed, the Israelite men have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed has become mixed with the surrounding peoples. The leaders and officials have taken the lead in this unfaithfulness!”

and say, 'O my God, I have been ashamed, and have blushed to lift up, O my God, my face unto Thee, for our iniquities have increased over the head, and our guilt hath become great unto the heavens.

Now, therefore, your daughters, do not ye give to their sons, and, their daughters, do not ye take for your sons, neither shall ye seek their prosperity nor their pleasure unto times age-abiding, - to the end ye may become strong, and may eat the good of the land, and may suffer your children to possess I, unto times age-abiding.

should we break Your commands again and intermarry with the peoples who commit these detestable practices? Wouldn’t You become so angry with us that You would destroy us, leaving no survivors?

Hear, O our God, for we have become a contempt, and turn thou back their reproach upon their own head, - and give them up as a prey, in the land of captivity;

And Judah saith, 'The power of the burden-bearers hath become feeble, and the rubbish is abundant, and we are not able to build on the wall.'

And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said nothing, answering not a word.

Moreover, from the day I was commanded to become their pasha in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year, even unto the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, twelve years, I and my brethren, pasha's bread, have not eaten;

in which was written: It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel, for which cause thou buildest the wall, and according to these words thou wilt become their king.

Moreover also, prophets, hast thou set up to make proclamation concerning thee in Jerusalem, saying, He hath become king in Judah! Now, therefore, will it he reported to the king, according to these words. Now, therefore, come, and let us take counsel together.

For they were all trying to intimidate us, saying, “They will become discouraged in the work, and it will never be finished.”

But now, my God, strengthen me.

He was hired for this reason, that I might become frightened and act accordingly and sin, so that they might have an evil report in order that they could reproach me.

And forty years You sustained them in the wilderness. They lacked nothing; their clothes did not become old, and their feet did not swell.

And they capture fenced cities, and fat ground, and possess houses full of all good, digged-wells, vineyards, and olive-yards, and fruit-trees in abundance, and they eat, and are satisfied, and become fat, and delight themselves in Thy great goodness.

Even one of the sons of Jehoiada, son of Eliashib the high priest, had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. So I drove him away from me.

For this deed of the queen shall become known to all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be said, King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.

And let the young woman {who is pleasing} in the king's eyes become queen in place of Vashti. The thing was good in the king's eyes, and he acted accordingly.

And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.

The king thereby allowed the Jews who were in every city to assemble and to stand up for themselves -- to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate any army of whatever people or province that should become their adversaries, including their women and children, and to confiscate their property.

Mordecai was of high rank in the king's palace, and word about him was spreading throughout all the provinces. His influence continued to become greater and greater.

Let that day become darkness; may God not seek it from above, nor may daylight shine on it.

Look, let that night become barren; let a joyful song not enter it.

“If one ventures a word with you, will you become impatient?
But who can refrain from speaking?

But now that this has happened to you,
you have become exhausted.
It strikes you, and you are dismayed.

In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.

and become darkened because of ice,
and the snow melts into them.

At what time they become warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they vanish out of their place.

"For now you have become {such}; you see terrors, and you fear.

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

[If] I have sinned, what have I done to you, watcher of humanity? Why have you made me as a target for yourself, so that I have become a burden to myself?

if you become pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself for you, and will restore your righteous abode.

When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.

"Indeed, I'm fully aware that this is so, but how can a person become right with God?

I have done no wrong; I give no thought to what becomes of me; I have no desire for life.

I become afraid of all my sufferings; I know that you do not consider me innocent.

I -- I am become wicked; why is this? In vain I labour.

As though I had not been, should I have become, - from the womb to the grave, might I have been borne.

An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey's colt.

And your life will be brighter than day; though it is dark, it will become like the morning.

A laughing-stock to one's neighbour, do I become, one who hath called upon GOD and he hath answered him! A laughing-stock - a righteous man without blame!

{O that} you would keep completely silent, and [that] it would become wisdom for you.

Moreover, this will become my deliverance, for no godless person would come before him.

So I'm a man who wears out like something rotten, like a garment that has become moth-eaten."

Though its root shall become old in the earth, and its stock die in the ground;

As water disappears from the sea
and a river becomes parched and dry,

His children may [come to] honor, but he does not know [it]; or they may become lowly, but he does not realize it.

Because his face is covered with fat, and his body has become thick;

And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.

He will not become rich, and his wealth will not endure, and their possessions will not stretch across the earth.

If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?

Thou hast shrivelled me up! it is become a witness; and my leanness riseth up against me, it beareth witness to my face.

Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing.

And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face.

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

They have transformed night into day "The light,' they say, "is about to become dark.'

Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

The light becomes dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.

The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.

His wealth will become hunger, and disaster is ready for his stumbling.

He hath put my brethren far away from me, and such as were of mine acquaintance, are become strangers unto me.

The sojourners in my house and my slave women count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.

his food is turned sour in his stomach; it becomes the venom of serpents within him.

A flood will wash away his house; dragging it away when God becomes angry.

I -- to man is my complaint? and if so, wherefore May not my temper become short?

Why do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

For what careth he, what become of his household after his death, when the number of his months is cut short?

So shall, the Almighty, become, thy precious ores, yea glittering silver unto thee!

They, have become rebels against the light, - they are not acquainted with the ways thereof, neither abide they in the paths thereof.

The murderer rises at dawn
to kill the poor and needy,
and by night he becomes a thief.

Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.

How can a human being become right with God? How can a human being be pure?

By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.

Look, you all have seen, and {why in the world} {have you become altogether vain}?

"But now I am their mocking song, and I have become a byword for them.

By their great force they have become my raiment; they bind me about as the collar of my coat.

Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

You have become cruel to me: with your strong hand you oppose yourself against me.

I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion of ostriches.

My skin is become black and falleth off me, and my bones are parched with heat.

And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping.

Have I rejoiced over my enemy’s distress,
or become excited when trouble came his way?

Let his flesh become fresher than in youth,
Let him return to the days of his youthful vigor;

For he has said, “A man gains nothing
when he becomes God’s friend.”

Then He declareth to them their work, And their transgressions, Because they have become mighty,

How thy garments become warm when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?

Like stone [the] waters become hard, and [the] faces of the deep freeze.

When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?

Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open; they go forth, and return not unto them.

No arrow can make him flee;
slingstones become like stubble to him.

So doth he become like a tree planted by streams of waters, - that yieldeth, its fruit, in its season, whose leaf, also doth not wither, and, whatsoever he doeth, prospereth.

I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, "You are my son. Today I have become your father.