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Yet he brought out his people like sheep; he led them through the wilderness like a flock. Verse ConceptsGod our ShepherdSheep

He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. Verse ConceptsRight Sides

Cry out and shout for joy, O citizens of Zion, for the Holy One of Israel acts mightily among you!" Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfGod, Titles And Names OfShouting For Joy

How great is your favor, which you store up for your loyal followers! In plain sight of everyone you bestow it on those who take shelter in you. You hide them with you, where they are safe from the attacks of men; you conceal them in a shelter, where they are safe from slanderous attacks.

Then when they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these do?" He replied, "Yes, Lord, you know I love you." Jesus told him, "Feed my lambs." Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodLambsLove, Nature OfShepherds, As Church LeaderNames And Titles For The ChristianBreakfastFeeding AnimalsChrist Knowing About PeopleThe Need To Love Christvulnerability








When you lie down among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver and with glittering gold. Verse ConceptsdovesGoldSleep, PhysicalWingsSheepfoldsWings Of BirdsStock Keeping

Who are these who float along like a cloud, who fly like doves to their shelters? Verse ConceptsThose Flyingflying

People will reside again in his shade; they will plant and harvest grain in abundance. They will blossom like a vine, and his fame will be like the wine from Lebanon. Verse ConceptsGrainShadowsVinesRemembering Peoplerevival

The Lover to His Beloved: I went down to the orchard of walnut trees, to look for the blossoms of the valley, to see if the vines had budded or if the pomegranates were in bloom. Verse ConceptsBlossomingSports

And now, if you will diligently listen to me and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession out of all the nations, for all the earth is mine, Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, To GodPeople Of God, In OtReward, DivineSecurityTreasureCautionObedience To GodJews As God's Chosen PeopleResponsibility, Of Natural WorldAll Things Belong To GodRoyal Priesthood



May all your enemies perish like this, O Lord! But may those who love you shine like the rising sun at its brightest!" And the land had rest for forty years. Verse ConceptsDawnDeborahNoonThe Number Forty40 To 50 YearsEnemies Of GodTime Of PeaceLove And StrengthSunPeace And Strengthcrusades


(Bet) The precious sons of Zion were worth their weight in gold -- Alas! -- but now they are treated like broken clay pots, made by a potter. Verse ConceptsClayPotterThings Like GoldGood PeoplePrice Of PeopleWhat Value Is Man?Worthweight



His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire." Verse ConceptsHell, Description OfNames For HeavenHell, As An ExperienceForksSin, God's Judgment OnThreshing FloorToolsWinnowingWicked Described AsEternal JudgmentLight As ChaffReapingBurning PlantsGod's StorehousesWeed

But he said, 'No, since in gathering the weeds you may uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest. At harvest time I will tell the reapers, "First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned, but then gather the wheat into my barn."'"



I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily, he will send down his roots like a cedar of Lebanon. Verse ConceptsdewPlantsHoly Spirit, Types OfRosesChange And Growthfriendliness

The Lover to His Beloved: Like a lily among the thorns, so is my darling among the maidens. Verse ConceptsRomanceRoses

Those survivors from Jacob will live among the nations, in the midst of many peoples. They will be like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, which attacks when it passes through; it rips its prey and there is no one to stop it. Verse ConceptsForestsRescueAnimals Torn To PiecesTrampling AnimalsSurvivors FavouredNo One Can Save



They will be like a tree planted near a stream whose roots spread out toward the water. It has nothing to fear when the heat comes. Its leaves are always green. It has no need to be concerned in a year of drought. It does not stop bearing fruit. Verse ConceptsColors, GreenSpring Of WaterUnfading LifeThe Source Of FruitRiver BanksWater For PlantsHot WeatherGreenWater, As A Symbol Of LifeRiversOlive TreesAnxiety And FearWorrying


His young shoots will grow; his splendor will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon. Verse ConceptsSpreadingBeauty, Temporal Nature OfBeauty, In NatureFragranceOlive Trees


So now there are many members, but one body. Verse ConceptsBodily LimbsOne ChurchThe BodyBeing Different


Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me. "I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me -- and I in him -- bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.

One basket had very good-looking figs in it. They looked like those that had ripened early. The other basket had very bad-looking figs in it, so bad they could not be eaten. The Lord said to me, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" I answered, "I see figs. The good ones look very good. But the bad ones look very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten." The Lord said to me, read more.
"I, the Lord, the God of Israel, say: 'The exiles whom I sent away from here to the land of Babylon are like those good figs. I consider them to be good. I will look after their welfare and will restore them to this land. There I will build them up and will not tear them down. I will plant them firmly in the land and will not uproot them. I will give them the desire to acknowledge that I am the Lord. I will be their God and they will be my people. For they will wholeheartedly return to me.'

A song of ascents. Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion; it cannot be upended and will endure forever. As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds his people, now and forevermore.

Take your share of suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No one in military service gets entangled in matters of everyday life; otherwise he will not please the one who recruited him.

I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily, he will send down his roots like a cedar of Lebanon. His young shoots will grow; his splendor will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon. People will reside again in his shade; they will plant and harvest grain in abundance. They will blossom like a vine, and his fame will be like the wine from Lebanon.



Your shoots are a royal garden full of pomegranates with choice fruits: henna with nard, Verse ConceptsOrchardsPomegranates



Now in a wealthy home there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also ones made of wood and of clay, and some are for honorable use, but others for ignoble use. Verse ConceptsClayGoldWoodPeople Have HonourWood And StonePurposehonourVarieties

They will sprout up like a tree in the grass, like poplars beside channels of water. Verse ConceptsAbundance, MaterialTreesWillows

"They will belong to me," says the Lord who rules over all, "in the day when I prepare my own special property. I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him. Verse ConceptsGrace, In OtPeople Of God, In OtTreasureUnity, Of God's PeopleChildren Blessedjewelrymakeup

When it was full, they pulled it ashore, sat down, and put the good fish into containers and threw the bad away. Verse ConceptsBaskets, Uses OfOccupationsThrowing AwayWicked Described AsBeachesFullness Of The KingdomPulling ThingsPeople Sitting DownDistinguishingGood Or BadFish




On that day the Lord their God will deliver them as the flock of his people, for they are the precious stones of a crown sparkling over his land. Verse ConceptsJewelsChrist And His SheepSparklingGod Saves The NeedyJewellery And GodGod's Willjewelrycrowns


Also, if anyone competes as an athlete, he will not be crowned as the winner unless he competes according to the rules. Verse ConceptsAthletesCrowns, Spiritual UseLeisure, And PastimesPrizesKeeping Man's WordSportsCompetitionRacefootballstrivingcrownscheatersgames


People will reside again in his shade; they will plant and harvest grain in abundance. They will blossom like a vine, and his fame will be like the wine from Lebanon. Verse ConceptsGrainShadowsVinesRemembering Peoplerevival


Those survivors from Jacob will live in the midst of many nations. They will be like the dew the Lord sends, like the rain on the grass, that does not hope for men to come or wait around for humans to arrive. Verse ConceptsdewGrassSon Of ManShowersLack Of ExpectationSurvivors Favoured

"You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its flavor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled on by people. Verse ConceptsBeing A Lightdisciples, characteristics ofDecayResponsibility, For God's WorldSaltSanctification, Means And ResultsTastePersonal ContactSending Things AwayTastelessnessRestoring ThingsTastelessSournessMoral Decay

For the music director; a well-written song by the Korahites. As a deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God! Verse ConceptsMusicSaints, Communion With GodDeer Etc.BrooksDeer


His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire." Verse ConceptsHell, Description OfNames For HeavenHell, As An ExperienceForksSin, God's Judgment OnThreshing FloorToolsWinnowingWicked Described AsEternal JudgmentLight As ChaffReapingBurning PlantsGod's StorehousesWeed

How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind? Verse ConceptsStrawWicked Described AsLight As ChaffHurricanes

Not so with the wicked! Instead they are like wind-driven chaff. Verse ConceptsWindWicked Described AsChaffLight As ChaffThe Wicked Will Perish

Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and turn around and tear you to pieces. Verse ConceptsContemptdogsJewelsPrudenceAskingUngodlinessWasteWicked Described AsDespisersName CallingSwinePeople Torn To PiecesPigsUnfitting ThingsPetsHurt And Betrayalpork

They are illustrations of this true proverb: "A dog returns to its own vomit," and "A sow, after washing herself, wallows in the mire." Verse ConceptsdogsWicked Described AsDegradationSwinePigsUnclean SpiritsOld SayingsUnclean AnimalsBacksliderspork

Like a dog that returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly. Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfdogsVomittingSin, Love OfWicked Described AsSinning RepeatedlyFoolspoop

You remove all the wicked of the earth like slag. Therefore I love your rules. Verse ConceptsdrossWicked Described AsUseless PeopleLoving God's Things

"Son of man, the house of Israel has become slag to me. All of them are like bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the furnace; they are the worthless slag of silver. Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: 'Because all of you have become slag, look out! -- I am about to gather you in the middle of Jerusalem.

"Son of man, the house of Israel has become slag to me. All of them are like bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the furnace; they are the worthless slag of silver. Verse ConceptsCopperdrossIronTinWicked Described AsFurnacesThings Like SilverUseless People

I reported, "All of them are the most stubborn of rebels! They are as hard as bronze or iron. They go about telling lies. They all deal corruptly. Verse ConceptsBackbitingRebellion, Of IsraelWicked Described AsSpreading StoriesThings Like Bronzeapostasy

Evergreens will grow in place of thorn bushes, firs will grow in place of nettles; they will be a monument to the Lord, a permanent reminder that will remain. Verse ConceptsBriersDivine ManifestationsPlantsFir TreesWeedsWicked Described AsEternal DeliveranceMyrtleSigns Attending Christ

But you, son of man, do not fear them, and do not fear their words -- even though briers and thorns surround you and you live among scorpions -- do not fear their words and do not be terrified of the looks they give you, for they are a rebellious house! Verse ConceptsBriersThornsMinisters, Way They Should TeachWicked Described AsScorpionsDo Not Fear Men


I will bring distress on the people and they will stumble like blind men, for they have sinned against the Lord. Their blood will be poured out like dirt; their flesh will be scattered like manure. Verse ConceptsdiscouragementWicked Described AsWalking In DarknessDefecationGod KillingGod BlindingGod Will Kill The PeoplesSin Brings SicknessGod Troubling

"For indeed the day is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up," says the Lord who rules over all. "It will not leave even a root or branch. Verse ConceptsFurnacesFaithlessness, As Disobedienceevil, victory overevil, warnings againstPride, Results OfPunishment, By GodRootsAbaseWicked Described AsAbasement Of The ProudThe ProudEvildoersLight As ChaffBurning PeopleResidueThe Proud Will Be Abased

How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind? Verse ConceptsStrawWicked Described AsLight As ChaffHurricanes


But these men, like irrational animals -- creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed -- do not understand whom they are insulting, and consequently in their destruction they will be destroyed, Verse ConceptsDeath, Of UnbelieversDestructionProfanityWicked Described AsInstinctAnnihilationDestruction Of The WickedKilling Wild AnimalsBeing Killed Like An AnimalMen Similar To AnimalsMammalsKilled Like An AnimalPetsignorancecorruptionacting

Their venom is like that of a snake, like a deaf serpent that does not hear, Verse ConceptsCobrasBitingEarsPoisonSerpentsWicked Described AsAnimals, Types OfThings Like SnakesRefusing To Hear


Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and turn around and tear you to pieces. Verse ConceptsContemptdogsJewelsPrudenceAskingUngodlinessWasteWicked Described AsDespisersName CallingSwinePeople Torn To PiecesPigsUnfitting ThingsPetsHurt And Betrayalpork

They are illustrations of this true proverb: "A dog returns to its own vomit," and "A sow, after washing herself, wallows in the mire." Verse ConceptsdogsWicked Described AsDegradationSwinePigsUnclean SpiritsOld SayingsUnclean AnimalsBacksliderspork

They are all like bakers, they are like a smoldering oven; they are like a baker who does not stoke the fire until the kneaded dough is ready for baking. Verse ConceptsDoughBakingOvensWicked Described AsCessationLeavenedBaking BreadKneading DoughThose Who Committed Adultery

You burn them up like a fiery furnace when you appear; the Lord angrily devours them; the fire consumes them. Verse ConceptsFurnacesWicked Described AsBurning PeopleGod Will Be Angry

Look, the sovereign Lord helps me. Who dares to condemn me? Look, all of them will wear out like clothes; a moth will eat away at them. Verse ConceptsClothingHelpfulnessInsectsWicked Described AsMothsPeople Eaten By WormPeople Wearing OutNo CondemnationGod Helps

For a moth will eat away at them like clothes; a clothes moth will devour them like wool. But the vindication I provide will be permanent; the deliverance I give will last." Verse ConceptsAnimals, Types OfClothingGod, Righteousness OfInsectsWoolSalvation, Described AsWicked Described AsMothsPeople Eaten By WormEternal DeliverancePeople Wearing Outclosureworms



But you have been thrown out of your grave like a shoot that is thrown away. You lie among the slain, among those who have been slashed by the sword, among those headed for the stones of the pit, as if you were a mangled corpse. Verse ConceptsThe DeadCovering The BodyPitsWicked Described AsUnburied BodiesPits As A Term For Graves

But an empty man will become wise, when a wild donkey's colt is born a human being. Verse ConceptsColtsWicked Described AsWorldly WisdomWild DonkeysWise ProverbsWisdom

Their residents are powerless, they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field, or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind. Verse ConceptsColors, GreenPlantsTendernessWicked Described AsScorchingLike GrassNo Strength Left

But the wicked are like a surging sea that is unable to be quiet; its waves toss up mud and sand. Verse ConceptsTroubleSeaWicked Described AsUnrestThings Like The SeaSea, Metaphorical ReferencesUnclean Things

wild sea waves, spewing out the foam of their shame; wayward stars for whom the utter depths of eternal darkness have been reserved. Verse ConceptsBlackAstronomyRageColors, BlackHopelessnessThe Fate Of The WickedWanderersWavesEternal JudgementFoamsGod KeepsOuter DarknessShame Has Comewandering

Their residents are powerless, they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field, or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind. Verse ConceptsColors, GreenPlantsTendernessWicked Described AsScorchingLike GrassNo Strength Left

These men are dangerous reefs at your love feasts, feasting without reverence, feeding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit -- twice dead, uprooted; Verse ConceptsClouds, Figurative UseRootsAgape LovePlucking OutThe Second DeathLove Exists Between PeopleLove Feast

But you have been thrown out of your grave like a shoot that is thrown away. You lie among the slain, among those who have been slashed by the sword, among those headed for the stones of the pit, as if you were a mangled corpse. Verse ConceptsThe DeadCovering The BodyPitsWicked Described AsUnburied BodiesPits As A Term For Graves

wild sea waves, spewing out the foam of their shame; wayward stars for whom the utter depths of eternal darkness have been reserved. Verse ConceptsBlackAstronomyRageColors, BlackHopelessnessThe Fate Of The WickedWanderersWavesEternal JudgementFoamsGod KeepsOuter DarknessShame Has Comewandering

They surrounded me like bees. But they disappeared as quickly as a fire among thorns. Indeed, in the name of the Lord I pushed them away. Verse ConceptsBeesInsectsThornsWicked Described AsEnemies SurroundingExtinguishingWeed

Many bulls surround me; powerful bulls of Bashan hem me in. Verse ConceptsBullsWicked Described AsEnemies SurroundingWild OxUnicorns

"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean. Verse ConceptsWhiteWicked Described AsSepulchresThe Inward BeingBonesFigurative BurialsWhitewashingBeauty Of ThingsUnclean ThingsHypocritesHypocrisyInner Beauty

Because of the anger of the Lord who commands armies, the land was scorched, and the people became fuel for the fire. People had no compassion on one another. Verse ConceptsWicked Described AsFire Of God's AngerNot Sparingwrath

I have seen ruthless evil men growing in influence, like a green tree grows in its native soil. Verse ConceptsColors, GreenAffluenceWicked Described AsPursuing ViolenceAbuse

Like a coating of glaze over earthenware are fervent lips with an evil heart. Verse ConceptsCoatsNominal ReligionWicked Described AsProfessingArtificialnessOverlaid With SilverShowing Hypocrisy

"I, the Lord, also solemnly assert: 'King Zedekiah of Judah, his officials, and the people who remain in Jerusalem or who have gone to live in Egypt are like those bad figs. I consider them to be just like those bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten. Verse ConceptsSurvivors Of IsraelBad Items

When it was full, they pulled it ashore, sat down, and put the good fish into containers and threw the bad away. Verse ConceptsBaskets, Uses OfOccupationsThrowing AwayWicked Described AsBeachesFullness Of The KingdomPulling ThingsPeople Sitting DownDistinguishingGood Or BadFish

For you will be like a tree whose leaves wither, like an orchard that is unwatered. Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalWicked Described AsDry PlacesPeople WitheredOaks

Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight. Verse ConceptsWicked Described AsDisappearanceLike A Dreamflying

He is like a lion that wants to tear its prey to bits, like a young lion crouching in hidden places. Verse ConceptsHuntingLionsWicked Described AsPeople Torn To PiecesLike CreaturesGreed


They will be like a shrub in the desert. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the desert, in a salt land where no one can live. Verse ConceptsWicked Described AsDry PlacesLiving In The WildernessEmpty By NatureSourness


They are regarded as 'rejected silver' because the Lord rejects them." Verse ConceptsRejection Of God, Results OfWicked Described AsReprobatesThings Like SilverRejection

"To what should I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to one another, Verse ConceptsGenerationsWicked Described AsLikeningMarketplacesCommerceComparingLike ChildrenLikening Peoplehumor

For you will be like a tree whose leaves wither, like an orchard that is unwatered. Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalWicked Described AsDry PlacesPeople WitheredOaks

O my God, make them like dead thistles, like dead weeds blown away by the wind! Verse ConceptsWicked Described AsLight As ChaffWeed



Therefore they will disappear like the morning mist, like early morning dew that evaporates, like chaff that is blown away from a threshing floor, like smoke that disappears through an open window. Verse ConceptsdewChaffMistMorningSmokeThreshing FloorWeather, As God's JudgmentWicked Described AsPassing AwayLight As ChaffsmokingSmoke Used Poetically

Therefore they will disappear like the morning mist, like early morning dew that evaporates, like chaff that is blown away from a threshing floor, like smoke that disappears through an open window. Verse ConceptsdewChaffMistMorningSmokeThreshing FloorWeather, As God's JudgmentWicked Described AsPassing AwayLight As ChaffsmokingSmoke Used Poetically

I have listened to them very carefully, but they do not speak honestly. None of them regrets the evil he has done. None of them says, "I have done wrong!" All of them persist in their own wayward course like a horse charging recklessly into battle. Verse ConceptsObstinacy Against GodWicked Described As

Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfFailureComplacencyWicked Described AsThe Insecurity Of The WickedHearing ChristThe Work Of FoolsDoing God's WorksSand And Gravel

You will trample on the wicked, for they will be like ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing," says the Lord who rules over all. Verse ConceptsFeetAshesWicked Described AsPromised VictoryTrampling PeopleGod Judges The Wickeddust

"For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit, Verse ConceptsWicked Described AsFood DecayingBad Items

Other seeds fell on rocky ground where they did not have much soil. They sprang up quickly because the soil was not deep. Verse ConceptsShallownessWicked Described AsSuddenlyThings Going UpPlanting SeedsSeedsSpilling Your Seed On The GroundThe EnvironmentSowing Seeds


Their venom is like that of a snake, like a deaf serpent that does not hear, Verse ConceptsCobrasBitingEarsPoisonSerpentsWicked Described AsAnimals, Types OfThings Like SnakesRefusing To Hear

As smoke is driven away by the wind, so you drive them away. As wax melts before fire, so the wicked are destroyed before God. Verse ConceptsSmokeWicked Described AsMeltingWaxDriven From God's PresenceThe Lord Will Drive Them OutThe Presence Of GodsmokinganniversarySmoke Used Poetically

But you, son of man, do not fear them, and do not fear their words -- even though briers and thorns surround you and you live among scorpions -- do not fear their words and do not be terrified of the looks they give you, for they are a rebellious house! Verse ConceptsBriersThornsMinisters, Way They Should TeachWicked Described AsScorpionsDo Not Fear Men

Therefore they will disappear like the morning mist, like early morning dew that evaporates, like chaff that is blown away from a threshing floor, like smoke that disappears through an open window. Verse ConceptsdewChaffMistMorningSmokeThreshing FloorWeather, As God's JudgmentWicked Described AsPassing AwayLight As ChaffsmokingSmoke Used Poetically

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