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He led his own people out like sheep and guided them like a flock through the wilderness. Verse ConceptsGod our ShepherdSheep

He will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Verse ConceptsRight Sides

Shout aloud and sing for joy, people of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you. Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfGod, Titles And Names OfShouting For Joy

Your goodness is so great! You reserve it for those who respect you. The sons of men watch as you show it to those who take refuge in you. You hide them in the secret place of your presence from those who scheme against them. You keep them in a secret shelter, safe from quarrelsome tongues.

When they had eaten Jesus said to Simon Peter: Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these? He said: Yes Lord; you know I have affection for you. Jesus said to 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








Though you stayed among the sheep pens, you will be like the wings of a dove covered with silver, its feathers with yellow gold. Verse ConceptsdovesGoldSleep, PhysicalWingsSheepfoldsWings Of BirdsStock Keeping

Who are these people that fly by like clouds and like doves to their nests? Verse ConceptsThose Flyingflying

Those who live in his shadow will raise grain again. They will blossom like the vine. His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon. Verse ConceptsGrainShadowsVinesRemembering Peoplerevival

(The Shulamite) I went down into the garden of nut trees to see the fruits of the valley, to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded. Verse ConceptsBlossomingSports

If you will obey me and are faithful to the terms of my covenant, then out of all the nations you will be my own special possession, 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 die like that, Jehovah, may your friends shine like the rising sun! There was peace in the land for forty years. Verse ConceptsDawnDeborahNoonThe Number Forty40 To 50 YearsEnemies Of GodTime Of PeaceLove And StrengthSunPeace And Strengthcrusades


The valued sons of Zion are valued like the best gold. They are looked on as vessels of earth, the work of the hands of the potter! Verse ConceptsClayPotterThings Like GoldGood PeoplePrice Of PeopleWhat Value Is Man?Worthweight



His winnowing shovel is in his hand. He will clean his threshing floor and gather his wheat into a barn. He will then burn the husks in a fire that cannot be put out. Verse ConceptsHell, Description OfNames For HeavenHell, As An ExperienceForksSin, God's Judgment OnThreshing FloorToolsWinnowingWicked Described AsEternal JudgmentLight As ChaffReapingBurning PlantsGod's StorehousesWeed

He said: 'No, you might uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest. In the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather weeds first, and bind them in bundles to burn them. Then gather the wheat into my barn.'



I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily and he will take root like the cedars of Lebanon. Verse ConceptsdewPlantsHoly Spirit, Types OfRosesChange And Growthfriendliness

(The Beloved) My love among the daughters is like a lily among thorns. Verse ConceptsRomanceRoses

The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples. It will be like a lion among the beasts of the forest. Should he go through he will be like a young lion among the flocks of sheep. He treads down and tears to pieces. There is none to rescue. Verse ConceptsForestsRescueAnimals Torn To PiecesTrampling AnimalsSurvivors FavouredNo One Can Save



For he will be like a tree planted by the water. It extends its roots by a stream and will not fear when the heat comes. Its leaves will be green. It will not be anxious in a year of drought nor cease to yield fruit. Verse ConceptsColors, GreenSpring Of WaterUnfading LifeThe Source Of FruitRiver BanksWater For PlantsHot WeatherGreenWater, As A Symbol Of LifeRiversOlive TreesAnxiety And FearWorrying

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy and loving kindness of God forever and ever. Verse ConceptsExamples Of FaithMercy, Response To God'sOlivesOptimismTrust, Importance OfColors, GreenTreesGod Shows His LovingkindnessOlive Treessteadfast

His shoots will sprout and his beauty will be like the olive tree. His fragrance will be like the cedars of Lebanon. Verse ConceptsSpreadingBeauty, Temporal Nature OfBeauty, In NatureFragranceOlive Trees


But now they are many members, yet they are one body. Verse ConceptsBodily LimbsOne ChurchThe BodyBeing Different


Remain with me, and I with you. The branch cannot bear fruit by itself. It must remain on the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain with me. I am the vine and you are the branches. He that remains with me, and I with him, the same bears much fruit. You can do nothing apart from me.

One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, and the other basket had very bad figs that could not be eaten because they were rotten. Then Jehovah said to me: What do you see, Jeremiah? I said: Figs. The good figs are very good. The bad figs are very bad. They cannot be eaten because they are rotten. The word of Jehovah came to me, He said: read more.
Jehovah the God of Israel says: 'Like these good figs, so I will regard the captives of Judah as good. I have sent them out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans. I will watch over them for their good, and I will bring them to this land again. I will build them up and not overthrow them. I will plant them and not uproot them. I will give them a heart (will) (desire) to know me. I am Jehovah! They will be my people, and I will be their God! They will return to me with their whole heart.

They who trust in Jehovah are like Mount Zion. It is not shaken, but remains forever. As the mountains are all around Jerusalem, so Jehovah is all around his people from this time and forever.

You must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No soldier entangles himself in the affairs of this life. That way, he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier.

I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily and he will take root like the cedars of Lebanon. His shoots will sprout and his beauty will be like the olive tree. His fragrance will be like the cedars of Lebanon. Those who live in his shadow will raise grain again. They will blossom like the vine. His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.



Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with ointment, Verse ConceptsOrchardsPomegranates



Now in a large house there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also vessels of wood and of earthenware, and some to honor and some to dishonor. Verse ConceptsClayGoldWoodPeople Have HonourWood And StonePurposehonourVarieties

They will spring up like grass in a meadow, like poplar trees by flowing streams. Verse ConceptsAbundance, MaterialTreesWillows

They will be my people, said Jehovah of Hosts. On the day when I act, they will be mine (my special treasure) (my jewels). I will show them compassion just as parents show compassion to the children who serve them. Verse ConceptsGrace, In OtPeople Of God, In OtTreasureUnity, Of God's PeopleChildren Blessedjewelrymakeup

They drew it up on the beach when it was full. They gathered the good into containers and threw away the bad. Verse ConceptsBaskets, Uses OfOccupationsThrowing AwayWicked Described AsBeachesFullness Of The KingdomPulling ThingsPeople Sitting DownDistinguishingGood Or BadFish




Jehovah their God will save them in that day like the flock of his people. They will be like the stones in a crown lifted high over his land. Verse ConceptsJewelsChrist And His SheepSparklingGod Saves The NeedyJewellery And GodGod's Willjewelrycrowns


If anyone competes as an athlete, he does not win the prize unless he competes according to the rules. Verse ConceptsAthletesCrowns, Spiritual UseLeisure, And PastimesPrizesKeeping Man's WordSportsCompetitionRacefootballstrivingcrownscheatersgames


Those who live in his shadow will raise grain again. They will blossom like the vine. His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon. Verse ConceptsGrainShadowsVinesRemembering Peoplerevival


Like dew from Jehovah the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples. It will be like showers upon the grass that do not wait for man or for sons of men. Verse ConceptsdewGrassSon Of ManShowersLack Of ExpectationSurvivors Favoured

You are the salt of the earth. If its taste goes away, how will you restore it? It is good for nothing. All you can do is throw it on the ground and walk on it. Verse ConceptsBeing A Lightdisciples, characteristics ofDecayResponsibility, For God's WorldSaltSanctification, Means And ResultsTastePersonal ContactSending Things AwayTastelessnessRestoring ThingsTastelessSournessMoral Decay

([Sons of Korah]) As the deer desires the water brooks, so I desire you, O God. Verse ConceptsMusicSaints, Communion With GodDeer Etc.BrooksDeer


His winnowing shovel is in his hand. He will clean his threshing floor and gather his wheat into a barn. He will then burn the husks in a fire that cannot be put out. 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 that the storm carries away? Verse ConceptsStrawWicked Described AsLight As ChaffHurricanes

This is not so for the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away. Verse ConceptsWindWicked Described AsChaffLight As ChaffThe Wicked Will Perish

Do not give holy things to the dogs (impure persons) (false prophets) (Matthew 7:15). Do not throw your pearls before swine (the most unclean). They will trample them under their feet and turn and tear you to pieces. Verse ConceptsContemptdogsJewelsPrudenceAskingUngodlinessWasteWicked Described AsDespisersName CallingSwinePeople Torn To PiecesPigsUnfitting ThingsPetsHurt And Betrayalpork

It happened to them according to the true proverb: The dog returns to his own vomit, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire. Verse ConceptsdogsWicked Described AsDegradationSwinePigsUnclean SpiritsOld SayingsUnclean AnimalsBacksliderspork


You have removed all the wicked of the earth like dross; Therefore I love your law. Verse ConceptsdrossWicked Described AsUseless PeopleLoving God's Things

Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are the copper, tin, iron and lead in the furnace. They are the dross of silver. Therefore, the Lord Jehovah says: 'I am going to gather you into Jerusalem. This is because all of you have become dross (impure) (worthless).

Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are the copper, tin, iron and lead in the furnace. They are the dross of silver. Verse ConceptsCopperdrossIronTinWicked Described AsFurnacesThings Like SilverUseless People

All of them are stubborn rebels. They go about telling false stories. They are copper and iron. They are all corrupt, all of them! Verse ConceptsBackbitingRebellion, Of IsraelWicked Described AsSpreading StoriesThings Like Bronzeapostasy

Instead of the thornbush the pine tree will grow. Instead of briers the myrtle will grow. This will be for Jehovah's fame. It will be for an everlasting sign, which will not be destroyed. Verse ConceptsBriersDivine ManifestationsPlantsFir TreesWeedsWicked Described AsEternal DeliveranceMyrtleSigns Attending Christ

Son of man, do not be afraid of them or the things they say. Do not be afraid, even though thorns and thistles are around you and you live among scorpions. Do not let the things they say frighten you. Do not be terrified in their presence even though they are rebellious people. Verse ConceptsBriersThornsMinisters, Way They Should TeachWicked Described AsScorpionsDo Not Fear Men


I will bring distress on humans and they will walk like they are blind! They have sinned against Jehovah! Their blood will be poured out like dust and their intestines like manure. Verse ConceptsdiscouragementWicked Described AsWalking In DarknessDefecationGod KillingGod BlindingGod Will Kill The PeoplesSin Brings SicknessGod Troubling

Jehovah of Hosts proclaims: The day is coming when all arrogant and evil people will burn like stubble. On that day they will burn up and there will be nothing left of them, either root or bough. 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 that the storm carries away? Verse ConceptsStrawWicked Described AsLight As ChaffHurricanes

But mortals will not continue here with what they treasure. They are like animals that die. Verse ConceptsLife, HumanWicked Described AsThe Frailty Of ManAnimals Fate After DeathMen Similar To AnimalsLife Being Temporary

But these are creatures without reason. They were born mere animals to be taken and destroyed! They speak abusively in matters of which they are ignorant. They suffer destruction in their own course of destruction. Verse ConceptsDeath, Of UnbelieversDestructionProfanityWicked Described AsInstinctAnnihilationDestruction Of The WickedKilling Wild AnimalsBeing Killed Like An AnimalMen Similar To AnimalsMammalsKilled Like An AnimalPetsignorancecorruptionacting

Their poison is like the poison of a snake. It is like a deaf cobra that stops its ear. Verse ConceptsCobrasBitingEarsPoisonSerpentsWicked Described AsAnimals, Types OfThings Like SnakesRefusing To Hear

You serpents! You offspring of vipers! How will you escape from being destroyed in the ever-burning fires of the Valley of Hinnom? (Greek: Gehenna, the trash fires in the valley just outside of Jerusalem) Verse ConceptsHell, As Incentive To ActionSerpentsSnakesWicked Described AsGehennaDenunciationsThings Like SnakesEscaping From GodHellHypocritesHypocrisyRacecondemnationvampires

Do not give holy things to the dogs (impure persons) (false prophets) (Matthew 7:15). Do not throw your pearls before swine (the most unclean). They will trample them under their feet and turn and tear you to pieces. Verse ConceptsContemptdogsJewelsPrudenceAskingUngodlinessWasteWicked Described AsDespisersName CallingSwinePeople Torn To PiecesPigsUnfitting ThingsPetsHurt And Betrayalpork

It happened to them according to the true proverb: The dog returns to his own vomit, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire. Verse ConceptsdogsWicked Described AsDegradationSwinePigsUnclean SpiritsOld SayingsUnclean AnimalsBacksliderspork

They all commit adultery. They are like a heated oven, an oven so hot that a baker does not have to fan its flames when he makes bread. Verse ConceptsDoughBakingOvensWicked Described AsCessationLeavenedBaking BreadKneading DoughThose Who Committed Adultery

When you appear, you will make them burn like a blazing furnace. Jehovah will swallow them up in his anger. Fire will devour them. Verse ConceptsFurnacesWicked Described AsBurning PeopleGod Will Be Angry

The Lord Jehovah helps me. Who will find me guilty? They will all wear out like a garment and moths will eat them. Verse ConceptsClothingHelpfulnessInsectsWicked Described AsMothsPeople Eaten By WormPeople Wearing OutNo CondemnationGod Helps

The moth will eat them up like a garment. The worm will devour them like wool. But my righteousness will last forever! My salvation will last through all generations. Verse ConceptsAnimals, Types OfClothingGod, Righteousness OfInsectsWoolSalvation, Described AsWicked Described AsMothsPeople Eaten By WormEternal DeliverancePeople Wearing Outclosureworms



However you are thrown out of your tomb like a rejected branch. You are covered with those who were killed in battle. You go down to the stones (bottom) of the pit like a trampled corpse. Verse ConceptsThe DeadCovering The BodyPitsWicked Described AsUnburied BodiesPits As A Term For Graves

An empty headed man can no more become wise than a wild donkey's colt can be born a man. Verse ConceptsColtsWicked Described AsWorldly WisdomWild DonkeysWise ProverbsWisdom

The inhabitants of these cities are weak, discouraged, and ashamed. They will be like plants in the field, like fresh green grass on the roofs, scorched before it grows up. Verse ConceptsColors, GreenPlantsTendernessWicked Described AsScorchingLike GrassNo Strength Left

But the wicked are like the troubled and restless sea, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. Verse ConceptsTroubleSeaWicked Described AsUnrestThings Like The SeaSea, Metaphorical ReferencesUnclean Things

They are wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame. They are wandering stars, for which the black darkness has been reserved forever. Verse ConceptsBlackAstronomyRageColors, BlackHopelessnessThe Fate Of The WickedWanderersWavesEternal JudgementFoamsGod KeepsOuter DarknessShame Has Comewandering

The inhabitants of these cities are weak, discouraged, and ashamed. They will be like plants in the field, like fresh green grass on the roofs, scorched before it grows up. Verse ConceptsColors, GreenPlantsTendernessWicked Described AsScorchingLike GrassNo Strength Left

These men are hidden rocks in your love feasts when they feast (entertain) with you. They are shepherds that without fear feed themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by winds. They are autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots. Verse ConceptsClouds, Figurative UseRootsAgape LovePlucking OutThe Second DeathLove Exists Between PeopleLove Feast

However you are thrown out of your tomb like a rejected branch. You are covered with those who were killed in battle. You go down to the stones (bottom) of the pit like a trampled corpse. Verse ConceptsThe DeadCovering The BodyPitsWicked Described AsUnburied BodiesPits As A Term For Graves

They are wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame. They are wandering stars, for which the black darkness has been reserved forever. Verse ConceptsBlackAstronomyRageColors, BlackHopelessnessThe Fate Of The WickedWanderersWavesEternal JudgementFoamsGod KeepsOuter DarknessShame Has Comewandering

They swarmed around me like bees, but they burned out as quickly as a brush fire; by the power of Jehovah I destroyed them. Verse ConceptsBeesInsectsThornsWicked Described AsEnemies SurroundingExtinguishingWeed

Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls from Bashan have encircled me. Verse ConceptsBullsWicked Described AsEnemies SurroundingWild OxUnicorns

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that appear beautiful on the outside. They are full of dead men's bones and uncleanness on the inside. Verse ConceptsWhiteWicked Described AsSepulchresThe Inward BeingBonesFigurative BurialsWhitewashingBeauty Of ThingsUnclean ThingsHypocritesHypocrisyInner Beauty

The land is blackened by the fury of Jehovah of Hosts. The people are fuel for the fire, and no one spares anyone else. Verse ConceptsWicked Described AsFire Of God's AngerNot Sparingwrath

I have seen a wicked, violent man spreading himself like a luxuriant tree in its native soil. Verse ConceptsColors, GreenAffluenceWicked Described AsPursuing ViolenceAbuse

Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a broken pottery covered with silver dross. Verse ConceptsCoatsNominal ReligionWicked Described AsProfessingArtificialnessOverlaid With SilverShowing Hypocrisy

Like the bad figs that cannot be eaten because they are rotten, says Jehovah, so I will abandon Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land and the ones who dwell in the land of Egypt. Verse ConceptsSurvivors Of IsraelBad Items

They drew it up on the beach when it was full. They gathered the good into containers and threw away the bad. Verse ConceptsBaskets, Uses OfOccupationsThrowing AwayWicked Described AsBeachesFullness Of The KingdomPulling ThingsPeople Sitting DownDistinguishingGood Or BadFish

You will be like an oak whose leaves wither and like a garden without water. Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalWicked Described AsDry PlacesPeople WitheredOaks

He flies away like a dream banished like a vision of the night. He cannot be found! Verse ConceptsWicked Described AsDisappearanceLike A Dreamflying

Each one of them is like a lion eager to tear its prey apart and like a young lion crouching in hiding places. Verse ConceptsHuntingLionsWicked Described AsPeople Torn To PiecesLike CreaturesGreed


He will be like a bush in the desert and will not see when prosperity comes. He will live in stony wastes in the wilderness, a land of salt without inhabitant. Verse ConceptsWicked Described AsDry PlacesLiving In The WildernessEmpty By NatureSourness



Of what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their playmates. Verse ConceptsGenerationsWicked Described AsLikeningMarketplacesCommerceComparingLike ChildrenLikening Peoplehumor

You will be like an oak whose leaves wither and like a garden without water. Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalWicked Described AsDry PlacesPeople WitheredOaks

My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind. Verse ConceptsWicked Described AsLight As ChaffWeed



That is why they will be like fog in the morning and like morning dew that disappears quickly. They will be like straw blown away from threshing floors. They will be like smoke rising from chimneys. Verse ConceptsdewChaffMistMorningSmokeThreshing FloorWeather, As God's JudgmentWicked Described AsPassing AwayLight As ChaffsmokingSmoke Used Poetically

That is why they will be like fog in the morning and like morning dew that disappears quickly. They will be like straw blown away from threshing floors. They will be like smoke rising from chimneys. Verse ConceptsdewChaffMistMorningSmokeThreshing FloorWeather, As God's JudgmentWicked Described AsPassing AwayLight As ChaffsmokingSmoke Used Poetically

I paid attention and listened, but they were not honest. They do not turn away from their wickedness. They do not ask: 'What have we done?' They go their own ways like horses charging into battle.' Verse ConceptsObstinacy Against GodWicked Described As

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

When I act you will tread down the wicked. They will be like dust under your feet, Jehovah of Hosts said. Verse ConceptsFeetAshesWicked Described AsPromised VictoryTrampling PeopleGod Judges The Wickeddust

A good tree does not produce corrupt fruit and a corrupt tree does not produce good fruit. Verse ConceptsWicked Described AsFood DecayingBad Items



Their poison is like the poison of a snake. It is like a deaf cobra that stops its ear. Verse ConceptsCobrasBitingEarsPoisonSerpentsWicked Described AsAnimals, Types OfThings Like SnakesRefusing To Hear

As smoke is driven away, drive them away: as wax melts before the fire, let the wicked perish at the presence of God. Verse ConceptsSmokeWicked Described AsMeltingWaxDriven From God's PresenceThe Lord Will Drive Them OutThe Presence Of GodsmokinganniversarySmoke Used Poetically

Son of man, do not be afraid of them or the things they say. Do not be afraid, even though thorns and thistles are around you and you live among scorpions. Do not let the things they say frighten you. Do not be terrified in their presence even though they are rebellious people. Verse ConceptsBriersThornsMinisters, Way They Should TeachWicked Described AsScorpionsDo Not Fear Men

That is why they will be like fog in the morning and like morning dew that disappears quickly. They will be like straw blown away from threshing floors. They will be like smoke rising from chimneys. Verse ConceptsdewChaffMistMorningSmokeThreshing FloorWeather, As God's JudgmentWicked Described AsPassing AwayLight As ChaffsmokingSmoke Used Poetically