68 Bible Verses about Cessation
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And joy and gladness are taken away from the fruitful field, and in the vineyards no songs are sung, no cheers are raised; no treader treads out wine in the presses; I have put an end to the shouting.
Gladness and joy have been taken away from the fruitful land of Moab; I have made the wine cease from the winepresses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; the shouting is not the shout of joy.
Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts, and I will burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no longer be heard.
And Samson said to them, "If this is what you do, I swear I will be avenged on you, and after that I will quit."
Thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require my sheep at their hand and put a stop to their feeding the sheep. No longer shall the shepherds feed themselves. I will rescue my sheep from their mouths, that they may not be food for them.
They are all adulterers; they are like a heated oven whose baker ceases to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years. The way of women had ceased to be with Sarah.
And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, "This time I will praise the LORD." Therefore she called his name Judah. Then she ceased bearing.
When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
And from the age of fifty years they shall withdraw from the duty of the service and serve no more.
Cease to hear instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.
Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?
And I will silence in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, for the land shall become a waste.
For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will silence in this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
Moreover, I will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the grinding of the millstones and the light of the lamp.
and the light of a lamp will shine in you no more, and the voice of bridegroom and bride will be heard in you no more, for your merchants were the great ones of the earth, and all nations were deceived by your sorcery.
And I will stop the music of your songs, and the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more.
The mirth of the tambourines is stilled, the noise of the jubilant has ceased, the mirth of the lyre is stilled.
And I will put an end to all her mirth, her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her appointed feasts.
The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning.
Therefore they shall now be the first of those who go into exile, and the revelry of those who stretch themselves out shall pass away."
you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: "How the oppressor has ceased, the insolent fury ceased!
So Joab blew the trumpet, and all the men stopped and pursued Israel no more, nor did they fight anymore.
And when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.
The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting; they remain in their strongholds; their strength has failed; they have become women; her dwellings are on fire; her bars are broken.
He at once took soldiers and centurions and ran down to them. And when they saw the tribune and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.
And the king went out, and all the people after him. And they halted at the last house.
Then he came up and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And he said, "Young man, I say to you, arise."
Nineveh is like a pool whose waters run away. "Halt! Halt!" they cry, but none turns back.
After listening to the king, they went on their way. And behold, the star that they had seen when it rose went before them until it came to rest over the place where the child was.
And stopping, Jesus called them and said, "What do you want me to do for you?"
And Jesus stopped and commanded him to be brought to him. And when he came near, he asked him,
And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.
Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil,
"Thus says the Lord GOD: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness. Cease your evictions of my people, declares the Lord GOD.
For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more.
Thus will I put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not commit lewdness as you have done.
And they shall burn your houses and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women. I will make you stop playing the whore, and you shall also give payment no more.
Thus I will put an end to your lewdness and your whoring begun in the land of Egypt, so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.
And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.
Then I said, "O Lord GOD, please cease! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!"
So the LORD dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.
And our enemies said, "They will not know or see till we come among them and kill them and stop the work."
And I sent messengers to them, saying, "I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?"
Moses said to him, "As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will stretch out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the LORD's.
So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and stretched out his hands to the LORD, and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured upon the earth.
But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned yet again and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart and would not listen to them, as the LORD had said.
So they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging.
And he got into the boat with them, and the wind ceased. And they were utterly astounded,
And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
And when the soles of the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off from flowing, and the waters coming down from above shall stand in one heap."
then you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. So these stones shall be to the people of Israel a memorial forever."
Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?
When the vessels were full, she said to her son, "Bring me another vessel." And he said to her, "There is not another." Then the oil stopped flowing.
And the manna ceased the day after they ate of the produce of the land. And there was no longer manna for the people of Israel, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
And he stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped.
And Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the tent of meeting, when the plague was stopped.
Tell them therefore, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: I will put an end to this proverb, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel.' But say to them, The days are near, and the fulfillment of every vision.
As I live, declares the Lord GOD, this proverb shall no more be used by you in Israel.
For there shall be no more any false vision or flattering divination within the house of Israel.
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
I will bring the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the strong, and their holy places shall be profaned.
At Tehaphnehes the day shall be dark, when I break there the yoke bars of Egypt, and her proud might shall come to an end in her; she shall be covered by a cloud, and her daughters shall go into captivity.
From Thematic Bible
Feast of jubilee » Enactments respecting » Cessation » Labor
That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; in it you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of itself nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines.
Feast of sabbatical year » Enactments respecting » Cessation » Labor
but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the LORD. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard. You shall not reap what grows of itself in your harvest, or gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.
Menstruation » Cessation
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years. The way of women had ceased to be with Sarah.