68 Bible Verses about Cessation

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Isaiah 16:10

Joy and happiness disappear from the orchards, and in the vineyards no one rejoices or shouts; no one treads out juice in the wine vats -- I have brought the joyful shouts to an end.

Jeremiah 48:33

Joy and gladness will disappear from the fruitful land of Moab. I will stop the flow of wine from the winepresses. No one will stomp on the grapes there and shout for joy. The shouts there will be shouts of soldiers, not the shouts of those making wine.

Nahum 2:13

"I am against you!" declares the Lord who commands armies: "I will burn your chariots with fire; the sword will devour your young lions; you will no longer prey upon the land; the voices of your messengers will no longer be heard."

Judges 15:7

Samson said to them, "Because you did this, I will get revenge against you before I quit fighting."

Ezekiel 34:10

This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am against the shepherds, and I will demand my sheep from their hand. I will no longer let them be shepherds; the shepherds will not feed themselves anymore. I will rescue my sheep from their mouth, so that they will no longer be food for them.

Hosea 7:4

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.

Genesis 29:35

She became pregnant again and had another son. She said, "This time I will praise the Lord." That is why she named him Judah. Then she stopped having children.

Genesis 30:9

When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.

Numbers 8:25

and at the age of fifty years they must retire from performing the work and may no longer work.

Proverbs 19:27

If you stop listening to instruction, my child, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

Hebrews 10:2

For otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers would have been purified once for all and so have no further consciousness of sin?

Jeremiah 7:34

I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness, or the glad celebration of brides and grooms throughout the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. For the whole land will become a desolate wasteland."

Jeremiah 16:9

For I, the Lord God of Israel who rules over all, tell you what will happen. I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness, to the glad celebration of brides and grooms in this land. You and the rest of the people will live to see this happen.'"

Jeremiah 25:10

I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness, to the glad celebration of brides and grooms in these lands. I will put an end to the sound of people grinding meal. I will put an end to lamps shining in their houses.

Revelation 18:23

Even the light from a lamp will never shine in you again! The voices of the bridegroom and his bride will never be heard in you again. For your merchants were the tycoons of the world, because all the nations were deceived by your magic spells!

Ezekiel 26:13

I will silence the noise of your songs; the sound of your harps will be heard no more.

Isaiah 24:8

The happy sound of the tambourines stops, the revelry of those who celebrate comes to a halt, the happy sound of the harp ceases.

Hosea 2:11

I will put an end to all her celebration: her annual religious festivals, monthly new moon celebrations, and weekly Sabbath festivities -- all her appointed festivals.

Lamentations 5:15

Our hearts no longer have any joy; our dancing is turned to mourning.

Amos 6:7

Therefore they will now be the first to go into exile, and the religious banquets where they sprawl on couches will end.

Isaiah 14:4

you will taunt the king of Babylon with these words: "Look how the oppressor has met his end! Hostility has ceased!

2 Samuel 2:28

Then Joab blew the ram's horn and all the people stopped in their tracks. They stopped chasing Israel and ceased fighting.

1 Kings 22:33

When the chariot commanders realized he was not the king of Israel, they turned away from him.

Jeremiah 51:30

The soldiers of Babylonia will stop fighting. They will remain in their fortified cities. They will lose their strength to do battle. They will be as frightened as women. The houses in her cities will be set on fire. The gates of her cities will be broken down.

Acts 21:32

He immediately took soldiers and centurions and ran down to the crowd. When they saw the commanding officer and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

2 Samuel 15:17

The king and all the people set out on foot, pausing at a spot some distance away.

Luke 7:14

Then he came up and touched the bier, and those who carried it stood still. He said, "Young man, I say to you, get up!"

Nahum 2:8

Nineveh was like a pool of water throughout her days, but now her people are running away; she cries out: "Stop! Stop!" -- but no one turns back.

Matthew 2:9

After listening to the king they left, and once again the star they saw when it rose led them until it stopped above the place where the child was.

Matthew 20:32

Jesus stopped, called them, and said, "What do you want me to do for you?"

Luke 18:40

So Jesus stopped and ordered the beggar to be brought to him. When the man came near, Jesus asked him,

Acts 8:38

So he ordered the chariot to stop, and both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.

Ezekiel 45:9

"'This is what the sovereign Lord says: Enough, you princes of Israel! Put away violence and destruction, and do what is just and right. Put an end to your evictions of my people, declares the sovereign Lord.

Hosea 2:17

For I will remove the names of the Baal idols from your lips, so that you will never again utter their names!"

Ezekiel 23:48

I will put an end to the obscene conduct in the land; all the women will learn a lesson from this and not engage in obscene conduct.

Ezekiel 16:41

They will burn down your houses and execute judgments on you in front of many women. Thus I will put a stop to your prostitution, and you will no longer give gifts to your clients.

Ezekiel 23:27

So I will put an end to your obscene conduct and your prostitution which you have practiced in the land of Egypt. You will not seek their help or remember Egypt anymore.

Mark 5:29

At once the bleeding stopped, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.

Amos 7:5

I said, "Sovereign Lord, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is too weak!"

Genesis 11:8

So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.

1 Kings 15:21

When Baasha heard the news, he stopped fortifying Ramah and settled down in Tirzah.

Nehemiah 4:11

Our adversaries also boasted, "Before they are aware or anticipate anything, we will come in among them and kill them, and we will bring this work to a halt!"

Nehemiah 6:3

So I sent messengers to them saying, "I am engaged in an important work, and I am unable to come down. Why should the work come to a halt when I leave it to come down to you?"

Exodus 9:29

Moses said to him, "When I leave the city I will spread my hands to the Lord, the thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth belongs to the Lord.

Exodus 9:33

So Moses left Pharaoh, went out of the city, and spread out his hands to the Lord, and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain stopped pouring on the earth.

Exodus 9:34

When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder ceased, he sinned again: both he and his servants hardened their hearts.

Exodus 8:15

But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and did not listen to them, just as the Lord had predicted.

Mark 6:51

Then he went up with them into the boat, and the wind ceased. They were completely astonished,

Mark 4:39

So he got up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Be quiet! Calm down!" Then the wind stopped, and it was dead calm.

Joshua 3:13

When the feet of the priests carrying the ark of the Lord, the Ruler of the whole earth, touch the water of the Jordan, the water coming downstream toward you will stop flowing and pile up."

Joshua 4:7

tell them how the water of the Jordan stopped flowing before the ark of the covenant of the Lord. When it crossed the Jordan, the water of the Jordan stopped flowing. These stones will be a lasting memorial for the Israelites."

Jeremiah 15:18

Why must I continually suffer such painful anguish? Why must I endure the sting of their insults like an incurable wound? Will you let me down when I need you like a brook one goes to for water, but that cannot be relied on?"

2 Kings 4:6

When the containers were full, she said to one of her sons, "Bring me another container." But he answered her, "There are no more." Then the olive oil stopped flowing.

Joshua 5:12

The manna stopped appearing the day they ate some of the produce of the land; the Israelites never ate manna again.

Numbers 16:48

He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped.

Numbers 16:50

Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and the plague was stopped.

Psalm 106:30

Phinehas took a stand and intervened, and the plague subsided.

Ezekiel 12:23

Therefore tell them, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: I hereby end this proverb; they will not recite it in Israel any longer.' But say to them, 'The days are at hand when every vision will be fulfilled.

Ezekiel 18:3

"As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, you will not quote this proverb in Israel anymore!

Ezekiel 12:24

For there will no longer be any false visions or flattering omens amidst the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 7:24

I will bring the most wicked of the nations and they will take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the arrogance of the strong, and their sanctuaries will be desecrated.

Ezekiel 30:18

In Tahpanhes the day will be dark when I break the yoke of Egypt there. Her confident pride will cease within her; a cloud will cover her, and her daughters will go into captivity.

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Feast of jubilee » Enactments respecting » Cessation » Labor

Leviticus 25:11

That fiftieth year will be your jubilee; you must not sow the land, harvest its aftergrowth, or pick the grapes of its unpruned vines.

Feast of sabbatical year » Enactments respecting » Cessation » Labor

Leviticus 25:4-5

but in the seventh year the land must have a Sabbath of complete rest -- a Sabbath to the Lord. You must not sow your field or prune your vineyard. You must not gather in the aftergrowth of your harvest and you must not pick the grapes of your unpruned vines; the land must have a year of complete rest.

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