67 Bible Verses about Cessation
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Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.
Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses: none shall tread with shouting; the shouting shall be no shouting.
"Behold, I am against you," says the LORD of hosts, "and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard."
Samson said to them, "If you behave like this, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease."
Thus says the Lord GOD: 'Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.'"
They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. It had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, "This time will I praise the LORD." Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.
When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting on the work, and shall serve no more,
If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.
Or else would not they have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?
Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from 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 cause to cease out of 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 take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.
The light of a lamp will shine no more at all in you. The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all in you; for your merchants were the princes of the earth; for with your sorcery all the nations were deceived.
I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the sound of your harps shall be no more heard.
The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases.
I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
The joy of our heart has ceased; our dancing is turned into mourning.
Therefore they will now go captive with the first who go captive; and the feasting and lounging will end.
that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased. How the attacker has ceased."
So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.
It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their might has failed; they are become as women: her dwelling places are set on fire; her bars are broken.
But Jesus answered, "Let me at least do this"?and he touched his ear, and healed him.
Immediately he took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.
The king went forth, and all the people after him; and they stayed in Beth Merhak.
He came near and touched the coffin, and the bearers stood still. He said, "Young man, I tell you, arise."
But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. "Stop. Stop." they cry, but no one looks back.
And they, having heard the king, went their way; and suddenly the star which they saw in the east went before them, until it came and stood over where the young child was.
Jesus stood still, and called them, and asked, "What do you want me to do for you?"
Standing still, Jesus commanded him to be brought to him. When he had come near, he asked him,
Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
"Thus says the Lord GOD: 'Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people, says the Lord GOD.
For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by name.
'Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
They shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women; and I will cause you to cease from playing the prostitute, and you shall also give no hire any more.
Thus will I make your lewdness to cease from you, and your prostitution brought from the land of Egypt; so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.
And immediately the flow of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.
Then I said, "Lord GOD, stop, I beg you. How could Jacob stand? For he is small."
So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
It happened, when Baasha heard of it, that he left off building Ramah, and lived in Tirzah.
Our adversaries said, "They shall not know, neither see, until we come into their midst, and kill them, and cause the work to cease."
I sent messengers to them, saying, "I am doing a great work, so that I can't come down. Why should the work cease, 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 spread abroad my hands to the LORD. The thunders shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is the LORD's.
Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands to the LORD; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth.
When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and did not listen to them, as the LORD had spoken.
So they took up Jonah, and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased its raging.
He got into the boat with them; and the wind ceased, and they were very amazed among themselves;
And he awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace. Be still." The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
It shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan will be cut off, even the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand in one heap."
then you shall tell them, 'Because 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. These stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever.'"
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail?"
It happened, when the containers were full, that she said to her son, "Bring me another container." He said to her, "There isn't another container." The oil stopped flowing.
The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. The children of Israel did not have manna any more; but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the Tent of Meeting: and the plague was stayed.
Then Phinehas stood up, and executed judgment, so the plague was stopped.
Tell them therefore, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel'; but tell them, 'The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of every vision.
As I live, says the Lord GOD, you shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.
For there shall be no more any false vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pride of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be profaned.
At Tehaphnehes also the day shall withdraw itself, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt, and the pride of her power shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.
From Thematic Bible
Feast of jubilee » Enactments respecting » Cessation » Labor
That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather 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. What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your undressed vine you shall not gather. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.
Menstruation » Cessation
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. It had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.