68 Bible Verses about Cessation

Joy and gladness are taken away from the orchards. No one sings or shouts in the vineyards! No one treads out wine at the presses, for I have put an end to the shouting.

Joy and gladness are taken from the fruitful orchards and fields and from the land of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the wine presses. No one walks on the grapes with shouts of joy. There are shouts, but they are not shouts of joy.

I am against you, said Jehovah of Hosts! I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions. I will destroy your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will be heard no more.

Samson said to them: This is how you act! I swear that I will not stop until I pay you back!

The Lord Jehovah says: 'I am against the shepherds! I will demand my sheep from them and make them cease from feeding sheep. So the shepherds will not feed themselves anymore. I will deliver my flock from their mouth, so that they will not be food for them.'

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.

Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

Leah became pregnant again and gave birth to another son. She said: This time I will praise Jehovah. So she named him Judah (Praise). Then she stopped having children.

When Leah realized she could not have any more children, she let Jacob marry her servant Zilpah.

They must retire from active service when they are fifty years old.

Stop listening to instruction (discipline) (correction), my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.

If it could, it would cease to be offered. Once the worshipers were cleansed they would have no awareness of sin anymore.

I will cause the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem. The land will become a ruin.

This is what Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'I am going to put a stop to the sounds of joy and happiness and the sounds of brides and grooms in this place. This will happen in your lifetime, even as you watch.'

I will take from them the sounds of joy and happiness, the sounds of brides and grooms, the sound of mills, and the light of lamps.

There will no longer be the light of a candle in you. The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all in you. Your merchants were the great men of the earth; for by your spiritistic practice all nations were deceived.

So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the sound of your harps will be heard no more.

The joyful sound of tambourines ceases. The noise of revelers and the delight of the harp cease.

I will also cause all her exaltation to cease, her feasts, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.

The joy of our hearts has ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.

Therefore you will be captured with the first that go captive. Your feasting and lounging will pass away.

You will mock the king of Babylon with this saying: How the tyrant has come to an end! How his attacks have come to an end!

So Joab blew a ram's horn and all the troops stopped. They did not chase or fight Israel anymore.

When the captains of the chariots saw that he was not the king of Israel they withdrew from him.

The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting. They stay in their fortified cities. Their strength has failed. They have become women. Their buildings are set on fire. The bars across their gates are broken.

Jesus said: Do not do any more of this. Then he touched his ear and healed him.

At once he took soldiers and centurions and ran down to the crowd. When they saw the military commander and the soldiers they quit beating Paul.

The king and his troops left the city on foot. They stopped at the city limits.

He came near the casket and touched it. The bearers stood still. He said, Young man arise.

Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water: yet they flee away. Stand, stand, they cry; but none looks back.

After they heard the king, they followed the star until it stopped over the place where the child was.

Jesus stood still and asked them: What do you want me to do to you?

Jesus commanded that he be brought to him. When he was near he spoke to him.

He commanded the chariot to stop. They both went into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.

Wash yourselves! Become clean! Get your evil deeds out of my sight. Stop doing evil.

This is what the Lord Jehovah says: 'I have had enough of you, you princes of Israel.' 'Stop your violence and looting, and do what is fair and right. Stop evicting my people,' declares the Lord Jehovah.

For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no more be mentioned by their name.

Thus I will make lewdness cease from the land. All women will be admonished and not commit lewdness as you have done.

They will burn your houses with fire and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. Then I will stop you from playing the harlot. You will also no longer pay your lovers.

I will make your lewdness and your fornication brought from the land of Egypt to cease from you, so that you will not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.'

Immediately the flow of her blood dried up. She felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.

Then I said, O Lord Jehovah, cease, I plead with you: how can Jacob stand? After all he is small.

Jehovah scattered them from there over all the earth. They stopped building the city.

When Baasha heard this he stopped fortifying Ramah and withdrew to Tirzah.

And our adversaries kept saying: They will not know and they will not see until we come right in among them and put them to death. We will cause the work to cease.

I sent men to them saying: I am doing a great work, so that it is not possible for me to come. Should the work to be stopped while I go away from it and come to you?

Moses said to him: As soon as I go out of the city, I will lift up my hands in prayer to Jehovah. The thunder will stop. There will be no more hail. Thus you may know that the earth belongs to Jehovah.

Moses left the royal palace and the city. He lifted his arms in prayer to Jehovah. The thunder, hail, and drenching rain stopped.

The king realized that the storm was over. He disobeyed once more. He and his officials were so stubborn

The king saw that the frogs were dead. He became stubborn again and, just as Jehovah had said, the king would not listen to Moses and Aaron.

So they picked up Jonah, and threw him into the sea. Immediately the sea ceased from its raging.

The wind went down when they got into the boat.

He entered the boat and the wind ceased. They were truly amazed.

He awoke from sleep and commanded the wind and sea. He commanded the sea to be at peace and rest. And he commanded the wind to go down and there was a great calm.

As soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the Ark of Jehovah, the Lord of all the earth, set foot in the Jordan the waters of Jordan shall be cut off and they shall stand in a heap.

You will answer them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah. When it passed over Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones will be for a memorial to the children of Israel for as long as they live.

Why do I suffer constant pain? Why is my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you indeed be to me like a deceptive stream with water that is unreliable?

When the jars were full she asked if there were any more. That was the last one, one of her sons told her. So the olive oil stopped flowing.

The manna ceased the morning after they ate the old corn of the land. The children of Israel had no more manna. But they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

He stood between those who had died and those who were still alive. The plague stopped.

By the time Aaron came back to Moses at the entrance to the tent of meeting, the plague had stopped.

Phinehas stood between God and the people, and the plague was stopped.

Therefore say to them: 'The Lord Jehovah says: 'I will make this proverb cease so that they will no longer use it as a proverb in Israel. Tell them: 'The days draw near as well as the fulfillment of every vision.'

As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah: 'You are surely not going to use this proverb in Israel anymore.

There will no longer be any false visions or flattering fortune telling to the people.

Love never fails. Where there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away. Where there are tongues, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away.

I will bring the wicked of the nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the mighty, and their sanctuaries will be desecrated.

At Tahpanhes the day will turn dark when I break Egypt's power. Egypt's strong army will be defeated. Clouds will cover Egypt, and people from its villages will go into exile.'