20 occurrences in 12 translations

'Cease' in the Bible

In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

Verse ConceptsAbolish, Evil ThingsDestruction Of CitiesDestruction Of Satan's WorksUseless LabourOne's DeedsAbandoning Idols

Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.

Verse ConceptsRejection Of God, Results OfSanctuaryCessationLimitations Of StrengthGod Opposes The ProudHouses Under AttackPeople Possessing Other ThingsPolluting Holy PlacesThings Stopping

Disaster will come upon disaster and rumor will be heaped on rumor; they will seek a vision from a prophet, but the law and guidance will be lost from the priest and [wise] counsel [will cease] from the elders.

Verse ConceptsPoverty, SpiritualPriests, Function In Ot TimesProphets, Role OfRumoursVisionsDisastersCataclysmSpiritual DestitutionNo VisionsProphecy Abolishedrumors

Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision.

Verse ConceptsCessationNear The Time GenerallyOld SayingsThings StoppingEnd Of Daysisraelfulfillment

And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.

Verse ConceptsCessationStopping EvilBurning JerusalemSeeing Situations

"That's how I'll make you stop your prostitution so you won't pay any prostitute's fees anymore. I'll stop being angry with you, and I'll cease being jealous. I'll be calm and not be indignant anymore.

Verse ConceptsGod, Zeal OfAnger SubsidingGod Will No More Be Angry

Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.

Verse ConceptsCessationStopping EvilForgetting PeopleSpiritual Harlotry

Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.

Verse ConceptsCessationStopping EvilAvoid Immorality

Cease to groan, for the dead thou dost make no mourning, thy bonnet bind on thee, and thy shoes thou dost put on thy feet, and thou dost not cover over the upper lip, and bread of men thou dost not eat.'

Verse ConceptsCustomFeetBereavement, Expression OfHead coveringCovering The MouthSandalsTraditionsVeilsDressShoesClothing OneselfHeadgearFacial HairSilenceEating Forbidden Food

Traders circulate among the people, hissing at you. What a horror you've become! Now you will cease to exist forever and ever!"

Verse ConceptsPeople Passing AwayHissing

{All who know you} among the peoples are appalled over you; you have become [as] horrors, and {you shall cease to exist forever}." '"

Verse ConceptsKnowing PeopleIndividuals Passing AwayPeople Appalled

Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.

Verse ConceptsDay of the LORD

Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of Satan's WorksFear Will ComeAbandoning IdolsNo King

At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.

Verse ConceptsendYokesCessationDarkness During DaytimeGod Freeing CaptivesThings StoppingHer Strength

For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of CountriesLand Becoming EmptyThe Mountains Of IsraelThe Proud Will Be AbasedHer Strength

Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.

Verse ConceptsChrist And His SheepCessationGod Saves The NeedyTaking Other People

And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

Verse ConceptsForestsCovenant, God's with NoahSafetySleep, PhysicalShowersBlessing In The WildernessWild Beasts SubduedSleeping Peacefully

‘Thus says the Lord God, “Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and destruction, and practice justice and righteousness. Stop your forceful seizure of property from My people,” says the Lord God.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toViolenceCessationStopping EvilAvoiding ViolenceNot Destroyedcheaters

And along the stream will go up on its banks {from both sides} every tree {producing food}; its leaf will not wither and it will not cease [producing] its fruit. {Every month} it will bear early fruit, for its waters [are] going out from the sanctuary, and its fruit will be as food, and its leaf for healing."

Verse ConceptsFruitNew ThingsdiseasesHealingMedicineAbundance, MaterialUnfading LifeIncreasing FruitRiver BanksWater For PlantsFoliageMetaphorical TreesFood DefinedGod HealsPlans For A New TempleHealing Of NationsHerbsHealth And HealingDrugs

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Desist (12 instances)
Discontinue (1 instance)
Terminate (2 instances)

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