'Desist' in the Bible
desist from Me, and I destroy them, and blot out their name from under the heavens, and I make thee become a nation more mighty and numerous than it.
And she saith unto her father, 'Let this thing be done to me; desist from me two months, and I go on, and have gone down on the hills, and I weep for my virginity -- I and my friends.'
And Samuel saith unto Saul, 'Desist, and I declare to thee that which Jehovah hath spoken unto me to-night;' and he saith to him, 'Speak.'
How long dost Thou not look from me? Thou dost not desist till I swallow my spittle.
Desist from anger, and forsake fury, Fret not thyself only to do evil.
Desist, and know that I am God, I am exalted among nations, I am exalted in the earth.
Lay hold on instruction, do not desist, Keep her, for she is thy life.