'Fall' in the Bible

They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.

So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.

O God, you cause abundant showers to fall on your chosen people. When they are tired, you sustain them,

Zeal for your house consumes me, and the mockeries of those who insult you fall on me.

Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.

Indeed, You put them in slippery places;You make them fall into ruin.

And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.

And casteth out nations from before them, And causeth them to fall in the line of inheritance, And causeth the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents,

But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.

All nations whom You have made shall come and kneel down in worship before You, O Lord,And they shall glorify Your name.

You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep;In the morning they are like grass which sprouts anew.

A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

no evil will fall upon you, and no affliction will approach your tent,

They will lift you up in their hands, so you will not slip and fall on a stone.

Let all those be [deeply] ashamed who serve carved images,Who boast in idols.Worship Him, all you gods!

I will set no worthless thing before my eyes;I hate the work of those who fall away;It shall not fasten its grip on me.

So He raised His hand against them with an oaththat He would make them fall in the desert

And to cause their seed to fall among nations, And to scatter them through lands.

He loved cursing—let it fall on him;he took no delight in blessing—let it be far from him.

Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.

Remember the day of Jerusalem's fall, LORD, because of the Edomites, who kept saying, "Tear it down! Tear it right down to its foundations!"

Jehovah doth perfect for me, O Jehovah, Thy kindness is to the age, The works of Thy hands let not fall!

Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.

The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.

When you go, your way will not be narrow, and in running you will not have a fall.

For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

For many are the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty are all her slain ones.

The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.

He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.

The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellers there is safety.

He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.

A messenger of wickedness will fall into trouble, but an envoy of the faithful [brings] healing.

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

One with a twisted mind will not succeed,and one with deceitful speech will fall into ruin.

Sloth causeth deep sleep to fall, And an indolent soul doth hunger.

The wicked become a ransom for the righteous,And the treacherous in the place of the upright [for they fall into their own traps].

The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

Do not be glad at the fall of your hater, and let not your heart have joy at his downfall:

But as for people who rebuke the wicked; a good blessing will fall upon them.

Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.

Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.

Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.

Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.

A man's pride will be the cause of his fall, but he who has a gentle spirit will get honour.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.

He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

Someone who quarries stone might be injured; someone splitting logs can fall into danger.

If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.

And your mouth like the best wine!” “It goes down smoothly for my beloved,Flowing gently through the lips of those who fall asleep.

Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.

I will make it a wasteland.It will not be pruned or weeded;thorns and briers will grow up.I will also give orders to the cloudsthat rain should not fall on it.

And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

"The LORD has sent a plague against Jacob, and it will fall on Israel;

Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

On that dayhis burden will fall from your shoulders,and his yoke from your neck.The yoke will be broken because of fatness.

And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

Therefore all hands will fall limp,And every man’s heart will melt.

Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.

Even the trees of the wood are glad over you, the trees of Lebanon, saying, From the time of your fall no wood-cutter has come up against us with an axe.

How great is your fall from heaven, O shining one, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the earth, low among the dead bodies!

In their streets they wear sackcloth; on their roofs and in their town squares all of them wail, they fall down weeping.

O my threshed people [Judah, who must be judged and trampled down by Babylon], my afflicted of the threshing floor.What I have heard from the Lord of hosts,The God of Israel, I have [joyfully] announced to you [that Babylon is to fall].

In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it.

And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.

The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.

We have conceived, we have been pained. We have brought forth as it were wind, Salvation we do not work in the earth, Nor do the inhabitants of the world fall.

Thy dead live -- My dead body they rise. Awake and sing, ye dwellers in the dust, For the dew of herbs is thy dew, And the land of Rephaim thou causest to fall.

But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

You will fall; while lying on the ground you will speak; from the dust where you lie, your words will be heard. Your voice will sound like a spirit speaking from the underworld; from the dust you will chirp as if muttering an incantation.

Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.

And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.

Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.

But the tall trees will come down with a great fall, and the town will be low in a low place.

And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.

Wild oxen will fall together with them young steers and mighty bulls. Their land will be drenched with blood, and their soil will be swollen with fat.

Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

To one who shapes a pedestal,choosing wood that does not rot?He looks for a skilled craftsmanto set up an idol that will not fall over.

Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

The craftsman encourages the metalworker;the one who flattens with the hammersupports the one who strikes the anvil,saying of the soldering, “It is good.”He fastens it with nails so that it will not fall over.

Thus says Yahweh, your redeemer, the holy one of Israel: "For your sake I will send [to] Babylon, and I will cause all of them to fall down [as] fugitives, and {the Chaldeans}, their rejoicing on the ships.

And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?

“Rain down, O heavens, from above,Let the clouds pour down righteousness [all the blessings of God];Let the earth open up, let salvation bear fruit,And righteousness spring up with it;I, the Lord, have created it.

Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God.

They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.

"Fall down! Sit in the dirt, O virgin daughter Babylon! Sit on the ground, not on a throne, O daughter of the Babylonians! Indeed, you will no longer be called delicate and pampered.

Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.

All of us like sheep have gone astray,Each of us has turned to his own way;But the Lord has caused the iniquity of us allTo fall on Him.

Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.

For just as rain and snow fall from heavenand do not return therewithout saturating the earthand making it germinate and sprout,and providing seed to sowand food to eat,

Then you shall see and you shall be radiant; and your heart shall tremble and open itself wide, because [the] abundance of [the] sea shall fall upon you; [the] wealth of [the] nations shall come to you.

The sons of your oppressorswill come and bow down to you;all who reviled youwill fall facedown at your feet.They will call you the City of the Lord,Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.

Do you not revere me?" {declares} Yahweh, "Do you not tremble {before me}? For I have placed [the] sand [as] a boundary for the sea, {as an everlasting limit}, and it cannot pass over it, and they rise and fall loudly, but they cannot prevail, and its waves roar, but they cannot pass over it.

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.