16 occurrences

'Groan' in the Bible

From [the] city people groan, and [the] throat of [the] wounded cries for help; yet God does not {regard it as unseemly}.

Verse ConceptsPurgatory

Attend to me and answer me. I am restless in my lamenting and I groan,

Verse ConceptsComplaintsComplainingThoughtsBeing Overwhelmeddistractionsventing

I remember God and I groan loudly; I meditate and my spirit grows faint.

Verse ConceptsComplaintsTroublePsalm InterjectionsBeing Overwhelmedoverwhelmed

and you groan at your end, when your flesh and body are consumed,

Verse ConceptsBodyPainDamage To The BodyPeople Endedmuscles

When the righteous are numerous, the people will rejoice, but when the wicked are ruling, people will groan.

Verse ConceptsBeing A LeaderCivic RighteousnessWicked RulersProverbsPeople MultiplyingRejoicing Over JusticeLeaders

We all groan like bears, and we coo mutteringly like doves. We wait for justice, but there is none; for salvation, [but] it is far from us.

Verse ConceptsdovesRumblingBird SoundsFar From OneNo JusticeThose Not Saved

Inhabitants of Lebanon, nestled among the cedars, how you will groan when labor pains come to you, fear and pain as the [woman who] gives birth.

Verse ConceptsCedarLabour Pains

The roads of Zion [are] mourning because no one comes to the festival. All her gates [are] desolate, her priests groan; her young women [are] worried, and she herself suffers bitterly.

Verse ConceptsSighingPilgrimageRoadsTragedy On The StreetsFestivals DisregardedMourning Due To CatastropheNo One To Be Found

All her people groan, they are searching for bread. They give their treasures for food, to bring back life. See, O Yahweh, and look, [how] I am despised.

Verse ConceptsBarteringInferioritySearchingSeeking FoodSeeking For Concrete Things

And you, son of man, groan {with shaking hips}, and you must groan with bitterness before their eyes.

Verse ConceptsSorrowBitternessA Broken Heart

And your turban [must be] on your heads, and your sandals [must be] on your feet. You shall not mourn, and you shall not weep, but you shall waste away because of your iniquities, and you shall groan {to one another}.

Verse ConceptsShoesClothing OneselfHeadgearNot Mourning

And I will strengthen the arm of the king of Babylon, and I will give my sword into his hand, and I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan [with the] groaning of [the] mortally wounded {before him}.

Verse ConceptsBones BrokenGod Strengthening PeopleGod's Sword

How [the] beasts groan; the herds of cattle wander around because there is no pasture for them; [the] flocks of sheep are in distress.

Verse ConceptsCattle

Writhe and groan, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor. For now you will go forth from the city, and you will camp in the field; you will go to Babylon. There you will be rescued; there Yahweh will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerAgony, God's JudgmentBabylon, Israel Exiled ToHand Of GodLabour PainsThe CountrysideExile In Prospect

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