'Myself' in the Bible

so call out the rest of the army, attack the city, and capture it. Otherwise, I'll take the city myself and name it after me."

As for me, how could I get rid of my shame and disgrace? And you, you will be considered one of the fools in Israel. So now, just speak to the king [about taking me as your wife], for he will not withhold me from you.”

Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “See now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then put him to death. Do not fear; have not I myself commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant.”

Then the king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I myself will give the command concerning you."

And the king saith to Ziba, 'Lo, thine are all that Mephibosheth hath;' and Ziba saith, 'I have bowed myself -- I find grace in thine eyes, my lord, O king.'

And David sent forth a third part of the people under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said unto the people, I will surely go forth with you myself also.

“My lord the king,” he replied, “my servant Ziba betrayed me. Actually your servant said: ‘I’ll saddle the donkey for myself so that I may ride it and go with the king’—for your servant is lame.

I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.

Then I will have Israel cut off from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for myself, I will put away from before my eyes; and Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples.

"but I didn't believe it at first! But then I came here and I've seen it for myself! It's amazing! I wasn't told half of what's really great about your wisdom. You're far better in person than what the reports have said about you!

I will give one tribe to his son, so that My servant David will always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city I chose for Myself to put My name there.

But she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I don’t have anything baked—only a handful of flour in the jar and a bit of oil in the jug. Just now, I am gathering a couple of sticks in order to go prepare it for myself and my son so we can eat it and die.”

And Elijah said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely shew myself unto him to day.

And Elijah saith unto the people, 'I -- I have been left a prophet of Jehovah -- by myself; and the prophets of Baal are four hundred and fifty men;

And he saith, 'I have been very zealous for Jehovah, God of Hosts, for the sons of Israel have forsaken Thy covenant -- Thine altars they have thrown down, and Thy prophets they have slain by the sword, and I am left, I, by myself, and they seek my life -- to take it.'

And he saith, 'I have been very zealous for Jehovah, God of Hosts; for the sons of Israel have forsaken Thy covenant, Thine altars they have thrown down, and Thy prophets they have slain by the sword, and I am left, I, by myself, and they seek my life -- to take it.'

Yet I have left myself seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth that hath not kissed him.

Jezebel his wife said to him, "Now, you {rule} over Israel. Get up, eat food, and let your heart be {cheerful}. I myself will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite."

And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.

But Naaman got angry and left, saying, “I was telling myself: He will surely come out, stand and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and will wave his hand over the spot and cure the skin disease.

In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.

I myself dug for and drank foreign water. With the sole of my foot I dried up all the streams of Egypt!"

because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I Myself have heard you—this is the Lord’s declaration—

"Now therefore this is what you are to tell my servant David: "This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "I took you from the pasture myself from tending sheep to become Commander-in-Chief over my people Israel.

I myself will be a father to him, and he himself will be a son to me. And I will not remove my steadfast love from him as I took it away from whoever was before you.

And David said to Solomon his son, "I myself had in my heart to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God,

He will build a temple to my name. He will be a son to me, I myself will be a father to him, and I will secure his royal throne in Israel forever.'

Then David the king rose to his feet and said, “Hear me, my brothers [in arms] and my people. I had intended to build a permanent home for the ark of the covenant of the Lord and as a footstool for our God, and I prepared materials for the building.

And he said to me, 'Solomon your son, he himself shall build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him as a son to myself, and I myself will be as a father to him,

Now I am building a temple for the name of Yahweh my God in order to dedicate it to Him for burning fragrant incense before Him, for displaying the rows of the bread of the Presence continuously, and for sacrificing burnt offerings for the morning and the evening, the Sabbaths and the New Moons, and the appointed festivals of the Lord our God. This is ordained for Israel forever.

Send me trees of cedar, cypress, and algum from Lebanon, for I myself know that your servants [are] knowledgeable in cutting the trees of Lebanon. Now see, my servants [will be] with your servants

And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice.

when my people humble themselves the ones who are called by my name and pray, seek me, and turn away from their evil practices, I myself will listen from heaven, I will pardon their sins, and I will restore their land.

Furthermore, I have chosen and have set apart for myself this Temple, intending my name to reside there forever. My eyes and my heart will reside there every day.

"but I didn't believe it at first! But then I came here and I've seen it for myself! It's amazing! I wasn't told half of what's really great about your wisdom. You're far better in person than what the reports have said about you!

So now, my father laid upon you a heavy yoke, but I myself will add to the yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I myself [will do so] with scorpions.'"

And he spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, "I will make your yoke heavy, and I myself will add to it. My father disciplined you with whips, but I [will do so] with scorpions."

Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the princes of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem from before Shishak. And he said to them, "Thus says Yahweh: 'You yourselves have abandoned me, and I myself have surely abandoned you into the hand of Shishak.'"

And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and will go to the battle; but put thou on thy robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went to the battle.

because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its inhabitants, and because you humbled yourself before Me, and you tore your clothes and wept before Me, I Myself have heard’—this is the Lord’s declaration.

and unto me hath stretched out kindness before the king and his counsellors, and before all the mighty heads of the king: and I have strengthened myself as the hand of Jehovah my God is upon me, and I gather out of Israel heads to go up with me.

And at the evening offering, having made myself low before God, I got up, and with signs of grief, falling down on my knees, with my hands stretched out to the Lord my God,

The words of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah. It happened in the month of Kislev, in the twentieth year, that I myself was in the citadel in Susa,

Then, after hearing these words, for some days I gave myself up to weeping and sorrow, seated on the earth; and taking no food I made prayer to the God of heaven,

may your ear be attentive and your eyes be open to hear the prayer of your servant that I am praying to you today throughout both day and night on behalf of your servants the Israelites. I am confessing the sins of the Israelites that we have committed against you -- both I myself and my family have sinned.

Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.

Instead, I devoted myself to the construction of the wall, and all my subordinates were gathered there for the work. We didn’t buy any land.

Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to morrow am I invited unto her also with the king.

So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?

“As I have seen, those who plow wickednessAnd those who sow trouble and harm harvest it.

"I myself saw a fool becoming established, but I suddenly cursed where he lived.

"But I myself will seek God, and to God I would commit my cause.

I cannot bring myself to touch them; food like this makes me sick."

Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

Since I cannot help myself,the hope for success has been banished from me.

Teach me, and I myself will be silent; and make me understand how I have gone astray.

"In addition, I won't keep my opinion to myself; I'll speak from my distressed spirit; I'll complain with my bitter soul.

I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

{How much less} can I myself answer him? [How] can I choose my words with him,

If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

Though I am blameless,I no longer care about myself;I renounce my life.

If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:

I will be condemned, so why should I wear myself out with this futility?

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

But if a man like myself -- I answer him, We come together into judgment.

Otherwise, I would speak without being terrified of him, because I'm not like that inside myself."

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

If I lift myself up, you hunt me as a fierce lion, and again you display your power against me.

{What you know}, I myself also know-- I [am] not more inferior than you.

"{Let me have silence}, and I myself will speak, and let come over me whatever [may].

Why do I put myself at riskand take my life in my own hands?

Please look, I have prepared [my] case; I know that I myself will be vindicated.

Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.

Then call, and I myself will answer; or let me speak, then reply to me.

You would call, and I myself would answer you; you would long for the work of your hand.

I myself also could talk as you, if {you were in my place}; I could join against you with words, and I could shake at you with my head.

You've arrested me, making me testify against myself! My leanness rises up to attack me, accusing me to my face.

And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth.

But I myself know [that] my redeemer [is] alive, and [at the] last he will stand up upon {the earth}.

Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

Bear [with] me, and I myself will speak; then after my speaking you can mock.

I clothed myself in righteousness,and it enveloped me;my just decisions were like a robe and a turban.

Have I not wept for {the unfortunate}, [and] grieved myself over the poor?

Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

"Have I covered my transgression like other people, to conceal iniquity within myself?

If not -- on my shoulder I take it up, I bind it a crown on myself.

And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, made answer and said, I am young, and you are very old, so I was in fear, and kept myself from putting my knowledge before you.

I said to myself, 'Age should speak, and length of years should make wisdom known.'

Therefore I say, 'Listen to me; let me also declare my knowledge myself.'

I myself will answer my share also; I myself will declare my knowledge also,

Look, before God {I am like you}; I myself was also formed from clay.

I myself {will give answer to you} and [to] your friends with you.

"Indeed, I am completely unworthy -- how could I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth to silence myself.

then I will applaud you myself! I'll admit that you can deliver yourself by your own efforts!"

Listen now, and I will speak for myself; I'll interrogate you and then inform me.

Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

"I myself have installed my king on Zion, my holy hill."

I laid myself down and slept. I awakened; for Yahweh sustains me.