'Own' in the Bible

Let my accusers be clothed with dishonor,And let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

For the Lord has chosen Jacob for Himself,Israel for His own possession.

Let the wicked fall into their own nets,While I pass by safely.

But they lie in wait for their own blood;They ambush their own lives.

“So they shall eat of the fruit of their own wayAnd be satiated with their own devices.

Trust in the Lord with all your heartAnd do not lean on your own understanding.

Do not be wise in your own eyes;Fear the Lord and turn away from evil.

Drink water from your own cisternAnd fresh water from your own well.

His own iniquities will capture the wicked,And he will be held with the cords of his sin.

The righteousness of the blameless will smooth his way,But the wicked will fall by his own wickedness.

The righteousness of the upright will deliver them,But the treacherous will be caught by their own greed.

He who is steadfast in righteousness will attain to life,And he who pursues evil will bring about his own death.

He who troubles his own house will inherit wind,And the foolish will be servant to the wisehearted.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes,But a wise man is he who listens to counsel.

The wise woman builds her house,But the foolish tears it down with her own hands.

The heart knows its own bitterness,And a stranger does not share its joy.

The backslider in heart will have his fill of his own ways,But a good man will be satisfied with his.

He who profits illicitly troubles his own house,But he who hates bribes will live.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own sight,But the Lord weighs the motives.

The Lord has made everything for its own purpose,Even the wicked for the day of evil.

He who separates himself seeks his own desire,He quarrels against all sound wisdom.

A fool does not delight in understanding,But only in revealing his own mind.

A rich man’s wealth is his strong city,And like a high wall in his own imagination.

He who gets wisdom loves his own soul;He who keeps understanding will find good.

The terror of a king is like the growling of a lion;He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.

Many a man proclaims his own loyalty,But who can find a trustworthy man?

Every man’s way is right in his own eyes,But the Lord weighs the hearts.

My son, if your heart is wise,My own heart also will be glad;

It is not good to eat much honey,Nor is it glory to search out one’s own glory.

Answer a fool as his folly deserves,That he not be wise in his own eyes.

He cuts off his own feet and drinks violenceWho sends a message by the hand of a fool.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes?There is more hope for a fool than for him.

The sluggard is wiser in his own eyesThan seven men who can give a discreet answer.

Let another praise you, and not your own mouth;A stranger, and not your own lips.

Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend,And do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity;Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother far away.

He who leads the upright astray in an evil wayWill himself fall into his own pit,But the blameless will inherit good.

The rich man is wise in his own eyes,But the poor who has understanding sees through him.

He who trusts in his own heart is a fool,But he who walks wisely will be delivered.

The rod and reproof give wisdom,But a child who gets his own way brings shame to his mother.

He who is a partner with a thief hates his own life;He hears the oath but tells nothing.

There is a kind who is pure in his own eyes,Yet is not washed from his filthiness.

The fool folds his hands and consumes his own flesh.

“Do not stare at me because I am swarthy,For the sun has burned me.My mother’s sons were angry with me;They made me caretaker of the vineyards,But I have not taken care of my own vineyard.

“My very own vineyard is at my disposal;The thousand shekels are for you, Solomon,And two hundred are for those who take care of its fruit.”

For seven women will take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; take away our reproach!”

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyesAnd clever in their own sight!

They slice off what is on the right hand but still are hungry,And they eat what is on the left hand but they are not satisfied;Each of them eats the flesh of his own arm.

And it will be that like a hunted gazelle,Or like sheep with none to gather them,They will each turn to his own people,And each one flee to his own land.

When the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and again choose Israel, and settle them in their own land, then strangers will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

“All the kings of the nations lie in glory,Each in his own tomb.

But Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, doomed to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”

Do not listen to Hezekiah,’ for thus says the king of Assyria, ‘Make your peace with me and come out to me, and eat each of his vine and each of his fig tree and drink each of the waters of his own cistern,

until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land. And I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.”’”

‘For I will defend this city to save it for My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.’”

“Lo, for my own welfare I had great bitterness;It is You who has kept my soul from the pit of nothingness,For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

“I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake,And I will not remember your sins.

Those who fashion a graven image are all of them futile, and their precious things are of no profit; even their own witnesses fail to see or know, so that they will be put to shame.

“So have those become to you with whom you have labored,Who have trafficked with you from your youth;Each has wandered in his own way;There is none to save you.

“For My own sake, for My own sake, I will act;For how can My name be profaned?And My glory I will not give to another.

“I will feed your oppressors with their own flesh,And they will become drunk with their own blood as with sweet wine;And all flesh will know that I, the Lord, am your SaviorAnd your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices,They shout joyfully together;For they will see with their own eyesWhen the Lord restores Zion.

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.

And the dogs are greedy, they are not satisfied.And they are shepherds who have no understanding;They have all turned to their own way,Each one to his unjust gain, to the last one.

“Is it not to divide your bread with the hungryAnd bring the homeless poor into the house;When you see the naked, to cover him;And not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

“If because of the sabbath, you turn your footFrom doing your own pleasure on My holy day,And call the sabbath a delight, the holy day of the Lord honorable,And honor it, desisting from your own ways,From seeking your own pleasureAnd speaking your own word,

And He saw that there was no man,And was astonished that there was no one to intercede;Then His own arm brought salvation to Him,And His righteousness upheld Him.

“I looked, and there was no one to help,And I was astonished and there was no one to uphold;So My own arm brought salvation to Me,And My wrath upheld Me.

“I have spread out My hands all day long to a rebellious people,Who walk in the way which is not good, following their own thoughts,

Both their own iniquities and the iniquities of their fathers together,” says the Lord.“Because they have burned incense on the mountainsAnd scorned Me on the hills,Therefore I will measure their former work into their bosom.”

“But he who kills an ox is like one who slays a man;He who sacrifices a lamb is like the one who breaks a dog’s neck;He who offers a grain offering is like one who offers swine’s blood;He who burns incense is like the one who blesses an idol.As they have chosen their own ways,And their soul delights in their abominations,

I will pronounce My judgments on them concerning all their wickedness, whereby they have forsaken Me and have offered sacrifices to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.

“Your own wickedness will correct you,And your apostasies will reprove you;Know therefore and see that it is evil and bitterFor you to forsake the Lord your God,And the dread of Me is not in you,” declares the Lord God of hosts.

“Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you on knowledge and understanding.

The prophets prophesy falsely,And the priests rule on their own authority;And My people love it so!But what will you do at the end of it?

if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your own ruin,

Do they spite Me?” declares the Lord. “Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?”

Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.

Then the Lord said to me, “The prophets are prophesying falsehood in My name. I have neither sent them nor commanded them nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a false vision, divination, futility and the deception of their own minds.

The people also to whom they are prophesying will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and there will be no one to bury them—neither them, nor their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters—for I will pour out their own wickedness on them.

Do not despise us, for Your own name’s sake;Do not disgrace the throne of Your glory;Remember and do not annul Your covenant with us.

You too have done evil, even more than your forefathers; for behold, you are each one walking according to the stubbornness of his own evil heart, without listening to Me.

but, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of the north and from all the countries where He had banished them.’ For I will restore them to their own land which I gave to their fathers.

But they will say, ‘It’s hopeless! For we are going to follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’

He who dwells in this city will die by the sword and by famine and by pestilence; but he who goes out and falls away to the Chaldeans who are besieging you will live, and he will have his own life as booty.

“But your eyes and your heartAre intent only upon your own dishonest gain,And on shedding innocent bloodAnd on practicing oppression and extortion.”

but, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought up and led back the descendants of the household of Israel from the north land and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ Then they will live on their own soil.”

Thus says the Lord of hosts,“Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you.They are leading you into futility;They speak a vision of their own imagination,Not from the mouth of the Lord.

“They keep saying to those who despise Me,‘The Lord has said, “You will have peace”’;And as for everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart,They say, ‘Calamity will not come upon you.’

How long? Is there anything in the hearts of the prophets who prophesy falsehood, even these prophets of the deception of their own heart,

For you will no longer remember the oracle of the Lord, because every man’s own word will become the oracle, and you have perverted the words of the living God, the Lord of hosts, our God.

Yet you have not listened to Me,” declares the Lord, “in order that you might provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.

All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will make him their servant.

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are in Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,

“There is hope for your future,” declares the Lord,“And your children will return to their own territory.

But everyone will die for his own iniquity; each man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.

and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me always, for their own good and for the good of their children after them.

You shall not build a house, and you shall not sow seed and you shall not plant a vineyard or own one; but in tents you shall dwell all your days, that you may live many days in the land where you sojourn.’

“Thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘Thus you are to say to the king of Judah, who sent you to Me to inquire of Me: “Behold, Pharaoh’s army which has come out for your assistance is going to return to its own land of Egypt.

“Thus says the Lord, ‘He who stays in this city will die by the sword and by famine and by pestilence, but he who goes out to the Chaldeans will live and have his own life as booty and stay alive.’