69 occurrences in 13 translations

'Places' in the Bible

In that day men will put their images of silver and of gold, which they made for worship, in the keeping of the beasts of the dark places;

Verse ConceptsGoldThrowing AwayAnimals, Types OfBatsMolesAbandoning Idols

To enter into cavities of the rocks, And into clefts of the high places, Because of the fear of Jehovah, And because of the honour of His excellency, In His rising to terrify the earth.

Verse ConceptsEarth, Judgment OfPeople In CavesTremblingTerror Of God

And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.

Verse ConceptsSitting In DejectionMourning Due To Catastrophe

Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

Verse ConceptsLambsSheepAnimals Eating

For this reason the wrath of the Lord has been burning against his people, and his hand has been stretched out against them in punishment, and the hills were shaking, and their dead bodies were like waste in the open places of the town.

Verse ConceptsdirtRoadsGod's HandMountains QuakingNo BurialsGod's Hands Stretched Out

Until the LORD removes people far away, and there are many empty places in the middle of the land.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesExile In Prospect

Make a request to the Lord your God for a sign, a sign in the deep places of the underworld, or in the high heavens.

Verse ConceptsSeeking SignsSigns From GodSeeking A SignTrusting God In Difficult Times

They will all come and settle on the steep ravines, on the ledges of the cliffs, on all the thorn bushes and on all the watering places.

Verse ConceptsGathering Creatures

You will not go to all the hillsthat were once tilled with a hoe,for fear of the thorns and briers.Those hills will be places for oxen to grazeand for sheep to trample.

Verse ConceptsHillsTilling The SoilFear, Of NaturalCultivation

“Be broken, O peoples, and be shattered;And give ear, all remote places of the earth.Gird yourselves, yet be shattered;Gird yourselves, yet be shattered.

Verse ConceptsBattlesVoicesBattle Cries

Against a profane nation I send him, And concerning a people of My wrath I charge him, To spoil spoil, and to seize prey, And to make it a treading-place as the clay of out places.

Verse ConceptsPlunderingGodlessnessNationalismTrampling People

Fled away hath Madmenah, The inhabitants of the high places have hardened themselves.

And he is cutting down the thick places of the wood with an axe, and Lebanon with its tall trees is coming down.

Verse ConceptsThe Prophecy Towards Lebanon

Make ready a place of death for his children, because of the evil-doing of their father; so that they may not come up and take the earth for their heritage, covering the face of the world with waste places.

Verse ConceptsFathers, Sin Of TheFruits Of SinParents SinSins Of The FathersMassacresDadsGuilt

Howl, O gate; cry, O city, Melted art thou, Philistia, all of thee, For from the north smoke hath come, And there is none alone in his set places.

Verse ConceptsNorthSmokeOut Of The NorthOrderly ArmysmokingSmoke Used Poetically

He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.

Verse ConceptsBaldness, Figurative UseBaldnessBeardsHeadsHigh PlacesKnives

In its out-places they girded on sackcloth, On its pinnacles, and in its broad places, Every one howleth -- going down with weeping.

Verse ConceptsProstrationRoofSackcloth And AshesSorrowRooftop

When the Moabites plead with all their might at their high places, and enter their temples to pray, their prayers will be ineffective!

Verse ConceptsFutilityFalse ReligionHigh Places

The cities of Aroer are forsaken;they will be places for flocks.They will lie down without fear.

Verse ConceptsEmpty CitiesPasturing The Flock

"At that time, their fortified cities that they abandoned because of the Israelis will be like desolate places of the forests and hilltops there will be desolation.

Verse ConceptsEmpty Cities

Bare places by [the] Nile will be dried up, by the edge of [the] Nile and all the sown land of [the] Nile; it will be driven about, and {it will be no more}.

Verse ConceptsBooks

And you saw all the broken places in the wall of the town of David: and you got together the waters of the lower pool.

Verse ConceptsPoolsDestruction Of Jerusalem's WallThe Act Of OpeningOpening Walls

Is this your jubilant city,Whose origin is from antiquity,Whose feet used to carry her to colonize distant places?

Verse ConceptsHistory Of NationsFar From Here

His hand He hath stretched out over the sea, He hath caused kingdoms to tremble, Jehovah hath charged concerning the merchant one, To destroy her strong places.

Verse ConceptsHand Of GodKingdomsGod's HandDestruction Of StrongholdsGod's Hands Stretched Out

For He has humbled those who live in lofty places—an inaccessible city.He brings it down; He brings it down to the ground;He throws it to the dust.

Verse ConceptsHumiliationHumilityPride, Results OfHumbling The ProudDestruction Of CitiesPutting Things Down

Come, my people, into your secret places, and let your doors be shut: keep yourself safe for a short time, till his wrath is over.

Verse ConceptsGod's IndignationA Short TimeShutting DoorsHiding From GodShort Time For ActionSpeed Of God's AngerPraying Behind Closed Doors

Once he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter the seed of the caraway plant, sow the seed of the cumin plant, and plant the wheat, barley, and grain in their designated places?

Verse ConceptsHerbs And SpicesCummin

For the palace will be forsaken,the busy city abandoned.The hill and the watchtower will becomebarren places forever,the joy of wild donkeys,and a pasture for flocks,

Verse ConceptsChaosTowersEmpty CitiesWild DonkeysDwellings Of CreaturesOther Dwellings Of CreaturesChaos As Judgment

He high places doth inhabit, Strongholds of rock are his high tower, His bread hath been given, his waters stedfast.

Verse ConceptsBread, As FoodWaterFortsStones For ProtectionPeople Providing Food

And the beasts of the waste places will come together with the jackals, and the evil spirits will be crying to one another, even the night-spirit will come and make her resting-place there.

Verse ConceptsOwlsWolvesWild GoatProvision Of Nightcatsvampires

Then will the feeble-footed be jumping like a roe, and the voice which was stopped will be loud in song: for in the waste land streams will be bursting out, and waters in the dry places.

Verse ConceptsLeapingCripplesLamenessTonguePeople JumpingRunning Water From GodDumbnessRenewedDumbDeserts Used FigurativelyDeer Etc.Deerjumping

But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?

Verse ConceptsShrinesDespisersRight Sacrifices

You have sent your servants with evil words against the Lord, and have said, With all my war-carriages I have come up to the top of the mountains, to the inmost parts of Lebanon; and its tall cedars will be cut down, and the best trees of its woods: I will come up into his highest places, into his thick woods.

Verse ConceptsChariotsCedarFelling TreesTrusting In Chariots

I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.

Verse ConceptsdrynessWaterPeople Drying Things Upbridges

Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:

Verse ConceptsFilling PlacesMountains RemovedSmoothnessPutting Things DownThings Lifted UpHighways

Whom I have taken hold of, from the ends of the earth, And from its near places I have called thee, And I say to thee, My servant Thou art, I have chosen thee, and not rejected thee.

Verse ConceptsChoicesPeople From Far Away

I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual RenewalBarren, LandPoolsRunning Water From GodRivers As Places Of PrayerRiversChristmas TreeChange And Growthlakes

I will lead the blind by a way they did not know;I will guide them on paths they have not known.I will turn darkness to light in front of themand rough places into level ground.This is what I will do for them,and I will not forsake them.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesdecisionsGuardiansGuidance, God's Promises OfWalking In DarknessPaths Of BelieversStraight ThingsLight Of God's PeopleNot Knowing WhereDarknessBlindnessguidancePathscredibility

Half the wood he burns in the fire, and over that half he places meat so he can eat. He sits by its coals, warms himself, and says, "Ah! I am warm in front of the fire."

Verse ConceptsWarmingHalf Of Things

That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:

Verse ConceptsBeginningArchaeologyWaste Places RestoredSure KnowledgeRebuilding Jerusalem

I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:

Verse ConceptsBattlesIronCrookednessBrassStraighteningSmoothnessGod Going BeforeIron ObjectsBronze GatesSolar EclipseBreaking Chains

And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.

Verse ConceptsActing In SecretRichesDarknessGivingSolar Eclipsesecrets

Yes, by my hand was the earth placed on its base, and by my right hand the heavens were stretched out; at my word they take up their places.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsFinger Of GodEarth, Creation OfChaosHand Of GodRight Hand Of GodPower, Of GodPower Of God, ExpressedEarth's FoundationGod Creating With His Finger

They didn't thirst when he led him through the desolate places. He made water gush from a rock for them; he split open the rock, and water gushed out.

Verse ConceptsDesertsThirstSplitting RocksGod Providing WaterProvision From RocksPlenty In The Wilderness

The Lord who takes up Israel's cause, even his Holy One, says to him whom men make sport of, who is hated by the nations, a servant of rulers: Kings will see and get up from their places, and chiefs will give worship: because of the Lord who keeps faith; even the Holy One of Israel who has taken you for himself.

Verse ConceptsRedemption, In OtProphecies Concerning ChristBowing Before MessiahMessianic Prophecies

That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.

Verse ConceptsComing Out Of DarknessGod Freeing Captives

For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

Verse ConceptsWaste Places RestoredFar From Here

Who is among you, fearing Jehovah, Hearkening to the voice of His servant, That hath walked in dark places, And there is no brightness for him? Let him trust in the name of Jehovah, And lean upon his God.

Verse ConceptsFaith, Necessity OfPainSuffering, Encouragements InTrusting In GodTrust In God!God As The Object Of Faith

For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

Verse ConceptsGarden Of Eden, TheHorticultureJoy, Of IsraelLand, Spiritual Aspects OfRuinsThanksgivingAfflictions, Consolation DuringArchaeologyEdenWaste Places RestoredBlessing In The WildernessThose Singing PraiseGod Will ComfortFree Of ChargeGardensPeace And ComfortzionFinding Comfort In God

Art not Thou it that is drying up a sea, Waters of a great deep? That hath made deep places of a sea A way for the passing of the redeemed?

Verse ConceptsdrynessStrength, DivineGod Drying Things UpMaking RoadsA Way Through The Red SeaThe Sea DividedDeep SeasThe SeaOvercoming Obstaclesfootprintsredeemed

Thy sons have been wrapped up, they have lain down, At the head of all out places, as a wild ox in a net, They are full of the fury of Jehovah, The rebuke of Thy God.

Verse ConceptsNetsRoadsAnger Of God, ConsequencesFaintingMan TrappingTragedy On The StreetsDeer Etc.distractions

Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsJerusalem, Significance OfSingingSongsArchaeologyWaste Places RestoredDestruction Of JerusalemGod Has ComfortedFinding Comfort In God

Yet Yahweh was pleased to crush him; he {made him sick}. If she places his life a guilt offering, he will see offspring. He will prolong days, and the will of Yahweh will succeed in his hand.

Verse ConceptsExpiationGod, Purpose OfGod, Will OfGuilt OfferingOld Age, Attainment OfProsperityBelievers As Sons Of GodLiving Longcrushes

For the mountains may be taken away, and the hills be moved out of their places, but my love will not be taken from you, or my agreement of peace broken, says the Lord, who has had mercy on you.

Verse ConceptsCovenant breakersTrusting In God's LoveAssurance, nature ofGod, The EternalHeart, DivineLoyaltyLove, Nature OfMountainsReliabilityTendernessGod Will Show MercyGod Keeps CovenantMoving Onhealthcaresteadfast

And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

Verse ConceptsRuinsWallsArchaeologyWaste Places RestoredRepairingbridgesrebuilding

Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

Verse ConceptsDelighting, Right Kinds OfDeerTrust In Relationshipssoaringrejuvenation

We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual Blindness, Consequences OfGuidance, Need For God'sWallsTwilightPeople StumblingAfflicted To Death

And the right is turned back, and righteousness is far away: for good faith is not to be seen in the public places, and upright behaviour may not come into the town.

Verse ConceptsInjustice, Nature And Source OfPlumb LineRoadsStumblingEvil TimesFar From OneUnfaithfulMorality

They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will build again the ruined cities, they will build again the places devastated for many generations.

Verse ConceptsGenerationsBeginningRuinsBuilding CitiesArchaeologyWaste Places RestoredRepairingRebuilding JerusalemRenewalbridgesrebuilding

But those who have got in the grain will have it for their food, and will give praise to the Lord; and those who have got in the grapes will take the wine of them in the open places of my holy house.

Verse ConceptsStores Of FoodPraise God For His Benefits

Our holy Temple and our splendor, where our ancestors praised you, have become a conflagration of fire, and all our dearest places have become ruins.

Verse ConceptsTreasureArchaeologyBurning JerusalemOther Praising Of GodPraising God In Public Worship

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