'Ready' in the Bible

The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.

Get ready to answer Me like a man;when I question you, you will inform Me.

And yet when she gets ready to run, she laughs at the horse and its rider."

Get ready to answer Me like a man;When I question you, you will inform Me.

He is so cruel that no one is ready to go against him. Who then is able to keep his place before me?

When he gets ready for the fight, the strong are overcome with fear.

And he will be like a tree firmly planted [and fed] by streams of water,Which yields its fruit in its season;Its leaf does not wither;And in whatever he does, he prospers [and comes to maturity].

If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

He prepares to use deadly weapons against him; he gets ready to shoot flaming arrows.

But the Lord is King for ever: he has made ready his high seat for judging.

For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.

who are always ready to do wrong or offer a bribe.

Take me out of the net which they have put ready for me secretly; for you are my strength.

For without cause they have put a net ready for me secretly, in which to take my soul.

They are ready to devour me; they say, "Aha! Aha! We've got you!"

All the day he is ready to have mercy and to give; his children are a blessing.

For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

{To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves.} My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

Put on your sword, make it ready at your side, O strong chief, with your glory and power.

My haters are ever ready to put an end to me; great numbers are lifting themselves up against me.

They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)

Without guilt on my part they run and ready themselves. Awake to meet me and see.

You made the earth quake; you split it open. Repair its breaches, for it is ready to fall.

They devise iniquities: We have it ready, the plan is diligently sought out. And each one's inward thought and heart is deep.

You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain.

and not be like their ancestors, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation [that] did not make ready its heart, whose spirit was not faithful [to] God.

They said bitter words against God, saying, Is God able to make ready a table in the waste land?

You made ready a place for it, so that it might take deep root, and it sent out its branches over all the land.

Surely His salvation is near to those who [reverently] fear Him [and obey Him with submissive wonder],That glory [the manifest presence of God] may dwell in our land.

For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.

For my life is filled with troubles and I am ready to enter Sheol.

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

So that you may give him rest from the days of evil, till a hole is made ready for the destruction of the sinners.

The Lord is kind and full of pity, not quickly made angry, but ever ready to have mercy.

The Lord has made ready his high seat in the heavens; his kingdom is ruling over all.

The mountains came up and the valleys went down into the place which you had made ready for them.

Because the man did not remember to show kindness,But persecuted the suffering and needy man,And the brokenhearted, to put them to death.

My heart is ever ready to keep your rules, even to the end.

May Your hand be ready to help me,for I have chosen Your precepts.

For their hearts are full of evil designs; and they are ever making ready causes of war.

And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.

When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep:

She has put her fat beasts to death; her wine is mixed, her table is ready.

He who is slow in his work becomes poor, but the hand of the ready worker gets in wealth.

In the lips of him who has knowledge wisdom is seen; but a rod is ready for the back of him who is without sense.

The hand of the ready worker will have authority, but he who is slow in his work will be put to forced work.

He who is slow in his work does not go in search of food; but the ready worker gets much wealth.

When a king is ready to speak officially, what he says should not err with respect to justice.

Rods are being made ready for the man of pride, and blows for the back of the foolish.

The horse is made ready for the day of war, but power to overcome is from the Lord.

for it is pleasant when you treasure them within you and have them ready on your lips.

For fear of learning his ways and making a net ready for your soul.

If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;

Prepare in an out-place thy work, And make it ready in the field -- go afterwards, Then thou hast built thy house.

Like a nose-ring of gold and an ornament of the best gold, is a wise man who says sharp words to an ear ready to give attention.

Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.

Let your mouth be open for those who have no voice, in the cause of those who are ready for death.

Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, do not let love be moved till it is ready.

I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, let not love be moved till it is ready.

All of them are wearing swords and are experienced in battle. Each has his sword on his thigh, ready for the terror of the night.

I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not let love be moved till it is ready.

The Lord is ready to take up his cause against his people, and is about to come forward as their judge.

So the Lord is furious with his people; he lifts his hand and strikes them. The mountains shake, and corpses lie like manure in the middle of the streets. Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again.

Their arrows are sharp, all their bows ready for action. Their horses' hooves seem like flint, and their chariot wheels spin like a whirlwind.

You will be broken, O nations; you will be shattered! Pay attention, all you distant lands of the earth! Get ready for battle, and you will be shattered! Get ready for battle, and you will be shattered!

Arameans from the east and Philistines from the west and they devour Israel with open mouths! "Yet for all this, his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still stretched out, ready to strike."

Therefore the Lord does not have pity on their young men, and has no compassion on their orphans and widows, because each of them was godless and an evildoer, and every mouth spoke folly. "Yet for all this, his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still stretched out, ready to strike.

Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim devours Manasseh; together they are against Judah. "Yet for all this, his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still stretched out, ready to strike."

so you won't have to crouch among those in chains or fall among the slain? "Yet for all this, his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still stretched out, ready to strike."

The sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, is certainly ready to carry out the decreed destruction throughout the land.

Look, the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, is ready to cut off the branches with terrifying power. The tallest trees will be cut down, the loftiest ones will be brought low.

Sheol below is stirred up about you, ready to meet you when you arrive. It rouses the spirits of the dead for you, all the former leaders of the earth; it makes all the former kings of the nations rise from their thrones.

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.

This is the plan I have devised for the whole earth; my hand is ready to strike all the nations."

Indeed, the Lord who commands armies has a plan, and who can possibly frustrate it? His hand is ready to strike, and who can possibly stop it?

For before the time of getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches.

They make ready the table, they put down the covers, they take food and drink. Up! you captains; put oil on your breastplates.

But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.

Look, the Lord is ready to devastate the earth and leave it in ruins; he will mar its surface and scatter its inhabitants.

Terror, pit, and snare are ready to overtake you inhabitants of the earth!

O Lord, you are ready to act, but they don't even notice. They will see and be put to shame by your angry judgment against humankind, yes, fire will consume your enemies.

As when a pregnant woman gets ready to deliver and strains and cries out because of her labor pains, so were we because of you, O Lord.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed?

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.

For this reason the Lord is ready to show you mercy; he sits on his throne, ready to have compassion on you. Indeed, the Lord is a just God; all who wait for him in faith will be blessed.

Indeed! Topheth has been readyfor the king for a long time now.Its funeral pyre is deep and wide,with plenty of fire and wood.The breath of the Lord, like a torrent of brimstone,kindles it.

The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

"This is what Hezekiah says: 'This is a day of distress, insults, and humiliation, as when a baby is ready to leave the birth canal, but the mother lacks the strength to push it through.

The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.

A voice of one crying, Make ready in the waste land the way of the Lord, make level in the lowland a highway for our God.

It is he who is seated over the arch of the earth, and the people in it are as small as locusts; by him the heavens are stretched out like an arch, and made ready like a tent for a living-place.

So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.

I am the Lord, and there is no other; there is no God but me: I will make you ready for war, though you had no knowledge of me:

“Lift up your eyes and look around [at the returning exiles];All these gather together and they come to you [to rebuild you].As I live,” declares the Lord,“You [Zion] will indeed clothe yourself with all of them as jewels and tie them on as a bride.

I am ready to vindicate, I am ready to deliver, I will establish justice among the nations. The coastlands wait patiently for me; they wait in anticipation for the revelation of my power.

And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?