6 occurrences in 11 translations

'Restraint' in the Bible

Add not to bring in a vain present, Incense -- an abomination it is to Me, New moon, and sabbath, calling of convocation! Rendure not iniquity -- and a restraint!

Verse ConceptsAbominationsFutilityHolidayOfferingsSabbath, In OtWorship, Hindrances ToAbominations, To GodFormalityConvocationsIncense Offered AmissSabbath Violated

He who is smiting peoples in wrath, A smiting without intermission, He who is ruling in anger nations, Pursuing without restraint!

Verse Conceptsrelentless

Overflow thy land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish: there is no more restraint.

To open the eyes of the blind, To bring forth from prison the bound one, From the house of restraint those sitting in darkness.

Verse ConceptsClarityOvertaken By DarknessHealing Of The BlindGod Freeing CaptivesBlindnessRecoveryBreaking Chainsfreejail

And this is a people seized and spoiled, Snared in holes -- all of them, And in houses of restraint they were hidden, They have been for a prey, And there is no deliverer, A spoil, and none is saying, 'Restore.'

Verse ConceptsPlunderingRescueTrapPrisonscredibilityjail

By restraint and by judgment he hath been taken, And of his generation who doth meditate, That he hath been cut off from the land of the living? By the transgression of My people he is plagued,

Verse ConceptsChrist Would Be Killedclosure