29 occurrences

'Cease' in the Bible

For the poor will not cease to be {among you} [in] the land; therefore I [am] commanding you, {saying}, 'You shall willingly open your hand to your brother, to your needy and to your poor [that are] in your land.'

Verse ConceptsLiberalityBad LeadershipCommands, in OTPoor PeopleBeggarsLendingPoverty, Remedies ForSuffering, HardshipGenerosity, Used TowardsThe poorHelping The PoorHelping Others In NeedFeeding The Poor

Then the {Israelites} said to Samuel, "{You must not cease} from crying out to Yahweh our God, so that he will deliver us from the hand of [the] Philistines."

Verse ConceptsRescueUnceasingAlways PrayingIndividuals Saving OthersPray For Us

When they entered the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who [was] with him, "Come, let us return, lest my father cease [caring about] the female donkeys and worry about us!"

Verse ConceptsLet Them Go Home

Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets, four hundred men. And he said to them, "Shall we go to Ramoth-Gilead to battle, or shall we cease?" And they said, "Go up, since God will give [it] into the hand of the king."

Verse ConceptsSchool Of ProphetsFour To Five HundredFour And Five Hundred

And when he had come to the king, the king said to him, "Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-Gilead to war or shall I cease?" And he said, "Go up and triumph! They shall be given into your hand."

But you in your many mercies did not abandon them in the desert. The column of cloud [that was] over them in the day did not cease to leave them on the way, and the column of fire by night [that] gave light to them on the way that they went.

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentGuidance, Receiving God'sObelisksGod Appearing In FireLight In The WorldGod Not ForsakingDuring The DayGod Has Guided

There [the] wicked cease from troubling, and there [the] {weary} are at rest;

Verse ConceptsRest, EternalRestlessnessDeath Of The Saints, Results InNo TroubleResttired

"Indeed, there is hope for a tree: if it is cut down, then it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not cease;

Verse ConceptsSproutingAre The Dead Raised?GrowingChange And Growthcutting

If I speak, my pain is not relieved; and [if] I cease, how much will leave me?

Verse ConceptsHelplessnessPeople Being SilentMere Talk

But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered together; smiters whom I did not know gathered against me. They tore and did not cease.

Verse ConceptsUnkindnessCharacter Of WickedPitilessnessPitilessness CondemnedPeople StumblingNot Knowing PeopleRejoicing In Evil

[He] makes wars cease to the ends of the earth; he breaks [the] bow and cuts off [the] spear. [The] wagons [of war] he burns with fire.

Verse ConceptsBow And Arrows, Symbol Of StrengthSpearsWarfare, Nature OfWeaponsDisarmamentBreaking WeaponsDestroying ChariotsI Am GodGod Makes Peace

You have made his splendor to cease, and cast his throne to the ground.

Verse ConceptsendDeposingLosing Honour

Cease to listen to instruction, my child, {and you will stray} from sayings of knowledge.

Verse ConceptsListeningCessationPeople Going Astray

When the guards of the house tremble, and the men of strength are bent; the grinders cease because they are few, and those looking through the windows see dimly.

Verse ConceptsFeeblenessDimness Of VisionDentistryTeethLooking Through WindowsTremblingGrinding FoodEyes HarmedFew ThingsGrowingWeather In The Last Days

An oracle of Damascus: "Look! Damascus [will] cease being a city and will become a heap of ruins.

Verse ConceptsArchaeologyProphecies concerningsyriadamascus

Ah, destroyer, and yourself not destroyed! And treacherous one, and no one has dealt treacherously with him! When you {cease} destroying, you will be destroyed. When you stop dealing treacherously, one will deal treacherously with you.

Verse ConceptsBetrayalTreacheryWoeThe DestroyerWoe To The WickedUnfaithfulfinishingtraitors

"And you shall say to them this word, 'Let my eyes melt [with] tears night and day, and let them not cease, for [with] a great wound the virgin daughter of my people is broken, [with] a very incurable wound.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersAffliction Day And NightNightI Mourn Catastrophe

For he will be like a tree planted by water, and to [the] stream it sends its roots, and it will not fear when heat comes, and its leaves will be luxuriant, and in [the] year of drought it will not be anxious, and it will not cease from the bearing of fruit.

Verse ConceptsColors, GreenSpring Of WaterUnfading LifeThe Source Of FruitRiver BanksWater For PlantsHot WeatherGreenWater, As A Symbol Of LifeRiversOlive TreesAnxiety And FearWorrying

"If these rules would cease from {before me}," {declares} Yahweh, "also the offspring of Israel would cease from being a nation {before me} {forever}."

Verse ConceptsOrderly Patternsisrael

And {I will cause obscene conduct to cease from the land}, and all of the women will be warned, and they will not do according to your wickedness.

Verse ConceptsCessationStopping EvilAvoid Immorality

{All who know you} among the peoples are appalled over you; you have become [as] horrors, and {you shall cease to exist forever}." '"

Verse ConceptsKnowing PeopleIndividuals Passing AwayPeople Appalled

And along the stream will go up on its banks {from both sides} every tree {producing food}; its leaf will not wither and it will not cease [producing] its fruit. {Every month} it will bear early fruit, for its waters [are] going out from the sanctuary, and its fruit will be as food, and its leaf for healing."

Verse ConceptsFruitNew ThingsdiseasesHealingMedicineAbundance, MaterialUnfading LifeIncreasing FruitRiver BanksWater For PlantsFoliageMetaphorical TreesFood DefinedGod HealsPlans For A New TempleHealing Of NationsHerbsHealth And HealingDrugs

And to him was given dominion and glory and kingship that all the peoples, the nations, and languages [would] serve him; his dominion [is] a dominion {without end} that will not cease, and his kingdom [is one] that will not be destroyed.

Verse ConceptsGentiles, In OtendGod, The EternalKingdom Of God, Coming OfHeaven, Worshiping GodSecond Coming Of Christ, The PurposeChrist's DominionPassing AwayThe Gentiles ConversionChrist Reigning ForeverPermanenceAll LanguagesGod Is UnchangingGod Saves From Sin And DeathGod's Kingdom Being Eternaldominion

And he will make a strong covenant with the many [for] one week, but [in] half of the week he will let cease sacrifice and offering {and in its place} a desolating abomination [comes] even until {the determined complete destruction} is poured out on [the] desolator."

Verse ConceptsAbominationsTribulation PeriodAbomination Of DesolationThree And A Half YearsSeven YearsThe DestroyerIsrael In TribulationPeace And SafetyThe World Ruler

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