84 occurrences

'Down' in the Bible

And the mean man is bowed down, and the great man is brought low: therefore forgive them not.

Verse ConceptsUnforgivenessGod Not Forgiving

The lofty looks of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day.

Verse ConceptsHumilityStubbornness, Consequences OfArrogance, Punishment OfHumbling The ProudBeing Humble

And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day.

Verse ConceptsSuperiorityPrideBeing Humblearrogance

And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:

Verse ConceptsWallsFigurative Fields

And the mean man is bowed down, and the great man is humbled, and the eyes of the lofty are humbled:

Verse ConceptsHumilityArrogance, Punishment OfBeing Humblearroganceimportance

Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass sinketh down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Verse ConceptsRejecting God's WordDecayGrassRejection Of GodStrawRejection Of God's WordWord Of GodRootsPeople RottingBurning Plants

The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone; the sycomores are cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.

Verse ConceptsBricksHousesMasonsProperty, HousesStonesSycamoresFortsStone ItemsCedar WoodThings ImprovedChristmas Treerebuilding

They shall only bow down under the prisoners, and shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Verse ConceptsGod's HandCrouchingGod's Hands Stretched Out

I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Verse ConceptsPlunderingGodlessnessNationalismTrampling People

For he hath said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures, and like a valiant man I have brought down them that sit on thrones :

Verse ConceptsPride, Examples OfWisdom, Human NatureFalse WisdomActing For Oneself

Behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, will lop the boughs with terror: and the high of stature shall be hewn down, and the lofty shall be brought low.

Verse ConceptsCutting Off BranchesPutting Things Down

And he will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

Verse ConceptsThe Prophecy Towards Lebanon

And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

Verse ConceptsLeopardMillennial KingdomLambsLionsAnimals, Types OfDeliverance From LionsWolvesChildren And The KingdomDeerPetsSleeping Peacefully

And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

Verse ConceptsCowsFeedingStrawBearsYoung AnimalDeliverance From LionsNoting What Animals Eatcats

And they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines on the west; together shall they despoil the children of the east: they shall put forth their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.

Verse ConceptsThe Prophecy Towards AmmonThe Prophecy Towards Edom

It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall shepherds make their flocks to lie down there.

Verse ConceptsNomadsEmpty CitiesNo More Tending The Flock

Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.

Verse ConceptsHarpsCovering The BodyMusical Instruments, types ofHumbling The ProudPeople Eaten By WormMaggotsNo Musicworms

How art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, that didst lay low the nations!

Verse ConceptsSatanticWeakness, PhysicalThe Morning StarFalling From HeavenAffecting Sun Moon And StarsRebellion of Satan and AngelsSatan as DestroyerLucifersoaring

Yet thou shalt be brought down to Sheol, to the uttermost parts of the pit.

Verse ConceptsPitsSheolGoing Down To The PitAbasing PeoplePits As A Term For Graves

But thou art cast forth away from thy sepulchre like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, that are thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot.

Verse ConceptsThe DeadCovering The BodyPitsWicked Described AsUnburied BodiesPits As A Term For Graves

And the first-born of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety; and I will kill thy root with famine, and thy remnant shall be slain.

Verse ConceptsPeace, Divine In OtRootsSafetyFamine Coming From GodThose Helping The PoorFeeding The Poor

For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down the choice branches thereof, which reached even unto Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness; its shoots were spread abroad, they passed over the sea.

Verse ConceptsDestroying Vineyards

The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

Verse ConceptsEmpty CitiesPasturing The Flock

that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters,'saying , Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide!

Verse ConceptsBabylonenvoyPapyrusDivision Of WatersTall PeopleSea TravelBoatsWaters DividingFearing Other People

For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away and cut down.

Verse ConceptsPruningKnivesToolsCutting Off Branches

In that time shall a present be brought unto Jehovah of hosts from a people tall and smooth, even from a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, the mount Zion.

Verse ConceptsGiftsGiving To GodDivision Of WatersTall PeopleWaters DividingFearing Other PeopleAmerica

For it is a day of discomfiture, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.

Verse ConceptsBattering ramsValleysWallsVisions From God

and ye numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and ye brake down the houses to fortify the wall;

Verse ConceptsNumberingCounting BuildingsDestruction Of HousesBuilding Jerusalem's Wall

And I will thrust thee from thine office; and from thy station shalt thou be pulled down.

Verse ConceptsHumiliationDeposing

In that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, shall the nail that was fastened in a sure place give way; and it shall be hewn down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off; for Jehovah hath spoken it.

Verse ConceptsTentsPegs

Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

Verse ConceptsChaosWasteScattering The PeoplesDestruction Of The World

The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of CitiesFormlessnessShutting Doors

As the heat in a dry place wilt thou bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the terrible ones shall be brought low.

Verse ConceptsForeignersSilenceHot WeatherForeigners SubduedAliensrelentless

For in this mountain will the hand of Jehovah rest; and Moab shall be trodden down in his place, even as straw is trodden down in the water of the dung-hill.

Verse Conceptsdung and manureStrawThe Prophecy Towards EdomGod's HandTrampling PeopleDefecationGod's Hands In Opposition

And the high fortress of thy walls hath he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

Verse ConceptsStrongholdsFortsPutting Things Downdust

For he hath brought down them that dwell on high, the lofty city: he layeth it low, he layeth it low even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.

Verse ConceptsHumiliationHumilityPride, Results OfHumbling The ProudDestruction Of CitiesPutting Things Down

The foot shall tread it down; even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.

Verse ConceptsTrampling Placesfootsteps

For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

Verse ConceptsChaosCities Under AttackEmpty CitiesChaos As JudgmentHomestead

Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one; as a tempest of hail, a destroying storm, as a tempest of mighty waters overflowing, will he cast down to the earth with the hand.

Verse ConceptsBitingHailRainGod Giving StrengthGod Gives Strength

And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.

Verse ConceptsAgreementTrampling PeopleNot DyingDeath Preventedcovenantcheaters

And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust; and thy voice shall be as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.

Verse ConceptsNecromancyAbasing PeopleSpeechghostsdust

Ye turn things upside down! Shall the potter be esteemed as clay; that the thing made should say of him that made it, He made me not; or the thing formed say of him that formed it, He hath no understanding?

Verse ConceptsCriticism, amongst believersClayPotterPotteryTurning Upside DownBeing Without UnderstandingMan's Relationship With His CreatorWeedatheismpot

that set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!

Verse ConceptsForbidden AlliancesTrusting In Man, Warnings AgainstGod's Counsel

And Jehovah will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, and tempest, and hailstones.

Verse ConceptsGod, Majesty OfThunderWeather, As God's JudgmentArm Of GodFire Of God's AngerPaying Attention To GodLightning Used MetaphoricallyThunder Expressing God's Judgment

For thus saith Jehovah unto me, As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds be called forth against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so will Jehovah of hosts come down to fight upon mount Zion, and upon the hill thereof.

Verse ConceptsNoiseShepherds, As Kings And LeadersStock Keeping

And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime, as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.

Verse ConceptsThorns

For my sword hath drunk its fill in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.

Verse ConceptsMore Than EnoughGod's Sword

And the wild-oxen shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls: and their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

Verse ConceptsCovered With BloodFat Of AnimalsWild OxUnicorns

By thy servants hast thou defied the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir-trees thereof; and I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field;

Verse ConceptsChariotsCedarFelling TreesTrusting In Chariots

But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against me.

Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingGoing Out And Coming InGoing Through the Motions

behold, I will cause the shadow on the steps, which is gone down on the dial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the dial whereon it was gone down.

Verse ConceptsAstronomyLight, NaturalShadowsStairwaysThe SunSun DialsTen ThingsStepsMoving OnRecoveryEclipseSolar Eclipse

Sing unto Jehovah a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth; ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.

Verse ConceptsNew ThingsMarinersAttitudes Of PraiseIslandsPraisePraise, Manner And Methods OfPraise, Reasons ForSongsSea DwellersA New SongThe End Of The World

Thus saith Jehovah, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring down all of them as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.

Verse ConceptsReturn From BabylonRedemption, In OtSeafaringShipsFor The Sake Of God's People

who bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty man (they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched as a wick):

Verse ConceptsDestroying ChariotsExtinguishingEarthly Armiesreinforcement

He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the holm-tree and the oak, and strengtheneth for himself one among the trees of the forest: he planteth a fir-tree, and the rain doth nourish it.

Verse ConceptsTreesFelling Treeswoodworkingtoughness

Then shall it be for a man to burn; and he taketh thereof, and warmeth himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread: yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.

Verse ConceptsAdoration, FalseTreesWarmingFirewoodSelf Imagecookingimage

And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image; he falleth down unto it and worshippeth, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.

Verse ConceptsBowingReligionIdolatry Consists OfPraying Amissimage

And none calleth to mind, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?

Verse ConceptsAbominationsAbominations, Idolatry IsIgnorance Towards God, Leads ToDullnessBowing To False GodsBaking BreadFirewoodHalf Of ThingsThose Who Were Ignorant

Distil, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, that it may bring forth salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up together; I, Jehovah, have created it.

Verse Conceptsdrought, spiritualRainWeather, As God's JudgmentOpening HeavenCreationFreedomChange And GrowthSolar EclipseSpilling Your Seed On The Groundcloudswaterfallsrevival

Thus saith Jehovah, The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall go after thee, in chains they shall come over; and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee,'saying , Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God.

Verse ConceptsExperience, of GodEthiopiaChainsMission, Of IsraelTradeMerchandiseAfricaCommerceGod With YouTall PeopleNo Other Is GodPerspective

Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth; their idols are upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: the things that ye carried about are made a load, a burden to the weary beast .

Verse ConceptsBabylon, History OfFalse GodsCarrying IdolsCrouching

They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.

Verse ConceptsSalvation By Other Things

Such as lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, they hire a goldsmith, and he maketh it a god; they fall down, yea, they worship.

Verse ConceptsCraftsmenPursesGoldHiringMetalworkersSkillGoldsmithsWeighingBowing To False GodsAmassing SilverGold TransferredNature Of Idolatrybalance

Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

Verse ConceptsBabylonTendernessVirginBabylon DestroyedSitting In DejectionSoftnessLosing Honour

And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah; and they that wait for me shall not be put to shame.

Verse ConceptsFeetAssurance, basis ofBowingDust, Figurative UseHope, Results OfProstrationStomachsKings, How They Should ActNot Put To ShameHope For The RighteousMothersDisappointmentMotherhoodTaking Care Of The Earth

Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that gird yourselves about with firebrands; walk ye in the flame of your fire, and among the brands that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of my hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.

Verse ConceptsFruits Of SinThe Ungodly Sufferingfate

The captive exile shall speedily be loosed; and he shall not die and go down into the pit, neither shall his bread fail.

Verse ConceptsPeople Releasing Others

and I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee, that have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over; and thou hast laid thy back as the ground, and as the street, to them that go over.

Verse ConceptsProstrationTorture

For thus saith the Lord Jehovah, My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there: and the Assyrian hath oppressed them without cause.

Verse ConceptsBeginningOppression, Nature Of

For as the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, and giveth seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

Verse ConceptsAgriculture, Used FigurativelyWinterLand ProducingSnowGod Feeds All The EarthChange And GrowthSeedsspringtimewaterfallsproviding

His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

Verse ConceptsDumbnessDaydreamingOccupationsSleep, SpiritualSleep, PhysicalWatchmanSloth Examples OfSleep, Warnings AgainstBarking And HowlingDumbThose Who Were IgnorantPetsawakening

Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Jehovah?

Verse ConceptsHumilityReedsSackcloth And AshesBowing Heads Before GodAshes Of HumiliationHow To FastHumbling OneselfFastingHumble Yourselfhumbleness

And the sons of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee The city of Jehovah, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

Verse ConceptsNames For JerusalemHumbling The ProudoppressionzionAll Enemies Under God's Feet

Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself; for Jehovah will be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.

Verse ConceptsUnhappinessPromised LightEternally With GodNot MourningSunSunshineThe Moongrieving

And I trod down the peoples in mine anger, and made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.

Verse ConceptsTrampling PeopleCovered With BloodGod Angry With The NationsGod Making Drunk

As the cattle that go down into the valley, the Spirit of Jehovah caused them to rest; so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.

Verse ConceptsDivine LeadingThe Spirit Of GodThe Spirit Of The LordGod Has GuidedGod Giving Rest

Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where are thy zeal and thy mighty acts? the yearning of thy heart and thy compassions are restrained toward me.

Verse ConceptsGod, Compassion OfGentlenessGod, Zeal OfSympathyTendernessZealHeaven, God's ThroneGod Acts From HeavenQuerying God's Power

Thy holy people possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

Verse ConceptsTrampling Places

Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at thy presence,

Verse ConceptsMountainsMountains QuakingGod Going Downepiphany

When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains quaked at thy presence.

Verse ConceptsMountains QuakingGod Going DownLack Of Expectation

And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.

Verse ConceptsHerdsPasturing The Flock

I will destine you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but ye did that which was evil in mine eyes, and chose that wherein I delighted not.

Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstChoicesListeningRejection Of GodGod's Call, Few RespondReprobatesAnswering GodNot Pleasing GodOthers Not Answeringfate

Bible Theasaurus

Consume (170 instances)
Depressed (31 instances)
Devour (148 instances)
Downcast (10 instances)
Downhearted (1 instance)
Mastered (4 instances)
Polish (1 instance)
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