82 occurrences

'Down' in the Bible

His wrongdoing will come back to him, and his violent behaviour will come down on his head.

Verse ConceptsHeadsMischiefFreedom From Violenceproblems

The nations have gone down into the hole which they made: in their secret net is their foot taken.

Verse ConceptsNetsPitsHeathenDigging PitsHidden ThingsTrapping OneselfPit Used As Traps

The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.

Verse ConceptsSeeking GodGod Seeing All PeopleNot Seeking GodGod Acts From Heaven

The heavens were bent, so that he might come down; and it was dark under his feet.

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfGod Going Downclouds

They are bent down and made low; but we have been lifted up.

Verse ConceptsHumbling The ProudDownfallPeople Getting Up

All the fat ones of the earth will give him worship; all those who go down to the dust will make themselves low before him, even he who has not enough for the life of his soul.

Verse ConceptsBanquets, Events CelebratedKneelingMortalityGod Opposes The Prouddust

My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.

Verse ConceptsDeafnessEarsGod, The RockPitsRocksSilenceSpiritual FoundationsSpiritual DeafnessGoing Down To The PitPossibility Of DeathGod Being SilentI PrayPits As A Term For Graves

Because they have no respect for the works of the Lord, or for the things which his hands have made, they will be broken down and not lifted up by him.

Verse ConceptsHand Of GodDestruction Of The WickedRefusing To HearWorking For The Lord

There the workers of evil have come down: they have been made low, and will not be lifted up.

Verse ConceptsEvildoersDownfall

For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.

Verse ConceptsAn Innumerable NumberGuilty ConsciencesDespair, Description OfNumber Of HairsHair

They say, He has an evil disease, which will not let him go: and now that he is down he will not get up again.

Verse ConceptsNearness Of DeathDeath Looms Near

My soul is crushed down in me, so I will keep you in mind; from the land of Jordan and of the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

Verse ConceptsDespondency, Examples OfDepression, Solutions ToHealthI Am SadThe Region Of JordanDepressionDespairwaterfalls

Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

Verse ConceptsPraiseFaith, Necessity OfTrusting In God's PresenceDoubt, Dealing WithDepression, Solutions ToI Am SadGod HelpsTrust In God!DepressionAntidepressantsDespair

Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God, for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

Verse ConceptsLonelinessSelf PityI Am SadGod HelpsTrust In God!Hope For The RighteousGrieving With HopeDepressionDespair

Uprooting the nations with your hand, and planting our fathers in their place; cutting down the nations, but increasing the growth of your people.

Verse Conceptsdriving outHeathenGod TroublingThe Lord Drove Them OutGod's People Planted

You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us.

Verse ConceptsBeing Reproved

For our souls are crushed down to the dust: our bodies are stretched out on the earth.

Verse ConceptsBody

He will put down the peoples under us, and the nations under our feet.

Verse ConceptsFeetAll Enemies Under God's Feet

Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

Verse ConceptsFeedingGrave, TheSheolSheepInadequate ShepherdingDeath Of The WickedBeauty, Temporal Nature OfUprightnessHow Death Is InevitableThe Fact Of DeathDeath Of Loved One

The God of gods, even the Lord, has sent out his voice, and the earth is full of fear; from the coming up of the sun to its going down.

Verse ConceptseastGod, Power OfThe SunWestGod SpeakingThe Lord [Yahweh] Is God

God was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.

Verse ConceptsGod Seeing All PeopleNot Seeking GodGod Acts From HeavenFinding LoveGoing To HeavenWorshiping TogetherChild Of GodRacehumanityseeking

Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheSheolNearness Of DeathDeath Looms NearWhilst Alivenatural DeathHurt And BetrayalLoss Of A Loved Onesurprises

But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.

Verse ConceptsDeceit, Practice OfDeceit Leading to JudgmentHell, As An ExperienceLiesPitsLiarsThe Fate Of The WickedAbasing PeopleHalf Of ThingsPits As A Term For Graves

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.)

Verse ConceptsBowingNetsPitsDigging PitsMan TrappingPsalm InterjectionsPit Used As Traps

Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.

Verse ConceptsWhirlwindsThornsGod Not DelayingWeed

Let them go wandering up and down in search of food, and be there all night if they have not enough.

Verse ConceptsdissatisfactionRestlessnessSatisfactionSeeking FoodRumblingwandering

Take me from the grip of the sticky earth, so that I may not go down into it; let me be lifted up from the deep waters.

Verse ConceptsSinkingMarsheshaters

Let those who are against him go down before him; and let his haters be low in the dust.

Verse ConceptsBowingEarth, God's GloryStomachsLiving In The WildernessBowing Before Messiah

Yes, let all kings go down before him; let all nations be his servants.

Verse ConceptsChristmasGod's DominionBowing Before MessiahDealing With The Nations

You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The WickedSlipperyness

They are cutting down, like a man whose blade is lifted up against the thick trees.

Verse ConceptsAxesFelling Trees

Your doors are broken down with hammers and iron blades.

Verse ConceptsAxesCarving

They have put on fire your holy place; they have made the place of your name unclean, pulling it down to the earth.

Verse ConceptsBurning JerusalemLack Of Holiness

O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?

Verse ConceptsIrreverenceMockeryDisdainBefore God Acts

Keep this in mind, O Lord, that your haters have said cruel things, and that your name has been looked down on by a people of evil behaviour.

Verse ConceptsBlasphemy, At GodInsultsFools, Description OfFools Attitude To God

Give ear, O my people, to my law; let your ears be bent down to the words of my mouth.

He made streams come out of the rock; and waters came flowing down like rivers.

Verse ConceptsDivine SuppliesProvision From Rocks

And he sent down manna like rain for their food, and gave them the grain of heaven.

Verse ConceptsBread, Figurative Of

He sent down meat on them like dust, and feathered birds like the sand of the sea,

Verse ConceptsNumerous As DustQuailSand And Gravel

And he let it come down into their resting-place, round about their tents.

Verse ConceptsAnimals Falling

Ice was rained down on their cattle; thunderstorms sent destruction among the flocks.

Verse ConceptsLightning

Why are its walls broken down by your hands, so that all who go by may take its fruit?

Verse ConceptsWallsDestruction Of Jerusalem's WallWhy Does God Do This?

It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face.

Verse ConceptsRebukeVinesFelling TreesHeavenly FacesBurning PlantsGod Requite Them!

Faith comes up from the earth like a plant; righteousness is looking down from heaven.

Verse ConceptsArchaeologySmilingspringtime

You have made your agreement with your servant of no effect: you have had no respect for his crown, it has come down even to the earth.

Verse ConceptsLater Covenants With God

If the Lord had not been my helper, my soul would quickly have gone down into death.

Verse ConceptsHelpfulnessState Of The DeadGod HelpsSupporthelpsoulhelping

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

Verse ConceptsVapourGoing Up MountainsThings FallingThings Going UpRoses

He sends down rain from his store-houses on the hills: the earth is full of the fruit of his works.

Verse ConceptsSatisfactionStoring

He gave their vines and their fig-trees to destruction, and the trees of their land were broken down.

Verse ConceptsFig treeHarming Trees

Egypt was glad when they went; for the fear of them had come down on them.

Verse ConceptsFearing Other PeopleRejoicing In Relief

His hand made the rock open, and the waters came streaming out; they went down through the dry places like a river.

Verse ConceptsThirstGod Providing WaterProvision From Rocks

So that he made their hearts weighted down with grief; they were falling, and had no helper.

Verse ConceptsNo HelpThe Fact Of Toilhardwork

The sailors go up to heaven, and down into the deep; their souls are wasted because of their trouble.

Verse ConceptsMeltingMoving UpwardsMan Going DownLosing Courage

All the nations have come round me; but in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

Verse ConceptsEnemies Surrounding

They are round me, yes, they are all about me; but in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

Verse ConceptsEnemies Surrounding

They are round me like bees; but they are put out like a fire among thorns; for in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

Verse ConceptsBeesInsectsThornsWicked Described AsEnemies SurroundingExtinguishingWeed

Let burning flames come down on them: let them be put into the fire, and into deep waters, so that they may not get up again.

Verse ConceptsBurning People

Who gives their rights to those who are crushed down; and gives food to those who are in need of it: the Lord makes the prisoners free;

Verse ConceptsPrisonersGod And The PoorGod Does Right For PeopleGod Feeds All The EarthGod Freeing CaptivesFeeding The Poorhunger

The Lord makes open the eyes of the blind; the Lord is the lifter up of those who are bent down; the Lord is a lover of the upright;

Verse ConceptsBlindness, HealingsSpiritual Blindness, Removal OfBowingRighteous, TheRighteousness, Of BelieversVisionGod Lifting PeopleHealing Of The BlindBlindness

He sends down ice like raindrops: water is made hard by his cold.

Verse ConceptsCold, Figurative UseCrumbsCold Weather

Bible Theasaurus

Consume (170 instances)
Depressed (31 instances)
Devour (148 instances)
Downcast (10 instances)
Downhearted (1 instance)
Mastered (4 instances)
Polish (1 instance)
Refine (9 instances)

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain