12 occurrences

'Hands' in the Bible

A watch is kept on my sins; they are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he has made my strength give way: the Lord has given me up into the hands of those against whom I have no power.

Verse ConceptsHeavy Burdens

Zion's hands are outstretched; she has no comforter; the Lord has given orders to the attackers of Jacob round about him: Jerusalem has become like an unclean thing among them.

Verse ConceptsJerusalem, Significance OfSitting In DejectionNo Comfort

The Lord has given up his altar and has been turned in hate from his holy place; he has given up into the hands of the attacker the walls of her great houses: their voices have been loud in the house of the Lord as in the day of a holy meeting.

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentRejecting ThingsRejection Of God, Results OfSanctuaryWallsDestruction Of Jerusalem's WallShouting To The LordFestivals Disregarded

All who go by make a noise with their hands at you; they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?

Verse ConceptsBeautifulClappingBeauty Of JerusalemNames For JerusalemApplauseShaking The HeadHissingSpectatorsPeople Made Perfect

Up! give cries in the night, at the starting of the night-watches; let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of the Lord, lifting up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down, feeble for need of food, at the top of every street.

Verse ConceptsHandsNightPouringAll Night PrayersLifting HandsThings Like WaterPouring WaterFaintingTragedy On The StreetsYoung People SufferingBeginning Of PeriodsLike Water

You will give them their reward, O Lord, answering to the work of their hands.

Verse ConceptsGod Will RequiteRepaid For Deeds

The valued sons of Zion, whose price was the best gold, are looked on as vessels of earth, the work of the hands of the potter!

Verse ConceptsClayPotterThings Like GoldGood PeoplePrice Of PeopleWhat Value Is Man?Worthweight

The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Verse ConceptsCannibalismMotherhoodcookingtenderheartedness

We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.

Verse ConceptsSeeking Food

Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.

Verse ConceptsSlavesNo One Can SaveUnsuitable Rule

Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.

Verse ConceptsOld Age, Attitudes ToRespect, For Human BeingsDisrespect For Old Age

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