14 occurrences

'Themselves' in the Bible

For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentForsaking GodBeing ForsakenFalse ConfidenceCisternsdrought, spiritualFountainsTwoDoubtSpring Of WaterThirstTrust, Lack OfWellsFountains Of LifeBreaking ContainersMetaphorical SpringsTwo Intangible ThingsWells, Figurative Use

An untrained ass, used to the waste land, breathing up the wind in her desire; at her time, who is able to send her away? all those who are looking for her will have no need to make themselves tired; in her month they will get her.

Verse ConceptsHeatNosesSeeking For Concrete ThingsDo Not Grow WearyPassiontired

Are they moving me to wrath? says the Lord; are they not moving themselves to their shame?

Verse ConceptsProvokingFruits Of SinShame Has Comehurting

So I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who will take them for themselves: for everyone, from the least to the greatest, is given up to getting money; from the priest even to the prophet, everyone is false.

Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofGreed, Condemnation OfProfitsMen DeceivingWicked ProphetsGreat And SmallTransferring WivesGreedWifespousepracticecheatersothers

Though good grain was planted, they have got in thorns: they have given themselves pain without profit: they will be shamed on account of their produce, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsHarvestProfitsSin, Effects OfSowing And ReapingThornsWheatUnprofitable SinsNot Reaping What You SowToiling In Vain

Death will overtake great as well as small in the land: their bodies will not be put in a resting-place, and no one will be weeping for them or wounding themselves or cutting off their hair for them:

Verse ConceptsThe DeadBaldnessHairsKnivesUnburied BodiesNo BurialsGreat And SmallGashing BodiesNot Mourning

This is what the Lord of armies has said: Do not give ear to the words which the prophets say to you: they give you teaching of no value: it is from themselves that their vision comes, and not out of the mouth of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsHope, Nature OfListeningFalse ProphetsVisionsWord Of GodFalse Doctrines, AvoidanceFalse HopesNo VisionsDo Not Listen!Prophets Who Were Not SentFalse Apostles, Prophets And TeachersProphecyimagination

For this cause, all those who take you for their food will themselves become your food; and all your attackers, every one of them, will be taken prisoners; and those who send destruction on you will come to destruction; and all those who take away your goods by force will undergo the same themselves.

Verse ConceptsPlundering

And their chief will be of their number; their ruler will come from among themselves; and I will let him be present before me, so that he may come near to me: for who may have strength of heart to come near me? says the Lord.

Verse ConceptsRulersBeing StrongBoldnessrisk

Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away to Babylon as prisoners, all the rest of the workmen who were still in the town, as well as those who had given themselves up to him, and all the rest of the people.

Verse ConceptsGuardsExecutionersExile Of Judah To BabylonTurning Against Men

The hair is cut off from the head of Gaza; Ashkelon has come to nothing; the last of the Anakim are deeply wounding themselves.

Verse ConceptsBaldness, Figurative UseBaldnessHairsHeadsKnivesMourningSilenceGashing Bodies

Their tents and their flocks they will take; they will take away for themselves their curtains and all their vessels and their camels: they will give a cry to them, Fear on every side.

Verse ConceptsFear Will ComeTaking Possessions

Up! go against a nation which is living in comfort and without fear of danger, says the Lord, without doors or locks, living by themselves.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsNationalismA Solitary PeopleThose At Ease

Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away as prisoners the rest of the people who were still in the town, and those who had given themselves up to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the workmen.

Verse ConceptsExile Of Judah To BabylonTurning Against Men

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