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'Themselves' in the Bible

a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind in her desire. When she is in heat, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her.

Verse ConceptsHeatNosesSeeking For Concrete ThingsDo Not Grow WearyPassiontired

and you shall swear, 'As Yahweh lives,' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory."

Verse ConceptsSwearing

"How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes' houses.

Verse ConceptsAdultery, Examples OfProstitutionUnforgivenessHarlotsGod Not ForgivingSwearing ByThose Who Committed Adulterywhores

Don't you fear me?' says Yahweh 'Won't you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though its waves toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet they can't pass over it.'

Verse ConceptsBoundariesSandSeaAttitudes Of RespectOceansAweWavesDivine Power Over NatureBarriersEternal WorldLimits For The SeaSand And GravelFear God!

Do they provoke me to anger? says Yahweh; [do they] not [provoke] themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?

Verse ConceptsProvokingFruits Of SinShame Has Comehurting

They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.

Verse ConceptsManipulationMen DeceivingFriendsFriendship And TrustDeceptionLying And Deceitlieing

For Yahweh of Armies, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have worked for themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Baal.

Verse ConceptsMetaphorical PlantingGod Will Bring Harm

They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.

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

Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them;

Verse ConceptsThe DeadBaldnessHairsKnivesUnburied BodiesNo BurialsGreat And SmallGashing BodiesNot Mourning

Their prince shall be of themselves, and their ruler shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach to me: for who is he who has had boldness to approach to me? says Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsRulersBeing StrongBoldnessrisk

that there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to the house of Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsTearing Of ClothesBeardsKnivesShavingThe Number EightyGashing BodiesThose Who Tore ClothesEightiesThe Temple At Shiloh

Who is this who rises up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?

Verse ConceptsChaosRiver NileFloods

Egypt rises up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers: and he says, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy cities and its inhabitants.

Verse ConceptsLike A Flood

Their tents and their flocks shall they take; they shall carry away for themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry to them, Terror on every side!

Verse ConceptsFear Will ComeTaking Possessions

For, behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and they shall set themselves in array against her; from there she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of an expert mighty man; none shall return in vain.

Verse ConceptsAliancesSkillOut Of The North

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Themselves (1085 instances)