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jps@Genesis:2:3 @ And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it He rested from all His work which God in creating had made.

jps@Genesis:2:23 @ And the man said: 'This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.'

jps@Genesis:3:10 @ And he said: 'I heard Thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.'

jps@Genesis:3:20 @ And the man called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

jps@Genesis:7:7 @ And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

jps@Genesis:11:9 @ Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth; and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

jps@Genesis:12:13 @ Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister; that it may be well with me for thy sake, and that my soul may live because of thee.'

jps@Genesis:12:17 @ And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.

jps@Genesis:16:11 @ And the angel of the LORD said unto her: 'Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son; and thou shalt call his name Ishmael, because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.

jps@Genesis:19:13 @ for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxed great before the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.'

jps@Genesis:20:3 @ But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him: 'Behold, thou shalt die, because of the woman whom thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.'

jps@Genesis:20:18 @ For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.

jps@Genesis:21:12 @ And God said unto Abraham: 'Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah saith unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall seed be called to thee.

jps@Genesis:21:13 @ And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.'

jps@Genesis:21:25 @ And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

jps@Genesis:21:31 @ Wherefore that place was called Beer-sheba; because there they swore both of them.

jps@Genesis:22:16 @ and said: 'By Myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son,

jps@Genesis:22:18 @ and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast hearkened to My voice.'

jps@Genesis:25:21 @ And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren; and the LORD let Himself be entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

jps@Genesis:25:28 @ Now Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison; and Rebekah loved Jacob.

jps@Genesis:26:5 @ because that Abraham hearkened to My voice, and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.'

jps@Genesis:26:7 @ And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said: 'She is my sister'; for he feared to say: 'My wife'; 'lest the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah, because she is fair to look upon.'

jps@Genesis:26:9 @ And Abimelech called Isaac, and said: 'Behold, of a surety she is thy wife; and how saidst thou: She is my sister?' And Isaac said unto him: 'Because I said: Lest I die because of her.'

jps@Genesis:26:20 @ And the herdmen of Gerar strove with Isaac's herdmen, saying: 'The water is ours.' And he called the name of the well Esek; because they contended with him.

jps@Genesis:27:23 @ And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands; so he blessed him.

jps@Genesis:27:41 @ And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him. And Esau said in his heart: 'Let the days of mourning for my father be at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.'

jps@Genesis:27:46 @ And Rebekah said to Isaac: 'I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?'

jps@Genesis:28:11 @ And he lighted upon the place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.

jps@Genesis:29:34 @ And she conceived again, and bore a son; and said: 'Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have borne him three sons.' Therefore was his name called Levi.

jps@Genesis:30:18 @ And Leah said: 'God hath given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband. And she called his name Issachar.

jps@Genesis:30:20 @ And Leah said: 'God hath endowed me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons.' And she called his name Zebulun.

jps@Genesis:31:30 @ And now that thou art surely gone, because thou sore longest after thy father's house, wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?'

jps@Genesis:32:32 @ Therefore the children of Israel eat not the sinew of the thigh-vein which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day; because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh, even in the sinew of the thigh-vein.

jps@Genesis:33:11 @ Take, I pray thee, my gift that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.' And he urged him, and he took it.

jps@Genesis:34:7 @ And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it; and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought a vile deed in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.

jps@Genesis:34:13 @ And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with guile, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,

jps@Genesis:34:19 @ And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter. And he was honoured above all the house of his father.

jps@Genesis:34:27 @ The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.

jps@Genesis:35:7 @ And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el, because there God was revealed unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

jps@Genesis:36:7 @ For their substance was too great for them to dwell together; and the land of their sojournings could not bear them because of their cattle.

jps@Genesis:37:3 @ Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a coat of many colours.

jps@Genesis:39:9 @ he is not greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?'

jps@Genesis:39:23 @ The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand, because the LORD was with him; and that which he did, the LORD made it to prosper.

jps@Genesis:41:32 @ And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice, it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

jps@Genesis:41:57 @ And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy corn; because the famine was sore in all the earth.

jps@Genesis:43:18 @ And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said: 'Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.'

jps@Genesis:43:32 @ And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, that did eat with him, by themselves; because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.

jps@Genesis:47:20 @ So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was sore upon them; and the land became Pharaoh's.

jps@Genesis:49:4 @ Unstable as water, have not thou the excellency; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it--he went up to my couch.

jps@Exodus:1:12 @ But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And they were adread because of the children of Israel.

jps@Exodus:1:21 @ And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that He made them houses.

jps@Exodus:5:21 @ and they said unto them: 'The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.'

jps@Exodus:9:11 @ And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils were upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians.

jps@Exodus:12:39 @ And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.

jps@Exodus:13:8 @ And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying: It is because of that which the LORD did for me when I came forth out of Egypt.

jps@Exodus:17:7 @ And the name of the place was called Massah, and Meribah, because of the striving of the children of Israel, and because they tried the LORD, saying: 'Is the LORD among us, or not?'

jps@Exodus:19:18 @ Now mount Sinai was altogether on smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

jps@Exodus:29:33 @ And they shall eat those things wherewith atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them; but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.

jps@Exodus:29:34 @ And if aught of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread, remain unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire; it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

jps@Exodus:32:35 @ And the LORD smote the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.

jps@Exodus:40:35 @ And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of meeting, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.--

jps@Leviticus:10:13 @ And ye shall eat it in a holy place, because it is thy due, and thy sons' due, of the offerings of the LORD made by fire; for so I am commanded.

jps@Leviticus:11:4 @ Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that only chew the cud, or of them that only part the hoof: the camel, because he cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, he is unclean unto you.

jps@Leviticus:11:5 @ And the rock-badger, because he cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, he is unclean unto you.

jps@Leviticus:11:6 @ And the hare, because she cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, she is unclean unto you.

jps@Leviticus:11:7 @ And the swine, because he parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, but cheweth not the cud, he is unclean unto you.

jps@Leviticus:14:19 @ And the priest shall offer the sin-offering, and make atonement for him that is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill the burnt-offering.

jps@Leviticus:14:48 @ And if the priest shall come in, and look, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plastered; then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.

jps@Leviticus:16:16 @ And he shall make atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleannesses of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions, even all their sins; and so shall he do for the tent of meeting, that dwelleth with them in the midst of their uncleannesses.

jps@Leviticus:16:34 @ And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make atonement for the children of Israel because of all their sins once in the year.' And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.

jps@Leviticus:19:8 @ But every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the holy thing of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from his people.

jps@Leviticus:19:17 @ Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart; thou shalt surely rebuke thy neighbour, and not bear sin because of him.

jps@Leviticus:19:20 @ And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, designated for a man, and not at all redeemed, nor was freedom given her; there shall be inquisition; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

jps@Leviticus:20:3 @ I also will set My face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people, because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile My sanctuary, and to profane My holy name.

jps@Leviticus:21:23 @ Only he shall not go in unto the veil, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not My holy places; for I am the LORD who sanctify them.

jps@Leviticus:22:7 @ And when the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he may eat of the holy things, because it is his bread.

jps@Leviticus:22:25 @ Neither from the hand of a foreigner shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these, because their corruption is in them, there is a blemish in them; they shall not be accepted for you.

jps@Leviticus:26:43 @ For the land shall lie forsaken without them, and shall be paid her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them; and they shall be paid the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they rejected Mine ordinances, and their soul abhorred My statutes.

jps@Numbers:6:7 @ He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die; because his consecration unto God is upon his head.

jps@Numbers:6:12 @ And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his Naziriteship, and shall bring a he-lamb of the first year for a guilt- offering; but the former days shall be void, because his consecration was defiled.

jps@Numbers:7:9 @ But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the holy things belonged unto them: they bore them upon their shoulders.

jps@Numbers:9:13 @ But the man that is clean, and is not on a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people; because he brought not the offering of the LORD in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.

jps@Numbers:11:3 @ And the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD burnt among them.

jps@Numbers:11:14 @ I am not able to bear all this people myself alone, because it is too heavy for me.

jps@Numbers:11:20 @ but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you; because that ye have rejected the LORD who is among you, and have troubled Him with weeping, saying: Why, now, came we forth out of Egypt?'

jps@Numbers:11:34 @ And the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people that lusted.

jps@Numbers:12:1 @ And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.

jps@Numbers:13:24 @ That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from thence.--

jps@Numbers:14:16 @ Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which He swore unto them, therefore He hath slain them in the wilderness.

jps@Numbers:14:24 @ But My servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed Me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.

jps@Numbers:15:31 @ Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken His commandment; that soul shall utterly be cut off, his iniquity shall be upon him.

jps@Numbers:15:34 @ And they put him in ward, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.

jps@Numbers:16:38 @ even the fire-pans of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, and let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar--for they are become holy, because they were offered before the LORD--that they may be a sign unto the children of Israel.'

jps@Numbers:19:13 @ Whosoever toucheth the dead, even the body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself--he hath defiled the tabernacle of the LORD--that soul shall be cut off from Israel; because the water of sprinkling was not dashed against him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.

jps@Numbers:19:20 @ But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD; the water of sprinkling hath not been dashed against him: he is unclean.

jps@Numbers:20:24 @ 'Aaron shall be gathered unto his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against My word at the waters of Meribah.

jps@Numbers:21:4 @ And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom; and the soul of the people became impatient because of the way.

jps@Numbers:21:7 @ And the people came to Moses, and said: 'We have sinned, because we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that He take away the serpents from us.' And Moses prayed for the people.

jps@Numbers:22:3 @ And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many; and Moab was overcome with dread because of the children of Israel.

jps@Numbers:22:22 @ And God's anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of the LORD placed himself in the way for an adversary against him.--Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him.--

jps@Numbers:22:32 @ And the angel of the LORD said unto him: 'Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I am come forth for an adversary, because thy way is contrary unto me;

jps@Numbers:25:13 @ and it shall be unto him, and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.'

jps@Numbers:26:62 @ And they that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, every male from a month old and upward; for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.

jps@Numbers:27:4 @ Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he had no son? Give unto us a possession among the brethren of our father.'

jps@Numbers:27:14 @ because ye rebelled against My commandment in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify Me at the waters before their eyes.'--These are the waters of Meribath-kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.--

jps@Numbers:30:5 @ But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth, none of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand; and the LORD will forgive her, because her father disallowed her.

jps@Numbers:30:14 @ But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day, then he causeth all her vows to stand, or all her bonds, which are upon her; he hath let them stand, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.

jps@Numbers:32:11 @ Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed Me;

jps@Numbers:32:12 @ save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; because they have wholly followed the LORD.

jps@Numbers:32:17 @ but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place; and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

jps@Numbers:32:19 @ For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan, and forward, because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.'

jps@Numbers:35:28 @ because he must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest; but after the death of the high priest the manslayer may return into the land of his possession.

jps@Deuteronomy:1:36 @ save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, he shall see it; and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children; because he hath wholly followed the LORD.'

jps@Deuteronomy:2:5 @ contend not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.

jps@Deuteronomy:2:9 @ And the LORD said unto me: 'Be not at enmity with Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give thee of his land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.--

jps@Deuteronomy:2:19 @ and when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, harass them not, nor contend with them; for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession.--

jps@Deuteronomy:2:25 @ This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the peoples that are under the whole heaven, who, when they hear the report of thee, shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.'

jps@Deuteronomy:4:37 @ And because He loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them, and brought thee out with His presence, with His great power, out of Egypt,

jps@Deuteronomy:5:5 @ I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to declare unto you the word of the LORD; for ye were afraid because of the fire, and went not up into the mount--saying:

jps@Deuteronomy:7:7 @ The LORD did not set His love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people--for ye were the fewest of all peoples--

jps@Deuteronomy:7:8 @ but because the LORD loved you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

jps@Deuteronomy:7:12 @ And it shall come to pass, because ye hearken to these ordinances, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep with thee the covenant and the mercy which He swore unto thy fathers,

jps@Deuteronomy:8:20 @ As the nations that the LORD maketh to perish before you, so shall ye perish; because ye would not hearken unto the voice of the LORD your God.

jps@Deuteronomy:9:18 @ And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which ye sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him.

jps@Deuteronomy:9:25 @ So I fell down before the LORD the forty days and forty nights that I fell down; because the LORD had said He would destroy you.

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jps@Deuteronomy:12:20 @ When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as He hath promised thee, and thou shalt say: 'I will eat flesh', because thy soul desireth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, after all the desire of thy soul.

jps@Deuteronomy:13:5 @ And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken perversion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage, to draw thee aside out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.

jps@Deuteronomy:13:10 @ And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to draw thee away from the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

jps@Deuteronomy:14:7 @ Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that only chew the cud, or of them that only have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the rock-badger, because they chew the cud but part not the hoof, they are unclean unto you;

jps@Deuteronomy:14:8 @ and the swine, because he parteth the hoof but cheweth not the cud, he is unclean unto you; of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch.

jps@Deuteronomy:14:24 @ And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it, because the place is too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set His name there, when the LORD thy God shall bless thee;

jps@Deuteronomy:14:29 @ And the Levite, because he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou doest.

jps@Deuteronomy:15:2 @ And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he hath lent unto his neighbour; he shall not exact it of his neighbour and his brother; because the LORD'S release hath been proclaimed.

jps@Deuteronomy:15:10 @ Thou shalt surely give him, and thy heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him; because that for this thing the LORD thy God will bless thee in all thy work, and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto.

jps@Deuteronomy:15:16 @ And it shall be, if he say unto thee: 'I will not go out from thee'; because he loveth thee and thy house, because he fareth well with thee;

jps@Deuteronomy:16:15 @ Seven days shalt thou keep a feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose; because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the work of thy hands, and thou shalt be altogether joyful.

jps@Deuteronomy:18:12 @ For whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto the LORD; and because of these abominations the LORD thy God is driving them out from before thee.

jps@Deuteronomy:19:6 @ lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and smite him mortally; whereas he was not deserving of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.

jps@Deuteronomy:21:14 @ And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not deal with her as a slave, because thou hast humbled her.

jps@Deuteronomy:22:19 @ And they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel; and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

jps@Deuteronomy:22:21 @ then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die; because she hath wrought a wanton deed in Israel, to play the harlot in her father's house; so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.

jps@Deuteronomy:22:24 @ then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die: the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife; so thou shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee.

jps@Deuteronomy:22:29 @ then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.

jps@Deuteronomy:23:4 @ because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Aram-naharaim, to curse thee.

jps@Deuteronomy:23:5 @ Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.

jps@Deuteronomy:23:7 @ Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, for he is thy brother; thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land.

jps@Deuteronomy:24:1 @ When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it cometh to pass, if she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he writeth her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house,

jps@Deuteronomy:27:20 @ Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he hath uncovered his father's skirt. And all the people shall say: Amen.

jps@Deuteronomy:28:20 @ The LORD will send upon thee cursing, discomfiture, and rebuke, in all that thou puttest thy hand unto to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the evil of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken Me.

jps@Deuteronomy:28:45 @ And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded thee.

jps@Deuteronomy:28:47 @ because thou didst not serve the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;

jps@Deuteronomy:28:55 @ so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he hath nothing left him; in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall straiten thee in all thy gates.

jps@Deuteronomy:28:62 @ And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.

jps@Deuteronomy:31:17 @ Then My anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide My face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come upon them; so that they will say in that day: Are not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?

jps@Deuteronomy:31:29 @ For I know that after my death ye will in any wise deal corruptly, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the end of days; because ye will do that which is evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him through the work of your hands.'

jps@Deuteronomy:32:19 @ And the LORD saw, and spurned, because of the provoking of His sons and His daughters.

jps@Deuteronomy:32:47 @ For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing ye shall prolong your days upon the land, whither ye go over the Jordan to possess it.'

jps@Deuteronomy:32:51 @ Because ye trespassed against Me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribath-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified Me not in the midst of the children of Israel.

jps@Joshua:2:11 @ And as soon as we had heard it, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more spirit in any man, because of you; for the LORD your God, He is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.

jps@Joshua:4:7 @...shall say unto them: Because the...

jps@Joshua:5:1 @ And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, that were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, that were by the sea, heard how that the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until they were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.

jps@Joshua:5:6 @ For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the nation, even the men of war that came forth out of Egypt, were consumed, because they hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD; unto whom the LORD swore that He would not let them see the land which the LORD swore unto their fathers that He would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

jps@Joshua:5:7 @ And He raised up their children in their stead; them did Joshua circumcise; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised by the way.

jps@Joshua:6:1 @ Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.--

jps@Joshua:6:17 @ And the city shall be devoted, even it and all that is therein, to the LORD; only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.

jps@Joshua:6:25 @ But Rahab the harlot, and her father's household, and all that she had, did Joshua save alive; and she dwelt in the midst of Israel, unto this day; because she hid the messengers, whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

jps@Joshua:7:12 @ Therefore the children of Israel cannot stand before their enemies, they turn their backs before their enemies, because they are become accursed; I will not be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.

jps@Joshua:7:15 @ And it shall be that he that is taken with the devoted thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath; because he hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he hath wrought a wanton deed in Israel.'

jps@Joshua:9:9 @ And they said unto him: 'From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of the LORD thy God; for we have heard the fame of Him, and all that He did in Egypt,

jps@Joshua:9:18 @ And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD, the God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes.

jps@Joshua:9:20 @ This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we swore unto them.'

jps@Joshua:9:24 @ And they answered Joshua, and said: 'Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you; therefore we were sore afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

jps@Joshua:10:2 @ that they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty.

jps@Joshua:10:42 @ And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the LORD, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.

jps@Joshua:11:6 @ And the LORD said unto Joshua: 'Be not afraid because of them; for to-morrow at this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel; thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.'

jps@Joshua:14:9 @ And Moses swore on that day, saying: Surely the land whereon thy foot hath trodden shall be an inheritance to thee and to thy children for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God.

jps@Joshua:14:14 @ Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, unto this day; because that he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.

jps@Joshua:17:1 @ And this was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the first-born of Joseph. As for Machir the first-born of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.

jps@Joshua:17:6 @ because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons; and the land of Gilead belonged unto the rest of the sons of Manasseh.

jps@Joshua:20:5 @ And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he smote his neighbour unawares, and hated him not beforetime.

jps@Joshua:22:31 @ And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh: 'This day we know that the LORD is in the midst of us, because ye have not committed this treachery against the LORD; now have ye delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD.'

jps@Joshua:23:3 @ And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto all these nations because of you; for the LORD your God, He it is that hath fought for you.

jps@Judges:1:19 @ And the LORD was with Judah; and he drove out the inhabitants of the hill-country; for he could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.

jps@Judges:2:18 @ And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it repented the LORD because of their groaning by reason of them that oppressed them and crushed them.

jps@Judges:3:12 @ And the children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.

jps@Judges:5:23 @ 'Curse ye Meroz', said the angel of the LORD, 'Curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof, because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.'

jps@Judges:6:2 @ And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of Midian the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and the caves, and the strongholds.

jps@Judges:6:6 @ And Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD.

jps@Judges:6:7 @ And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD because of Midian,

jps@Judges:6:27 @ Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had spoken unto him; and it came to pass, because he feared his father's household and the men of the city, so that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.

jps@Judges:6:30 @ Then the men of the city said unto Joash: 'Bring out thy son, that he may die; because he hath broken down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the Asherah that was by it.'

jps@Judges:6:31 @ And Joash said unto all that stood against him: 'Will ye contend for Baal? or will ye save him? he that will contend for him, shall be put to death before morning; if he be a god, let him contend for himself, because one hath broken down his altar.'

jps@Judges:6:32 @ Therefore on that day he was called Jerubbaal, saying: 'Let Baal contend against him, because he hath broken down his altar.'

jps@Judges:8:20 @ And he said unto Jether his first-born: 'Up, and slay them.' But the youth drew not his sword; for he feared, because he was yet a youth.

jps@Judges:8:24 @ And Gideon said unto them: 'I would make a request of you, that ye would give me every man the ear-rings of his spoil.'--For they had golden ear-rings, because they were Ishmaelites.

jps@Judges:9:18 @ and ye are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maid-servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother--

jps@Judges:12:4 @ Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said: 'Ye are fugitives of Ephraim, ye Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim, and in the midst of Manasseh.'

jps@Judges:13:22 @ And Manoah said unto his wife: 'We shall surely die, because we have seen God.'

jps@Judges:14:17 @ And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted; and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she pressed him sore; and she told the riddle to the children of her people.

jps@Judges:15:6 @ Then the Philistines said: 'Who hath done this?' And they said: 'Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he hath taken his wife, and given her to his companion.' And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.

jps@Judges:18:28 @ And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no dealings with any man; and it was in the valley that lieth by Beth-rehob. And they built the city, and dwelt therein.

jps@Judges:20:36 @ So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten. And the men of Israel gave place to Benjamin, because they trusted unto the liers-in-wait whom they had set against Gibeah.--

jps@Judges:21:15 @ And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

jps@Judges:21:22 @ And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come to strive with us, that we will say unto them: Grant them graciously unto us; because we took not for each man of them his wife in battle; neither did ye give them unto them, that ye should now be guilty.'

jps@1Samuel:1:6 @ And her rival vexed her sore, to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.

jps@1Samuel:2:1 @ And Hannah prayed, and said: my heart exulteth in the LORD, my horn is exalted in the LORD; my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in Thy salvation.

jps@1Samuel:2:25 @ If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against the LORD, who shall entreat for him?' But they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the LORD would slay them.

jps@1Samuel:4:21 @ And she named the child Ichabod, saying: 'The glory is departed from Israel'; because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

jps@1Samuel:6:19 @ And He smote of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had gazed upon the ark of the LORD, even He smote of the people seventy men, and fifty thousand men; and the people mourned, because the LORD had smitten the people with a great slaughter.

jps@1Samuel:8:18 @ And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king whom ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not answer you in that day.'

jps@1Samuel:9:13 @ As soon as ye are come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the high place to eat; for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; and afterwards they eat that are bidden. Now therefore get you up; for at this time ye shall find him.'

jps@1Samuel:9:16 @ 'To-morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be prince over My people Israel, and he shall save My people out of the hand of the Philistines; for I have looked upon My people, because their cry is come unto Me.'

jps@1Samuel:9:24 @ And the cook took up the thigh, and that which was upon it, and set it before Saul. And Samuel said: 'Behold that which hath been reserved! set it before thee and eat; because unto the appointed time hath it been kept for thee, for I said: I have invited the people.' So Saul did eat with Samuel that day.

jps@1Samuel:12:10 @ And they cried unto the LORD, and said: We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served the Baalim and the Ashtaroth; but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve Thee.

jps@1Samuel:12:22 @ For the LORD will not forsake His people for His great name's sake; because it hath pleased the LORD to make you a people unto Himself.

jps@1Samuel:13:14 @ But now thy kingdom shall not continue; the LORD hath sought him a man after His own heart, and the LORD hath appointed him to be prince over His people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee.'

jps@1Samuel:14:29 @ Then said Jonathan: 'My father hath troubled the land; see, I pray you, how mine eyes are brightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.

jps@1Samuel:15:23 @...as idolatry and teraphim. Because thou...

jps@1Samuel:15:24 @ And Saul said unto Samuel: 'I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words; because I feared the people, and hearkened to their voice.

jps@1Samuel:16:7 @ But the LORD said unto Samuel: 'Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him; for it is not as man seeth: for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.'

jps@1Samuel:18:3 @ Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul.

jps@1Samuel:18:12 @ And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and was departed from Saul.

jps@1Samuel:19:4 @ And Jonathan spoke good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him: 'Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his work hath been very good towards thee;

jps@1Samuel:20:34 @ So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did eat no food the second day of the month; for he was grieved for David, and because his father had put him to shame.

jps@1Samuel:21:8 @ And David said unto Ahimelech: 'And is there peradventure here under thy hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste.'

jps@1Samuel:22:17 @ And the king said unto the guard that stood about him: 'Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and did not disclose it to me.' But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD.

jps@1Samuel:24:5 @ And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt.

jps@1Samuel:25:28 @ Forgive, I pray thee, the trespass of thy handmaid; for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD; and evil is not found in thee all thy days.

jps@1Samuel:26:12 @ So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's head; and they got them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither did any awake; for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the LORD was fallen upon them.

jps@1Samuel:26:16 @ This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the LORD liveth, ye deserve to die, because ye have not kept watch over your lord, the LORD'S anointed. And now, see, where the king's spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his head.'

jps@1Samuel:26:21 @ Then said Saul: 'I have sinned; return, my son David; for I will no more do thee harm, because my life was precious in thine eyes this day; behold, I have played the fool and erred exceedingly.'

jps@1Samuel:28:18 @ Because thou didst not hearken to the voice of the LORD, and didst not execute His fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing unto thee this day.

jps@1Samuel:28:20 @ Then Saul fell straightway his full length upon the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel; and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.

jps@1Samuel:30:6 @ And David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in the LORD his God.

jps@1Samuel:30:13 @ And David said unto him: 'To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou?' And he said: 'I am a young Egyptian, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I fell sick.

jps@1Samuel:30:16 @ And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the ground, eating and drinking, and feasting, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

jps@2Samuel:1:9 @ And he said unto me: Stand, I pray thee, beside me, and slay me, for the agony hath taken hold of me; because my life is just yet in me.

jps@2Samuel:1:10 @ So I stood beside him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen; and I took the crown that was upon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither unto my lord.'

jps@2Samuel:1:12 @ And they wailed, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.

jps@2Samuel:2:6 @ And now the LORD show kindness and truth unto you; and I also will requite you this kindness, because ye have done this thing.

jps@2Samuel:3:11 @ And he could not answer Abner another word, because he feared him.

jps@2Samuel:3:30 @ So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

jps@2Samuel:6:8 @ And David was displeased, because the LORD had broken forth upon Uzzah; and that place was called Perez-uzzah, unto this day

jps@2Samuel:6:12 @ And it was told king David, saying: 'The LORD hath blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that pertaineth unto him, because of the ark of God.' And David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom into the city of David with joy.

jps@2Samuel:12:6 @ and he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.'

jps@2Samuel:12:10 @ Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from thy house; because thou hast despised Me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.

jps@2Samuel:12:14 @ Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast greatly blasphemed the enemies of the LORD, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.'

jps@2Samuel:13:2 @ And Amnon was so distressed that he fell sick because of his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and it seemed hard to Amnon to do any thing unto her.

jps@2Samuel:13:16 @ And she said unto him: 'Not so, because this great wrong in putting me forth is worse than the other that thou didst unto me.' But he would not hearken unto her.

jps@2Samuel:13:22 @ And Absalom spoke unto Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.

jps@2Samuel:14:15 @ Now therefore seeing that I am come to speak this word unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid; and thy handmaid said: I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.

jps@2Samuel:14:26 @ And when he polled his head--now it was at every year's end that he polled it; because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it--he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king's weight.

jps@2Samuel:16:8 @ the LORD hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son; and, behold, thou art taken in thine own mischief, because thou art a man of blood.'

jps@2Samuel:16:10 @ And the king said: 'What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? So let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto him: Curse David; who then shall say: Wherefore hast thou done so?'

jps@2Samuel:19:21 @ But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said: 'Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD'S anointed?'

jps@2Samuel:19:26 @ And he answered: 'My lord, O king, my servant deceived me; for thy servant said: I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go with the king; because thy servant is lame.

jps@2Samuel:21:1 @ And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said: 'It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.'

jps@2Samuel:21:7 @ But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD'S oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

jps@2Samuel:22:8 @ Then the earth did shake and quake, the foundations of heaven did tremble; they were shaken, because He was wroth.

jps@2Samuel:22:20 @ He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because He delighted in me.

jps@1Kings:1:50 @ And Adonijah feared because of Solomon; and he arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

jps@1Kings:2:26 @ And unto Abiathar the priest said the king: 'Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art deserving of death; but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou didst bear the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou wast afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.'

jps@1Kings:2:32 @ And the LORD will return his blood upon his own head, because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, and my father David knew it not: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.

jps@1Kings:3:2 @ Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of the LORD until those days.

jps@1Kings:3:19 @ And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlay it.

jps@1Kings:7:47 @ And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many; the weight of the brass could not be found out.

jps@1Kings:8:64 @ The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD; for there he offered the burnt- offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat of the peace-offerings; because the brazen altar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt-offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat of the peace-offerings.

jps@1Kings:9:9 @...they shall be answered: Because they...

jps@1Kings:10:1 @ And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon because of the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.

jps@1Kings:10:9 @ Blessed be the LORD thy God, who delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel; because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore made He thee king, to do justice and righteousness.'

jps@1Kings:11:9 @ And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared unto him twice,

jps@1Kings:11:33 @ because that they have forsaken Me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon; and they have not walked in My ways, to do that which is right in Mine eyes, and to keep My statutes and Mine ordinances, as did David his father.

jps@1Kings:11:34 @ Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David My servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept My commandments and My statutes;

jps@1Kings:14:13 @ And all Israel shall make lamentation for him, and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave; because in him there is found some good thing toward the LORD, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

jps@1Kings:14:15 @ for the LORD will smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and He will root up Israel out of this good land, which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River; because they have made their Asherim, provoking the LORD.

jps@1Kings:14:16 @ And He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he hath sinned, and wherewith he hath made Israel to sin.'

jps@1Kings:15:5 @ because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that He commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

jps@1Kings:15:13 @ And also Maacah his mother he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.

jps@1Kings:15:30 @ for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and wherewith he made Israel to sin; because of his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD, the God of Israel.

jps@1Kings:16:7 @ And moreover by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the LORD against Baasa, and against his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he smote him.

jps@1Kings:17:7 @ And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.

jps@1Kings:19:7 @ And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said: 'Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.'

jps@1Kings:20:28 @...'Thus saith the LORD: Because the...

jps@1Kings:20:42 @...'Thus saith the LORD: Because thou...

jps@1Kings:21:2 @ And Ahab spoke unto Naboth, saying: 'Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house; and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.'

jps@1Kings:21:4 @ And Ahab came into his house sullen and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said: 'I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers.' And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

jps@1Kings:21:20 @ And Ahab said to Elijah: 'Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?' And he answered: 'I have found thee; because thou hast given thyself over to do that which is evil in the sight of the LORD.

jps@1Kings:21:29 @ 'Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before Me? because he humbleth himself before Me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.'

jps@2Kings:1:3 @ But an angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite: 'Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them: Is it because there is no God in Israel, that ye go to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron?

jps@2Kings:1:6 @ And they said unto him: 'There came up a man to meet us, and said unto us: Go, return unto the king that sent you, and say unto him: Thus saith the LORD: Is it because there is no God in Israel, that thou sendest to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from the bed whither thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.'

jps@2Kings:1:16 @ And he said unto him: 'Thus saith the LORD: Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron, is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of His word? therefore thou shalt not come down from the bed whether thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.'

jps@2Kings:1:17 @ So he died according to the word of the LORD which Elijah had spoken. And Jehoram began to reign in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.

jps@2Kings:5:1 @ Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Aram, was a great man with his master, and held in esteem, because by him the LORD had given victory unto Aram; he was also a mighty man of valour, but he was a leper.

jps@2Kings:8:29 @ And king Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Arameans had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

jps@2Kings:9:14 @ So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram.--Now Joram had been guarding Ramoth-gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Aram;

jps@2Kings:13:23 @ But the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither hath He cast them from His presence until now.

jps@2Kings:15:16 @ Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the borders thereof, from Tirzah; because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.

jps@2Kings:16:18 @ And the covered place for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry without, turned he unto the house of the LORD, because of the king of Assyria.

jps@2Kings:17:7 @ And it was so, because the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,

jps@2Kings:17:26 @ Wherefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying: 'The nations which thou hast carried away, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land; therefore He hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.'

jps@2Kings:18:12 @ because they hearkened not to the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed His covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear it, nor do it.

jps@2Kings:19:28 @ Because of thy raging against Me, and for that thy tumult is come up into Mine ears, therefore will I put My hook in thy nose, and My bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

jps@2Kings:21:15 @ because they have done that which is evil in My sight, and have provoked Me, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.'

jps@2Kings:22:13 @ 'Go ye, inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found; for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.'

jps@2Kings:22:17 @ because they have forsaken Me, and have offered unto other gods, that they might provoke Me with all the work of their hands; therefore My wrath shall be kindled against this place, and it shall not be quenched.

jps@2Kings:22:19 @ because thy heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become an astonishment and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before Me, I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.

jps@2Kings:23:26 @ Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of His great wrath, wherewith His anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations wherewith Manasseh had provoked Him.

jps@2Kings:25:24 @ And Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, and said unto them: 'Fear not because of the servants of the Chaldeans; dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.'

jps@1Chronicles:4:41 @ And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the Meunim that were found there, and destroyed them utterly, unto this day, and dwelt in their stead; because there was pasture there for their flocks.

jps@1Chronicles:5:9 @ and eastward he dwelt even unto the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates; because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead.

jps@1Chronicles:5:20 @ And they were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and He was entreated of them, because they put their trust in Him.

jps@1Chronicles:5:22 @ For there fell many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their stead until the captivity.

jps@1Chronicles:7:21 @ and Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son--and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath that were born in the land slew, because they came down to take away their cattle.

jps@1Chronicles:7:23 @ And he went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.

jps@1Chronicles:9:1 @ So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel; and Judah was carried away captive to Babylon because of their transgression.

jps@1Chronicles:9:27 @ And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge thereof was upon them, and to them pertained the opening thereof morning by morning.

jps@1Chronicles:10:13 @ So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, because of the word of the LORD, which he kept not; and also for that he asked counsel of a ghost, to inquire thereby,

jps@1Chronicles:12:1 @ Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag, while he was yet shut up because of Saul the son of Kish; and they were among the mighty men, his helpers in war.

jps@1Chronicles:13:10 @ And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and He smote him, because he put forth his hand to the ark; and there he died before God.

jps@1Chronicles:13:11 @ And David was displeased, because the LORD had broken forth upon Uzza; and that place was called Perez-uzza unto this day.

jps@1Chronicles:15:13 @ For because ye bore it not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought Him not according to the ordinance.'

jps@1Chronicles:15:22 @ And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was over the song; he was master in the song, because he was skilful.

jps@1Chronicles:16:41 @ and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to the LORD, because His mercy endureth for ever;

jps@1Chronicles:19:2 @ And David said: 'l will show kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.' So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.

jps@1Chronicles:21:30 @ But David could not go before it to inquire of God; for he was terrified because of the sword of the angel of the LORD.

jps@1Chronicles:22:8 @ But the word of the LORD came to me, saying: Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars; thou shalt not build a house unto My name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in My sight.

jps@1Chronicles:27:23 @ But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under; because the LORD had said He would increase Israel like to the stars of heaven.

jps@1Chronicles:28:3 @ But God said unto me: Thou shalt not build a house for My name, because thou art a man of war, and hast shed blood.

jps@1Chronicles:29:3 @ Moreover also, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, seeing that I have a treasure of mine own of gold and silver, I give it unto the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,

jps@1Chronicles:29:9 @ Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with a whole heart they offered willingly to the LORD; and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.

jps@2Chronicles:7:2 @ And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD filled the LORD'S house.

jps@2Chronicles:7:7 @ Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD; for there he offered the burnt- offerings, and the fat of the peace-offerings; because the brazen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt- offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat.

jps@2Chronicles:7:22 @...And they shall answer: Because they...

jps@2Chronicles:8:11 @ And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her; for he said: 'No wife of mine shall dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.'

jps@2Chronicles:9:8 @ Blessed be the LORD thy God, who delighted in thee, to set thee on His throne, to be king for the LORD thy God; because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made He thee king over them, to do justice and righteousness.'

jps@2Chronicles:12:2 @ And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had dealt treacherously with the LORD,

jps@2Chronicles:12:5 @ Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them: 'Thus saith the LORD: Ye have forsaken Me, therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.'

jps@2Chronicles:12:14 @ And he did that which was evil, because he set not his heart to seek the LORD.

jps@2Chronicles:13:18 @ Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD, the God of their fathers.

jps@2Chronicles:14:6 @ And he built fortified cities in Judah; for the land was quiet, and he had no war in those years; because the LORD had given him rest.

jps@2Chronicles:14:7 @ For he said unto Judah: 'Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars; the land is yet before us, because we have sought the LORD our God; we have sought Him, and He hath given us rest on every side.' So they built and prospered.

jps@2Chronicles:15:16 @ And also Maacah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and made dust of it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.

jps@2Chronicles:16:8 @ Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge host, with chariots and horsemen exceeding many? yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD, He delivered them into thy hand.

jps@2Chronicles:16:10 @ Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in the prison-house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.

jps@2Chronicles:17:3 @ And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto the Baalim;

jps@2Chronicles:21:3 @ And their father gave them great gifts, of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah; but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram, because he was the first-born.

jps@2Chronicles:21:7 @ Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that He had made with David, and as He promised to give a lamp to him and to his children alway.

jps@2Chronicles:21:10 @ So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day; then did Libnah revolt at the same time from under his hand; because he had forsaken the LORD, the God of his fathers.

jps@2Chronicles:21:12 @...of David thy father: Because thou...

jps@2Chronicles:22:6 @ And he returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which they had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

jps@2Chronicles:24:16 @ And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and His house.

jps@2Chronicles:24:20 @ And the spirit of God clothed Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said unto them: 'Thus saith God: Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, He hath also forsaken you.'

jps@2Chronicles:24:24 @ For the army of the Arameans came with a small company of men; and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgment upon Joash.

jps@2Chronicles:25:16 @ And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto him: 'Have we made thee of the king's counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten?' Then the prophet forbore, and said: 'I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.'

jps@2Chronicles:25:20 @ But Amaziah would not hear; for it was of God, that He might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they had sought after the gods of Edom.

jps@2Chronicles:26:20 @ And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out quickly from thence; yea, himself made haste also to go out, because the LORD had smitten him.

jps@2Chronicles:27:6 @ So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before the LORD his God.

jps@2Chronicles:28:6 @ For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah a hundred and twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers.

jps@2Chronicles:28:9 @ But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them: 'Behold, because the LORD, the God of your fathers, was wroth with Judah, He hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage which hath reached up unto heaven.

jps@2Chronicles:28:19 @ For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he had cast away restraint in Judah, and acted treacherously against the LORD.

jps@2Chronicles:29:36 @ And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, because of that which God had prepared for the people; for the thing was done suddenly.

jps@2Chronicles:30:3 @ For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

jps@2Chronicles:32:20 @ And Hezekiah the king, and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven.

jps@2Chronicles:34:21 @ 'Go ye, inquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do according unto all that is written in this book.'

jps@2Chronicles:34:25 @ because they have forsaken Me, and have offered unto other gods, that they might provoke Me with all the works of their hands; therefore is My wrath poured out upon this place, and it shall not be quenched.

jps@2Chronicles:34:27 @ because thy heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest His words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and hast humbled thyself before Me, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before Me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.

jps@2Chronicles:35:14 @ And afterward they prepared for themselves, and for the priests; because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering the portions that were to be burnt and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.

jps@2Chronicles:36:15 @ And the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent to them by His messengers, sending betimes and often; because He had compassion on His people, and on His dwelling-place;

jps@Ezra:3:3 @ And they set the altar upon its bases; for fear was upon them because of the people of the countries, and they offered burnt- offerings thereon unto the LORD, even burnt-offerings morning and evening.

jps@Ezra:3:11 @ And they sang one to another in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD: 'for He is good, for His mercy endureth for ever toward Israel.' And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.

jps@Ezra:4:14 @ Now because we eat the salt of the palace, and it is not meet for us to see the king's dishonour, therefore have we sent and announced to the king,

jps@Ezra:5:12 @ But because that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven, He gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.

jps@Ezra:6:13 @ Then Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and their companions, because that Darius the king had thus sent, acted with all diligence.

jps@Ezra:8:22 @ For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way; because we had spoken unto the king, saying: 'The hand of our God is upon all them that seek Him, for good; but His power and His wrath is against all them that forsake Him.'

jps@Ezra:9:4 @ Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the faithlessness of them of the captivity; and I sat appalled until the evening offering.

jps@Ezra:9:15 @ O LORD, the God of Israel, Thou art righteous; for we are left a remnant that is escaped, as it is this day; behold, we are before Thee in our guiltiness; for none can stand before Thee because of this.'

jps@Ezra:10:6 @ Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib; and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water; for he mourned because of the faithlessness of them of the captivity.

jps@Ezra:10:9 @ Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within the three days; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the broad place before the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.

jps@Nehemiah:4:9 @ But we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

jps@Nehemiah:5:3 @ Some also there were that said: 'We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses; let us get corn, because of the dearth.'

jps@Nehemiah:5:9 @ Also I said: 'The thing that ye do is not good; ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?

jps@Nehemiah:5:15 @ But the former governors that were before me laid burdens upon the people, and took of them for bread and wine above forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants lorded over the people; but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

jps@Nehemiah:5:18 @ Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep, also fowls were prepared for me; and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine; yet for all this I demanded not the bread of the governor, because the service was heavy upon this people.

jps@Nehemiah:6:18 @ For there were many in Judah sworn unto him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah; and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah to wife.

jps@Nehemiah:8:12 @ And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.

jps@Nehemiah:9:37 @ And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom Thou hast set over us because of our sins; also they have power over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.'

jps@Nehemiah:13:2 @ because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them; howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.

jps@Nehemiah:13:29 @ Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

jps@Esther:8:7 @ Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew: 'Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.

jps@Esther:9:3 @ And all the princes of the provinces, and the satraps, and the governors, and they that did the king's business, helped the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai was fallen upon them.

jps@Esther:9:24 @ because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast pur, that is, the lot, to discomfit them, and to destroy them;

jps@Esther:9:26 @ Wherefore they called these days Purim, after the name of pur. Therefore because of all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and that which had come unto them,

jps@Job:3:10 @ Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid trouble from mine eyes.

jps@Job:6:20 @ They were ashamed because they had hoped; they came thither, and were confounded.

jps@Job:8:9 @ For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow--

jps@Job:11:18 @ And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt look about thee, and shalt take thy rest in safety.

jps@Job:15:25 @ Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, and behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;

jps@Job:15:27 @ Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, and made collops of fat on his loins;

jps@Job:17:12 @ They change the night into day; the light is short because of darkness.

jps@Job:20:20 @ Because he knew no quietness within him, in his greed he suffered nought to escape,

jps@Job:23:2 @ Even to-day is my complaint bitter; my hand is become heavy because of my groaning.

jps@Job:23:17 @ Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did He cover the thick darkness from my face.

jps@Job:29:12 @ Because I delivered the poor that cried, the fatherless also, that had none to help him.

jps@Job:30:24 @ Surely none shall put forth his hand to a ruinous heap, neither because of these things shall help come in one's calamity,

jps@Job:31:21 @ If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate;

jps@Job:31:25 @ If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

jps@Job:31:34 @ Because I feared the great multitude, and the most contemptible among families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and went not out of the door.

jps@Job:32:1 @ So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

jps@Job:32:2 @ Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram; against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.

jps@Job:32:3 @ Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

jps@Job:32:4 @ Now Elihu had waited to speak unto Job, because they were older than he.

jps@Job:32:16 @ And shall I wait, because they speak not, because they stand still, and answer no more?

jps@Job:34:27 @ Because they turned aside from following Him, and would not have regard to any of His ways;

jps@Job:34:36 @ Would that Job were tried unto the end, because of his answering like wicked men.

jps@Job:35:12 @ There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.

jps@Job:39:11 @ Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? Or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?

jps@Job:39:17 @ Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath He imparted to her understanding.

jps@Psalms:5:8 @ O LORD, lead me in Thy righteousness because of them that lie in wait for me; make Thy way straight before my face.

jps@Psalms:6:7 @ Mine eye is dimmed because of vexation; it waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.

jps@Psalms:8:2 @ Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast Thou founded strength, because of Thine adversaries; that Thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

jps@Psalms:13:6 @ I will sing unto the LORD, because He hath dealt bountifully with me.

jps@Psalms:18:7 @ Then the earth did shake and quake, the foundations also of the mountains did tremble; they were shaken, because He was wroth.

jps@Psalms:18:19 @ He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because He delighted in me.

jps@Psalms:25:21 @ Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for Thee.

jps@Psalms:27:11 @ Teach me Thy way, O LORD; and lead me in an even path, because of them that lie in wait for me.

jps@Psalms:28:5 @ Because they give no heed to the works of the LORD, nor to the operation of His hands; He will break them down and not build them up.

jps@Psalms:28:6 @ Blessed be the LORD, because He hath heard the voice of my supplications.

jps@Psalms:31:10 @ For my life is spent in sorrow, and my years in sighing; my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are wasted away.

jps@Psalms:31:11 @ Because of all mine adversaries I am become a reproach, yea, unto my neighbours exceedingly, and a dread to mine acquaintance; they that see me without flee from me.

jps@Psalms:33:21 @ For in Him doth our heart rejoice, because we have trusted in His holy name.

jps@Psalms:37:1 @ A Psalm of David. Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, neither be thou envious against them that work unrighteousness.

jps@Psalms:37:7 @ Resign thyself unto the LORD, and wait patiently for Him; fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

jps@Psalms:37:40 @ And the LORD helpeth them, and delivereth them; He delivereth them from the wicked, and saveth them, because they have taken refuge in Him.

jps@Psalms:38:3 @ There is no soundness in my flesh because of Thine indignation; neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

jps@Psalms:38:5 @ My wounds are noisome, they fester, because of my foolishness.

jps@Psalms:38:18 @ For I do declare mine iniquity; I am full of care because of my sin.

jps@Psalms:38:20 @ They also that repay evil for good are adversaries unto me, because I follow the thing that is good.

jps@Psalms:39:9 @ I am dumb, I open not my mouth; because Thou hast done it.

jps@Psalms:41:12 @ And as for me, Thou upholdest me because of mine integrity, and settest me before Thy face for ever.

jps@Psalms:44:3 @ For not by their own sword did they get the land in possession, neither did their own arm save them; but Thy right hand, and Thine arm, and the light of Thy countenance, because Thou wast favourable unto them.

jps@Psalms:48:11 @ Let mount Zion be glad, let the daughters of Judah rejoice, because of Thy judgments.

jps@Psalms:52:9 @ I will give Thee thanks for ever, because Thou hast done it; and I will wait for Thy name, for it is good, in the presence of Thy saints.

jps@Psalms:53:5 @ There are they in great fear, where no fear was; for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee; Thou hast put them to shame, because God hath rejected them.

jps@Psalms:55:3 @ Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked; for they cast mischief upon me, and in anger they persecute me.

jps@Psalms:56:7 @ Because of iniquity cast them out; in anger bring down the peoples, O God.

jps@Psalms:59:9 @ Because of his strength, I will wait for Thee; for God is my high tower.

jps@Psalms:60:4 @ Thou hast given a banner to them that fear Thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah

jps@Psalms:60:8 @ Moab is my washpot; upon Edom do I cast my shoe; Philistia, cry aloud because of me!

jps@Psalms:69:7 @ Because for Thy sake I have borne reproach; confusion hath covered my face.

jps@Psalms:69:9 @ Because zeal for Thy house hath eaten me up, and the reproaches of them that reproach Thee are fallen upon me.

jps@Psalms:69:18 @ Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it; ransom me because of mine enemies.

jps@Psalms:74:3 @ Lift up Thy steps because of the perpetual ruins, even all the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.

jps@Psalms:78:22 @ Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in His salvation.

jps@Psalms:86:17 @ Work in my behalf a sign for good; that they that hate me may see it, and be put to shame, because Thou, LORD, hast helped me, and comforted me.

jps@Psalms:91:14 @ 'Because he hath set his love upon Me, therefore will I deliver him; I will set him on high, because he hath known My name.

jps@Psalms:97:8 @ Zion heard and was glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoiced; because of Thy judgments, O LORD.

jps@Psalms:102:10 @ Because of Thine indignation and Thy wrath; for Thou hast taken me up, and cast me away.

jps@Psalms:106:32 @ They angered Him also at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses because of them;

jps@Psalms:107:11 @ Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the Most High.

jps@Psalms:107:17 @ Crazed because of the way of their transgression, and afflicted because of their iniquities--

jps@Psalms:107:26 @ They mounted up to the heaven, they went down to the deeps; their soul melted away because of trouble;

jps@Psalms:107:30 @ Then were they glad because they were quiet, and He led them unto their desired haven.

jps@Psalms:109:16 @ Because that he remembered not to do kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, and the broken in heart he was ready to slay.

jps@Psalms:109:21 @ But Thou, O GOD the Lord, deal with me for Thy name's sake; because Thy mercy is good, deliver Thou me.

jps@Psalms:109:31 @ Because He standeth at the right hand of the needy, to save him from them that judge his soul.

jps@Psalms:116:2 @ Because He hath inclined His ear unto me, therefore will I call upon Him all my days.

jps@Psalms:119:49 @ ZAIN. Remember the word unto Thy servant, because Thou hast made me to hope.

jps@Psalms:119:53 @ Burning indignation hath taken hold upon me, because of the wicked that forsake Thy law.

jps@Psalms:119:62 @ At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto Thee because of Thy righteous ordinances.

jps@Psalms:119:74 @ They that fear Thee shall see me and be glad, because I have hope in Thy word.

jps@Psalms:119:100 @ I understand more than mine elders, because I have keep Thy precepts.

jps@Psalms:119:136 @ Mine eyes run down with rivers of water, because they observe not Thy law.

jps@Psalms:119:139 @ My zeal hath undone me, because mine adversaries have forgotten Thy words.

jps@Psalms:119:158 @ I beheld them that were faithless, and strove with them; because they observed not Thy word.

jps@Psalms:119:164 @ Seven times a day do I praise Thee, because of Thy righteous ordinances.

jps@Psalms:119:171 @ Let my lips utter praise: because Thou teachest me Thy statutes.

jps@Psalms:141:5 @ Let the righteous smite me in kindness, and correct me; oil so choice let not my head refuse; for still is my prayer because of their wickedness.

jps@Psalms:142:7 @ Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks unto Thy name; the righteous shall crown themselves because of me; for Thou wilt deal bountifully with me.

jps@Proverbs:1:24 @ Because I have called, and ye refused, I have stretched out my hand, and no man attended,

jps@Proverbs:21:7 @ The violence of the wicked shall drag them away; because they refuse to do justly.

jps@Proverbs:22:22 @ Rob not the weak, because he is weak, neither crush the poor in the gate;

jps@Proverbs:24:19 @ Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious at the wicked;

jps@Ecclesiastes:2:17 @ So I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.

jps@Ecclesiastes:3:18 @ I said in my heart: 'It is because of the sons of men, that God may sift them, and that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts.'

jps@Ecclesiastes:4:9 @ Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

jps@Ecclesiastes:8:11 @ Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil;

jps@Ecclesiastes:8:12 @ because a sinner doeth evil a hundred times, and prolongeth his days--though yet I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, that fear before Him;

jps@Ecclesiastes:8:13 @ but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he feareth not before God.

jps@Ecclesiastes:8:17 @ then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun; because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

jps@Ecclesiastes:12:3 @ In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out shall be darkened in the windows,

jps@Ecclesiastes:12:5 @ Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors shall be in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall drag itself along, and the caperberry shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets;

jps@Songs:3:8 @ They all handle the sword, and are expert in war; every man hath his sword upon his thigh, because of dread in the night.

jps@Isaiah:3:8 @ For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of His glory.

jps@Isaiah:3:16 @...Moreover the LORD said: Because the...-forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet;

jps@Isaiah:5:24 @ Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the chaff is consumed 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 the LORD of hosts, and contemned the word of the Holy One of Israel.

jps@Isaiah:6:5 @ Then said I: Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

jps@Isaiah:7:4 @ and say unto him: Keep calm, and be quiet; fear not, neither let thy heart be faint, because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram, and of the son of Remaliah.

jps@Isaiah:7:5 @ Because Aram hath counselled evil against thee, Ephraim also, and the son of Remaliah, saying:

jps@Isaiah:7:24 @ With arrows and with bow shall one come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.

jps@Isaiah:14:20 @ Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people; the seed of evil- doers shall not be named for ever.

jps@Isaiah:14:29 @ Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of thee, because the rod that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a basilisk, and his fruit shall be a flying serpent.

jps@Isaiah:19:16 @ In that day shall Egypt be like unto women; and it shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which He shaketh over it.

jps@Isaiah:19:17 @ And the land of Judah shall become a terror unto Egypt, whensoever one maketh mention thereof to it; it shall be afraid, because of the purpose of the LORD of hosts, which He purposeth against it.

jps@Isaiah:19:20 @ And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and He will send them a saviour, and a defender, who will deliver them.

jps@Isaiah:20:5 @ And they shall be dismayed and ashamed, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

jps@Isaiah:24:5 @ The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statute, broken the everlasting covenant.

jps@Isaiah:26:3 @ The mind stayed on Thee Thou keepest in perfect peace; because it trusteth in Thee.

jps@Isaiah:28:7 @ But these also reel through wine, and stagger through strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel through strong drink, they are confused because of wine, they stagger because of strong drink; they reel in vision, they totter in judgment.

jps@Isaiah:28:15 @ Because ye have said: 'We have made a covenant with death, and with the nether-world are we at agreement; when the scouring scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood have we hid ourselves';

jps@Isaiah:30:12 @ Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon;

jps@Isaiah:31:1 @ Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many, and in horsemen, because they are exceeding mighty; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!

jps@Isaiah:37:29 @ Because of thy raging against Me, and for that thine uproar is come up into Mine ears, therefore will I put My hook in thy nose, and My bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

jps@Isaiah:40:7 @ The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; because the breath of the LORD bloweth upon it--surely the people is grass.

jps@Isaiah:43:20 @ The beasts of the field shall honour Me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, Mine elect;

jps@Isaiah:48:4 @ Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

jps@Isaiah:49:7 @ Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, to him who is despised of men, to him who is abhorred of nations, to a servant of rulers: Kings shall see and arise, princes, and they shall prostrate themselves; because of the LORD that is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who hath chosen thee.

jps@Isaiah:50:2 @ Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is My hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; their fish become foul, because there is no water, and die for thirst.

jps@Isaiah:51:13 @ And hast forgotten the LORD thy Maker, that stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and fearest continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, as he maketh ready to destroy? And where is the fury of the oppressor?

jps@Isaiah:52:15 @ So shall he startle many nations, kings shall shut their mouths because of him; for that which had not been told them shall they see, and that which they had not heard shall they perceive.

jps@Isaiah:53:5 @ But he was wounded because of our transgressions, he was crushed because of our iniquities: the chastisement of our welfare was upon him, and with his stripes we were healed.

jps@Isaiah:53:12 @ Therefore will I divide him a portion among the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the mighty; because he bared his soul unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

jps@Isaiah:54:15 @ Behold, they may gather together, but not by Me; whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall because of thee.

jps@Isaiah:55:5 @ Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and a nation that knew not thee shall run unto thee; because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel, for He hath glorified thee.

jps@Isaiah:58:13 @ If thou turn away thy foot because of the sabbath, from pursuing thy business on My holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, and the holy of the LORD honourable; and shalt honour it, not doing thy wonted ways, nor pursuing thy business, nor speaking thereof;

jps@Isaiah:60:5 @ Then thou shalt see and be radiant, and thy heart shall throb and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned unto thee, the wealth of the nations shall come unto thee.

jps@Isaiah:60:9 @ Surely the isles shall wait for Me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, for the name of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because He hath glorified thee.

jps@Isaiah:61:1 @ The spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to bring good tidings unto the humble; He hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the eyes to them that are bound;

jps@Isaiah:65:12 @ 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 spoke, ye did not hear; but ye did that which was evil in Mine eyes, and chose that wherein I delighted not.

jps@Isaiah:65:16 @ So that he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself by the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from Mine eyes.

jps@Isaiah:66:4 @ Even so I will choose their mockings, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear, but they did that which was evil in Mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.

jps@Jeremiah:2:35 @ Thou saidst: 'I am innocent; surely His anger is turned away from me'--behold, I will enter into judgment with thee, because thou sayest: 'I have not sinned.'

jps@Jeremiah:4:4 @ Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest My fury go forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

jps@Jeremiah:4:17 @ As keepers of a field are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against Me, saith the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:4:19 @ My bowels, my bowels! I writhe in pain! The chambers of my heart! My heart moaneth within me! I cannot hold my peace! because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the horn, the alarm of war.

jps@Jeremiah:4:28 @ For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.

jps@Jeremiah:5:6 @ Wherefore a lion out of the forest doth slay them, a wolf of the deserts doth spoil them, a leopard watcheth over their cities, every one that goeth out thence is torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, their backslidings are increased.

jps@Jeremiah:5:14 @...the God of hosts: Because ye...

jps@Jeremiah:6:15 @ They shall be put to shame because they have committed abomination; yea, they are not at all ashamed, neither know they how to blush; therefore they shall fall among them that fall, at the time that I punish them they shall stumble, saith the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:6:19 @ Hear, O earth: Behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not attended unto My words, and as for My teaching, they have rejected it.

jps@Jeremiah:6:30 @ Refuse silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.

jps@Jeremiah:7:13 @ And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spoke unto you, speaking betimes and often, but ye heard not, and I called you, but ye answered not;

jps@Jeremiah:8:12 @ They shall be put to shame because they have committed abomination; yea, they are not at all ashamed, neither know they how to blush; therefore shall they fall among them that fall, in the time of their visitation they shall stumble, saith the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:8:14 @ 'Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be cut off there; for the LORD our God hath cut us off, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:9:7 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts: Behold, I will smelt them, and try them; for how else should I do, because of the daughter of My people?

jps@Jeremiah:9:10 @ For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passeth through. And they hear not the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled, and gone.

jps@Jeremiah:9:13 @...And the LORD saith: Because they...

jps@Jeremiah:9:19 @ For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion: 'How are we undone! We are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.'

jps@Jeremiah:10:5 @ They are like a pillar in a garden of cucumbers, and speak not; they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.

jps@Jeremiah:11:17 @ For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have wrought for themselves in provoking Me by offering unto Baal.

jps@Jeremiah:12:4 @ How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole field wither? For the wickedness of them that dwell therein, the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said: 'He seeth not our end.'

jps@Jeremiah:12:11 @ They have made it a desolation, it mourneth unto Me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.

jps@Jeremiah:12:13 @ They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, they profit not; be ye then ashamed of your increase, because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:13:17 @ But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride; and mine eyes shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive.

jps@Jeremiah:13:25 @ This is thy lot, the portion measured unto thee from Me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten Me, and trusted in falsehood.

jps@Jeremiah:14:4 @ Because of the ground which is cracked, for there hath been no rain in the land, the plowmen are ashamed, they cover their heads.

jps@Jeremiah:14:5 @ Yea, the hind also in the field calveth, and forsaketh her young, because there is no grass,

jps@Jeremiah:14:6 @ And the wild asses stand on the high hills, they gasp for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.

jps@Jeremiah:14:16 @ and the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters; for I will pour their evil upon them.'

jps@Jeremiah:15:4 @ And I will cause them to be a horror among all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.

jps@Jeremiah:15:15 @ Thou, O LORD, knowest; Remember me, and think of me, and avenge me of my persecutors; take me not away because of Thy long-suffering; know that for Thy sake I have suffered taunts.

jps@Jeremiah:15:16 @ Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and Thy words were unto me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart; because Thy name was called on me, O LORD God of hosts.

jps@Jeremiah:15:17 @ I sat not in the assembly of them that make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of Thy hand; for Thou hast filled me with indignation.

jps@Jeremiah:16:18 @ And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have profaned My land; they have filled Mine inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable things and their abominations.

jps@Jeremiah:17:3 @ O thou that sittest upon the mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures for a spoil, and thy high places, because of sin, throughout all thy borders.

jps@Jeremiah:17:13 @ Thou hope of Israel, the LORD! All that forsake Thee shall be ashamed; they that depart from Thee shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.

jps@Jeremiah:18:8 @ but if that nation turn from their evil, because of which I have spoken against it, I repent of the evil that I thought to do unto it.

jps@Jeremiah:19:4 @ because they have forsaken Me, and have estranged this place, and have offered in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

jps@Jeremiah:19:8 @ and I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof;

jps@Jeremiah:19:15 @ 'Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it; because they have made their neck stiff, that they might not hear My words.'

jps@Jeremiah:20:8 @ For as often as I speak, I cry out, I cry: 'Violence and spoil'; because the word of the LORD is made a reproach unto me, and a derision, all the day.

jps@Jeremiah:20:11 @ But the LORD is with me as a mighty warrior; therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be greatly ashamed, because they have not prospered, even with an everlasting confusion which shall never be forgotten.

jps@Jeremiah:20:17 @ Because He slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

jps@Jeremiah:21:12 @ O house of David, thus saith the LORD: Execute justice in the morning, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest My fury go forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

jps@Jeremiah:22:15 @ Shalt thou reign, because thou strivest to excel in cedar? Did not thy father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

jps@Jeremiah:23:9 @ Concerning the prophets. My heart within me is broken, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome; because of the LORD, and because of His holy words.

jps@Jeremiah:23:10 @ For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth, the pastures of the wilderness are dried up; and their course is evil, and their force is not right.

jps@Jeremiah:23:38 @...thus saith the LORD: Because ye...

jps@Jeremiah:25:8 @...the LORD of hosts: Because ye...

jps@Jeremiah:25:16 @ And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be like madmen, because of the sword that I will send among them.--

jps@Jeremiah:25:27 @ And thou shalt say unto them: Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

jps@Jeremiah:25:30 @ Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them: The LORD doth roar from on high, and utter His voice from His holy habitation; He doth mightily roar because of His fold; He giveth a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.

jps@Jeremiah:25:37 @ And the peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:25:38 @ He hath forsaken His covert, as the lion; for their land is become a waste because of the fierceness of the oppressing sword, and because of His fierce anger.

jps@Jeremiah:26:3 @ It may be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way; that I may repent Me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.

jps@Jeremiah:28:16 @ 'Therefore thus saith the LORD: Behold, I will send thee away from off the face of the earth; this year thou shalt die, because thou hast spoken perversion against the LORD.'

jps@Jeremiah:29:19 @ because they have not hearkened to My words, saith the LORD, wherewith I sent unto them My servants the prophets, sending them betimes and often; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:29:23 @ because they have wrought vile deeds in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken words in My name falsely, which I commanded them not; but I am He that knoweth, and am witness, saith the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:29:25 @...God of Israel, saying: Because thou...

jps@Jeremiah:29:31 @...concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because that...

jps@Jeremiah:29:32 @ therefore thus saith the LORD: Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed; he shall not have a man to dwell among this people, neither shall he behold the good that I will do unto My people, saith the LORD; because he hath spoken perversion against the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:30:14 @ All thy lovers have forgotten thee, they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one; for the greatness of thine iniquity, because thy sins were increased.

jps@Jeremiah:30:15 @ Why criest thou for thy hurt, that thy pain is incurable? For the greatness of thine iniquity, because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.

jps@Jeremiah:30:17 @ For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they have called thee an outcast: 'She is Zion, there is none that careth for her.'

jps@Jeremiah:31:15 @ Thus saith the LORD: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuseth to be comforted for her children, because they are not.

jps@Jeremiah:31:19 @ Surely after that I was turned, I repented, and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh; I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.'

jps@Jeremiah:32:24 @ behold the mounds, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence; and what Thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, Thou seest it.

jps@Jeremiah:32:32 @ because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

jps@Jeremiah:35:16 @ Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father which he commanded them, but this people hath not hearkened unto Me;

jps@Jeremiah:35:17 @ therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them; because I have spoken unto them, but they have not heard, and I have called unto them, but they have not answered.'

jps@Jeremiah:35:18 @...the God of Israel: Because ye...

jps@Jeremiah:38:9 @ 'My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the pit; and he is like to die in the place where he is because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.'

jps@Jeremiah:39:18 @ For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee; because thou hast put thy trust in Me, saith the LORD.'

jps@Jeremiah:40:3 @ and the LORD hath brought it, and done according as He spoke; because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not hearkened to His voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.

jps@Jeremiah:41:18 @ because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor over the land.

jps@Jeremiah:44:3 @ because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke Me, in that they went to offer, and to serve other gods, whom they knew not, neither they, nor ye, nor your fathers.

jps@Jeremiah:44:22 @ So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.

jps@Jeremiah:44:23 @ Because ye have offered, and because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not hearkened to the voice of the LORD, nor walked in His law, nor in His statutes, nor in His testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day.'

jps@Jeremiah:46:15 @ Why is thy strong one overthrown? He stood not, because the LORD did thrust him down.

jps@Jeremiah:46:23 @ They cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

jps@Jeremiah:47:4 @ Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Zidon every helper that remaineth; for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor.

jps@Jeremiah:48:7 @ For, because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken; and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his princes together.

jps@Jeremiah:48:42 @ And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:50:7 @ All that found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said: 'We are not guilty'; because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.

jps@Jeremiah:50:11 @ Because ye are glad, because ye rejoice, O ye that plunder My heritage, because ye gambol as a heifer at grass, and neigh as strong horses;

jps@Jeremiah:50:13 @ Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate; every one that goeth by Babylon shall be appalled and hiss at all her plagues.

jps@Jeremiah:50:24 @ I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware; thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:51:11 @ Make bright the arrows, fill the quivers, the LORD hath roused the spirit of the kings of the Medes; because His device is against Babylon, to destroy it; for it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of His temple.

jps@Jeremiah:51:51 @ 'We are ashamed, because we have heard reproach, confusion hath covered our faces; for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD'S house.'

jps@Jeremiah:51:64 @ and thou shalt say: Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring upon her; and they shall be weary.' Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

jps@Lamentations:1:3 @ Judah is gone into exile because of affliction, and because of great servitude; she dwelleth among the nations, she findeth no rest; all her pursuers overtook her within the straits.

jps@Lamentations:1:4 @ The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; all her gates are desolate, her priests sigh; her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.

jps@Lamentations:1:8 @ Jerusalem hath grievously sinned, therefore she is become as one unclean; all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness; she herself also sigheth, and turneth backward.

jps@Lamentations:1:16 @ 'For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water; because the comforter is far from me, even he that should refresh my soul; my children are desolate, because the enemy hath prevailed.'

jps@Lamentations:2:11 @ Mine eyes do fail with tears, mine inwards burn, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the breach of the daughter of my people; because the young children and the sucklings swoon in the broad places of the city.

jps@Lamentations:3:28 @ Let him sit alone and keep silence, because He hath laid it upon him.

jps@Lamentations:3:39 @ Wherefore doth a living man complain, a strong man because of his sins?

jps@Lamentations:3:51 @ Mine eye affected my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

jps@Lamentations:4:13 @ It is because of the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.

jps@Lamentations:5:9 @ We get our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

jps@Lamentations:5:10 @ Our skin is hot like an oven because of the burning heat of famine.

jps@Ezekiel:3:20 @ Again, when a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, I will lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die; because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thy hand.

jps@Ezekiel:3:21 @ Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning; and thou hast delivered thy soul.'

jps@Ezekiel:5:7 @...saith the Lord GOD: Because ye...

jps@Ezekiel:5:9 @ And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.

jps@Ezekiel:5:11 @ Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely, because thou hast defiled My sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall Mine eye spare, and I also will have no pity.

jps@Ezekiel:6:11 @ Thus saith the Lord GOD: Smite with thy hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say: Alas! because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel; for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.

jps@Ezekiel:7:19 @ They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD; they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it hath been the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

jps@Ezekiel:12:19 @ and say unto the people of the land: Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel. They shall eat their bread with anxiety, and drink their water with appalment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.

jps@Ezekiel:13:8 @...saith the Lord GOD: Because ye...

jps@Ezekiel:13:10 @ Because, even because they have led My people astray, saying: Peace, and there is no peace; and when it buildeth up a slight wall, behold, they daub it with whited plaster;

jps@Ezekiel:13:22 @ Because with lies ye have cowed the heart of the righteous, when I have not grieved him; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, that he be saved alive;

jps@Ezekiel:14:5 @ that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all turned away from Me through their idols.

jps@Ezekiel:14:15 @ If I cause evil beasts to pass through the land, and they bereave it, and it be desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the beasts;

jps@Ezekiel:15:8 @ And I will make the land desolate, because they have acted treacherously, saith the Lord GOD.'

jps@Ezekiel:16:15 @ But thou didst trust in thy beauty and play the harlot because of thy renown, and didst pour out thy harlotries on every one that passed by; his it was.

jps@Ezekiel:16:36 @...saith the Lord GOD: Because thy...

jps@Ezekiel:16:43 @ Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted Me in all these things; lo, therefore I also will bring thy way upon thy head, saith the Lord GOD; or hast thou not committed this lewdness above all thine abominations?

jps@Ezekiel:16:54 @ that thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be ashamed because of all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.

jps@Ezekiel:16:61 @ Then shalt thou remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder sisters and thy younger; and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not because of thy covenant.

jps@Ezekiel:16:63 @ that thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more, because of thy shame; when I have forgiven thee all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.'

jps@Ezekiel:18:18 @ As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, committed robbery on his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he dieth for his iniquity.

jps@Ezekiel:18:28 @ Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

jps@Ezekiel:19:7 @ And he knew their castles, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, because of the noise of his roaring.

jps@Ezekiel:20:16 @ because they rejected Mine ordinances, and walked not in My statutes, and profaned My sabbaths--for their heart went after their idols.

jps@Ezekiel:20:24 @ because they had not executed Mine ordinances, but had rejected My statutes, and had profaned My sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.

jps@Ezekiel:20:39 @ As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD: Go ye, serve every one his idols, even because ye will not hearken unto Me; but My holy name shall ye no more profane with your gifts, and with your idols.

jps@Ezekiel:21:7 @...that thou shalt say: Because of...

jps@Ezekiel:21:24 @...saith the Lord GOD: Because ye...

jps@Ezekiel:21:28 @ And thou, son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their taunt; and say thou: O sword, O sword keen-edged, furbished for the slaughter, to the uttermost, because of the glitterings;

jps@Ezekiel:22:19 @...saith the Lord GOD: Because ye...

jps@Ezekiel:23:30 @ These things shall be done unto thee, for that thou hast gone astray after the nations, and because thou art polluted with their idols.

jps@Ezekiel:23:35 @...saith the Lord GOD: Because thou...

jps@Ezekiel:23:45 @ But righteous men, they shall judge them as adulteresses are judged, and as women that shed blood are judged; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

jps@Ezekiel:24:13 @ Because of thy filthy lewdness, because I have purged thee and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have satisfied My fury upon thee.

jps@Ezekiel:25:3 @...saith the Lord GOD: Because thou...

jps@Ezekiel:25:6 @...saith the Lord GOD: Because thou...

jps@Ezekiel:25:8 @...saith the Lord GOD: Because that...

jps@Ezekiel:25:12 @...saith the Lord GOD: Because that...

jps@Ezekiel:25:15 @...saith the Lord GOD: Because the...

jps@Ezekiel:26:2 @ 'Son of man, because that Tyre hath said against Jerusalem: Aha, she is broken that was the gate of the peoples; she is turned unto me; I shall be filled with her that is laid waste;

jps@Ezekiel:28:2 @...saith the Lord GOD: Because thy...--

jps@Ezekiel:28:5 @ In thy great wisdom by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches--

jps@Ezekiel:28:6 @...saith the Lord GOD: Because thou...

jps@Ezekiel:28:17 @ Thy heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness; I have cast thee to the ground, I have laid thee before kings, that they may gaze upon thee.

jps@Ezekiel:29:6 @ And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

jps@Ezekiel:29:9 @ And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste, and they shall know that I am the LORD; because he hath said: The river is mine, and I have made it.

jps@Ezekiel:29:20 @ I have given him the land of Egypt as his hire for which he served, because they wrought for Me, saith the Lord GOD.

jps@Ezekiel:31:5 @ Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long, because of the multitude of waters, when it shot them forth.

jps@Ezekiel:31:10 @...saith the Lord GOD: Because thou...

jps@Ezekiel:32:25 @ They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude; her graves are round about them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; because their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit; they are put in the midst of them that are slain.

jps@Ezekiel:32:26 @ There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude; her graves are round about them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; because they caused their terror in the land of the living.

jps@Ezekiel:32:27 @ And they that are inferior to the uncircumcised shall not lie with the mighty that are gone down to the nether-world with their weapons of war, whose swords are laid under their heads, and whose iniquities are upon their bones; because the terror of the mighty was in the land of the living.

jps@Ezekiel:33:29 @ Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land most desolate, because of all their abominations which they have committed.

jps@Ezekiel:34:5 @ So were they scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food to all the beasts of the field, and were scattered.

jps@Ezekiel:34:8 @ As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely forasmuch as My sheep became a prey, and My sheep became food to all the beasts of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did My shepherds search for My sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not My sheep;

jps@Ezekiel:34:21 @ Because ye thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the weak with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;

jps@Ezekiel:35:5 @ Because thou hast had a hatred of old, and hast hurled the children of Israel unto the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;

jps@Ezekiel:35:10 @ Because thou hast said: These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there;

jps@Ezekiel:35:15 @ As thou didst rejoice over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee; thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

jps@Ezekiel:36:2 @...saith the Lord GOD: Because the...

jps@Ezekiel:36:3 @...saith the Lord GOD: Because, even...

jps@Ezekiel:36:6 @ therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and in My fury, because ye have borne the shame of the nations;

jps@Ezekiel:36:13 @...saith the Lord GOD: Because they...

jps@Ezekiel:36:18 @ Wherefore I poured out My fury upon them for the blood which they had shed upon the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols;

jps@Ezekiel:39:23 @ And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they broke faith with Me, and I hid My face from them; so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they fell all of them by the sword.

jps@Ezekiel:44:12 @ Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and became a stumblingblock of iniquity unto the house of Israel; therefore have I lifted up My hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity.

jps@Ezekiel:47:12 @ And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not wither, neither shall the fruit thereof fail; it shall bring forth new fruit every month, because the waters thereof issue out of the sanctuary; and the fruit thereof shall be for food, and the leaf thereof for healing.'

jps@Daniel:3:22 @ Therefore because the king's commandment was peremptory, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego.

jps@Daniel:3:29 @ Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god that is able to deliver after this sort.'

jps@Daniel:4:9 @ O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret causeth thee trouble, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof.

jps@Daniel:5:19 @ and because of the greatness that He gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew, and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he raised up, and whom he would he put down.

jps@Daniel:6:3 @ Then this Daniel distinguished himself above the presidents and the satraps, because a surpassing spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

jps@Daniel:6:23 @ Then was the king exceeding glad, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he had trusted in his God.

jps@Daniel:7:11 @ I beheld at that time because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke, I beheld even till the beast was slain, and its body destroyed, and it was given to be burned with fire.

jps@Daniel:9:7 @ Unto Thee, O Lord, belongeth righteousness, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither Thou hast driven them, because they dealt treacherously with Thee.

jps@Daniel:9:8 @ O LORD, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against Thee.

jps@Daniel:9:16 @ O Lord, according to all Thy righteousness, let Thine anger and Thy fury, I pray Thee, be turned away from Thy city Jerusalem, Thy holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.

jps@Daniel:9:18 @ O my God, incline Thine ear, and hear; open Thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city upon which Thy name is called; for we do not present our supplications before Thee because of our righteousness, but because of Thy great compassions.

jps@Daniel:9:19 @ O Lord, hear, O Lord, forgive, O Lord, attend and do, defer not; for Thine own sake, O my God, because Thy name is called upon Thy city and Thy people.'

jps@Daniel:10:12 @ Then said he unto me: 'Fear not, Daniel; for from the first day that thou didst set thy heart to understand, and to humble thyself before thy God, thy words were heard; and I am come because of thy words.

jps@Hosea:4:1 @ Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel! for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

jps@Hosea:4:6 @ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to Me; seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.

jps@Hosea:4:10 @ And they shall eat, and not have enough, they shall commit harlotry, and shall not increase; because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.

jps@Hosea:4:13 @ They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and offer upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow thereof is good; therefore your daughters commit harlotry, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.

jps@Hosea:4:19 @ The wind hath bound her up in her skirts; and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

jps@Hosea:5:11 @ Oppressed is Ephraim, crushed in his right; because he willingly walked after filth.

jps@Hosea:8:1 @ Set the horn to thy mouth. As a vulture he cometh against the house of the LORD; because they have transgressed My covenant, and trespassed against My law.

jps@Hosea:9:15 @ All their wickedness is in Gilgal, for there I hated them; because of the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of My house; I will love them no more, all their princes are rebellious.

jps@Hosea:9:17 @ My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

jps@Hosea:10:5 @ The inhabitants of Samaria shall be in dread for the calves of Beth-aven; for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof shall tremble for it, for its glory, because it is departed from it.

jps@Hosea:10:15 @ So hath Beth-el done unto you because of your great wickedness; at daybreak is the king of Israel utterly cut off.

jps@Hosea:11:5 @ He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

jps@Hosea:11:6 @ And the sword shall fall upon his cities, and shall consume his bars, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

jps@Joel:1:5 @ Awake, ye drunkards, and weep, and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.

jps@Joel:1:11 @ Be ashamed, O ye husbandmen, wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.

jps@Joel:1:18 @ How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

jps@Joel:2:20 @ But I will remove far off from you the northern one, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the eastern sea, and his hinder part toward the western sea; that his foulness may come up, and his ill savour may come up, because he hath done great things.'

jps@Joel:3:19 @ Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

jps@Amos:1:3 @ For thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Damascus, yea, for four, I will not reverse it: because they have threshed Gilead with sledges of iron.

jps@Amos:1:6 @ Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Gaza, yea, for four, I will not reverse it: because they carried away captive a whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom.

jps@Amos:1:9 @ Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Tyre, yea, for four, I will not reverse it: because they delivered up a whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant.

jps@Amos:1:11 @ Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Edom, yea, for four, I will not reverse it: because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever.

jps@Amos:1:13 @ Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yea, for four, I will not reverse it: because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border.

jps@Amos:2:1 @ Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Moab, yea, for four, I will not reverse it: because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.

jps@Amos:2:4 @ Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Judah, yea, for four, I will not reverse it: because they have rejected the law of the LORD, and have not kept His statutes, and their lies have caused them to err, after which their fathers did walk.

jps@Amos:2:6 @ Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not reverse it: because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;

jps@Amos:4:12 @ Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel; because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.

jps@Amos:5:11 @ Therefore, because ye trample upon the poor, and take from him exactions of wheat; ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them, ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine thereof.

jps@Jonah:1:10 @ Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him: 'What is this that thou hast done?' For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.

jps@Jonah:4:6 @ And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his evil. So Jonah was exceeding glad because of the gourd.

jps@Micah:1:12 @ For the inhabitant of Maroth waiteth anxiously for good; because evil is come down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.

jps@Micah:2:1 @ Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they execute it, because it is in the power of their hand.

jps@Micah:2:10 @ Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your resting-place; because of the uncleanness thereof, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.

jps@Micah:5:15 @ And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the nations, because they hearkened not.

jps@Micah:6:13 @ Therefore I also do smite thee with a grievous wound; I do make thee desolate because of thy sins.

jps@Micah:7:9 @ I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against Him; until He plead my cause, and execute judgment for me; He will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold His righteousness.

jps@Micah:7:13 @ And the land shall be desolate for them that dwell therein, because of the fruit of their doings.

jps@Micah:7:17 @ They shall lick the dust like a serpent; like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their close places; they shall come with fear unto the LORD our God, and shall be afraid because of Thee.

jps@Micah:7:18 @ Who is a God like unto Thee, that pardoneth the iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He retaineth not His anger for ever, because He delighteth in mercy.

jps@Nahum:3:4 @ Because of the multitude of the harlotries of the well-favoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her harlotries, and families through her witchcrafts.

jps@Nahum:3:11 @ Thou also shalt be drunken, thou shalt swoon; thou also shalt seek a refuge because of the enemy.

jps@Habakkuk:1:16 @ Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and offer unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their food plenteous.

jps@Habakkuk:2:3 @ For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it declareth of the end, and doth not lie; though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.'

jps@Habakkuk:2:8 @ Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all that dwell therein.

jps@Habakkuk:2:17 @ For the violence done to Lebanon shall cover thee, and the destruction of the beasts, which made them afraid; because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all that dwell therein.

jps@Zephaniah:1:17 @ And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD; and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as dung.

jps@Zephaniah:2:10 @ This shall they have for their pride, because they have taunted and spoken boastfully against the people of the LORD of hosts.

jps@Haggai:1:9 @...the LORD of hosts. Because of...

jps@Zechariah:8:10 @ For before those days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the adversary; for I set all men every one against his neighbour.

jps@Zechariah:9:11 @ As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant I send forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.

jps@Zechariah:10:2 @ For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and the dreams speak falsely, they comfort in vain; therefore they go their way like sheep, they are afflicted, because there is no shepherd.

jps@Zechariah:10:5 @ And they shall be as mighty men, treading down in the mire of the streets in the battle, and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them; and the riders on horses shall be confounded.

jps@Zechariah:11:2 @ Wail, O cypress-tree, for the cedar is fallen; because the glorious ones are spoiled; wail, O ye oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest is come down.

jps@Zechariah:12:10 @ And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they shall look unto Me because they have thrust him through; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his first-born.

jps@Malachi:2:2 @ If ye will not hearken, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto My name, saith the LORD of hosts, then will I send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yea, I curse them, because ye do not lay it to heart.

jps@Malachi:2:14 @...Yet ye say: 'Wherefore?' Because the...

jps@Malachi:3:14 @ Ye have said: 'It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked mournfully because of the LORD of hosts?


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