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geneva@Genesis:2:5 @ And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to (note:)God only opens the heavens and shuts them, he sends drought and rain according to his good pleasure.(:note) rain upon the earth, and [there was] not a man to till the ground.

geneva@Genesis:18:12 @ Therefore Sarah (note:)For she believed the order of nature, rather than believing the promise of God.(:note) laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

geneva@Genesis:19:17 @ And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; (note:)He willed him to flee God's judgments and not to be sorry to leave that rich country, full of vain pleasures.(:note) look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

geneva@Genesis:25:32 @ And Esau said, Behold, I [am] at the point to die: and what (note:)The reprobate do not value God's benefits unless they feel them presently, and therefore they prefer present pleasures.(:note) profit shall this birthright do to me?

geneva@Numbers:12:14 @ And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but (note:)In his displeasure.(:note) spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in [again].

geneva@Deuteronomy:23:24 @ When thou comest into (note:)Being hired for labour.(:note) thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put [any] in thy To bring home to your house. vessel.

geneva@Judges:15:3 @ And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more (note:)For through his father-in-law's actions, he was moved again to take vengeance on the Philistines.(:note) blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.

geneva@1Samuel:15:22 @ And Samuel saide, Hath the Lord as great pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as when the voyce of the Lord is obeyed? Beholde, to obey is better then sacrifice, and to hearken is better then the fatte of rammes.

geneva@1Samuel:30:16 @ And when he had brought him down, behold, [they were] spread abroad upon all the earth, (note:)The wicked in their pomp and pleasures do not consider the judgment of God, which is then at hand to smite them.(:note) eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

geneva@2Samuel:10:6 @ And when the children of Ammon saw that they (note:)That they deserved David's displeasure, for the harm done to his ambassadors.(:note) stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand men.

geneva@2Samuel:19:18 @ And there went ouer a boate to carie ouer the Kings houshold, and to do him pleasure. Then Shimei the sonne of Gera fell before the King, when he was come ouer Iorden,

geneva@1Kings:9:6 @ [But] if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will (note:)God declares that disobedience against him, is the cause of his displeasure, and so of all misery.(:note) not keep my commandments [and] my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:

geneva@1Kings:18:12 @ And it shall come to pass, [as soon as] I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and [so] when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant (note:)I am not of the wicked persecutors that you should procure to me such displeasure, but serve God and favour his children.(:note) fear the LORD from my youth.

geneva@1Kings:20:43 @ And the King of Israel went to his house heauie and in displeasure, & came to Samaria.

geneva@2Kings:5:12 @ Are not Abanah and Pharpar, riuers of Damascus, better then all the waters of Israel? may I not washe mee in them, and bee cleansed? so hee turned, and departed in displeasure.

geneva@1Chronicles:19:2 @ And David said, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his (note:)Because Nahash received David and his company, when Saul persecuted him he would now show pleasure to his son for the same.(:note) father shewed kindness to me. And David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.

geneva@1Chronicles:29:17 @ I knowe also, my God, that thou tryest the heart, and hast pleasure in righteousnesse: I haue offred willingly in the vprightnesse of mine heart all these things: now also haue I seene thy people which are found here, to offer vnto thee willingly with ioy.

geneva@Ezra:5:17 @ Now therefore, if [it seem] good to the king, let there be search made in the king's (note:)Meaning in the library or places where lay the register or record of times.(:note) treasure house, which [is] there at Babylon, whether it be [so], that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.

geneva@Ezra:10:11 @ Now therefore (note:)Read (Jos_7:19).(:note) make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.

geneva@Nehemiah:9:25 @ And they tooke their strong cities and the fat lande, and possessed houses, full of all goods, cisternes digged out, vineyardes, and oliues, and trees for foode in abundance, and they did eate, and were filled, and became fat, and liued in pleasure through thy great goodnesse.

geneva@Nehemiah:9:37 @ And it yeeldeth much fruit vnto the kings whom thou hast set ouer vs, because of our sinnes: and they haue dominion ouer our bodyes and ouer our cattell at their pleasure, and we are in great affliction.

geneva@Esther:1:8 @ And the drinking [was] according to the law; none did (note:)No one was forced to drink more than it pleased him.(:note) compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure.

geneva@Esther:4:17 @ So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Ester had commaunded him. {\cf2 (13:8) Then Mardocheus thought vpon all ye workes and of the Lord, and made his prayer vnto him, (13:9) Saying, O Lord, Lord, the King Almighty (for all things are in thy power) & if thou hast appointed to saue Israel, there is no man that can withstand thee. (13:10) For thou hast made heauen and earth, and all the wonderous things vnder the heauen. (13:11) Thou art Lorde of all thinges, and there is no man that can resist thee, which art the Lord. (13:12) Thou knowest all things, and thou knowest, Lord, that it was neither of malice, nor presumption, nor for any desire of glory, that I did this, and not bowe downe to proude Aman. (13:13) For I woulde haue bene content with good will for the saluation of Israel, to haue kist the sole of his feete. (13:14) But I did it, because I would not preferre the honour of a man aboue the glory of God, & would not worship any but onely thee, my Lorde, and this haue I not done of pride. (13:15) And therefore, O Lord God and King, haue mercy vpon thy people: for they imagine how they may bring vs to naught, yea, they would destroy the inheritance, that hath bin thine from the beginning. (13:16) Despise not the portion, which thou hast deliuered out of Egypt for thine owne selfe. (13:17) Heare my prayer, and bee mercifull vnto thy portion: turne our sorow into ioy, that we may liue, O Lord, and praise thy Name: shut not the mouthes of them that praise thee. (13:18) All Israel in like maner cried most earnestly vnto the Lord, because that death was before their eyes. \par (14:1) Qveene Esther also, being in danger of death, resorted vnto the Lord, (14:2) And layd away her glorious apparell, and put on the garments of sighing, and mourning. In the stead of precious oyntment, she scattered ashes, and dongue vpon her head: and she humbled her body greatly with fasting, and all the places of her ioy filled she with the heare that she pluckt off. (14:3) And she prayed vnto the Lord God of Israel, saying, O my Lorde, thou onely art our King: helpe me desolate woman, which haue no helper but thee. (14:4) For my danger is at hand. (14:5) From my youth vp I haue heard in the kinred of my father, that thou, O Lord, tookest Israel from among all people, and our fathers from their predecessours for a perpetuall inheritance, and thou hast performed that which thou didest promise them. (14:6) Now Lord, we haue sinned before thee: therefore hast thou giuen vs into ye hands of our enemies. (14:7) Because we worshipped their gods, O Lorde, thou art righteous. (14:8) Neuerthelesse, it satisfieth them not, that we are in bitter captiuitie, but they haue stroken hands with their idoles, (14:9) That they wil abolish the thing that thou with thy mouth hast ordeined, & destroy thine inheritace, to shut vp the mouth of them that praise thee, and to quench the glory of thy Temple, and of thine altar, (14:10) And to open the mouths of the heathen, that they may praise the power of the idoles, and to magnifie a fleshly King for euer. (14:11) O Lord, giue not thy scepter vnto them that be nothing, lest they laugh vs to scorne in our miserie: but turne their deuise vpon theselues, and make him an example, that hath begunne the same against vs. (14:12) Thinke vpon vs, O Lord, and shewe thy selfe vnto vs in the time of our distresse, and strengthen me, O King of gods, and Lord of all power. (14:13) Giue me an eloquent speach in my mouth before the Lion: turne his heart to hate our enemie, to destroy him, and all such as consent vnto him. (14:14) But deliuer vs with thine hand, and helpe me that am solitary, which haue no defence but onely thee. (14:15) Thou knowest all things, O Lord: thou knowest, that I hate the glory of the vnrighteous, and that I abhorre the bed of the vncircumcised, and of all the heathen. (14:16) Thou knowest my necessitie: for I hate this token of my preeminence, which I beare vpon mine head, what time as I must shewe my selfe, and that I abhorre it as a menstruous cloth, and that I weare it not when I am alone by my selfe, (14:17) And that I thine handmayde haue not eaten at Amans table, and that I haue had no pleasure in the Kings feast, nor drunke the wine of the drinke offerings, (14:18) And that I thine handmayde haue no ioye since the day that I was brought hither, vntill this day, but in thee, O Lord God of Abraham. (14:19) O thou mighty God aboue al, heare the voyce of them, that haue none other hope, & deliuer vs out of the hand of ye wicked, & deliuer me out of my feare.}

geneva@Job:3:14 @ With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built (note:)He notes the ambition of them who for their pleasure as it were change the order of nature, and build in most barren places, because they would by this make their names immortal.(:note) desolate places for themselves;

geneva@Job:6:6 @ Can that which is (note:)Can a man's taste delight in that, which has no savour? meaning that no one takes pleasure in affliction seeing they cannot do away with things that are unsavoury to the mouth.(:note) unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there [any] taste in the white of an egg?

geneva@Job:7:7 @ Remember that my life is but a wind, and that mine eye shall not returne to see pleasure.

geneva@Job:15:13 @ That thou answerest to God at thy pleasure, and bringest such wordes out of thy mouth?

geneva@Job:21:21 @ For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the nomber of his moneths is cut off?

geneva@Job:21:25 @ And another (note:)That is, the godly.(:note) dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.

geneva@Job:34:33 @ [Should it be] according to (note:)Will God use your counsel in doing his works?(:note) thy mind? he will recompense Thus he speaks in the person of God, as though Job should chose and refuse affliction at his pleasure. it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.

geneva@Job:36:11 @ If they obey and serue him, they shal end their dayes in prosperity, & their yeres in pleasures.

geneva@Job:40:17 @ {\cf2 (40:12)} When hee taketh pleasure, his taile is like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapt together.

geneva@Psalms:5:4 @ For thou [art] not a God that hath pleasure in (note:)Seeing that God of nature hates wickedness, he must punish the wicked and save the godly.(:note) wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.

geneva@Psalms:6:1 @ «To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.» O LORD, (note:)Though I deserve destruction, yet let your mercy pity my frailty.(:note) rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

geneva@Psalms:16:11 @ Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy (note:)Where God favours there is perfect happiness.(:note) presence [is] fulness of joy; at thy right hand [there are] pleasures for evermore.

geneva@Psalms:23:6 @ Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the (note:)He does not set his happiness in the pleasures of this world, but in the fear and service of God.(:note) house of the LORD for ever.

geneva@Psalms:27:9 @ Hide not therefore thy face from mee, nor cast thy seruat away in displeasure: thou hast bene my succour: leaue me not, neither forsake mee, O God of my saluation.

geneva@Psalms:35:27 @ Let them shout for joy, and be glad, (note:)That at least favour my right, though they are not able to help me.(:note) that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the He exhorts the Church to praise God for the deliverance of his servants, and for the destruction of his adversaries. prosperity of his servant.

geneva@Psalms:36:8 @ They shall be abundantly (note:)Only God's children have enough of all things both concerning this life and the life to come.(:note) satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

geneva@Psalms:38:1 @ «A Psalm of David, to bring to (note:)To put himself and others in mind of God's chastisement for sin.(:note) remembrance.» O LORD, rebuke me not in thy He desires not to be exempted from God's rod, but that he would so moderate his hand, that he might be able to bear it. wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

geneva@Psalms:45:11 @ So shal the King haue pleasure in thy beautie: for he is thy Lord, and reuerence thou him.

geneva@Psalms:49:18 @ Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and (note:)The flatterers praise them who live in delight and pleasures.(:note) [men] will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.

geneva@Psalms:51:18 @ Do good in thy good pleasure unto (note:)He prays for the whole Church, because through his sin it was in danger of God's judgment.(:note) Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

geneva@Psalms:63:5 @ My soul shall be satisfied as [with] (note:)The remembrance of your favour is more sweet to me than all the pleasures and dainties of the world.(:note) marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise [thee] with joyful lips:

geneva@Psalms:65:4 @ Blessed is he, whom thou chusest and causest to come to thee: he shall dwell in thy courtes, and we shall be satisfied with the pleasures of thine House, euen of thine holy Temple.

geneva@Psalms:69:24 @ Powre out thine anger vpon them, and let thy wrathfull displeasure take them.

geneva@Psalms:73:4 @ For [there are] (note:)The wicked in this life live at pleasure and are not drawn to death like prisoners: that is, by sickness which is death's messenger.(:note) no bands in their death: but their strength [is] firm.

geneva@Psalms:77:9 @ Hath God forgotten to be mercifull? hath he shut vp his teder mercies in displeasure? Selah.

geneva@Psalms:88:8 @ Thou hast put away mine (note:)He attributes the loss and displeasure of his friends to God's providence by which he partly punishes and partly tries his.(:note) acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I see no end to my sorrows. [I am] shut up, and I cannot come forth.

geneva@Psalms:102:10 @ Because of thine (note:)He shows that not only the afflictions moved him, but chiefly the feeling of God's displeasure.(:note) indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.

geneva@Psalms:102:14 @ For thy servants take pleasure in her (note:)The more the Church is in misery and desolation, the more the faithful should love and pity it.(:note) stones, and favour the dust thereof.

geneva@Psalms:103:21 @ Prayse the Lord, all ye his hostes, ye his seruants that doe his pleasure.

geneva@Psalms:105:22 @ To bind his (note:)That the very princes of the countries would be at Joseph's commandment, and learn wisdom from him.(:note) princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom.

geneva@Psalms:111:2 @ The works of the LORD [are] (note:)He shows that God's works are a sufficient reason for us to praise him, but chiefly his benefits toward his Church.(:note) great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.

geneva@Psalms:116:1 @ I (note:)He grants that no pleasure is so great as to feel God's help in our need, neither that anything more stirs up our love toward him.(:note) love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice [and] my supplications.

geneva@Psalms:145:16 @ Thou openest thine hand, and fillest all things liuing of thy good pleasure.

geneva@Psalms:147:10 @ He delighteth not in the (note:)Though to use lawful means is both profitable and pleases God, yet to put our trust in them is to defraud God of his honour.(:note) strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.

geneva@Psalms:149:4 @ For the Lorde hath pleasure in his people: he will make the meeke glorious by deliuerance.

geneva@Proverbs:3:17 @ Her wayes are wayes of pleasure, and all her pathes prosperitie.

geneva@Proverbs:7:18 @ Come, let vs take our fill of loue vntill the morning: let vs take our pleasure in daliance.

geneva@Proverbs:8:11 @ For wisdome is better then precious stones: and all pleasures are not to be compared vnto her.

geneva@Proverbs:14:35 @ The pleasure of a King is in a wise seruant: but his wrath shalbe toward him that is lewde.

geneva@Proverbs:18:24 @ A man [that hath] friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend [that] sticketh closer (note:)That is, often such are found who are more ready to do pleasure, than he that is more bound by duty.(:note) than a brother.

geneva@Proverbs:19:28 @ An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked (note:)Takes a pleasure and delight in it, as gluttons and drunkards in delicate meats and drinks.(:note) devoureth iniquity.

geneva@Proverbs:21:14 @ A (note:)To do a pleasure to the angry man pacifies him.(:note) gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.

geneva@Proverbs:24:25 @ But to them that rebuke him, shall be pleasure, and vpon them shall come the blessing of goodnesse.

geneva@Proverbs:25:16 @ Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is (note:)Use moderately the pleasures of this world.(:note) sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled with it, and vomit it.

geneva@Proverbs:29:17 @ Correct thy sonne & he will giue thee rest, and will giue pleasures to thy soule.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:1 @ The words of the (note:)Solomon is here called a preacher, or one who assembles the people, because he teaches the true knowledge of God, and how men ought to pass their life in this transitory world.(:note) Preacher, the son of David, king of Jerusalem. The Argument - Solomon as a preacher and one that desired to instruct all in the way of salvation, describes the deceivable vanities of this world: that man should not be addicted to anything under the sun, but rather inflamed with the desire of the heavenly life: therefore he confutes their opinions, which set their happiness either in knowledge or in pleasures, or in dignity and riches, wishing that man's true happiness consists in that he is united with God and will enjoy his presence: so that all other things must be rejected, save in as much as they further us to attain to this heavenly treasure, which is sure and permanent, and cannot be found in any other save in God alone.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:17 @ And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know (note:)That is, vain things, which served to pleasure, in which was no convenience, but grief and trouble of conscience.(:note) madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:1 @ I said in my heart, Come now, I will tempt (note:)Solomon makes this discourse with himself, as though he would try whether there was contentment in ease and pleasures.(:note) thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also [is] vanity.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:3 @ I sought in my heart to give myself to wine, yet acquainting my heart with (note:)Even though I gave myself to pleasures, yet I thought to keep wisdom and the fear of God in my heart, and govern my affairs by the same.(:note) wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what [was] that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:8 @ I gathered me also silver and gold, and the special treasure of kings and of the provinces: I procured me male and female singers, and the (note:)That is, whatever men take pleasure in.(:note) delights of the sons of men, Or, the most beautiful of the women that were taken in war, as in (Jdg_5:30). [as] musical instruments, and of all sorts.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:10 @ And whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my (note:)This was the fruit of all my labour, a certain pleasure mixed with care, which he calls vanity in the next verse.(:note) portion of all my labour.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:12 @ And I turned myself to behold (note:)I thought to myself whether it was better to follow wisdom, or my own affections and pleasures, which he calls madness.(:note) wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what [can] the man [do] that cometh after the king? [even] that which hath been already done.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:25 @ For who can eat, or who else can hasten (note:)Meaning, to pleasures.(:note) [to it], more than I?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:4:8 @ There is one alone, & there is not a second, which hath neither sonne nor brother, yet is there none end of all his trauaile, neither can his eye be satisfied with riches: neither doeth he thinke, For whome doe I trauaile and defraude my soule of pleasure? this also is vanitie, and this is an euill trauaile.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:4 @ When thou vowest a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for [he hath] no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast (note:)He speaks of vows which are approved by God's word and serve to his glory.(:note) vowed.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:9:4 @ For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a (note:)He notes the Epicurean and carnal men, who made their body their god, and had no pleasure in this life, wishing rather to be an abased and vile person in this life, then a man of authority and so to die, which is meant by the dog and lion.(:note) living dog is better than a dead lion.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:16 @ Woe to thee, O land, when thy king [is] a (note:)That is, without wisdom and counsel.(:note) child, and thy princes Are given to their lusts and pleasures. eat in the morning!

geneva@Ecclesiastes:12:1 @ Remember nowe thy Creator in the daies of thy youth, whiles the euill daies come not, nor the yeeres approche, wherein thou shalt say, I haue no pleasure in them:

geneva@Songs:7:6 @ Howe faire art thou, and howe pleasant art thou, O my loue, in pleasures!

geneva@Isaiah:2:16 @ And upon (note:)He condemns their vain confidence which they had in strongholds and in their rich merchandise which brought in vain pleasures with which men's minds became effeminate.(:note) all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.

geneva@Isaiah:5:11 @ Woe to them that (note:)Who spare no pain nor diligence to follow their lusts.(:note) rise early in the morning, [that] they may follow strong drink; that continue until Who are never weary of their rioting and excessive pleasures but use all means to provoke to the same. night, [till] wine inflames them!

geneva@Isaiah:9:17 @ Therefore shall the Lord haue no pleasure in their yong men, neither will he haue compassion of their fatherlesse and of their widowes: for euery one is an hypocrite and wicked, and euery mouth speaketh follie: yet for all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out stil.

geneva@Isaiah:15:5 @ My (note:)The prophet speaks this in the person of the Moabites: or as one who felt the great judgment of God that God would come on them.(:note) heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives [shall flee] to Zoar, Meaning that it was a city that always lived in pleasure and never felt sorrow. an heifer of three years old: for they shall go up the ascent of Luhith with weeping for in the way of Horonaim they He describes the miserable dissipation and flight of the Moabites. shall raise a cry of destruction.

geneva@Isaiah:21:4 @ My heart panted, fearfulness terrified me: the night (note:)He prophecies the death of Belshazzar as in (Dan_5:30) who in the midst of his pleasures was destroyed.(:note) of my pleasure hath he turned into fear to me.

geneva@Isaiah:24:11 @ [There is] a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the (note:)Because they did not use God's benefits correctly their pleasures would fail, and they would fall to mourning.(:note) mirth of the land is gone.

geneva@Isaiah:44:28 @ That saith of (note:)To assure them of their deliverance he names the person by whom it would be, more than a hundred years before he was born.(:note) Cyrus, [He is] my shepherd, and he shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.

geneva@Isaiah:47:8 @ Therefore nowe heare, thou that art giuen to pleasures, and dwellest carelesse, Shee sayeth in her heart, I am and none els: I shall not sit as a widowe, neither shall knowe the losse of children.

geneva@Isaiah:48:14 @ All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; who among them hath declared these [things]? The LORD hath loved (note:)Meaning, Cyrus, whom he had chosen to destroy Babylon.(:note) him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm [shall be on] the Chaldeans.

geneva@Isaiah:50:1 @ Thus saith the LORD, Where [is] the (note:)Meaning, that he has not forsaken her, but through her own opportunity as in (Hos_2:2).(:note) bill of your mother's divorcement, Who would declare that I have cut her off: meaning, that they could show no one. whom I have put away? or which of my creditors [is it] Signifying, that he sold them not for any debt or poverty, but that they sold themselves to sins to buy their own lusts and pleasures. to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

geneva@Isaiah:50:3 @ I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make (note:)As I did in Egypt in token of my displeasure, (Exo_10:21).(:note) sackcloth their covering.

geneva@Isaiah:53:10 @ Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put [him] to grief: when (note:)Christ by offering up himself will give life to his Church, and so cause them to live with him forever.(:note) thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong [his] days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

geneva@Isaiah:58:13 @ If thou shalt (note:)If you refrain yourself from your wicked works.(:note) turn away thy foot from the sabbath, [from] doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thy own ways, nor finding thy own pleasure, nor speaking [thy own] words:

geneva@Jeremiah:1:13 @ And the word of the LORD came to me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a boiling (note:)Signifying that the Chaldeans and Assyrians would be as a pot to seethe the Jews who boiled in their pleasures and lust.(:note) pot; and its face [is] toward the north.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:24 @ A wild (note:)He compares the idolaters to a wild ass: for she can never be tamed nor yet wearied: for as she runs she can take her wind at every opportunity.(:note) donkey used to the wilderness, [that] snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her That is, when she is with foal, and therefore the hunters wait their time: so though you cannot be turned back now from your idolatry, yet when your iniquity will be at the fall, God will meet with you. month they shall find her.

geneva@Jeremiah:11:21 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the men of (note:)That is, both the priests and the rest of the people: for this town was the priests, and they dwelt in it, (Jer_1:1).(:note) Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Not that they could not abide to hear God named; (for in this they would show themselves most holy) but because they could not abide to be sharply reproved, and therefore desired to be flattered (Isa_30:10), to be maintained in their pleasures (Mic_2:11) and not to hear vice condemned (Amo_7:12). Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by our hand:

geneva@Jeremiah:22:28 @ Is not this man Coniah as a despised and broken idole? or as a vessell, wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they caryed away, hee and his seede, and cast out into a lande that they knowe not?

geneva@Jeremiah:34:16 @ But ye repented, and polluted my Name: for ye haue caused euery man his seruant, and euery man his handmayde, whom ye had set at libertie at their pleasure, to returne, and holde them in subiection to bee vnto you as seruantes and as handmaydes.

geneva@Jeremiah:48:38 @ And mourning shall be vpon all the house toppes of Moab and in all the streetes thereof: for I haue broken Moab like a vessell wherein is no pleasure, sayeth the Lord.

geneva@Lamentations:3:33 @ For he doth not (note:)He takes no pleasure in it, but does it of necessity for our amendment, when he permits the wicked to oppress the poor.(:note) afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

geneva@Ezekiel:11:3 @ Who say, (note:)Thus the wicked derided the prophets as though they preached only errors, and therefore gave themselves still to their pleasures.(:note) [It is] not near; let us build houses: this [city is] the We will not be pulled out of Jerusalem, till the hour of our death comes, as the flesh is not taken out of the caldron until it is boiled. caldron, and we [are] the flesh.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:37 @ Behold, therefore I will gather all (note:)Egyptians, Assyrians and Chaldeans whom you took to be your lovers will come and destroy you, (Eze_23:9).(:note) thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all [them] that thou hast loved, with all [them] that thou hast hated; I will even gather them on every side against thee, and will uncover thy nakedness to them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

geneva@Ezekiel:24:25 @ Also, thou sonne of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their power, ye ioy of their honor, ye pleasure of their eyes, & the desire of their heart, their sonnes & their daughters?

geneva@Ezekiel:28:12 @ Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of (note:)He derides the vain opinion and confidence that the Tyrians had in their riches, strength and pleasures.(:note) wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

geneva@Ezekiel:33:11 @ Say to them, [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, (note:){{See Eze_18:23}}(:note) I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked should turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

geneva@Daniel:11:37 @ Neither shall he regard the (note:)The Romans will observe no certain form of religion as other nations, but will change their gods at their pleasures, indeed, they will condemn them and prefer themselves to their gods.(:note) God of his fathers, nor the desire Signifying that they would be without all humanity: for the love of women is taken for singular or great love, as (2Sa_1:26). of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.

geneva@Hosea:3:1 @ Then said the LORD unto me, (note:)In this the Prophet represents the person of God, who loved his Church before he called her, and did not withdraw his love when she gave herself to idols.(:note) Go yet, love a woman beloved of [her] friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and That is, gave themselves wholly to pleasure, and could not stop, as those that are given to drunkenness. love flagons of wine.

geneva@Hosea:8:8 @ Israel is deuoured, now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessell wherein is no pleasure.

geneva@Hosea:10:11 @ And Ephraim [is as] an heifer [that is] taught, [and] loveth to (note:)In which is pleasure, whereas in plowing there is labour and pain.(:note) tread out [the corn]; but I passed over upon her I will lay my yoke upon her fat neck. fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, [and] Jacob shall break his clods.

geneva@Habakkuk:3:12 @ Thou trodest downe the land in anger, and didest thresh the heathen in displeasure.

geneva@Haggai:1:1 @ In the second year of (note:)Who was the son of Histaspis and the third king of the Persians, as some think.(:note) Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Because the building of the temple began to cease, by reason that the people were discouraged by their enemies: and if these two notable men had need to be stirred up and admonished of their duties, what will we think of other governors, whose doings are either against God, or very cold in his cause? Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying, The Argument - When the time of the seventy years captivity prophesied by Jeremiah was expired, God raised up Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi, to comfort the Jews, and to exhort them to the building of the temple, which was a figure of the spiritual Temple and Church of God, whose perfection and excellency depended on Christ. And because all were given to their own pleasures and benefits, he declares that that plague of famine, which God then sent among them, was a just reward for their ingratitude, in that they condemned God's honour, who had delivered them. Yet he comforts them, if they will return to the Lord, with the promise of great felicity, since the Lord will finish the work that he has begun, and send Christ whom he had promised, and by whom they would attain to perfect joy and glory.

geneva@Haggai:1:4 @ [Is it] time for you, O ye, to dwell in your (note:)Showing that they sought not only their necessities, but their very pleasures before God's honour.(:note) cieled houses, and this house [lie] waste?

geneva@Haggai:1:8 @ Go (note:)Meaning, that they should leave their own benefits, and go forward in the building of God's temple, and in the setting forth of his religion.(:note) up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and That is, I will hear your prayers according to my promise; (1Ki_8:22, 1Ki_8:29). I will take pleasure in it, and I will That is, my glory will be set forth by you. be glorified, saith the LORD.

geneva@Zechariah:5:6 @ And I said, What [is] it? And he said, This [is] an (note:)Which was a measure in dry things, containing about five gallons.(:note) ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This [is] their That is, all the wickedness of the ungodly is in God's sight, which he keeps in a measure, and can shut it or open it at his pleasure. resemblance through all the earth.

geneva@Malachi:1:10 @ Who [is there] even among you (note:)Because the Levites who kept the doors did not test whether the sacrifices that came in were according to the Law, God wishes that they would rather shut the doors, than to receive such as were not perfect.(:note) that would shut the doors [for nought]? neither do ye kindle [fire] on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

geneva@Luke:8:14 @ And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, (note:)That is, as soon as they have heard the word, they go about their business.(:note) go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of [this] life, and They do not bring forth perfect and full fruit to the ripening: or, they begin, but they do not bring to an end. bring no fruit to perfection.

geneva@Luke:16:25 @ But Abraham saide, Sonne, remember that thou in thy life time receiuedst thy pleasures, and likewise Lazarus paines: now therefore is he comforted, and thou art tormented.

geneva@John:2:17 @ And his disciples remembered that it was written, The (note:)«Zeal» in this place is taken for a wrathful indignation and displeasure of the mind, brought about when someone deals wickedly and evilly towards those whom we love well.(:note) zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.

geneva@John:8:20 @ These words spake Jesus in the (note:)This was a certain place appointed for the gathering of the offerings.(:note) treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; We live and die according to the pleasure of God, and not of men: therefore it behooves us that we constantly go forward in our calling. for his hour was not yet come.

geneva@Acts:10:4 @ And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, (note:)What do you want with me Lord? For he prepares himself to hear.(:note) What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are This is a borrowed kind of speech which the Hebrews used very much, taken from sacrifices and applied to prayers: for it is said of whole burnt sacrifices that the smoke and smell of them goes up into God's nostrils, and so do our prayers, as a sweet smelling sacrifice which the Lord takes great pleasure in. come up for That is, in as much that they will not allow God as it were to forget you: for so the Scripture often talks childish with us as nurses do with little children, when they prepare their tongues to speak. a memorial before God.

geneva@Acts:25:11 @ For if I haue done wrong, or committed any thing worthie of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof they accuse me, no man, to pleasure them, can deliuer me to them: I appeale vnto Cæsar.

geneva@Romans:1:32 @ Who knowing the (note:)By the «judgment of God» he means that which the philosophers called the «law of nature», and the lawyers themselves termed the «law of nations».(:note) judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but Are companions and partakers with them in their wickedness, and beside that, commend those who do wrong. have pleasure in them that do them.

geneva@Romans:2:5 @ But after thy hardness and impenitent heart (note:)While you are giving yourself to pleasures, thinking to increase your goods, you will find God's wrath.(:note) treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

geneva@1Corinthians:9:1 @ Am (note:)Before he proceeds any further in his purposed matter of things offered to idols, he would show the cause of all this evil, and also take it away. That is, that the Corinthians thought that they did not have to depart from the least amount of their liberty for any man's pleasure. Therefore he propounds himself for an example, and that in a matter almost necessary. And yet he speaks of both, but first of his own person. If (he says) you allege for yourselves that you are free, and therefore will use your liberty, am I not also free, seeing I am an apostle?(:note) I not an apostle? am I not free? He proves his apostleship by the effects, in that he was appointed by Christ himself, and the authority of his function was sufficiently confirmed to him among them by their conversion. And all these things he sets before their eyes, to make them ashamed because they would not in the least way that might be, debase themselves for the sake of the weak, whereas the apostle himself did all the he could to win them to God, when they were utterly reprobate and without God. have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye By the Lord. my work in the Lord?

geneva@1Corinthians:12:18 @ But nowe hath God disposed the members euery one of them in the bodie at his owne pleasure.

geneva@2Corinthians:12:10 @ Therefore I take (note:)I do not only take them patiently and with a good heart, but I also take great pleasure in them.(:note) pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

geneva@Ephesians:1:9 @ Having made known unto us the (note:)For unless the Lord had opened to us that mystery, we could never have so much as dreamed of it ourselves.(:note) mystery of his will, Not only the election, but also the calling proceeds from grace alone. according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

geneva@2Thessalonians:2:4 @ Who opposeth and (note:)All men know who he is that says he can shut up heaven and open it at his pleasure, and takes upon himself to be lord and master above all kings and princes, before whom kings and princes fall down and worship, honouring that antichrist as a god.(:note) exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; He foretells that the antichrist (that is, whoever he is that will occupy that seat that falls away from God) will not reign outside of the Church, but in the very bosom of the Church. so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

geneva@2Thessalonians:2:12 @ That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but (note:)They liked lies so much that they had pleasure in them, which is the greatest madness that may exist.(:note) had pleasure in unrighteousness.

geneva@2Timothy:3:4 @ Traitours, headie, high minded, louers of pleasures more then louers of God,

geneva@Hebrews:1:2 @ Hath in these (note:)So that the former declaration made by the prophets was not complete, and nothing must be added to this latter.(:note) last days spoken unto us by [his] That one Son is God and man. Son, The second part of the same statement: The same Son is appointed by the Father to be our king and Lord, by whom also he made all things: and in whom only he sets forth his glory, yea and himself also to be under obligation to us, who upholds and supports all things by his will and pleasure. whom he hath appointed Possessor and equal partner of all things with the Father. heir of all things, by whom also he made the That is, whatever has been at any time, is, or shall be. worlds;

geneva@Hebrews:10:6 @ In burnt offerings, and sinne offrings thou hast had no pleasure.

geneva@Hebrews:10:8 @ Aboue, when he sayd, Sacrifice and offring, and burnt offrings, and sinne offrings thou wouldest not haue, neither hadst pleasure therein (which are offered by the Lawe)

geneva@Hebrews:11:25 @ Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the (note:)Such pleasures as he could not enjoy, unless he provoked God's wrath against him.(:note) pleasures of sin for a season;

geneva@James:4:1 @ From (note:)He advances the same argument, condemning certain other causes of wars and contentions, that is, unbridled pleasures and uncontrolled lusts, by their effects, for so much as the Lord does worthily make them come to no effect, so that they bring nothing to them in whom they reside, but incurable torments.(:note) whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?

geneva@James:4:2 @ Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, (note:)He reprehends them by name, who are not ashamed to make God the minister and helper of their lusts and pleasures, in asking things which are either in themselves unlawful or being lawful, ask for them out of wicked motives and uses.(:note) because ye ask not.

geneva@James:4:3 @ Ye aske, and receiue not, because ye aske amisse, that ye might lay the same out on your pleasures.

geneva@James:5:5 @ Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have (note:)You have pampered yourselves.(:note) nourished your hearts, as in a The Hebrews call a day that is appointed to solemn banqueting, a day of slaughter or feasting. day of slaughter.

geneva@2Peter:2:13 @ And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, [as] they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots [they are] and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings (note:)When by being among the Christians in the holy banquets which the Church keeps, they would seem by that to be true members of the Church, yet they are indeed but blots on the Church.(:note) while they feast with you;

geneva@Revelation:18:3 @ For all nations haue drunken of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the Kings of the earth haue committed fornication with her, and the marchants of the earth are waxed rich of the abundance of her pleasures.

geneva@Revelation:20:12 @ And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before (note:)That is, Christ the judge; (2Co_5:10).(:note) God; and the As it were, his books of reckoning or accounts, that is, the testimony of our conscience, and of our works, which by no means can be avoided. books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] The book of the eternal decree of God, in which God the Father has elected in Christ according to the good pleasure of his will, those that shall be heirs of life. This also is spoken according to the manner of men. of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

geneva@Revelation:22:1 @ And (note:)Here is absolved and finished the description of the celestial Church (as I showed before) {{See Rev_21:12}} by the effects in (Rev_22:5), and then this book is concluded in the rest of the chapter. The effects proceeding from God, who dwells in the Church, are these: the everlasting grace of God, in this verse, the eternal life of the godly, as in (Rev_2:7) the eternal fruits which the godly bring forth to God, themselves and others, (Rev_22:2), freedom and immunity from all evil, God himself taking pleasure in his servants, and they likewise in their God, (Rev_22:3). The beholding and sight of God, and sealing of the faithful from all eternity, (Rev_22:4) the light of God and an everlasting kingdom and glory, (Rev_22:5).(:note) he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

geneva@Jdt:12:18 @ {\cf2 For I came not of mine owne pleasure, but by the good wil of your God: wherefore praise him in all ages.}

geneva@Tob:1:13 @ {\cf2 For God hath not made death, neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the liuing.}

geneva@Tob:2:6 @ {\cf2 Come therefore, and let vs enioy the pleasures, that are present, and let vs cheerefully vse the creatures as in youth.}

geneva@Tob:2:9 @ {\cf2 Let vs all be partakers of our wantonnes: let vs leaue some token of our pleasure in euery place: for that is our portion, and this is our lot.}

geneva@Tob:7:2 @ {\cf2 And in my mothers wombe was I fashioned to be flesh in tenne moneths: I was brought together into blood of the seed of man, and by the pleasure that commeth with sleepe.}

geneva@Tob:8:18 @ {\cf2 And great pleasure is in her friendship, and that in the workes of her hands are infinite riches, and that in the exercise of talking with her is prudencie, and glory by communing with her, I went about, seeking how I might take her vnto me.}

geneva@Tob:13:3 @ {\cf2 Though they had such pleasure in their beautie that they thought them gods, yet shoulde they haue knowen, howe much more excellent he is that made them: for the first authour of beautie hath created these things.}

geneva@Tob:16:20 @ {\cf2 In the steade whereof thou hast fed thine owne people with Angels foode, and sent them bread readie from heauen without their labour, which had aboundance of al pleasures in it and was meete for all tastes.}

geneva@Sir:1:32 @ {\cf2 For the feare of ye Lord is wisdome and discipline: he hath pleasure in faith and meekenesse.}

geneva@Sir:9:12 @ {\cf2 Forsake not an olde friende: for the newe shal not be like him: a newe friend is as newe wine: when it is olde, thou shalt drinke it with pleasure.}

geneva@Sir:9:14 @ {\cf2 Delite not in the thing that ye vngodly haue pleasure in, but remember that they shall not bee found iust vnto their graue.}

geneva@Sir:11:23 @ {\cf2 Say not, What profite and pleasure shall I haue? and what good things shall I haue hereafter?}

geneva@Sir:11:27 @ {\cf2 The aduersitie of an houre maketh one to forget pleasure: and in a mans ende, his workes are discouered.}

geneva@Sir:14:5 @ {\cf2 He that is wicked vnto himselfe, to whome will he be good? for such one can haue no pleasure of his goods.}

geneva@Sir:16:11 @ {\cf2 Therefore if there be one stifnecked among the people, it is marueile if he scape vnpunished: for mercy & wrath are with him: he is mightie to forgiue, and to powre out displeasure.}

geneva@Sir:17:30 @ {\cf2 For all things can not be in men, because the sonne of man is not immortal, and they take pleasure in the vanitie of wickednesse.}

geneva@Sir:18:32 @ {\cf2 Take not thy pleasure in great voluptuousnes, and intangle not thy selfe with such company.}

geneva@Sir:19:5 @ {\cf2 Who so reioyceth in wickednesse, shall be punished: he that hateth to be reformed, his life shall bee shortened, and hee that abhorreth babbling of wordes, quencheth wickednesse: but hee that resisteth pleasures, crowneth his owne soule.}

geneva@Sir:25:23 @ {\cf2 Stumble not at the beautie of a woman, and desire her not for thy pleasure.}

geneva@Sir:27:13 @ {\cf2 The talking of fooles is grieuous, and their sport is in the pleasure of sinne.}

geneva@Sir:31:3 @ {\cf2 The rich hath great labour in gathering riches together, & in his rest hee is filled with pleasures.}

geneva@Sir:33:12 @ {\cf2 As the clay is in the potters hand, to order it at his pleasure, so are men also in the hand of their Creator, so that hee may rewarde them as liketh him best.}

geneva@Sir:37:27 @ {\cf2 For all things are not profitable for all men, neither hath euery soule pleasure in euery thing.}

geneva@Sir:38:25 @ {\cf2 How can he get wisdome that holdeth the plough, and he that hath pleasure in the goad, and in driuing oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and talketh but of the breed of bullocks?}

geneva@Sir:40:17 @ {\cf2 Friendlinesse is as a most plentifull garden of pleasure, and mercie endureth for euer.}

geneva@Sir:41:4 @ {\cf2 And why wouldest thou be against the pleasure of the most High? whether it bee tenne or an hundreth, or a thousand yeeres, there is no defence for life against the graue.}

geneva@1Macc:8:30 @ {\cf2 If after these points the one partie, or the other will adde or diminish, they may doe it, at their pleasures, and whatsoeuer they shall adde, or take away, shalbe ratified.}

geneva@1Macc:11:43 @ {\cf2 Nowe therefore thou shalt doe me a pleasure, if thou wilt send me men to helpe me: for all mine armie is gone from me.}

geneva@1Macc:12:18 @ {\cf2 And now ye shall doe vs a pleasure to giue vs an answere of these things.}

geneva@2Macc:2:25 @ {\cf2 We haue endeuoured, that they that woulde reade, might haue pleasure, and that they which are studious, might easily keepe them in memorie, and that whosoeuer reade them, might haue profite.}

geneva@2Macc:7:6 @ {\cf2 The Lord God doeth regard vs, and in deede taketh pleasure in vs, as Moyses declared in the song wherein he testified openly, saying, That God will take pleasure in his seruants.}

geneva@2Macc:11:1 @ {\cf2 Very shortly after this, Lysias the kings steward, and a kinsman of his, which had the gouernance of the affaires, tooke sore displeasure for the things that were done.}