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jps@2Kings:21:11 @ 'Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, that were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols;

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:4:9 @ And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying: 'Because I bore him with pain.'

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:18:10 @ he sent Hadoram his son to king David, to salute him, and to bless him--because he had fought against Hadarezer and smitten him; for Hadarezer had wars with Tou--and he had with him all manner of vessels of gold and silver and brass.

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:1:11 @ And God said to Solomon: 'Because this was in thy heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of them that hate thee, neither yet hast asked long life, but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge My people, over whom I have made thee king;

jps@2Chronicles:2:11 @ Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon: 'Because the LORD loveth His people, He hath made thee king over them.'

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 forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them; therefore hath He brought all this evil upon them.'

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:16:7 @ And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him: 'Because thou hast relied on the king of Aram, and hast not relied on the LORD thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Aram escaped out of thy hand.

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:20:37 @ Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying: 'Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath made a breach in thy works.' And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.

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 @ And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father: Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah;

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:28:23 @ For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him; and he said: 'Because the gods of the kings of Aram helped them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me.' But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.

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 daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-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 @ Wherefore thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts: Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make My words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

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 have forsaken My law which I set before them, and have not hearkened to My voice, neither walked therein;

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:16:11 @ then shalt thou say unto them: 'Because your fathers have forsaken Me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken Me, and have not kept My law;

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:22:9 @ Then they shall answer: 'Because they forsook the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.'

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 @ But if ye say: 'The burden of the LORD'; therefore thus saith the LORD: Because ye say this word: 'The burden of the LORD', and I have sent unto you, saying: 'Ye shall not say: The burden of the LORD';

jps@Jeremiah:25:8 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts: Because ye have not heard My words,

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 @ Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying: Because thou hast sent letters in thine own name unto all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying:

jps@Jeremiah:29:31 @ Send to all them of the captivity, saying: Thus saith the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he hath caused you to trust in a lie;

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 @ And unto the house of the Rechabites Jeremiah said: Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Because ye have hearkened to the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he commanded you;

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 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Because ye have outdone the nations that are round about you, in that ye have not walked in My statutes, neither have kept Mine ordinances, neither have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about you;

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 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord GOD.

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 @ Thus saith the Lord GOD: Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness uncovered through thy harlotries with thy lovers; and because of all the idols of thy abominations, and for the blood of thy children, that thou didst give unto them;

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 @ And it shall be, when they say unto thee: Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt say: Because of the tidings, for it cometh; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be slack, and every spirit shall be faint, and all knees shall drip with water; behold, it cometh, and it shall be done, saith the Lord GOD.'

jps@Ezekiel:21:24 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that your sins do appear in all your doings; because that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.

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 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Because ye are all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

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 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Because thou hast forgotten Me, and cast Me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy harlotries.'

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 @ and say unto the children of Ammon: Hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Because thou saidst: Aha! against My sanctuary, when it was profaned, and against the land of Israel, when it was made desolate, and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity;

jps@Ezekiel:25:6 @ For thus saith the Lord GOD: Because thou hast clapped thy hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the disdain of thy soul against the land of Israel;

jps@Ezekiel:25:8 @ Thus saith the Lord GOD: Because that Moab and Seir do say: Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the nations,

jps@Ezekiel:25:12 @ Thus saith the Lord GOD: Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;

jps@Ezekiel:25:15 @ Thus saith the Lord GOD: Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with disdain of soul to destroy, for the old hatred;

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 @ 'Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said: I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the heart of the seas; yet thou art man, and not God, though thou didst set thy heart as the heart of God--

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 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Because thou hast set thy heart as the heart of God;

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 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Because thou art exalted in stature, and he hath set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

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 @ Thus saith the Lord GOD: Because the enemy hath said against you: Aha! even the ancient high places are ours in possession;

jps@Ezekiel:36:3 @ therefore prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the rest of the nations, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;

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 @ Thus saith the Lord GOD: Because they say unto you: Thou land art a devourer of men, and hast been a bereaver of thy nations;

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.


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