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Isaiah:2:6 @ For thou hast rejected thy people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of diviners from the east and of soothsayers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with foreigners.
rsv@Isaiah:3:8 @ For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen; because their speech and their deeds are against the LORD, defying his glorious presence.
rsv@Isaiah:3:16 @ The LORD said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet;
rsv@Isaiah:7:4 @ and say to him, `Take heed, be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two smoldering stumps of firebrands, at the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria and the son of Remali'ah.
rsv@Isaiah:7:5 @ Because Syria, with E'phraim and the son of Remali'ah, has devised evil against you, saying,
rsv@Isaiah:7:22 @ and because of the abundance of milk which they give, he will eat curds; for every one that is left in the land will eat curds and honey.
rsv@Isaiah:8:6 @ "Because this people have refused the waters of Shilo'ah that flow gently, and melt in fear before Rezin and the son of Remali'ah;
rsv@Isaiah:14:20 @ You will not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, you have slain your people. "May the descendants of evildoers nevermore be named!
rsv@Isaiah:14:21 @ Prepare slaughter for his sons because of the guilt of their fathers, lest they rise and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities."
rsv@Isaiah:15:1 @ An oracle concerning Moab. Because Ar is laid waste in a night Moab is undone; because Kir is laid waste in a night Moab is undone.
rsv@Isaiah:17:9 @ In that day their strong cities will be like the deserted places of the Hivites and the Amorites, which they deserted because of the children of Israel, and there will be desolation.
rsv@Isaiah:19:17 @ And the land of Judah will become a terror to the Egyptians; every one to whom it is mentioned will fear because of the purpose which the LORD of hosts has purposed against them.
rsv@Isaiah:19:20 @ It will be a sign and a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt; when they cry to the LORD because of oppressors he will send them a savior, and will defend and deliver them.
rsv@Isaiah:20:5 @ Then they shall be dismayed and confounded because of Ethiopia their hope and of Egypt their boast.
rsv@Isaiah:26:3 @ Thou dost keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusts in thee.
rsv@Isaiah:26:17 @ Like a woman with child, who writhes and cries out in her pangs, when she is near her time, so were we because of thee, O LORD;
rsv@Isaiah:28:15 @ Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement; when the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter";
rsv@Isaiah:29:13 @ And the Lord said: "Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men learned by rote;
rsv@Isaiah:30:12 @ Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, "Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on them;
rsv@Isaiah:31:1 @ Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or consult the LORD!
rsv@Isaiah:37:6 @ Isaiah said to them, "Say to your master, `Thus says the LORD: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have reviled me.
rsv@Isaiah:37:21 @ Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezeki'ah, saying, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennach'erib king of Assyria,
rsv@Isaiah:37:29 @ Because you have raged against me and your arrogance has come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.'
rsv@Isaiah:38:15 @ But what can I say? For he has spoken to me, and he himself has done it. All my sleep has fled because of the bitterness of my soul.
rsv@Isaiah:40:26 @ Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power not one is missing.
rsv@Isaiah:43:4 @ Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life.
rsv@Isaiah:48:4 @ Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass,
rsv@Isaiah:49:7 @ Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One, to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nations, the servant of rulers: "Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall prostrate themselves; because of the LORD, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you."
rsv@Isaiah:51:13 @ and have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, and fear continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he sets himself to destroy? And where is the fury of the oppressor?
rsv@Isaiah:52:15 @ so shall he startle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of him; for that which has not been told them they shall see, and that which they have not heard they shall understand.
rsv@Isaiah:53:12 @ Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
rsv@Isaiah:54:15 @ If any one stirs up strife, it is not from me; whoever stirs up strife with you shall fall because of you.
rsv@Isaiah:55:5 @ Behold, you shall call nations that you know not, and nations that knew you not shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.
rsv@Isaiah:57:17 @ Because of the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry, I smote him, I hid my face and was angry; but he went on backsliding in the way of his own heart.
rsv@Isaiah:60:5 @ Then you shall see and be radiant, your heart shall thrill and rejoice; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you.
rsv@Isaiah:60:9 @ For the coastlands shall wait for me, the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far, their silver and gold with them, for the name of the LORD your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you.
rsv@Isaiah:61:1 @ The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good tidings to the afflicted; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
rsv@Isaiah:65:7 @ their iniquities and their fathers' iniquities together, says the LORD; because they burned incense upon the mountains and reviled me upon the hills, I will measure into their bosom payment for their former doings."
rsv@Isaiah:65:12 @ I will destine you to the sword, and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter; because, when I called, you did not answer, when I spoke, you did not listen, but you did what was evil in my eyes, and chose what I did not delight in."
rsv@Isaiah:65:16 @ So that he who blesses himself in the land shall bless himself by the God of truth, and he who takes an oath in the land shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten and are hid from my eyes.
rsv@Isaiah:66:4 @ I also will choose affliction for them, and bring their fears upon them; because, when I called, no one answered, when I spoke they did not listen; but they did what was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I did not delight."
rsv@Jeremiah:3:9 @ Because harlotry was so light to her, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.
rsv@Jeremiah:3:21 @ A voice on the bare heights is heard, the weeping and pleading of Israel's sons, because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten the LORD their God.
rsv@Jeremiah:4:4 @ Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, remove the foreskin of your hearts, O men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of the evil of your doings."
rsv@Jeremiah:4:17 @ Like keepers of a field are they against her round about, because she has rebelled against me, says the LORD.
rsv@Jeremiah:5:6 @ Therefore a lion from the forest shall slay them, a wolf from the desert shall destroy them. A leopard is watching against their cities, every one who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, their apostasies are great.
rsv@Jeremiah:5:14 @ Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of hosts: "Because they have spoken this word, behold, I am making my words in your mouth a fire, and this people wood, and the fire shall devour them.
rsv@Jeremiah:6:19 @ Hear, O earth; behold, I am bringing evil upon this people, the fruit of their devices, because they have not given heed to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.
rsv@Jeremiah:7:13 @ And now, because you have done all these things, says the LORD, and when I spoke to you persistently you did not listen, and when I called you, you did not answer,
rsv@Jeremiah:7:32 @ Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when it will no more be called Topheth, or the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of Slaughter: for they will bury in Topheth, because there is no room elsewhere.
rsv@Jeremiah:8:10 @ Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to conquerors, because from the least to the greatest every one is greedy for unjust gain; from prophet to priest every one deals falsely.
rsv@Jeremiah:8:14 @ Why do we sit still? Gather together, let us go into the fortified cities and perish there; for the LORD our God has doomed us to perish, and has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
rsv@Jeremiah:9:7 @ Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: "Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do, because of my people?
rsv@Jeremiah:9:10 @ "Take up weeping and wailing for the mountains, and a lamentation for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are laid waste so that no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard; both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled and are gone.
rsv@Jeremiah:9:13 @ And the LORD says: "Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, or walked in accord with it,
rsv@Jeremiah:9:19 @ For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion: `How we are ruined! We are utterly shamed, because we have left the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.'"
rsv@Jeremiah:10:2 @ Thus says the LORD: "Learn not the way of the nations, nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens because the nations are dismayed at them,
rsv@Jeremiah:10:19 @ Woe is me because of my hurt! My wound is grievous. But I said, "Truly this is an affliction, and I must bear it."
rsv@Jeremiah:11:17 @ The LORD of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil which the house of Israel and the house of Judah have done, provoking me to anger by burning incense to Ba'al."
rsv@Jeremiah:12:4 @ How long will the land mourn, and the grass of every field wither? For the wickedness of those who dwell in it the beasts and the birds are swept away, because men said, "He will not see our latter end."
rsv@Jeremiah:12:13 @ They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns, they have tired themselves out but profit nothing. They shall be ashamed of their harvests because of the fierce anger of the LORD."
rsv@Jeremiah:13:17 @ But if you will not listen, my soul will weep in secret for your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock has been taken captive.
rsv@Jeremiah:13:25 @ This is your lot, the portion I have measured out to you, says the LORD, because you have forgotten me and trusted in lies.
rsv@Jeremiah:14:4 @ Because of the ground which is dismayed, since there is no rain on the land, the farmers are ashamed, they cover their heads.
rsv@Jeremiah:14:5 @ Even the hind in the field forsakes her newborn calf because there is no grass.
rsv@Jeremiah:14:6 @ The wild asses stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no herbage.
rsv@Jeremiah:15:4 @ And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manas'seh the son of Hezeki'ah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.
rsv@Jeremiah:15:17 @ I did not sit in the company of merrymakers, nor did I rejoice; I sat alone, because thy hand was upon me, for thou hadst filled me with indignation.
rsv@Jeremiah:16:11 @ then you shall say to them: `Because your fathers have forsaken me, says the LORD, and have gone after other gods and have served and worshiped them, and have forsaken me and have not kept my law,
rsv@Jeremiah:16:12 @ and because you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, every one of you follows his stubborn evil will, refusing to listen to me;
rsv@Jeremiah:16:18 @ And I will doubly recompense their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations."
rsv@Jeremiah:19:4 @ Because the people have forsaken me, and have profaned this place by burning incense in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents,
rsv@Jeremiah:19:8 @ And I will make this city a horror, a thing to be hissed at; every one who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters.
rsv@Jeremiah:19:11 @ and shall say to them, `Thus says the LORD of hosts: So will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, so that it can never be mended. Men shall bury in Topheth because there will be no place else to bury.
rsv@Jeremiah:19:15 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing upon this city and upon all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their neck, refusing to hear my words."
rsv@Jeremiah:20:17 @ because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb for ever great.
rsv@Jeremiah:21:12 @ O house of David! Thus says the LORD: "`Execute justice in the morning, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of your evil doings.'"
rsv@Jeremiah:22:9 @ And they will answer, "Because they forsook the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshiped other gods and served them."'"
rsv@Jeremiah:22:15 @ Do you think you are a king because you compete in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
rsv@Jeremiah:22:22 @ The wind shall shepherd all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity; then you will be ashamed and confounded because of all your wickedness.
rsv@Jeremiah:23:9 @ Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken within me, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, like a man overcome by wine, because of the LORD and because of his holy words.
rsv@Jeremiah:23:10 @ For the land is full of adulterers; because of the curse the land mourns, and the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right.
rsv@Jeremiah:23:38 @ But if you say, `The burden of the LORD,' thus says the LORD, `Because you have said these words, "The burden of the LORD," when I sent to you, saying, "You shall not say, `The burden of the LORD,'"
rsv@Jeremiah:25:8 @ "Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Because you have not obeyed my words,
rsv@Jeremiah:25:16 @ They shall drink and stagger and be crazed because of the sword which I am sending among them."
rsv@Jeremiah:25:27 @ "Then you shall say to them, `Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink, be drunk and vomit, fall and rise no more, because of the sword which I am sending among you.'
rsv@Jeremiah:25:37 @ and the peaceful folds are devastated, because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
rsv@Jeremiah:25:38 @ Like a lion he has left his covert, for their land has become a waste because of the sword of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger."
rsv@Jeremiah:26:3 @ It may be they will listen, and every one turn from his evil way, that I may repent of the evil which I intend to do to them because of their evil doings.
rsv@Jeremiah:26:11 @ Then the priests and the prophets said to the princes and to all the people, "This man deserves the sentence of death, because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears."
rsv@Jeremiah:28:16 @ Therefore thus says the LORD: `Behold, I will remove you from the face of the earth. This very year you shall die, because you have uttered rebellion against the LORD.'"
rsv@Jeremiah:29:15 @ "Because you have said, `The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon,'--
rsv@Jeremiah:29:19 @ because they did not heed my words, says the LORD, which I persistently sent to you by my servants the prophets, but you would not listen, says the LORD.'--
rsv@Jeremiah:29:22 @ Because of them this curse shall be used by all the exiles from Judah in Babylon: "The LORD make you like Zedeki'ah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,"
rsv@Jeremiah:29:23 @ because they have committed folly in Israel, they have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and they have spoken in my name lying words which I did not command them. I am the one who knows, and I am witness, says the LORD.'"
rsv@Jeremiah:29:31 @ "Send to all the exiles, saying, `Thus says the LORD concerning Shemai'ah of Nehel'am: Because Shemai'ah has prophesied to you when I did not send him, and has made you trust in a lie,
rsv@Jeremiah:30:14 @ All your lovers have forgotten you; they care nothing for you; for I have dealt you the blow of an enemy, the punishment of a merciless foe, because your guilt is great, because your sins are flagrant.
rsv@Jeremiah:30:15 @ Why do you cry out over your hurt? Your pain is incurable. Because your guilt is great, because your sins are flagrant, I have done these things to you.
rsv@Jeremiah:30:17 @ For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, says the LORD, because they have called you an outcast: `It is Zion, for whom no one cares!'
rsv@Jeremiah:31:15 @ Thus says the LORD: "A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are not."
rsv@Jeremiah:31:19 @ For after I had turned away I repented; and after I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh; I was ashamed, and I was confounded, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.'
rsv@Jeremiah:32:24 @ Behold, the siege mounds have come up to the city to take it, and because of sword and famine and pestilence the city is given into the hands of the Chalde'ans who are fighting against it. What thou didst speak has come to pass, and behold, thou seest it.
rsv@Jeremiah:32:32 @ because of all the evil of the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah which they did to provoke me to anger--their kings and their princes, their priests and their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
rsv@Jeremiah:33:5 @ The Chalde'ans are coming in to fight and to fill them with the dead bodies of men whom I shall smite in my anger and my wrath, for I have hidden my face from this city because of all their wickedness.
rsv@Jeremiah:33:9 @ And this city shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for them; they shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for it.
rsv@Jeremiah:35:17 @ Therefore, thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing on Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them; because I have spoken to them and they have not listened, I have called to them and they have not answered."
rsv@Jeremiah:35:18 @ But to the house of the Re'chabites Jeremiah said, "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the command of Jon'adab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done all that he commanded you,
rsv@Jeremiah:39:18 @ For I will surely save you, and you shall not fall by the sword; but you shall have your life as a prize of war, because you have put your trust in me, says the LORD.'"
rsv@Jeremiah:40:3 @ the LORD has brought it about, and has done as he said. Because you sinned against the LORD, and did not obey his voice, this thing has come upon you.
rsv@Jeremiah:41:18 @ because of the Chalde'ans; for they were afraid of them, because Ish'mael the son of Nethani'ah had slain Gedali'ah the son of Ahi'kam, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.
rsv@Jeremiah:44:3 @ because of the wickedness which they committed, provoking me to anger, in that they went to burn incense and serve other gods that they knew not, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers.
rsv@Jeremiah:44:23 @ It is because you burned incense, and because you sinned against the LORD and did not obey the voice of the LORD or walk in his law and in his statutes and in his testimonies, that this evil has befallen you, as at this day."
rsv@Jeremiah:46:15 @ Why has Apis fled? Why did not your bull stand? Because the LORD thrust him down.
rsv@Jeremiah:46:16 @ Your multitude stumbled and fell, and they said one to another, `Arise, and let us go back to our own people and to the land of our birth, because of the sword of the oppressor.'
rsv@Jeremiah:46:23 @ They shall cut down her forest, says the LORD, though it is impenetrable, because they are more numerous than locusts; they are without number.
rsv@Jeremiah:47:4 @ because of the day that is coming to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that remains. For the LORD is destroying the Philistines, the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.
rsv@Jeremiah:48:7 @ For, because you trusted in your strongholds and your treasures, you also shall be taken; and Chemosh shall go forth into exile, with his priests and his princes.
rsv@Jeremiah:48:26 @ "Make him drunk, because he magnified himself against the LORD; so that Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he too shall be held in derision.
rsv@Jeremiah:48:42 @ Moab shall be destroyed and be no longer a people, because he magnified himself against the LORD.
rsv@Jeremiah:49:17 @ "Edom shall become a horror; every one who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:13 @ Because of the wrath of the LORD she shall not be inhabited, but shall be an utter desolation; every one who passes by Babylon shall be appalled, and hiss because of all her wounds.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:16 @ Cut off from Babylon the sower, and the one who handles the sickle in time of harvest; because of the sword of the oppressor, every one shall turn to his own people, and every one shall flee to his own land.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:24 @ I set a snare for you and you were taken, O Babylon, and you did not know it; you were found and caught, because you strove against the LORD.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:11 @ "Sharpen the arrows! Take up the shields! The LORD has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it, for that is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance for his temple.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:64 @ and say, `Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the evil that I am bringing upon her.'" Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
rsv@Jeremiah:52:3 @ Surely because of the anger of the LORD things came to such a pass in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence. And Zedeki'ah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
rsv@Lamentations:1:3 @ Judah has gone into exile because of affliction and hard servitude; she dwells now among the nations, but finds no resting place; her pursuers have all overtaken her in the midst of her distress.
rsv@Lamentations:1:5 @ Her foes have become the head, her enemies prosper, because the LORD has made her suffer for the multitude of her transgressions; her children have gone away, captives before the foe.
rsv@Lamentations:1:20 @ "Behold, O LORD, for I am in distress, my soul is in tumult, my heart is wrung within me, because I have been very rebellious. In the street the sword bereaves; in the house it is like death.
rsv@Lamentations:1:22 @ "Let all their evil doing come before thee; and deal with them as thou hast dealt with me because of all my transgressions; for my groans are many and my heart is faint."
rsv@Lamentations:2:11 @ My eyes are spent with weeping; my soul is in tumult; my heart is poured out in grief because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and babes faint in the streets of the city.
rsv@Lamentations:3:48 @ my eyes flow with rivers of tears because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
rsv@Lamentations:5:9 @ We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
rsv@Ezekiel:3:7 @ But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they are not willing to listen to me; because all the house of Israel are of a hard forehead and of a stubborn heart.
rsv@Ezekiel:3:20 @ Again, if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die; because you have not warned him, he shall die for his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.
rsv@Ezekiel:3:21 @ Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man not to sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning; and you will have saved your life."
rsv@Ezekiel:5:7 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes or kept my ordinances, but have acted according to the ordinances of the nations that are round about you;
rsv@Ezekiel:5:9 @ And because of all your abominations I will do with you what I have never yet done, and the like of which I will never do again.
rsv@Ezekiel:5:11 @ Wherefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will cut you down; my eye will not spare, and I will have no pity.
rsv@Ezekiel:6:11 @ Thus says the Lord GOD: "Clap your hands, and stamp your foot, and say, Alas! because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel; for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.
rsv@Ezekiel:7:13 @ For the seller shall not return to what he has sold, while they live. For wrath is upon all their multitude; it shall not turn back; and because of his iniquity, none can maintain his life.
rsv@Ezekiel:7:23 @ and make a desolation. "Because the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence,
rsv@Ezekiel:12:19 @ and say of the people of the land, Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink water in dismay, because their land will be stripped of all it contains, on account of the violence of all those who dwell in it.
rsv@Ezekiel:13:8 @ Therefore thus says the Lord God: "Because you have uttered delusions and seen lies, therefore behold, I am against you, says the Lord GOD.
rsv@Ezekiel:13:10 @ Because, yea, because they have misled my people, saying, `Peace,' when there is no peace; and because, when the people build a wall, these prophets daub it with whitewash;
rsv@Ezekiel:13:22 @ Because you have disheartened the righteous falsely, although I have not disheartened him, and you have encouraged the wicked, that he should not turn from his wicked way to save his life;
rsv@Ezekiel:14:4 @ Therefore speak to them, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Any man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and sets the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to the prophet, I the LORD will answer him myself because of the multitude of his idols,
rsv@Ezekiel:14:15 @ If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the beasts;
rsv@Ezekiel:15:8 @ And I will make the land desolate, because they have acted faithlessly, says the Lord GOD."
rsv@Ezekiel:16:14 @ And your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor which I had bestowed upon you, says the Lord GOD.
rsv@Ezekiel:16:15 @ "But you trusted in your beauty, and played the harlot because of your renown, and lavished your harlotries on any passer-by.
rsv@Ezekiel:16:28 @ You played the harlot also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yea, you played the harlot with them, and still you were not satisfied.
rsv@Ezekiel:16:31 @ building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a harlot, because you scorned hire.
rsv@Ezekiel:16:36 @ Thus says the Lord GOD, Because your shame was laid bare and your nakedness uncovered in your harlotries with your lovers, and because of all your idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,
rsv@Ezekiel:16:43 @ Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things; therefore, behold, I will requite your deeds upon your head, says the Lord GOD. "Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations?
rsv@Ezekiel:16:52 @ Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have made judgment favorable to your sisters; because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.
rsv@Ezekiel:16:63 @ that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I forgive you all that you have done, says the Lord GOD."
rsv@Ezekiel:17:18 @ Because he despised the oath and broke the covenant, because he gave his hand and yet did all these things, he shall not escape.
rsv@Ezekiel:18:18 @ As for his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what is not good among his people, behold, he shall die for his iniquity.
rsv@Ezekiel:18:28 @ Because he considered and turned away from all the transgressions which he had committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
rsv@Ezekiel:20:16 @ because they rejected my ordinances and did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
rsv@Ezekiel:20:24 @ because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes and profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes were set on their fathers' idols.
rsv@Ezekiel:21:4 @ Because I will cut off from you both righteous and wicked, therefore my sword shall go out of its sheath against all flesh from south to north;
rsv@Ezekiel:21:7 @ And when they say to you, `Why do you sigh?' you shall say, `Because of the tidings. When it comes, every heart will melt and all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes and it will be fulfilled,'" says the Lord GOD.
rsv@Ezekiel:21:24 @ "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have made your guilt to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear--because you have come to remembrance, you shall be taken in them.
rsv@Ezekiel:22:19 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
rsv@Ezekiel:23:30 @ have brought this upon you, because you played the harlot with the nations, and polluted yourself with their idols.
rsv@Ezekiel:23:35 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, therefore bear the consequences of your lewdness and harlotry."
rsv@Ezekiel:23:45 @ But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is upon their hands."
rsv@Ezekiel:24:13 @ Its rust is your filthy lewdness. Because I would have cleansed you and you were not cleansed from your filthiness, you shall not be cleansed any more till I have satisfied my fury upon you.
rsv@Ezekiel:25:3 @ Say to the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord GOD, Because you said, `Aha!' over my sanctuary when it was profaned, and over the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and over the house of Judah when it went into exile;
rsv@Ezekiel:25:6 @ For thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet and rejoiced with all the malice within you against the land of Israel,
rsv@Ezekiel:25:8 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: Because Moab said, Behold, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,
rsv@Ezekiel:25:12 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: Because Edom acted revengefully against the house of Judah and has grievously offended in taking vengeance upon them,
rsv@Ezekiel:25:15 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: Because the Philistines acted revengefully and took vengeance with malice of heart to destroy in never-ending enmity;
rsv@Ezekiel:26:2 @ "Son of man, because Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, `Aha, the gate of the peoples is broken, it has swung open to me; I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste,'
rsv@Ezekiel:27:12 @ "Tarshish trafficked with you because of your great wealth of every kind; silver, iron, tin, and lead they exchanged for your wares.
rsv@Ezekiel:27:16 @ Edom trafficked with you because of your abundant goods; they exchanged for your wares emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and agate.
rsv@Ezekiel:27:18 @ Damascus trafficked with you for your abundant goods, because of your great wealth of every kind; wine of Helbon, and white wool,
rsv@Ezekiel:28:2 @ "Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because your heart is proud, and you have said, `I am a god, I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas,' yet you are but a man, and no god, though you consider yourself as wise as a god--
rsv@Ezekiel:28:6 @ therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Because you consider yourself as wise as a god,
rsv@Ezekiel:28:17 @ Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you.
rsv@Ezekiel:29:6 @ "Then all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD. Because you have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel;
rsv@Ezekiel:29:9 @ and the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste. Then they will know that I am the LORD. "Because you said, `The Nile is mine, and I made it,'
rsv@Ezekiel:29:20 @ I have given him the land of Egypt as his recompense for which he labored, because they worked for me, says the Lord GOD.
rsv@Ezekiel:31:10 @ "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because it towered high and set its top among the clouds, and its heart was proud of its height,
rsv@Ezekiel:31:15 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: When it goes down to Sheol I will make the deep mourn for it, and restrain its rivers, and many waters shall be stopped; I will clothe Lebanon in gloom for it, and all the trees of the field shall faint because of it.
rsv@Ezekiel:32:10 @ I will make many peoples appalled at you, and their kings shall shudder because of you, when I brandish my sword before them; they shall tremble every moment, every one for his own life, on the day of your downfall.
rsv@Ezekiel:33:10 @ "And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, Thus have you said: `Our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we waste away because of them; how then can we live?'
rsv@Ezekiel:33:29 @ Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land a desolation and a waste because of all their abominations which they have committed.
rsv@Ezekiel:34:5 @ So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food for all the wild beasts.
rsv@Ezekiel:34:8 @ As I live, says the Lord GOD, because my sheep have become a prey, and my sheep have become food for all the wild beasts, since there was no shepherd; and because my shepherds have not searched for my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves, and have not fed my sheep;
rsv@Ezekiel:34:21 @ Because you push with side and shoulder, and thrust at all the weak with your horns, till you have scattered them abroad,
rsv@Ezekiel:35:5 @ Because you cherished perpetual enmity, and gave over the people of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment;
rsv@Ezekiel:35:6 @ therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; because you are guilty of blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.
rsv@Ezekiel:35:10 @ "Because you said, `These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will take possession of them,'--although the LORD was there--
rsv@Ezekiel:35:11 @ therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD, I will deal with you according to the anger and envy which you showed because of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among you, when I judge you.
rsv@Ezekiel:35:15 @ As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will deal with you; you shall be desolate, Mount Se'ir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
rsv@Ezekiel:36:2 @ Thus says the Lord GOD: Because the enemy said of you, `Aha!' and, `The ancient heights have become our possession,'
rsv@Ezekiel:36:3 @ therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Because, yea, because they made you desolate, and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you became the talk and evil gossip of the people;
rsv@Ezekiel:36:6 @ Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I speak in my jealous wrath, because you have suffered the reproach of the nations;
rsv@Ezekiel:36:13 @ Thus says the Lord GOD: Because men say to you, `You devour men, and you bereave your nation of children,'
rsv@Ezekiel:39:23 @ And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they dealt so treacherously with me that I hid my face from them and gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword.
rsv@Ezekiel:39:28 @ Then they shall know that I am the LORD their God because I sent them into exile among the nations, and then gathered them into their own land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations any more;
rsv@Ezekiel:44:12 @ Because they ministered to them before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have sworn concerning them, says the Lord GOD, that they shall bear their punishment.
rsv@Ezekiel:44:13 @ They shall not come near to me, to serve me as priest, nor come near any of my sacred things and the things that are most sacred; but they shall bear their shame, because of the abominations which they have committed.
rsv@Ezekiel:47:12 @ And on the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for healing."
rsv@Daniel:2:8 @ The king answered, "I know with certainty that you are trying to gain time, because you see that the word from me is sure
rsv@Daniel:2:12 @ Because of this the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.
rsv@Daniel:2:30 @ But as for me, not because of any wisdom that I have more than all the living has this mystery been revealed to me, but in order that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your mind.
rsv@Daniel:2:40 @ And there shall be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron, because iron breaks to pieces and shatters all things; and like iron which crushes, it shall break and crush all these.
rsv@Daniel:3:22 @ Because the king's order was strict and the furnace very hot, the flame of the fire slew those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed'nego.
rsv@Daniel:4:9 @ "O Belteshaz'zar, chief of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you and that no mystery is difficult for you, here is the dream which I saw; tell me its interpretation.
rsv@Daniel:4:18 @ This dream I, King Nebuchadnez'zar, saw. And you, O Belteshaz'zar, declare the interpretation, because all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation, but you are able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in you."
rsv@Daniel:5:10 @ The queen, because of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banqueting hall; and the queen said, "O king, live for ever! Let not your thoughts alarm you or your color change.
rsv@Daniel:5:12 @ because an excellent spirit, knowledge, and understanding to interpret dreams, explain riddles, and solve problems were found in this Daniel, whom the king named Belteshaz'zar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation."
rsv@Daniel:5:19 @ and because of the greatness that he gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him; whom he would he slew, and whom he would he kept alive; whom he would he raised up, and whom he would he put down.
rsv@Daniel:6:3 @ Then this Daniel became distinguished above all the other presidents and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom.
rsv@Daniel:6:4 @ Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find a ground for complaint against Daniel with regard to the kingdom; but they could find no ground for complaint or any fault, because he was faithful, and no error or fault was found in him.
rsv@Daniel:6:22 @ My God sent his angel and shut the lions' mouths, and they have not hurt me, because I was found blameless before him; and also before you, O king, I have done no wrong."
rsv@Daniel:6:23 @ Then the king was exceedingly glad, and commanded that Daniel be taken up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of hurt was found upon him, because he had trusted in his God.
rsv@Daniel:7:11 @ I looked then because of the sound of the great words which the horn was speaking. And as I looked, the beast was slain, and its body destroyed and given over to be burned with fire.
rsv@Daniel:9:7 @ To thee, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us confusion of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those that are near and those that are far away, in all the lands to which thou hast driven them, because of the treachery which they have committed against thee.
rsv@Daniel:9:8 @ To us, O Lord, belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
rsv@Daniel:9:9 @ To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness; because we have rebelled against him,
rsv@Daniel:9:11 @ All Israel has transgressed thy law and turned aside, refusing to obey thy voice. And the curse and oath which are written in the law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because we have sinned against him.
rsv@Daniel:9:16 @ O Lord, according to all thy righteous acts, let thy anger and thy wrath turn away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy hill; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people have become a byword among all who are round about us.
rsv@Daniel:9:19 @ O LORD, hear; O LORD, forgive; O LORD, give heed and act; delay not, for thy own sake, O my God, because thy city and thy people are called by thy name."
rsv@Daniel:10:12 @ Then he said to me, "Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your mind to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words.
rsv@Matthew:13:13 @ This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
rsv@Matthew:13:58 @ And he did not do many mighty works there, because of their unbelief.
rsv@Matthew:14:4 @ because John said to him, "It is not lawful for you to have her."
rsv@Matthew:14:5 @ And though he wanted to put him to death, he feared the people, because they held him to be a prophet.
rsv@Matthew:14:9 @ And the king was sorry; but because of his oaths and his guests he commanded it to be given;
rsv@Matthew:15:32 @ Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, "I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days, and have nothing to eat; and I am unwilling to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way."
rsv@Matthew:17:20 @ He said to them, "Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, `Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you."
rsv@Matthew:18:31 @ Then his lord summoned him and said to him, `You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you besought me;
rsv@Matthew:20:7 @ They said to him, `Because no one has hired us.' He said to them, `You go into the vineyard too.'
rsv@Matthew:21:45 @ But when they tried to arrest him, they feared the multitudes, because they held him to be a prophet.
rsv@Matthew:22:29 @ But Jesus answered them, "You are wrong, because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God.
rsv@Matthew:23:13 @ "But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who would enter to go in.
rsv@Matthew:24:12 @ And because wickedness is multiplied, most men's love will grow cold.
rsv@Matthew:26:31 @ Then Jesus said to them, "You will all fall away because of me this night; for it is written, `I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'
rsv@Matthew:26:33 @ Peter declared to him, "Though they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away."
rsv@Mark:1:34 @ And he healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons; and he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him.
rsv@Mark:2:4 @ And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him; and when they had made an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic lay.
rsv@Mark:3:9 @ And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they should crush him;
rsv@Mark:4:29 @ But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come."
rsv@Mark:6:6 @ And he marveled because of their unbelief. And he went about among the villages teaching.
rsv@Mark:6:17 @ For Herod had sent and seized John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Hero'di-as, his brother Philip's wife; because he had married her.
rsv@Mark:6:26 @ And the king was exceedingly sorry; but because of his oaths and his guests he did not want to break his word to her.
rsv@Mark:6:34 @ As he went ashore he saw a great throng, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things.
rsv@Mark:8:2 @ "I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days, and have nothing to eat;
rsv@Mark:9:38 @ John said to him, "Teacher, we saw a man casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him,