Nahum 3:14
Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.
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Nahum 3:14
Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.
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Genesis 11:3
And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.
Exodus 5:7
Give these men no more dry stems for their brick-making as you have been doing; let them go and get the material for themselves.
Exodus 5:8
But see that they make the same number of bricks as before, and no less: for they have no love for work; and so they are crying out and saying, Let us go and make an offering to our God.
Exodus 5:9
Give the men harder work, and see that they do it; let them not give attention to false words.
Exodus 5:10
And the overseers of the people and their responsible men went out and said to the people, Pharaoh says, I will give you no more dry stems.
Exodus 5:11
Go yourselves and get dry stems wherever you are able; for your work is not to be any less.
Exodus 5:12
So the people were sent in all directions through the land of Egypt to get dry grass for stems.
Exodus 5:13
And the overseers went on driving them and saying, Do your full day's work as before when there were dry stems for you.
Exodus 5:14
And the responsible men of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's overseers had put over them, were given blows, and they said to them, Why have you not done your regular work, in making bricks as before?
Exodus 5:15
Then the responsible men of the children of Israel came to Pharaoh, protesting and saying, Why are you acting in this way to your servants?
Exodus 5:16
They give us no dry stems and they say to us, Make bricks: and they give your servants blows; but it is your people who are in the wrong.
Exodus 5:17
But he said, You have no love for work: that is why you say, Let us go and make an offering to the Lord.
Exodus 5:18
Go now, get back to your work; no dry stems will be given to you, but you are to make the full number of bricks.
Isaiah 9:10
The bricks have come down, but we will put up buildings of cut stone in their place: the sycamores are cut down, but they will be changed to cedars.
Isaiah 65:3
A people who make me angry every day, making offerings in gardens, and burning perfumes on bricks.
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Deuteronomy 13:16
And take all the goods into the middle of its open space, burning the town and all its property with fire as an offering to the Lord your God; it is to be a waste for ever; there is to be no more building there.
Isaiah 13:2
Put up a flag on a clear mountain-top, make a loud outcry to them, give directions with the hand, so that they may go into the doors of the great ones.
Isaiah 14:23
And I will make you a heritage for the hedgehog, and pools of water: and I will go through it with the brush of destruction, says the Lord of armies.
Isaiah 17:1
The word about Damascus. See, they have made Damascus a town no longer; it has become a waste place.
Isaiah 21:5
They make ready the table, they put down the covers, they take food and drink. Up! you captains; put oil on your breastplates.
Isaiah 21:9
See, here come war-carriages with men, horsemen by twos: and in answer he said, Babylon is made low, is made low, and all her images are broken on the earth.
Isaiah 23:13
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Isaiah 25:2
For you have made a town a waste place: a strong town a mass of broken walls; the tower of the men of pride has come to an end; it will never be put up again.
Isaiah 25:12
And the strong tower of your walls has been broken by him, made low, and crushed even to the dust.
Isaiah 27:10
For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him.
Isaiah 27:11
When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.
Jeremiah 51:26
And they will not take from you a stone for the angle of a wall or the base of a building; but you will be a waste place for ever, says the Lord.
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2 Samuel 5:7
But David took the strong place of Zion, which is the town of David.
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2 Chronicles 11:12
And in every town he put stores of body-covers and spears, and made them very strong. And Judah and Benjamin were his.
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2 Chronicles 25:8
But go yourself, and be strong in war; God will not let you go down before those who are fighting against you; for God has power to give help or to send you down before your attackers.
Proverbs 21:30
Wisdom and knowledge and wise suggestions are of no use against the Lord.
Daniel 2:41
And as you saw the feet and toes, part of potter's work and part of iron, there will be a division in the kingdom; but there will be some of the strength of iron in it, because you saw the iron mixed with the potter's earth.
Joel 3:2
I will get together all the nations, and make them come down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and there I will take up with them the cause of my people and of my heritage Israel, whom they have sent wandering among the nations, and of my land which has been parted by them.
Joel 3:12
Let the nations be awake, and come to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there I will be seated as judge of all the nations round about.
Joel 3:13
Put in the blade, for the grain is ready: come, get you down, for the wine-crusher is full, the vessels are overflowing; for great is their evil-doing.
Joel 3:14
Masses on masses in the valley of decision! for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
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2 Chronicles 32:3
He took up with his rulers and men of war the question of stopping up the water-springs outside the town; and they gave him their support.
2 Chronicles 32:4
So they got together a great number of people, and had all the water-springs and the stream flowing through the land stopped up, saying, Why let the kings of Assyria come and have much water?
2 Chronicles 32:11
Is it not Hezekiah who has got you to do it, causing your death from need of food and water, by saying, The Lord our God will give us salvation out of the hands of the king of Assyria?
Isaiah 37:25
I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.
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2 Chronicles 36:19
And the house of God was burned and the wall of Jerusalem broken down; all its great houses were burned with fire and all its beautiful vessels given up to destruction.
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Psalms 68:13
Will you take your rest among the flocks? like the wings of a dove covered with silver, and its feathers with yellow gold.
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Psalms 81:6
I took the weight from his back; his hands were made free from the baskets.
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Psalms 127:1
A Song of the going up. Of Solomon. If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing.
Psalms 127:2
It is of no use for you to get up early, and to go late to your rest, with the bread of sorrow for your food; for the Lord gives to his loved ones in sleep.
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Ecclesiastes 5:6
Let not your mouth make your flesh do evil. And say not before the angel, It was an error. So that God may not be angry with your words and put an end to the work of your hands.
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Isaiah 2:12
For the day of the Lord of armies is coming on all the pride of men, and on all who are high and lifted up;
Isaiah 2:13
And on all the high trees of Lebanon, and on all the strong trees of Bashan;
Isaiah 2:14
And on all the high mountains, and on all the hills which are lifted up;
Isaiah 2:15
And on every high tower, and on every strong wall;
Isaiah 2:16
And on all the ships of Tarshish, and on all the fair boats.
Isaiah 2:17
And the high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low: and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.
Isaiah 10:33
See, the Lord, the Lord of armies, is cutting off his branches with a great noise, and his strong ones are falling and his high ones are coming down.
Isaiah 10:34
And he is cutting down the thick places of the wood with an axe, and Lebanon with its tall trees is coming down.
Isaiah 22:8
He took away the cover of Judah; and in that day you were looking with care at the store of arms in the house of the woods.
Ezekiel 31:2
Son of man, say to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and to his people; Whom are you like in your great power?
Ezekiel 31:17
And they will go down with him to the underworld, to those who have been put to the sword; even those who were his helpers, living under his shade among the nations
Amos 6:1
Sorrow to those who are resting in comfort in Zion, and to those who have no fear of danger in the mountain of Samaria, the noted men of the chief of the nations, to whom the people of Israel come!
Zechariah 11:2
Give a cry of grief, O fir-tree, for the fall of the cedar, because the great ones have been made low: give cries of grief, O you oaks of Bashan, for the strong trees of the wood have come down.
Luke 23:31
For if they do these things when the tree is green, what will they do when it is dry?
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Jeremiah 46:6
Let not the quick-footed go in flight, or the man of war get away; on the north, by the river Euphrates, they are slipping and falling.
Jeremiah 46:7
Who is this coming up like the Nile, whose waters are lifting their heads like the rivers?
Jeremiah 46:8
Egypt is coming up like the Nile, and his waters are lifting their heads like the rivers, and he says, I will go up, covering the earth; I will send destruction on the town and its people.
Jeremiah 46:10
But that day is the day of the Lord, the Lord of armies, a day of punishment when he will take payment from his haters: and the sword will have all its desire, drinking their blood in full measure: for there is an offering to the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the north country by the river Euphrates.
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Nahum 3:1
A curse is on the town of blood; it is full of deceit and violent acts; and there is no end to the taking of life.
Nahum 3:2
The noise of the whip, and the noise of thundering wheels; horses rushing and war-carriages jumping,
Nahum 3:3
Horsemen driving forward, and the shining sword and the bright spear: and a great number of wounded, and masses of dead bodies; they are falling over the bodies of the dead:
Nahum 3:4
Because of all the false ways of the loose woman, expert in attraction and wise in secret arts, who takes nations in the net of her false ways, and families through her secret arts.
Nahum 3:6
I will make you completely disgusting and full of shame, and will put you up to be looked at by all.
Nahum 3:7
And it will come about that all who see you will go in flight from you and say, Nineveh is made waste: who will be weeping for her? where am I to get comforters for her?
Zephaniah 2:13
And his hand will be stretched out against the north, for the destruction of Assyria; and he will make Nineveh unpeopled and dry like the waste land.
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Ephesians 4:26
Be angry without doing wrong; let not the sun go down on your wrath;
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