Lexicon :: Strong's G3973 - pauō

So from there the LORD scattered them throughout the earth, and they stopped building the city.

When the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, he departed, and Abraham returned to his place.

“Let the girl to whom I say, ‘Please lower your water jug so that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I’ll water your camels also’ ​— ​let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.”

When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I’ll also draw water for your camels until they have had enough to drink.”[fn]

As the camels finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing half a shekel, and for her wrists two bracelets weighing ten shekels of gold.

As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob and Jacob had left the presence of his father Isaac, his brother Esau arrived from his hunting.

“Make an appeal to the LORD. There has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go; you don’t need to stay any longer.”

Moses left Pharaoh and the city, and spread out his hands to the LORD. Then the thunder and hail ceased, and rain no longer poured down on the land.

“It is a sign forever between me and the Israelites, for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, but on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.”

“Why should the Egyptians say, ‘He brought them out with an evil intent to kill them in the mountains and eliminate them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce anger and relent concerning this disaster planned for your people.

Just as he finished speaking all these words, the ground beneath them split open.

The LORD told Moses, “Put Aaron’s staff back in front of the testimony to be kept as a sign for the rebels, so that you may put an end to their complaints before me, or else they will die.”

followed the Israelite man into the tent,[fn] and drove it through both the Israelite man and the woman ​— ​through her belly. Then the plague on the Israelites was stopped,

“When the officers have finished addressing the army, they will appoint military commanders to lead it.

“I would have said: I will cut them to pieces[fn]

and blot out the memory of them from mankind,

and raised over him a large pile of rocks that remains still today. Then the LORD turned from his burning anger. Therefore that place is called the Valley of Achor[fn] still today.

When Israel had finished killing everyone living in Ai who had pursued them into the open country, and when every last one of them had fallen by the sword, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it down with the sword.

Zadok was also there, and all the Levites with him were carrying the ark of the covenant of God. They set the ark of God down, and Abiathar offered sacrifices[fn] until the people had finished marching past.

Then David said to Ornan, “Give me this threshing-floor plot so that I may build an altar to the LORD on it. Give it to me for the full price, so the plague on the people may be stopped.”

On the third day, Esther dressed in her royal clothing and stood in the inner courtyard of the palace facing it. The king was sitting on his royal throne in the royal courtroom,[fn] facing its entrance.

I refuse to touch them;

they are like contaminated food.

Do you think that you can disprove my words

or that a despairing man’s words are mere wind?

If only you would hide me in Sheol

and conceal me until your anger passes.

If only you would appoint a time for me

and then remember me.

How long until you stop talking?

Show some sense, and then we can talk.

City officials stopped talking

and covered their mouths with their hands.

then let thorns grow instead of wheat

and stinkweed instead of barley.

The words of Job are concluded.

Teach us what we should say to him;

we cannot prepare our case because of our darkness.

Then the LORD answered Job from the whirlwind. He said:

Keep your tongue from evil

and your lips from deceitful speech.

Refrain from anger and give up your rage;

do not be agitated ​— ​it can only bring harm.

Casting the lot ends quarrels

and separates powerful opponents.

The words of Agur son of Jakeh. The pronouncement.[fn]

The man’s oration to Ithiel, to Ithiel and Ucal:[fn]

“Wash yourselves. Cleanse yourselves.

Remove your evil deeds from my sight.

Stop doing evil.

Therefore the Lord GOD of Armies,

the Mighty One of Israel, declares:

“Ah, I will get even with my foes;

I will take revenge against my enemies.

“In just a little while my wrath will be spent and my anger will turn to their destruction.”

Joy and rejoicing have been removed from the orchard;

no one is singing or shouting for joy in the vineyards.

No one tramples grapes[fn] in the winepresses.

I have put an end to the shouting.

The joyful tambourines have ceased.

The noise of the jubilant has stopped.

The joyful lyre has ceased.

In the streets they cry[fn] for wine.

All joy grows dark;

earth’s rejoicing goes into exile.

For this is how it will be on earth

among the nations:

like a harvested olive tree,

like a gleaning after a grape harvest.

But if the wicked man is shown favor,

he does not learn righteousness.

In a righteous land he acts unjustly

and does not see the majesty of the LORD.

In a little more than a year

you overconfident ones will shudder,

for the grapes will fail

and the harvest will not come.

The highways are deserted;

travel has ceased.

An agreement has been broken,

cities[fn] despised,

and human life disregarded.

The LORD is ready to save me;

we will play stringed instruments

all the days of our lives

at the house of the LORD.

You became weary on your many journeys,

but you did not say, “It’s hopeless! ”

You found a renewal of your strength;[fn]

therefore you did not grow weak.

Peaceful grazing land will become lifeless

because of the LORD’s burning anger.

“Perhaps they will listen and turn ​— ​each from his evil way of life ​— ​so that I might relent concerning the disaster that I plan to do to them because of the evil of their deeds.

When he finished the address the LORD had commanded him to deliver to all the people, immediately the priests, the prophets, and all the people took hold of him, yelling, “You must surely die!

“So now, correct your ways and deeds, and obey the LORD your God so that he might relent concerning the disaster he had pronounced against you.