Lexicon :: Strong's H4513 - mānaʿ

“So now, my lord, as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, since the LORD has prevented you from shedding blood, and from avenging yourself by your own hand, now then let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord, be as [self-destructive as] Nabal.

Then the king of Israel summoned all the elders of the land and said, “Please observe and see how this man is seeking our destruction. For he sent messengers to me for my wives, my children, my silver, and my gold, and I did not refuse him.”

“You [also] gave Your good Spirit to instruct them,

You did not withhold Your manna from their mouth,

And You gave them water for their thirst.

Though he desires it and will not let it go

But holds it in his mouth,

“You have not given water to the weary to drink,

And you have withheld bread from the hungry.

“If I have withheld from the poor what they desired,

Or have caused the eyes of the widow to look in vain [for relief],

“Their light is withheld from the wicked,

And the uplifted arm is broken.

You have given him his heart’s desire,

And You have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.

For the LORD God is a sun and shield;

The LORD bestows grace and favor and honor;

No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.

My son, do not walk on the road with them;

Keep your foot [far] away from their path,

[fn]Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due [its rightful recipients],

When it is in your power to do it.

The people curse him who holds back grain [when the public needs it],

But a blessing [from God and man] is upon the head of him who sells it.

Do not withhold discipline from the child;

If you [fn]swat him with a reed-like rod [applied with godly wisdom], he will not die.

Two things I have asked of You;

Do not deny them to me before I die:

“[Cease your mad running after idols to]

Keep your feet from becoming bare

And your throat from becoming dry;

But you said, ‘It is hopeless!

For I have loved strangers and foreign gods,

And I will walk after them.’

“Therefore the showers have been withheld,

And there has been no spring rain.

Yet you have the forehead (appearance) of a prostitute;

You refuse to be ashamed.

‘Your wickedness has turned these [blessings] away,

And your sins have withheld good [harvests] from you.

Thus says the LORD,

“Restrain your voice from weeping

And your eyes from tears,

For your work will be rewarded,” says the LORD;

“And your children will return from the enemy’s land.

“Cursed is the one who does the work of the LORD negligently,

And cursed is the one who restrains his sword from blood [in executing the judgment of the LORD].

‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “On the day when Assyria went down to Sheol (the place of the dead) I caused mourning; I closed the deep [subterranean waters] over it and restrained its rivers. And the many waters [that contributed to its prosperity] were held back; and I made [the heart of] Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field wilted away because of it.

Clothe yourselves with sackcloth

And lament (cry out in grief), O priests;

Wail, O ministers of the altar!

Come, spend the night in sackcloth [and pray without ceasing],

O ministers of my God,

For the grain offering and the drink offering

Are withheld from the house of your God.

“Furthermore, I withheld the rain from you

When there were still three months until the harvest.

Then I would send rain on one city,

And on another city I would not send rain;

One piece of ground was rained on,

While the part not rained on would dry up.