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Not only was the Teacher wise, but he also taught the people knowledge; he pondered, searched out, and arranged many proverbs.

Take me away with you—let us hurry! May the king bring me to his chambers. We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. It is only right that they adore you.

From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness—only wounds and welts and festering sores neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil.

See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers!

Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”

And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.

The LORD of Hosts is the One you shall regard as holy. Only He should be feared; only He should be dreaded.

The LORD of Hosts is the One you shall regard as holy. Only He should be feared; only He should be dreaded.

Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.

Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overflowing with righteousness.

Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.

I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.

…everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them. They bring neither help nor benefit, but only shame and disgrace.”

And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it—only those who walk in the Way—and fools will not stray onto it.

But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”

They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.

The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.

Behold, all his companions will be put to shame, for the craftsmen themselves are only human. Let them all assemble and take their stand; they will all be brought to terror and shame.

If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.

“Come, let me get the wine, let us imbibe the strong drink, and tomorrow will be like today, only far better!”

If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,

“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I surely do not know how to speak, for I am only a child!”

But the LORD told me: “Do not say, ‘I am only a child.’ For to everyone I send you, you must go, and all that I command you, you must speak.

Yet in spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the LORD.

Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’” declares the LORD.

Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.

O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.

If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.

“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh—

Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice—not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.

Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.

Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?

“Am I only a God nearby,” declares the LORD, “and not a God far away?”

As for the prophet who prophesies peace, only if the word of the prophet comes true will the prophet be recognized as one the LORD has truly sent.”

“Only if this fixed order departed from My presence, declares the LORD, would Israel’s descendants ever cease to be a nation before Me.”

This is what the LORD says: “Only if the heavens above could be measured and the foundations of the earth below searched out would I reject all of Israel’s descendants because of all they have done,” declares the LORD.

…as the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and the remaining cities of Judah—against Lachish and Azekah. For these were the only fortified cities remaining in Judah.

Indeed, if you were to strike down the entire army of the Chaldeans that is fighting against you, and only wounded men remained in their tents, they would still get up and burn this city down.”

So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.

If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings? Were thieves to come in the night, would they not steal only what they wanted?

…then even if these three men—Noah, Daniel, and Job—were in it, their righteousness could deliver only themselves, declares the Lord GOD.

…then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. Their righteousness could deliver only themselves.

And you not only walked in their ways and practiced their abominations, but soon you were more depraved than they were.

…so that the kingdom would be brought low, unable to lift itself up, surviving only by keeping his covenant.

Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who slay you? You will be only a man, not a god, in the hands of those who wound you.

Then all the people of Egypt will know that I am the LORD. For you were only a staff of reeds to the house of Israel.

“Son of man, those living in the ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as a possession.’

“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the shepherds of Israel, who only feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed their flock?

Then He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones come to life?” “O Lord GOD,” I replied, “only You know.”

…and the chamber that faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, the only Levites who may approach the LORD to minister before Him.”

When they placed their threshold next to My threshold and their doorposts beside My doorposts, with only a wall between Me and them, they defiled My holy name by the abominations they committed. Therefore I have consumed them in My anger.

Only the prince himself may sit inside the gateway to eat in the presence of the LORD. He must enter by way of the portico of the gateway and go out the same way.”

But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will belong to that servant until the year of freedom; then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance belongs only to his sons; it shall be theirs.

“Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables to eat and water to drink.

If you do not tell me the dream, there is only one decree for you. You have conspired to speak before me false and fraudulent words, hoping the situation will change. Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can give me its interpretation.”

Only I, Daniel, saw the vision; the men with me did not see it, but a great terror fell upon them, and they ran and hid themselves.

After an alliance is made with him, he will act deceitfully; for he will rise to power with only a few people.

In a time of peace, he will invade the richest provinces and do what his fathers and forefathers never did. He will lavish plunder, loot, and wealth on his followers, and he will plot against the strongholds—but only for a time.

“Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”

It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.

It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.

“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, how you will be ruined—would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?

Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?

Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.

It will be a unique day known only to the LORD, without day or night; but when evening comes, there will be light.

So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”

“Away from Me, Satan!” Jesus told him. “For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”

And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even Gentiles do the same?

…so that your fasting will not be obvious to men, but only to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.

Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.

She said to herself, “If only I touch His cloak, I will be healed.”

He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for them to eat, but only for the priests.

If only you had known the meaning of ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.

But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “Only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, does this man drive out demons.”

But since he has no root, he remains for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away.

And they took offense at Him. But Jesus said to them, “Only in his hometown and in his own household is a prophet without honor.”

“We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered.

He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

“Not everyone can accept this word,” He replied, “but only those to whom it has been given.

“Why do you ask Me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.”

‘These men who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the scorching heat of the day.’

“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.

No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

During the high priesthood of Abiathar, he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which was lawful only for the priests. And he gave some to his companions as well.”

But they themselves have no root, and they remain for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.

She had borne much agony under the care of many physicians and had spent all she had, but to no avail. Instead, her condition had only grown worse.

For she kept saying, “If only I touch His garments, I will be healed.”

Then Jesus said to them, “Only in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his own household is a prophet without honor.”

“Whoever welcomes one of these little children in My name welcomes Me, and whoever welcomes Me welcomes not only Me, but the One who sent Me.”

No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”

And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet. Yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”

He entered the house of God, took the consecrated bread and gave it to his companions, and ate what is lawful only for the priests to eat.”

As He approached the town gate, He saw a dead man being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her.

…because his only daughter, who was about twelve, was dying. As Jesus went with him, the crowds pressed around Him,

But Jesus told them, “You give them something to eat.” “We have only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered, “unless we go and buy food for all these people.”