מָקוֹם

…because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands. My wrath will be poured out upon this place and will not be quenched.’

…because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its people, and because you have humbled yourself before Me and have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.

‘Now I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the calamity that I will bring on this place and on its people.’” So they brought her answer back to the king.

And let every survivor, wherever he lives, be assisted by the men of that region with silver, gold, goods, and livestock, along with a freewill offering for the house of God in Jerusalem.’”

And I sent them to Iddo, the leader at Casiphia, with a message for him and his kinsmen, the temple servants at Casiphia, that they should bring to us ministers for the house of our God.

But now, for a brief moment, grace has come from the LORD our God to preserve for us a remnant and to give us a stake in His holy place. Even in our bondage, our God has given us new life and light to our eyes.

…but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then even if your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for My Name.’

Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and the King’s Pool, but there was no room for the animal under me to get through;

At that time the Jews who lived nearby came and told us ten times over, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”

So I stationed men behind the lowest sections of the wall, at the vulnerable areas. I stationed them by families with their swords, spears, and bows.

Wherever you hear the sound of the horn, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us!”

At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, the Levites were sought out from all their homes and brought to Jerusalem to celebrate the joyous dedication with thanksgiving and singing, accompanied by cymbals, harps, and lyres.

In every province to which the king’s command and edict came, there was great mourning among the Jews. They fasted, wept, and lamented, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows if perhaps you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

In every province and every city, wherever the king’s edict and decree reached, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many of the people of the land themselves became Jews, because the fear of the Jews had fallen upon them.

Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.

…but ceasing in the dry season and vanishing from their channels in the heat.

He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.

If he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’

He shakes the earth from its place, so that its foundations tremble.

But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and a rock is dislodged from its place,

O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.

You who tear yourself in anger—should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?

Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”

The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.

The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.

“Surely there is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined.

Its rocks are the source of sapphires, containing flecks of gold.

But where can wisdom be found, and where does understanding dwell?

From where, then, does wisdom come, and where does understanding dwell?

But God understands its way, and He knows its place.

He strikes them for their wickedness in full view,

“At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place.

In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,

Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,

Who may ascend the hill of the LORD? Who may stand in His holy place?

O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.

Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.

But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.

…when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.

Bless the LORD, all His works in all places of His dominion. Bless the LORD, O my soul!

…the mountains rose and the valleys sank to the place You assigned for them—

…until I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”

The eyes of the LORD are in every place, observing the evil and the good.

Do not exalt yourself in the presence of the king, and do not stand in the place of great men;

Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who wanders from his home.

The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries back to where it rises.