839 verses contain “Ret” (in the KJV: 524, in the BSB: 599) — showing 401–500
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When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.
His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
His sons will seek the favor of the poor, for his own hands must return his wealth.
That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not
swallow it down: according to his substance shall the
restitution be, and he shall not
rejoice therein.
He must
return the fruit of his labor without
consuming it; he cannot enjoy the profits of his trading.
If thou
return to the
Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
If you
return to the
Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents
His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth:
then his flesh is refreshed like a child’s; he returns to the days of his youth.
All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.
He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
He opens their ears to correction and commands that they turn from iniquity.
Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.
Their young ones
thrive and grow up in the open field; they leave and do not
return.
Wherefore I
abhor myself, and
repent in dust and ashes.
Therefore I
retract my words, and I
repent in dust and ashes.”
Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy
mercies’ sake.
Turn, O LORD, and deliver my soul; save me because of Your loving devotion.
All my enemies will be
ashamed and dismayed; they will turn back in sudden disgrace.
So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.
Let the assembled peoples gather around You; take Your seat over them on high.
His mischief shall
return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own
pate.
His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.
When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.
When my enemies
retreat, they
stumble and perish before You.
The wicked shall be turned into
hell, and all the nations that
forget God.
The wicked will
return to
Sheol— all the nations who
forget God.
Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that
hate me.
You have made my enemies
retreat before me; I put an end to those who
hated me.
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was
sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer
returned into mine own
bosom.
Yet when they were ill, I put on
sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers
returned unanswered.
Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which
hate us
spoil for themselves.
Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners will return to You.
When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.
Then my enemies will retreat on the day I cry for help. By this I will know that God is on my side.
They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
The Lord said, I will bring again from
Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:
The Lord said, “I will
retrieve them from
Bashan, I will bring them up from the depths of the sea,
Let their table become a
snare before them: and that which should have been for their
welfare, let it become a
trap.
Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say,
Aha,
aha.
May those who say, “
Aha,
aha!”
retreat because of their shame.
Therefore his people
return hither: and waters of a full cup are
wrung out to them.
So their people return to this place and drink up waters in abundance.
Do not let the
oppressed retreat in shame; may the poor and
needy praise Your name.
When he
slew them, then they sought him: and they
returned and enquired early after God.
When He
slew them, they would seek Him; they
repented and searched for God.
For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing
breeze that does not
return.
Return, we
beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine—
I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.
I will
listen to what God the LORD will say; for He will surely speak peace to His people and His saints; He will not let them
return to folly.
Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”
Return, O LORD, how long? and let it
repent thee concerning thy servants.
Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have
compassion on Your servants.
But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
Surely judgment will again be righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it.
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
When You hide Your face, they are
terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and
return to dust.
For my love they are my
adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
In
return for my love they
accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.
Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt
bountifully with thee.
Return to your rest, O my soul, for the LORD has been good to you.
He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with
rejoicing, bringing his
sheaves with him.
He who goes out
weeping, bearing a
trail of seed, will surely
return with shouts of joy, carrying
sheaves of grain.
His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.
None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
None who go to her
return or
negotiate the paths of life.
She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
She is a tree of life to those who embrace her, and those who lay hold of her are blessed.
He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
he taught me and said, “Let your heart lay hold of my words; keep my commands and you will live.
He hath taken a
bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
He took with him a
bag of money and will not
return till the moon is full.”
A
gracious woman
retaineth honour: and strong men
retain riches.
A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the
recompense of a man’s hands shall be rendered unto him.
By fruitful speech a man is filled with good things, and the work of his hands returns to him.
Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
If
anyone returns evil for good, evil will never leave his house.
As a dog
returneth to his
vomit, so a
fool returneth to his folly.
As a dog
returns to its
vomit, so a
fool repeats his folly.
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will
return upon him.
He who digs a pit will fall into it, and he who rolls a stone will have it roll back on him.
A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any;
a lion, mighty among beasts, refusing to retreat before anything;
The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
The wind blows southward, then turns northward; round and round it swirls, ever returning on its course.
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
All the rivers flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full; to the place from which the streams come, there again they flow.
All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.
So I
returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were
oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the
oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.
Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor.
As he came forth of his mother’s
womb, naked shall he
return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
As a man came from his mother’s
womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.
There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
I saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor the favor to the skillful. For time and chance happen to all.
While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not
darkened, nor the clouds
return after the rain:
before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is
darkened, and the clouds
return after the rain,
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.
Come back, come back, O Shulammite! Come back, come back, that we may
gaze upon you. Why do you look at the Shulammite, as on the dance of
Mahanaim?
But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall
return, and shall be eaten: as a
teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
And though a tenth remains in the land, it will be burned again. As the
terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a
stump in the land.”
For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.
The
remnant shall
return, even the
remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a
remnant of them shall
return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea, only a
remnant will
return. Destruction has been decreed, overflowing with righteousness.
And it shall be as the
chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and
flee every one into his own land.
Like a
hunted gazelle, like a sheep without a
shepherd, each will
return to his own people, each will
flee to his native land.
That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the
captives return to their homes?”
And the LORD shall
smite Egypt: he shall
smite and
heal it: and they shall
return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall
heal them.
And the LORD will strike Egypt with a plague; He will strike them but
heal them. They will turn to the LORD, and He will hear their prayers and
heal them.
The
watchman replies, “Morning has come, but also the night. If you would inquire, then inquire. Come back yet again.”
And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her
hire, and shall commit
fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.
And at the end of seventy years, the LORD will restore Tyre. Then she will
return to
hire as a
prostitute and sell herself to all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.
For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: “By
repentance and rest you would be saved; your strength would lie in quiet confidence— but you were not willing.”
Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
Return to the One against whom you have so
blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel.
Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with
vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.
Say to those with anxious hearts: “Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with
vengeance. With divine
retribution He will come to save you.”
Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a
rumor and
return to his own land, where I will cause him to fall by the sword.’”
When the
Rabshakeh heard that the king of Assyria had left
Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against
Libnah.
By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
He will go back the way he came, and he will not enter this city,’ declares the LORD.
So
Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He
returned to
Nineveh and stayed there.
Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun
dial of
Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun
returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
I will make the sun’s shadow that falls on the
stairway of
Ahaz go back ten steps.’” So the
sunlight went back the ten steps it had descended.
He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the
cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain
doth nourish it.
He cuts down cedars or
retrieves a
cypress or oak. He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a
laurel, and the rain makes it grow.
I have
blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins:
return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
I have
blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a
mist.
Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
I have
sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not
return, That unto me every
knee shall bow, every tongue shall
swear.
By Myself I have
sworn; truth has gone out from My mouth, a word that will not be
revoked: Every
knee will bow before Me, every tongue will
swear allegiance.
But thus saith the LORD, Even the
captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will
contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.
Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall
return, and come with singing unto
Zion; and
everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain
gladness and joy; and sorrow and
mourning shall
flee away.
Thy
watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again
Zion.
Listen! Your
watchmen lift up their voices, together they
shout for joy. For every eye will see when the LORD
returns to
Zion.
Let the wicked
forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him
return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly
pardon.
Let the wicked man
forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him
return to the LORD, that He may have
compassion, and to our God, for He will freely
pardon.
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and
returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and
bud, that it may give seed to the
sower, and bread to the eater:
For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not
return without watering the earth, making it
bud and
sprout, and providing seed to
sow and food to eat,
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not
return unto me void, but it shall
accomplish that which I please, and it shall
prosper in the thing
whereto I sent it.
so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not
return to Me empty, but it will
accomplish what I please, and it will
prosper where I send it.
According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay,
fury to his
adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
O LORD, why hast thou made us to
err from thy ways, and
hardened our heart from thy fear?
Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
Why, O LORD, do You make us
stray from Your ways and
harden our hearts from fearing You?
Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your
heritage.
They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he
return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly
polluted? but thou hast played the
harlot with many lovers; yet
return again to me, saith the LORD.
“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever
return to her? Would not such a land be completely
defiled? But you have played the
harlot with many lovers— and you would
return to Me?” declares the LORD.
And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she
returned not. And her
treacherous sister Judah saw it.
I thought that after she had done all these things, she would return to Me. But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.
And yet for all this her
treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but
feignedly, saith the LORD.
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.
Go and
proclaim these words toward the north, and say,
Return, thou
backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am
merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.
Go,
proclaim this message toward the north: ‘
Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am
merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be
angry forever.
Turn, O
backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to
Zion:
“
Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to
Zion.
Return, ye
backsliding children, and I will
heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
“
Return, O faithless children, and I will
heal your
faithlessness.” “Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.
If thou
wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD,
return unto me: and if thou
wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
“If you will
return, O Israel,
return to Me,” declares the LORD. “If you will remove your
detestable idols from My sight and no longer waver,
Set up the standard toward
Zion:
retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Raise a signal flag toward
Zion. Seek refuge! Do not delay! For I am bringing
disaster from the north, and terrible destruction.
O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast
stricken them, but they have not
grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to
return.
O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to
repent.