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cease

Meaning of “cease”

To stop or leave off, to come to an end, or to cause something to stop or end.

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70 occurrences70 verses26 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Genesis 8:22

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Isaiah 1:16
¶ Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
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1611 witness · Isaiah 1:16 · retained source text

¶ Wash yee, make you cleane, put away the euill of your doings from before mine eyes, cease to doe euill,

1611 marginal note1.Pet.3.11.

Isaiah 2:22
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
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1611 witness · Isaiah 2:22 · retained source text

Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrels: for wherein is hee to be accounted of?

Isaiah 10:25
For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 10:25 · retained source text

For yet a very litle while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.

Isaiah 13:11
And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 13:11 · retained source text

And I will punish the world for their euill, and the wicked for their iniquitie; and I will cause the arrogancie of the proud to cease, and will lay low the hautinesse of the terrible.

Isaiah 16:10
And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 16:10 · retained source text

And gladnesse is taken away, and ioy out of the plentifull field, and in the Uineyards there shalbe no singing, neither shal there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I haue made their vintage shouting to cease.

1611 marginal noteIere.48.33.

Isaiah 17:3
The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the Lord of hosts.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 17:3 · retained source text

The fortresse also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdome from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall bee as the glorie of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hostes.

Isaiah 21:2
A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 21:2 · retained source text

A grieuous vision is declared vnto me; The treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth: Goe, vp O Elam: besiege, O Media: all the sighing thereof haue I made to cease.

1611 marginal noteHeb. hard.

Isaiah 30:11
Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 30:11 · retained source text

Get ye out of the way: turne aside out of the path: cause the Holy one of Israel to cease from before vs.

Isaiah 33:1
WOE to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 33:1 · retained source text

¶ Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee: when thou shalt cease to spoile, thou shalt bee spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deale treacherously, they shall deale treacherously with thee.

Jeremiah 7:34
Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 7:34 · retained source text

Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Iudah, and from the streets of Ierusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladnesse, the voice of the bridegroome, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.

1611 marginal noteIsa.24.7. chap.16.9. and 25.10. and .33.11. eze.26.13. ose.2.11.

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