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Isaiah 2:22

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Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
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  1. Jeremiah 17:5Rank 1 from verse 22
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    5¶ Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.

  2. Psalms 146:3Rank 2 from verse 22
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    3Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

  3. James 4:14Rank 3 from verse 22
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    14Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

  4. Psalms 144:3–4Rank 4 from verse 22
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    3Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!

    4Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

  5. Psalms 8:4Rank 5 from verse 22
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    4What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

  6. Genesis 2:7Rank 6 from verse 22
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    7And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

  7. Isaiah 40:15Rank 7 from verse 22
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    15Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

  8. Psalms 62:9Rank 8 from verse 22
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    9Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

  9. Genesis 7:22Rank 9 from verse 22
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    22All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

  10. Job 27:3Rank 10 from verse 22
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    3All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

  11. Job 7:15–21Rank 11 from verse 22
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    15So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.

    16I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

    17What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

    18And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?

    19How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

    20I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

    21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

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Isaiah 2:22

COMBINED MEANING

cease

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

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COMBINED MEANING

ye

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The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

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man

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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.

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COMBINED MEANING

breath

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Sense 1: Air drawn in or breathed out. Sense 2: The breath by which bodily life is sustained; by extension, bodily life.

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

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accounted

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of account, meaning to reckon, consider, or give an account.

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2:21To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

2:22Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

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3:1FOR, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,

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