And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself, "I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.

I confirm my covenant with you: Never again will all living things be wiped out by the waters of a flood; never again will a flood destroy the earth."

then I will remember my covenant with you and with all living creatures of all kinds. Never again will the waters become a flood and destroy all living things.

that I will take nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the strap of a sandal. That way you can never say, 'It is I who made Abram rich.'

Look, I have two daughters who have never had sexual relations with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do to them whatever you please. Only don't do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof."

"Be careful never to take my son back there!" Abraham told him.

Animals torn by wild beasts I never brought to you; I always absorbed the loss myself. You always made me pay for every missing animal, whether it was taken by day or at night.

Then seven other cows came up after them; they were scrawny, very bad-looking, and lean. I had never seen such bad-looking cows as these in all the land of Egypt!

Israel said to Joseph, "I never expected to see you again, but now God has allowed me to see your children too."

I am going to cause very severe hail to rain down about this time tomorrow, such hail as has never occurred in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

There will be a great cry throughout the whole land of Egypt, such as there has never been, nor ever will be again.

Moses said to the people, "Do not fear! Stand firm and see the salvation of the Lord that he will provide for you today; for the Egyptians that you see today you will never, ever see again.

This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live: You must never eat any fat or any blood.'"

Moreover, the fat of an animal that has died of natural causes and the fat of an animal torn by beasts may be used for any other purpose, but you must certainly never eat it.

If he does not redeem the field, but sells the field to someone else, he may never redeem it.

"This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord has commanded: 'Instruct the Israelites to bring you a red heifer without blemish, which has no defect and has never carried a yoke.

and 32,000 young women who had never had sexual intercourse with a man.

But the Lord became angry with me because of you and vowed that I would never cross the Jordan nor enter the good land that he is about to give you.

fed you in the desert with manna (which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you and eventually bring good to you.

You must gather all of its plunder into the middle of the plaza and burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. It will be an abandoned ruin forever -- it must never be rebuilt again.

There will never cease to be some poor people in the land; therefore, I am commanding you to make sure you open your hand to your fellow Israelites who are needy and poor in your land.

Moreover, he must not accumulate horses for himself or allow the people to return to Egypt to do so, for the Lord has said you must never again return that way.

There must never be found among you anyone who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, anyone who practices divination, an omen reader, a soothsayer, a sorcerer,

Then the elders of the city nearest to the corpse must take from the herd a heifer that has not been worked -- that has never pulled with the yoke --

They will fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman's father, for the man who made the accusation ruined the reputation of an Israelite virgin. She will then become his wife and he may never divorce her as long as he lives.

The man who has raped her must pay her father fifty shekels of silver and she must become his wife because he has violated her; he may never divorce her as long as he lives.

There must never be a sacred prostitute among the young women of Israel nor a sacred male prostitute among the young men of Israel.

You must never bring the pay of a female prostitute or the wage of a male prostitute into the temple of the Lord your God in fulfillment of any vow, for both of these are abhorrent to the Lord your God.

Likewise, the most tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness, will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters,

Then the Lord will make you return to Egypt by ship, over a route I said to you that you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you."

As for the Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. He is a reliable God who is never unjust, he is fair and upright.

The manna stopped appearing the day they ate some of the produce of the land; the Israelites never ate manna again.

Whenever the Israelites were strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them.

Whenever Israel was strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them.

The Lord's angelic messenger went up from Gilgal to Bokim. He said, "I brought you up from Egypt and led you into the land I had solemnly promised to give to your ancestors. I said, 'I will never break my agreement with you,

Look, you will conceive and have a son. You must never cut his hair, for the child will be dedicated to God from birth. He will begin to deliver Israel from the power of the Philistines."

He said to her, "If they tie me tightly with brand new ropes that have never been used, I will become weak and be just like any other man."

Finally he told her his secret. He said to her, "My hair has never been cut, for I have been dedicated to God from the time I was conceived. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me; I would become weak, and be just like all other men."

They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young girls who were virgins -- they had never had sexual relations with a male. They brought them back to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

She made a vow saying, "O Lord of hosts, if you will look with compassion on the suffering of your female servant, remembering me and not forgetting your servant, and give a male child to your servant, then I will dedicate him to the Lord all the days of his life. His hair will never be cut."

Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, says, 'I really did say that your house and your ancestor's house would serve me forever.' But now the Lord says, 'May it never be! For I will honor those who honor me, but those who despise me will be cursed!

Therefore I swore an oath to the house of Eli, 'The sin of the house of Eli can never be forgiven by sacrifice or by grain offering.'"

The Philistines were scared because they thought that gods had come to the camp. They said, "Too bad for us! We've never seen anything like this!

So now go and make a new cart. Get two cows that have calves and that have never had a yoke placed on them. Harness the cows to the cart and take their calves from them back to their stalls.

But the army said to Saul, "Should Jonathan, who won this great victory in Israel, die? May it never be! As surely as the Lord lives, not a single hair of his head will fall to the ground! For it is with the help of God that he has acted today." So the army rescued Jonathan from death.

From the blood of the slain, from the fat of warriors, the bow of Jonathan was not turned away. The sword of Saul never returned empty.

May his blood whirl over the head of Joab and the entire house of his father! May the males of Joab's house never cease to have someone with a running sore or a skin disease or one who works at the spindle or one who falls by the sword or one who lacks food!"

So now the sword will never depart from your house. For you have despised me by taking the wife of Uriah the Hittite as your own!'

(Now his father had never corrected him by saying, "Why do you do such things?" He was also very handsome and had been born right after Absalom.)

Now, O Lord, God of Israel, keep the promise you made to your servant, my father David, when you said, 'You will never fail to have a successor ruling before me on the throne of Israel, provided that your descendants watch their step and serve me as you have done.'

She gave the king 120 talents of gold, a very large quantity of spices, and precious gems. The quantity of spices the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon has never been matched.

The jar of flour was never empty and the jug of oil never ran out, just as the Lord had promised through Elijah.

(There had never been anyone like Ahab, who was firmly committed to doing evil in the sight of the Lord, urged on by his wife Jezebel.

Jehoshaphat built a fleet of large merchant ships to travel to Ophir for gold, but they never made the voyage because they were shipwrecked in Ezion Geber.

Naaman said, "If not, then please give your servant a load of dirt, enough for a pair of mules to carry, for your servant will never again offer a burnt offering or sacrifice to a god other than the Lord.

You must never forget the agreement I made with you, and you must not worship other gods.

I will become his father and he will become my son. I will never withhold my loyal love from him, as I withheld it from the one who ruled before you.

Now, O Lord God of Israel, keep the promise you made to your servant, my father David, when you said, 'You will never fail to have a successor ruling before me on the throne of Israel, provided that your descendants watch their step and obey my law as you have done.'

She gave the king 120 talents of gold and a very large quantity of spices and precious gems. The quantity of spices the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon has never been matched.

For forty years you sustained them. Even in the desert they never lacked anything. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?

Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.

Will you never look away from me, will you not let me alone long enough to swallow my spittle?

If he is uprooted from his place, then that place will disown him, saying, 'I have never seen you!'

I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!

before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

Why do you pursue me like God does? Will you never be satiated with my flesh?

Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.

And another man dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted anything good.

Have you never questioned those who travel the roads? Do you not recognize their accounts --

I will never declare that you three are in the right; until I die, I will not set aside my integrity!

I will maintain my righteousness and never let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for as long as I live.

If his children increase -- it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat.

Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never cease.

if the members of my household have never said, 'If only there were someone who has not been satisfied from Job's meat!' --

If you lay your hand on it, you will remember the fight, and you will never do it again!

He is like a tree planted by flowing streams; it yields its fruit at the proper time, and its leaves never fall off. He succeeds in everything he attempts.

He says to himself, "I will never be upended, because I experience no calamity."

He says to himself, "God overlooks it; he does not pay attention; he never notices."

He does not charge interest when he lends his money. He does not take bribes to testify against the innocent. The one who lives like this will never be upended.

In my self-confidence I said, "I will never be upended."

For the music director; a psalm of David. In you, O Lord, I have taken shelter! Never let me be humiliated! Vindicate me by rescuing me!

I was once young, now I am old. I have never seen a godly man abandoned, or his children forced to search for food.

For the Lord promotes justice, and never abandons his faithful followers. They are permanently secure, but the children of evil men are wiped out.

They say, 'An awful disease overwhelms him, and now that he is bed-ridden he will never recover.'

But he will join his ancestors; they will never again see the light of day.

Throw your burden upon the Lord, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the godly to be upended.

Let them be like a snail that melts away as it moves along! Let them be like stillborn babies that never see the sun!

In you, O Lord, I have taken shelter! Never let me be humiliated!

I asked, "Will the Lord reject me forever? Will he never again show me his favor?

Once and for all I have vowed by my own holiness, I will never deceive David.

So they proclaim that the Lord, my protector, is just and never unfair.

So I made a vow in my anger, 'They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.'"

He established the earth on its foundations; it will never be upended.

For he never bothered to show kindness; he harassed the oppressed and needy, and killed the disheartened.

For he will never be upended; others will always remember one who is just.

I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have revived me.

The righteous will never be moved, but the wicked will not inhabit the land.

lest the one who hears it put you to shame and your infamy will never go away.

As Death and Destruction are never satisfied, so the eyes of a person are never satisfied.