'Pleasure' in the Bible
Who says of Cyrus, 'He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure,' even saying of Jerusalem, 'She will be built;' and of the temple, 'Your foundation will be laid.'"
declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not [yet] done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;
"Assemble yourselves, all you, and hear; who among them has declared these things? He whom Yahweh loves shall perform his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm [shall be on] the Chaldeans.
Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed. He shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Yahweh shall prosper in his hand.
Why have we fasted,' [say they], 'and you don't see? [why] have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge?' "Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exact all your labors.
"If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, [and] the holy of Yahweh honorable; and shall honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking [your own] words:
Related Words
Bible Theasaurus
- Comfort (145 instances)
- Complacency (3 instances)
- Delight (265 instances)
- Desire (651 instances)
- Determination (8 instances)
- Dissipation (4 instances)
- Ease (66 instances)
- Enjoyment (21 instances)
- Fruition (1 instance)
- Gratification (5 instances)
- Intention (33 instances)
- Joy (461 instances)
- Luxuriousness (1 instance)
- Luxury (15 instances)
- Mind (762 instances)
- Pleasure (367 instances)
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