I have let their widows be increased in number more than the sand of the seas: I have sent against them, against the mother and the young men, one who makes waste in the heat of the day, causing pain and fears to come on her suddenly.
But where are the gods you have made for yourselves? let them come, if they are able to give you salvation in the time of your trouble: for the number of your gods is as the number of your towns, O Judah.
For a number of nations and great kings will make servants of them, even of them: and I will give them the reward of their acts, even the reward of the work of their hands.
And all the nations will be servants to him and to his son and to his son's son, till the time comes for his land to be overcome: and then a number of nations and great kings will take it for their use.
The prophets, who were before me and before you, from early times gave word to a number of countries and great kingdoms about war and destruction and disease.
Take wives and have sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may have sons and daughters; and be increased in number there and do not become less.
And from them will go out praise and the sound of laughing: and I will make them great in number, and they will not become less; and I will give them glory, and they will not be small.
And their chief will be of their number; their ruler will come from among themselves; and I will let him be present before me, so that he may come near to me: for who may have strength of heart to come near me? says the Lord.
They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, will he go back to her again? will not that land have been made unclean? but though you have been acting like a loose woman with a number of lovers, will you now come back to me? says the Lord.
Then Jeremiah took another book, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who put down in it, from the mouth of Jeremiah, all the words of the book which had been burned in the fire by Jehoiakim, king of Judah: and in addition a number of other words of the same sort.
And said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let our request come before you, and make prayer for us to the Lord your God, even for this small band of us; for we are only a small band out of what was a great number, as your eyes may see:
And those who get away safe from the sword will come back from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah, a very small number; and all the rest of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt and are living there, will see whose word has effect, mine or theirs.
See, a people is coming from the north; a great nation and a number of kings will be put in motion from the inmost parts of the earth.
There were ninety-six apples on the outside; the number of apples all round the network was a hundred.
And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and the increase of their wrongdoing.
Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,
And of cattle he had seven thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand camels, and a thousand oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great number of servants. And the man was greater than any of the sons of the east.
What is the number of my evil-doings and my sins? give me knowledge of them.
If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;
The evil man is in pain all his days, and the number of the years stored up for the cruel is small.
For what interest has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is ended?
Then I said, I will come to my end with my children round me, my days will be as the sand in number;
I would make clear the number of my steps, I would put it before him like a prince! The words of Job are ended.
If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?
That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.
Truly, God is great, greater than all our knowledge; the number of his years may not be searched out.
No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.
Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you?
Who does great things outside our knowledge, wonders without number:
Who does great things not to be searched out; yes, wonders without number.
For a nation has come up over my land, strong and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the back teeth of a great lion.
And a number of them said, He has an evil spirit and is out of his mind; why do you give ear to him?
Jesus said to them in answer, I have let you see a number of good works from the Father; for which of those works are you stoning me?
And a great number of people came to him, saying, John did no sign: but everything John said of this man was true.
And a number came to have faith in him there.
And a number of Jews had come to Martha and Mary to give them comfort about their brother.
Then a number of the Jews who had come to Mary and had seen the things which Jesus did had belief in him.
Then the high priests and the Pharisees had a meeting and said, What are we doing? This man is doing a number of signs.
For because of him a great number of the Jews went away and had belief in Jesus.
The day after, a great number of people who were there for the feast, when they had the news that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
Hearing the sound, a number of people who were there said that it was thunder: others said, An angel was talking to him.
But though he had done such a number of signs before them, they still had no belief in him:
However, a number even of the rulers had belief in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not say so openly for fear that they might be shut out from the Synagogue:
Then a great number of the Jews had news that he was there: and they came, not only because of Jesus, but so that they might see Lazarus who had been dead and to whom he had given life.
The writing was seen by a number of the Jews, for the place where Jesus was put to death on the cross was near the town; and the writing was in Hebrew and Latin and Greek.
A number of other signs Jesus did before his disciples which are not recorded in this book:
So Peter went to the boat and came back pulling the net to land, full of great fish, a hundred and fifty-three; and though there was such a number the net was not broken.
And Jesus did such a number of other things that, if every one was recorded, it is my opinion that even the world itself is not great enough for the books there would be.
And he said to them, Let down the net on the right side of the boat and you will get some. So they put it in the water and now they were not able to get it up again because of the great number of fish.
Now while he was in Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover, a great number of people came to have faith in his name, after seeing the signs which he did.
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