Psalms 16:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Their sorrows will be increased who go after another god: I will not take drink offerings from their hands, or take their names on my lips.

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  • Exod 23:13 : 13 Take note of all these things which I have said to you, and let not the names of other gods come into your minds or from your lips.
  • Josh 23:7 : 7 Have nothing to do with these nations who still are living among you; let not their gods be named by you or used in your oaths; do not be their servants or give them worship:
  • Ps 32:10 : 10 The sinner will be full of trouble; but mercy will be round the man who has faith in the Lord.
  • Jonah 2:8 : 8 When my soul in me was overcome, I kept the memory of the Lord: and my prayer came in to you, into your holy Temple.
  • Rev 14:9-9 : 9 And a third angel came after them, saying with a loud voice, If any man gives worship to the beast and his image, and has his mark on his brow or on his hand, 10 To him will be given of the wine of God's wrath which is ready unmixed in the cup of his wrath and he will have cruel pain, burning with fire before the holy angels and before the Lamb: 11 And the smoke of their pain goes up for ever and ever; and they have no rest day and night, who give worship to the beast and his image, and have on them the mark of his name.
  • Rev 18:4-5 : 4 And another voice from heaven came to my ears, saying, Come out of her, my people, so that you may have no part in her sins and in her punishments. 5 For her sins have gone up even to heaven, and God has taken note of her evil-doing.
  • Lev 23:13 : 13 And let the meal offering with it be two tenth parts of an ephah of the best meal mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the Lord for a sweet smell; and the drink offering with it is to be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.
  • Gen 35:14 : 14 And Jacob put up a pillar in the place where he had been talking with God, and put a drink offering on it, and oil.
  • Ps 97:7 : 7 Shamed be all those who give worship to images, and take pride in false gods; give him worship, all you gods.
  • Ps 106:37-38 : 37 They even made offerings of their sons and their daughters to evil spirits, 38 And gave the blood of their sons and their daughters who had done no wrong, offering them to the images of Canaan; and the land was made unclean with blood.
  • Isa 57:6 : 6 Among the smooth stones of the valley is your heritage; they, even they, are your part: even to them have you made a drink offering and a meal offering. Is it possible for such things to be overlooked by me?
  • Isa 65:11 : 11 But as for you who have given up the Lord, who have no care for my holy mountain, who get ready a table for Chance, and make offerings of mixed wine to Fate;
  • Isa 66:3 : 3 He who puts an ox to death puts a man to death; he who makes an offering of a lamb puts a dog to death; he who makes a meal offering makes an offering of pig's blood; he who makes an offering of perfumes for a sign gives worship to an image: as they have gone after their desires, and their soul takes pleasure in their disgusting things;
  • Jer 7:18 : 18 The children go for wood, the fathers get the fire burning, the women are working the paste to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and drink offerings are drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.
  • Hos 2:16-17 : 16 And in that day, says the Lord, you will say to me, Ishi; and you will never again give me the name of Baali; 17 For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and never again will she say their names.

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  • Jer 25:6
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    6 Do not go after other gods to be their servants and to give them worship, and do not make me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.

  • Jer 1:16
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    16 And I will give my decision against them on account of all their evil-doing; because they have given me up, burning perfumes to other gods and worshipping the works of their hands.

  • Exod 34:14-17
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    14 For you are to be worshippers of no other god: for the Lord is a God who will not give his honour to another.

    15 So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts,

    16 Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.

    17 Make for yourselves no gods of metal.

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    3 As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the noble in whom is all my delight.

  • Deut 12:4
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    4 Do not so to the Lord your God.

  • Isa 2:8
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    8 Their land is full of images; they give worship to the work of their hands, even to that which their fingers have made.

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    4 Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord.

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    8 He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his fingers have made.

  • Jer 14:12
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    12 When they go without food, I will not give ear to their cry; when they give burned offerings and meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: but I will put an end to them by the sword and by need of food and by disease.

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    5 The Lord is my heritage and the wine of my cup; you are the supporter of my right.

  • Hos 4:18
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    18 Their drink has become bitter; they are completely false; her rulers take pleasure in shame.

  • Hos 2:17
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    17 For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and never again will she say their names.

  • Isa 66:3-4
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    3 He who puts an ox to death puts a man to death; he who makes an offering of a lamb puts a dog to death; he who makes a meal offering makes an offering of pig's blood; he who makes an offering of perfumes for a sign gives worship to an image: as they have gone after their desires, and their soul takes pleasure in their disgusting things;

    4 So I will go after trouble for them, and will send on them what they are fearing: because no one made answer to my voice, or gave ear to my word; but they did what was evil in my eyes, going after that in which I took no pleasure.

  • Ezek 20:28
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    28 For when I had taken them into the land which I made an oath to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every branching tree and made their offerings there, moving me to wrath by their offerings; and there the sweet smell of their offerings went up and their drink offerings were drained out.

  • Isa 57:6
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    6 Among the smooth stones of the valley is your heritage; they, even they, are your part: even to them have you made a drink offering and a meal offering. Is it possible for such things to be overlooked by me?

  • Deut 6:14
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    14 Do not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about you;

  • Deut 12:31
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    31 Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

  • Deut 32:38
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    38 Who took the fat of their offerings, and the wine of their drink offering? Let them now come to your help, let them be your salvation.

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    30 And I will send destruction on your high places, overturning your perfume altars, and will put your dead bodies on your broken images, and my soul will be turned from you in disgust.

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    22 Even if you give me your burned offerings and your meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: I will have nothing to do with the peace-offerings of your fat beasts.

    23 Take away from me the noise of your songs; my ears are shut to the melody of your instruments.

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    4 Do not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.

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    16 You have no desire for an offering or I would give it; you have no delight in burned offerings.

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    26 And they went after other gods and gave them worship, gods who were strange to them, and whom he had not given them:

  • Ps 115:4
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    4 Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

  • Hos 4:7
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    7 Even while they were increasing in number they were sinning against me; I will let their glory be changed into shame.

  • Amos 2:8
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  • Lev 21:6
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    6 Let them be holy to their God and not make the name of their God common; for the fire offerings of the Lord and the bread of their God are offered by them, and they are to be holy.

  • 2 Chr 34:25
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    25 Because they have given me up, burning offerings to other gods and moving me to wrath by all the works of their hands; so my wrath is let loose on this place and will not be put out.

  • Mal 1:14
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    14 A curse on the false man who has a male in his flock, and takes his oath, and gives to the Lord a damaged thing: for I am a great King, says the Lord of armies, and my name is to be feared among the Gentiles.

  • Lev 17:7
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    7 And let them make no more offerings to evil spirits, after which they have gone, turning away from the Lord. Let this be a law to them for ever, through all their generations.

  • Ezek 23:37
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    37 For she has been false to me, and blood is on her hands, and with her images she has been untrue; and more than this, she made her sons, whom she had by me, go through the fire to them to be burned up.

  • Zeph 2:11
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    11 The Lord will let himself be seen by them: for he will make all the gods of the earth feeble; and men will go down before him in worship, everyone from his place, even all the sea-lands of the nations.

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    12 Then the towns of Judah and the people of Jerusalem will go crying for help to the gods to whom they have been burning perfumes: but they will give them no salvation in the time of their trouble.

  • Hos 4:10
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    10 They will have food, but they will not be full; they will be false to me, but they will not be increased, because they no longer give thought to the Lord.

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    20 Will a man make for himself gods which are no gods?

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    14 And as for you, make no prayers for this people, send up no cry or prayer for them: for I will not give ear to their cry in the time of their trouble.

  • Isa 1:11
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    11 What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats.

  • Deut 31:18
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    18 Truly, my face will be turned away from them in that day, because of all the evil they have done in going after other gods.

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    5 But they gave no attention, and their ears were not open so that they might be turned from their evil-doing and from burning perfume to other gods.

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    9 Let not my soul be numbered among sinners, or my life among men of blood;

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    18 And I will give them the reward of their evil-doing and their sin twice over; because they have made my land unclean, and have made my heritage full of the bodies of their unholy and disgusting things.

  • Exod 22:20
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    20 Complete destruction will come on any man who makes offerings to any other god but the Lord.

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    15 I will give you burned offerings of fat beasts, and the smoke of sheep; I will make offerings of oxen and goats. (Selah.)