Job 18:9 A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him. (See NIV)
Job 23:11 My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned aside. (WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV)
Job 27:6 I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)
Job 36:8 If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions, (See NIV)
Job 37:10 By the breath of God, ice is given, and the breadth of the waters is frozen. (See RSV)
Job 38:30 When the waters lie hidden as in stone, and the face of the deep holdeth fast together. (DBY)
Job 38:38 When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together? (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)
Job 41:17 They are joined one to another. They stick together, so that they can't be pulled apart. (See NIV)
Psalms 17:5 My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped. (WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV)
Psalms 18:10 And he rode upon a cherub and did fly; yea, he flew fast upon the wings of the wind. (DBY)
Psalms 33:9 For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast. (KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS)
Psalms 33:11 The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations. (WEB ASV)
Psalms 38:2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. (KJV ASV DBY WBS)
Psalms 41:8 An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more. (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)
Psalms 63:8 My soul cleaveth unto Thee; Thy right hand holdeth me fast. (JPS)
Psalms 64:5 They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?" (See NAS RSV)
Psalms 65:6 Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power: (KJV JPS ASV WBS)
Psalms 69:10 When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 76:6 From Thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, Both rider and horse have been fast asleep. (YLT)
Psalms 77:4 Thou holdest fast the lids of mine eyes; I am troubled, and cannot speak. (JPS)
Psalms 89:28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)
Psalms 111:8 They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness. (KJV WBS NIV)
Psalms 119:31 I cling to your statutes, Yahweh. Don't let me be disappointed. (See NIV)
Psalms 119:89 LAMED. For ever, O LORD, Thy word standeth fast in heaven. (JPS)
Psalms 119:90 Your faithfulness is to all generations. You have established the earth, and it remains. (See RSV)
Psalms 139:10 Even there will I be guided by your hand, and your right hand will keep me. (See NIV)
Proverbs 3:18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her, and happy is every one that holdest her fast. (JPS NAS RSV)
Proverbs 4:4 And he taught me, and said unto me: 'Let thy heart hold fast my words, keep my commandments, and live; (JPS NAS RSV)
Proverbs 4:13 Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life. (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)
Proverbs 5:22 The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin. (See NIV)
Proverbs 7:22 The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord; (See RSV)
Isaiah 46:8 Remember this, and stand fast; bring it to mind, O ye transgressors. (JPS)
Isaiah 47:12 Go on now with your secret arts, and all your wonder-working, to which you have given yourself up from your earliest days; it may be that they will be of profit to you, or by them you may put fear into your attackers. (See NAS RSV)
Isaiah 56:2 Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil." (WEB JPS ASV DBY RSV NIV)
Isaiah 56:4 For thus says Yahweh, "To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my covenant: (WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 56:6 Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh, to minister to him, and to love the name of Yahweh, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds fast my covenant; (WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 58:3 '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. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 58:4 Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness: you don't fast this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 58:5 Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh? (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 58:6 "Isn't this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 8:5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 14:12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 36:6 therefore you go, and read in the scroll, which you have written from my mouth, the words of Yahweh in the ears of the people in Yahweh's house on the fast day; and also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 36:9 Now it happened in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 48:16 The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hurries fast. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)
Jeremiah 50:33 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together; and all who took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Daniel 6:12 Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king's decree: Haven't you signed an decree, that every man who shall make petition to any god or man within thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn't alter. (See RSV)
Hosea 12:6 Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God. (See RSV)
Joel 1:14 Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders, and all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of Yahweh, your God, and cry to Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Joel 2:15 Blow the trumpet in Zion! Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jonah 1:5 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea, to lighten it. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)
Jonah 3:5 The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Zephaniah 1:14 The great day of Yahweh is near. It is near, and hurries greatly, the voice of the day of Yahweh. The mighty man cries there bitterly. (See RSV)
Zechariah 7:3 and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies, and to the prophets, saying, "Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?" (See RSV NIV)
Zechariah 7:5 "Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying,'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me? (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Zechariah 7:6 When ye fasted with mourning in the fifth and in the seventh 'months' -- even these seventy years -- did ye keep the fast 'to' Me -- Me? And when ye eat, and when ye drink, is it not ye who are eating, and ye who are drinking? (Root in YLT)
Zechariah 8:19 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "The fasts of the fourth fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace." (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)