Job 3:24 For my sighing cometh instead of my food, and my roarings are poured out like water. (JPS NIV)
Job 31:40 let briars grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Job 36:16 Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a broad place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness. (See NAS)
Psalms 45:16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth. (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)
Proverbs 8:10 Receive my instruction, and not silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold. (See RSV NIV)
Proverbs 11:8 The righteous from distress is drawn out, And the wicked goeth in instead of him. (YLT RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 6:2 A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease. (See NIV)
Isaiah 3:24 It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 3:25 For instead of glory, thy men by sword do fall, And thy might in battle. (YLT)
Isaiah 22:13 But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes. (See NAS)
Isaiah 38:17 Behold, instead of peace I had bitterness upon bitterness; but thou hast in love delivered my soul from the pit of destruction; for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. (DBY)
Isaiah 43:4 Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you; therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life. (WEB ASV YLT)
Isaiah 55:13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree; and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to Yahweh for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 60:15 Instead of thy being forsaken and hated, so that no one went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy from generation to generation. (DBY YLT)
Isaiah 60:17 Instead of the brass I bring in gold, And instead of the iron I bring in silver, And instead of the wood brass, And instead of the stone iron, And I have made thy inspection peace, And thy exactors righteousness. (YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 61:3 to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, that beauty should be given unto them instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of the spirit of heaviness: that they might be called terebinths of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that he may be glorified. (DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 61:7 Instead of your shame you shall have double; and instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess double; everlasting joy shall be to them. (WEB ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 7:24 But they took no note and did not give ear, but were guided by the thoughts and the pride of their evil hearts, going back and not forward. (See NIV)
Jeremiah 11:8 Yet they didn't obey, nor turn their ear, but walked everyone in the stubbornness of their evil heart: therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they didn't do them. (See NIV)
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. (See NIV)
Jeremiah 16:12 and you have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, you walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don't listen to me: (See NIV)
Jeremiah 18:20 Is evil recompensed instead of good, That they have dug a pit for my soul? Remember my standing before Thee to speak good of them, To turn back Thy wrath from them. (YLT)
Jeremiah 22:11 For thus says Yahweh touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went forth out of this place: He shall not return there any more. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)
Jeremiah 28:13 Go, and thou hast spoken unto Hananiah, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Yokes of wood thou hast broken, and I have made instead of them yokes of iron; (YLT NAS)
Jeremiah 29:26 Jehovah hath made thee priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, for there being inspectors of the house of Jehovah, for every one mad and making himself a prophet, and thou hast put him unto the torture and unto the stocks. (YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 31:13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. (See NIV)
Jeremiah 37:1 Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king, instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)
Jeremiah 37:14 Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I am not falling away to the Chaldeans. But he didn't listen to him; so Irijah laid hold on Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes. (See NIV)
Ezekiel 4:15 And He saith unto me, 'See, I have given to thee bullock's dung instead of man's dung, and thou hast made thy bread by it.' (YLT RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 16:32 A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband! (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)
Ezekiel 36:34 And the desolate land is tilled, Instead of which it was a desolation before the eyes of every passer by, (YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Daniel 1:16 So the steward took away their dainties, and the wine that they should drink, and gave them pulse. (See NIV)
Daniel 8:8 The male goat magnified himself exceedingly: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and instead of it there came up four notable horns toward the four winds of the sky. (WEB JPS ASV RSV)
Daniel 11:38 But in his place shall he honor the god of fortresses; and a god whom his fathers didn't know shall he honor with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things. (See NAS RSV NIV)
Hosea 1:10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that, instead of that which was said unto them: 'Ye are not My people', it shall be said unto them: 'Ye are the children of the living God.' (JPS)
Amos 5:20 Won't the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it? (See NAS)
Micah 2:4 In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say: 'We are utterly ruined; he changeth the portion of my people; how doth he remove it from me! Instead of restoring our fields, he divideth them.' (JPS)
Micah 3:4 Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil." (See NAS)
Habakkuk 2:16 Thou art filled with shame instead of glory, drink thou also, and be uncovered; the cup of the LORD'S right hand shall be turned unto thee, and filthiness shall be upon thy glory. (JPS DBY RSV NIV)