Then the Lord said to him, “Not so! If anyone kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.” And the Lord put a mark on Cain, lest any who found him should attack him.

It shall be as a mark on your hand or frontlets between your eyes, for by a strong hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt.”

And I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as though I shot at a mark.

So he changed his behavior before them and pretended to be insane in their hands and made marks on the doors of the gate and let his spittle run down his beard.

Then Absalom commanded his servants, “Mark when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Do not fear; have I not commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant.”

Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land and said, “Mark, now, and see how this man is seeking trouble, for he sent to me for my wives and my children, and for my silver and my gold, and I did not refuse him.”

These, registered by name, came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and destroyed their tents and the Meunites who were found there, and marked them for destruction to this day, and settled in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks.

If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of mankind? Why have you made me your mark? Why have I become a burden to you?

He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is marked for the sword.

He covers his hands with the lightning and commands it to strike the mark.

Mark the blameless and behold the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

“Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver!

ruin is in its midst; oppression and fraud do not depart from its marketplace.

He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows its time for setting.

If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

The Call of Wisdom

Wisdom cries aloud in the street, in the markets she raises her voice;

now in the street, now in the market, and at every corner she lies in wait.

when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?

The carpenter stretches a line; he marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes and marks it with a compass. He shapes it into the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.

“Set up road markers for yourself; make yourself guideposts; consider well the highway, the road by which you went. Return, O virgin Israel, return to these your cities.

And the Lord said to him, “Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it.”

Kill old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but touch no one on whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the house.

“As for you, son of man, mark two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come. Both of them shall come from the same land. And make a signpost; make it at the head of the way to a city.

Mark a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the Ammonites and to Judah, into Jerusalem the fortified.