Can you bind the wild ox in the furrow with ropes? Or will he plow the valleys behind you?

Hide them in the dust together, Bind their faces in hidden darkness.

Vows made to You are binding upon me, O God; I will render praises to You,

To bind his princes at his pleasure, And teach his elders wisdom.

God is the Lord, And He has given us light; Bind the sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar.

With which the reaper does not fill his hand, Nor he who binds sheaves, his arms.

He heals the brokenhearted And binds up their wounds.

To bind their kings with chains, And their nobles with fetters of iron;

Let not mercy and truth forsake you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart,

Bind them continually upon your heart; Tie them around your neck.

Bind them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart.

Like one who binds a stone in a sling Is he who gives honor to a fool.

Bind up the testimony, Seal the law among my disciples.

Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, And the light of the sun will be sevenfold, As the light of seven days, In the day that the Lord binds up the bruise of His people And heals the stroke of their wound.

Lift up your eyes, look around and see; All these gather together and come to you. As I live,” says the Lord, “You shall surely clothe yourselves with them all as an ornament, And bind them on you as a bride does.

And you, O son of man, surely they will put ropes on you and bind you with them, so that you cannot go out among them.

You shall also take a small number of them and bind them in the edge of your garment.

Sigh in silence, make no mourning for the dead; bind your turban on your head, and put your sandals on your feet; do not cover your lips, and do not eat man’s bread of sorrow.”

“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and see, it has not been bandaged for healing, nor a splint put on to bind it, to make it strong enough to hold a sword.

“I will seek what was lost and bring back what was driven away, bind up the broken and strengthen what was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong, and feed them in judgment.”

And he commanded certain mighty men of valor who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, and cast them into the burning fiery furnace.

A Call to Repentance

Come, and let us return to the Lord; For He has torn, but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up.

When it is My desire, I will chasten them. Peoples shall be gathered against them When I bind them for their two transgressions.

Marriage Is Sacred and Binding

“Furthermore it has been said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’

Or how can one enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house.