עָבַד

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?

Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.

A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.

Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.

Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.

When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.

And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.

He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.

He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.

Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,

Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.

And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it.

In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.

For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.

Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.

For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.