Dictionary: Face
Synonyms: countenance, physiognomy, profile, features, expression, facial expression, look, appearance, air, manner, bearing, guise, cast, aspect, impression, grimace, scowl, wry face, wince, frown, glower, smirk, pout, moue, side, flank, vertical, surface, plane, facet, wall, elevation, dial, display, (outward) appearance, nature, image, front, show, act, false front, facade, exterior, mask, masquerade, pretence, charade, pose, illusion, smokescreen, veneer, camouflage, respect, honour, esteem, regard, admiration, approbation, acclaim, approval, favour, appreciation, popularity, estimation, veneration, awe, reverence, deference, recognition, prestige, standing, status, dignity, glory, kudos, cachet, effrontery, audacity, nerve, gall, brazenness, brashness, shamelessness, look out on, front on to, look towards, be facing, have/afford/command a view of, look over/across, open out over, look on to, overlook, give on to, give over, be opposite (to), accept, come to accept, become reconciled to, reconcile oneself to, reach an acceptance (of), get used to, become accustomed to, adjust to, accommodate oneself to, acclimatize oneself to, be confronted by, be faced with, encounter, experience, come into contact with, run into, come across, meet, come up against, be forced to contend with, beset, worry, distress, cause trouble to, trouble, bother, confront, burden, brave, face up to, meet head-on, dare, defy, oppose, resist, withstand, cover, clad, skin, overlay, dress, pave, put a facing on, laminate, inlay, plate, coat, line
Antonyms: dodge, fear, back, give way, back down, dodge, avoid, throw in the towel, withdraw, cave in, retreat, succumb to, lay down one's arms, throw in the sponge, defer, submit, escape, bashfulness, shun, evade, elude
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Gary M. Burge
... respond in his typically lengthy manner (5:2–6), and he starts by bringing up the temple. This is Solomon’s first explicit mention of the temple, and it is spoken to a foreign king. Solomon asserts that David was unable to build a temple because of besetting wars, and we have to refer back to 2 Samuel 7 to figure out if this is a valid claim. Regardless, Solomon is interested in the cedars of Lebanon and skilled workers. The cedars of Lebanon will shortly become a prophetic metaphor of towering pride (e ...
127. Judgment
Isaiah 5:1-7, Isaiah 5:8-30
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Gary M. Burge
... elites who have perverted justice, morality, religious values, and the wisdom that flows out of the fear of the Lord. In his description of the rich, Isaiah gives us a candid glimpse, not only of the Judean society of his day, but of the besetting sins of human society at any time and place. The first woe(5:8–10) is against economic opportunists who amass more and more material wealth. They flaunt the inalienable relationship of the people to “God’s land” (Lev. 25:13–16). They accumulate houses ...
128. Jeremiah's Complaint
Jeremiah 12:1-4, Jeremiah 12:5-17
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Gary M. Burge
... wicked is God’s overturning of his own people. Verses 7–13, a second answer, give a partial response to the evil about which Jeremiah has complained. God will judge that wicked people even though it is his inheritance, his special people. Already surrounding nations have beset her, as a flock of birds is known to peck at an odd speckled bird (12:9). Or perhaps the scene is one of a hen with hawks circling overhead. The raids of hordes, including the Moabites and Ammonites, could be in view in verse 10 ...
129. Trouble in Egypt
Jeremiah 41:16--43:13
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Gary M. Burge
... ’s advice. There, Jeremiah, who has gone with them, rebukes them for idolatry. Johanan, active in rescuing his countrymen from Ishmael the assassin, has brought them on their way to Egypt as far as Bethlehem. Egypt, Judah’s ally against the Babylonians, is not beset by the instability that plagues the Jews. Unsure of their next move, they seek guidance from the Lord through Jeremiah, as had Zedekiah’s delegation earlier (42:1–6; 37:3). Divine answers to prayer do not come on demand. God’s word to ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... in the adage that good intentions are the paving material for the road that leads to hell. There is a flaw in the fabric of human character that only God can mend. There is only one way that we shall ever be free from the sin that does so easily beset us, and that is to open ourselves to God’s grace, His forgiveness, His love. Only by looking to the new Adam can we escape the curse of the old one. There was a story in Reader’s Digest sometime back about a man named Walter Wyatt, Jr. who was ...
Understanding Series
James R. Edwards
... , he did not see the obstacles as insurmountable. God’s promise made them potential for something beyond his dreams. Abraham’s faith was not a safe faith: “If the Bible says it, I believe it, and that settles it!” Rather, his faith was beset with opposition. The passage of time sucked the winds of hope from his sails, and more than once he was driven to the brink of despair. Despite all this, Paul makes a preposterous claim: Abraham’s faith grew. There was a disproportionate relationship between ...
Understanding Series
James R. Edwards
In sublime contrast to the questions which have beset the argument since chapter 6 (6:1, 15; 7:1, 7, 13ff.), chapter 8 begins with a thunderous proclamation, “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” Especially in 7:7–25, Paul’s blow-by-blow account of indwelling sin reminded one of a ...
Understanding Series
Marion L. Soards
... importance because both God’s work for salvation and the real and continuing threat of evil opposition to God are present, powerful, and at work in the world. 10:13 More directly, verse 13 declares that the real crisis (temptation) that is besetting the community is manageable and conquerable. In fact, Paul declares the theological basis of such management: God is faithful (cf. 1:9). God provides the antidote to the reality of temptation that humans necessarily face at the juncture of the ages. There ...
Understanding Series
Gerald H. Wilson
... dark. Others turn the first line of verse 17 around to mean that “morning” is as nighttime for the wicked, who are fearful to live in the light where their evil deeds can be seen and judged. In this case the terrors of the darkness beset the wicked during the daylight hours. The NIV is probably on the right track here, however, and the sense is something like our rather cynical observation that “familiarity breeds contempt.” The wicked have become immune to the “terrors of the darkness” by long ...
Understanding Series
Gerald H. Wilson
... 30:3–8 Note the similarity between this passage in Job and the description of the banishment of the Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar, who was driven out to live as an animal until he acknowledged the sovereignty of Yahweh (Dan. 4). Abandoned by God and Beset by Terrors 30:9–10 And now their sons mock me in song. The second appearance of the temporal particle “and now,” at the beginning of verse 9, returns us to the context of the mocking younger generation: insignificant sons of banished fathers. In ...
136. Epilogue
Job 42:7-17
Understanding Series
Gerald H. Wilson
... is the Hebrew verb sbʿ, “sated; satisfied.” The narrative of Job comes to an end not in suffering, but in satisfaction. In the free will and purpose of God, such blessings can—and often do—come to the righteous. The world is, after all, a broken place beset with evil and pain. The righteous cannot hope to avoid all suffering and pain in this life, but they can rest assured, on the testimony of Job, that God is sovereign over all that he has made. His concern extends to the ends of the earth—even ...
Understanding Series
Craig C. Broyles
... expected petitions for God to hear (vv. 1–2a) and with a lament (vv. 2b–8). This first lament focuses on personal anguish caused by the wicked. The speaker’s inner turmoil (My thoughts trouble me, my heart is in anguish within me, and fear and trembling have beset me) and his temptation to escape (Oh, that I had the wings of a dove!) find a place in this prayer because the God to whom they are addressed can be moved to pity. Instead of fleeing from the tempest and storm, the speaker commits the matter ...
Understanding Series
Craig C. Broyles
... of trust those who slander (lit. “lurk for”) me 11–13: petition enemies of my people, Jacob 14–15 (refrain A): lament urban/foreign prowlers 16–17 (refrain B): vow of praise individual So what occasion does this psalm reflect: an individual beset with personal accusers, social conflict within Israel, or a military siege by foreign nations? A singular voice predominates, but in verse 11 he refers to “O Lord our shield,” in parallel to “my people.” Moreover, God’s intervention will make ...
Understanding Series
Craig C. Broyles
... situation that helps us clarify these ambiguities and anomalies. The restoration from Babylonian exile was preceded by many grand divine promises, which certainly raised the people’s expectations (see esp. Isa. 40–55). The actual period of the restoration, however, was beset by hardships: only a relatively small number of Hebrews participated in the first return of 538 B.C. (Ezra-Nehemiah), and drought (Hag. 1:6–11; 2:16–19) and locust plagues (Joel 1:1–2:27) befell the struggling community ...
Understanding Series
Larry W. Hurtado
... 3:7–12), only this summary makes no reference to Jesus teaching or exorcising demons but concentrates on his healings. The passage emphasizes that people came to Jesus, indeed, thronged him, so that again we get the impression that Jesus and the Twelve were harried and beset with need wherever they went (cf. 1:37, 45; 2:1–4; 3:7–11; 3:20; 6:30–32). The attitude of the people is an almost superstitious reverence for Jesus as a wonder-worker, including the idea that even his clothing contained healing ...
Understanding Series
Larry W. Hurtado
... it is perilous to try to make this statement the basis of a view of what Jesus felt on the cross. Mark’s purpose in giving this statement is to make the allusion to Ps 22:1, so as to portray Jesus as the righteous sufferer who is beset unjustly by his enemies and appeals to God. This allusion reveals Jesus’ true character in the face of the ridicule and false charges on the lips of the bystanders. Interestingly, the statement does not appear in the Lucan parallel in 23:44–46. 15:35 Elijah: On ancient ...
Understanding Series
John Goldingay
... is difficult to fit with what follows. KJV suggests “flow over your land like the Nile.” Is that inviting Tarshish to reverse-colonize Tyre (Oswalt, Isaiah 1–39, p. 433)? 23:13 “Every attempt to extract a meaning from the verse as it stands is beset by insuperable difficulties” (J. Skinner, The Book of the Prophet Isaiah [2 vols.; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1896 and 1898; revised ed., 1915 and 1917], 1:190). NIV takes it as a warning to Tyre to learn from the fate of Babylon when it ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... came and stood among them and said to them, ‘Peace be with you.’ When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.” (RSV) There is the best antidote I know to the fear that so easily besets us. It is to experience the presence of the Risen Christ--to see the marks of his love for us in his hands and side--to hear him say, as he said to those early disciples, “Peace be with you.” 1. Wayne Dyer, Wisdom of the Ages (New York: Quill ...
144. Commercial Communication
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Neill Postman
... all problems are resolvable quickly through the agency of some technology. It may be a drug. It may be a detergent. It may be an airplane or some piece of machine, like an automobile or computer. The essential message is that the problems that beset people—whether it is lack of self-confidence or boredom or even money problems—are entirely solvable if only we will allow ourselves to be ministered to by a technology…Commercials teach these important themes through parables. In eight to ten seconds, the ...
145. The Master Is Always In
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Editor James S. Hewett
... tagging along, after carefully looking in every direction and seeing no one, he crept through the fence. He was just about ready to help himself when the youngster startled him by crying out, "Dad! Dad! You didn't look UP! You forgot to see if God is watching." When temptation besets you and you're inclined to yield because no one else seems to be around, remember, if you're a Christian, your "Master is always in!"
146. The Next Big Thing
1 Samuel 16:1-13
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... our illusions of power and purpose, or are we willing to let God pull the curtain away to reveal our fears, our naked truths, our need for change? In our scripture for today, Saul was living in just such a false reality. The power-hungry, fear-driven, paranoia, beset king had started making his own decisions. He was no longer listening to God’s voice. He wouldn’t even take advice from his peers. He simply wanted people around him who agreed with him. And woe to you if you didn’t agree with him. Saul ...
Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.
Aldous Huxley
I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .
Anne Bronte
When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is?
Dale Carnegie
Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
Ralph Marston
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