“please” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word please appears 95 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 50 matching verses are shown below.
- Genesis 19:8 I have two daughters who, as yet, have not known man; I will bring them out to you, and abuse you them as it shall please you, so that you do no evil to these men, because they are come in under the shadow of my roof.
- Genesis 20:15 And said: The land is before you, dwell wheresoever it shall please thee.
- Genesis 23:8 And said to them: If it please your soul that I should bury my dead, hear me, and intercede for me to Ephron the son of Seor.
- Genesis 24:49 Wherefore, if you do according to mercy and truth with my master, tell me: but if it please you otherwise, tell me that also, that I may go to the right hand, or to the left.
- Genesis 33:14 May it please my lord to go before his servant: and I will follow softly after him, as I shall see my children to be able, until I come to my lord in Seir.
- Exodus 33:19 He answered: I will shew thee all good, and I will proclaim in the name of the Lord before thee: and I will have mercy on whom I will, and I will be merciful to whom it shall please me.
- Leviticus 10:19 Aaron answered: This day hath been offered the victim for sin, and the holocaust before the Lord: and to me what thou seest has happened. How could I eat it, or please the Lord in the ceremonies, having a sorrowful heart?
- Numbers 23:27 And Balac said to him: Come and I will bring thee to another place; if peradventure it please God that thou mayest curse them from thence.
- Deuteronomy 21:14 But if afterwards she please thee not, thou shalt let her go free, but thou mayst not sell her for money nor oppress her by might because thou hast humbled her.
- Deuteronomy 23:16 He shall dwell with thee in the place that shall please him, and shall rest in one of thy cities: give him no trouble.
- Ruth 4:4 I would have thee to understand this, and would tell thee before all that sit here, and before the ancients of my people. If thou wilt take possession of it by the right of kindred: buy it, and possess it: but if it please thee not, tell me so, that I may know what I have to do. For there is no near kinsman besides thee, who art first, and me, who am second. But he answered: I will buy the field.
- 1 Kings 11:10 And they said: In the morning we will come out to you: and you shall do what you please with us.
- 2 Kings 19:38 Then the king said to him: Let Chamaam go over with me, and I will do for him whatsoever shall please thee, and all that thou shalt ask of me, thou shalt obtain.
- 3 Kings 21:6 And he answered her: I spoke to Naboth, the Jezrahelite, and said to him: Give me thy vineyard, and take money for it: or if it please thee, I will give thee a better vineyard for it. And he said: I will not give thee my vineyard.
- 4 Kings 9:15 And was returned to be healed in Jezrahel of his wounds; for the Syrians had wounded him, when he fought with Hazael, king of Syria. And Jehu said: If it please you, let no man go forth or flee out of the city, lest he go, and tell in Jezrahel.
- 4 Kings 10:3 Choose the best, and him that shall please you most of your master’s sons, and set him on his father’s throne, and fight for the house of your master.
- 1 Paralipomenon 13:2 And he said to all the assembly of Israel: If it please you; and if the words which I speak come from the Lord our God, let us send to the rest of our brethren into all the countries of Israel, and to the priests, and the Levites, that dwell in the suburbs of the cities, to gather themselves to us,
- 2 Paralipomenon 10:7 And they said to him: If thou please this people, and soothe them with kind words, they will be thy servants for ever.
- Tobias 11:3 If it please thee therefore, let us go before, and let the family follow softly after us, together with thy wife, and with the beasts.
- Tobias 14:10 Hearken therefore, my children, to your father: serve the Lord in truth, and seek to do the things that please him:
- Judith 3:6 Come to us a peaceable lord, and use our service as it shall please thee,
- Judith 6:18 And when the Lord our God shall give this liberty to his servants, let God be with thee also in the midst of us: that as it shall please thee, so thou with all thine mayst converse with us.
- Judith 12:14 All that shall be good and best before his eyes, I will do. And whatsoever shall please him, that shall be best to me all the days of my life.
- Esther 1:19 If it please thee, let an edict go out from thy presence, and let it be written according to the law of the Persians and of the Medes, which must not be altered, that Vasthi come in no more to the king, but another, that is better than her, be made queen in her place.
- Esther 2:4 And whosoever among them all shall please the king’s eyes, let her be queen instead of Vasthi. The word pleased the king: and he commanded it should be done as they had suggested.
- Esther 3:9 If it please thee, decree that they may be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents to thy treasurers.
- Esther 5:4 But she answered: If it please the king, I beseech thee to come to me this day, and Aman with thee to the banquet which I have prepared.
- Esther 5:8 If I have found favour in the king’s sight, and if it please the king to give me what I ask, and to fulfil my petition: let the king and Aman come to the banquet which I have prepared them, and to morrow I will open my mind to the king.
- Esther 7:3 Then she answered: If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please thee, give me my life for which I ask, and my people for which I request.
- Esther 8:5 And said: If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and my request be not disagreeable to him, I beseech thee, that the former letters of Aman the traitor and enemy of the Jews, by which he commanded that they should be destroyed in all the king’s provinces, may be reversed by new letters.
- Esther 9:13 And she answered: If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews, to do to morrow in Susan as they have done to day, and that the ten sons of Aman may be hanged upon gibbets.
- Job 8:14 His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider’s web.
- Job 13:9 Or shall it please him, from whom nothing can be concealed? or shall he be deceived as a man, with your deceitful dealings?
- Job 21:3 Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my words.
- Job 34:9 For he hath said: Man shall not please God, although he run with him.
- Job 35:3 For thou saidst: That which is right doth not please thee: or what will it profit thee if I sin?
- Psalms 18:15 And the words of my mouth shall be such as may please: and the meditation of my heart always in thy sight. O Lord, my helper and my Redeemer.
- Psalms 34:14 As a neighbour and as an own brother, so did I please: as one mourning and sorrowful so was I humbled.
- Psalms 52:6 They have not called upon God: there have they trembled for fear, where there was no fear. For God hath scattered the bones of them that please men: they have been confounded, because God hath despised them.
- Psalms 55:13 Because thou hast delivered my soul from death, my feet from falling: that I may please in the sight of God, in the light of the living.
- Psalms 68:32 And it shall please God better than a young calf, that bringeth forth horns and hoofs.
- Psalms 114:9 I will please the Lord in the land of the living.
- Proverbs 2:10 If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul:
- Proverbs 4:14 Be not delighted in the paths of the wicked, neither let the way of evil men please thee.
- Proverbs 12:22 Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord: but they that deal faithfully, please him.
- Proverbs 16:7 When the ways of man shall please the Lord, he will convert even his enemies to peace.
- Ecclesiastes 9:7 Go then, and eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with gladness: because thy works please God.
- Ecclesiastes 12:1 Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the time of affliction come, and the years draw nigh of which thou shalt say: They please me not:
- Canticle of Canticles 2:7 I adjure you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and the harts of the fields, that you stir not up, nor make the beloved to awake, till she please.
- Canticle of Canticles 3:5 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes and the harts of the fields, that you stir not up, nor awake my beloved, till she please.