Cuts

You must not make any cuts in your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.

Priests must not make bald spots on their heads, shave off the edges of their beards, or make cuts in their bodies.

When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you drive them out and live in their land,

…and do not ever cut off your loving devotion from my household—not even when the LORD cuts off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth.”

Far from human habitation he cuts a shaft in places forgotten by the foot of man. Far from men he dangles and sways.

Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,

A rebuke cuts into a man of discernment deeper than a hundred lashes cut into a fool.

My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.

He cuts down cedars or retrieves a cypress or oak. He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.

…who says, ‘I will build myself a great palace, with spacious upper rooms.’ So he cuts windows in it, panels it with cedar, and paints it with vermilion.

He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.