Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Afflictions » Moments of Discouragement » From God
Learn this lesson by heart: Jehovah your God disciplined you like parents discipline their children.
She said: Do not call me Naomi (meaning pleasant). Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life bitter.
The Almighty's arrows are in me. My spirit drinks in their poison. God's terrors set themselves against me.
I was at ease, but he shattered me. He has grabbed me by the neck and has shaken me to pieces. He has also set me up as his target.
For I have eaten ashes like bread and mingled my drink with weeping. This is because of your indignation and your anger. You have lifted me up and cast me away.
Son of man, behold, I am about to take from you the desire of your eyes with a blow. You will, however, not mourn and you will not weep, and your tears will not come.
Afflictions » From God
Learn this lesson by heart: Jehovah your God disciplined you like parents discipline their children.
She said: Do not call me Naomi (meaning pleasant). Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life bitter.
The Almighty's arrows are in me. My spirit drinks in their poison. God's terrors set themselves against me.
I was at ease, but he shattered me. He has grabbed me by the neck and has shaken me to pieces. He has also set me up as his target.
For I have eaten ashes like bread and mingled my drink with weeping. This is because of your indignation and your anger. You have lifted me up and cast me away.
Son of man, behold, I am about to take from you the desire of your eyes with a blow. You will, however, not mourn and you will not weep, and your tears will not come.
Arrow » Figurative
The Almighty's arrows are in me. My spirit drinks in their poison. God's terrors set themselves against me.
I am among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows. Their tongue is a sharp sword.
God brings him out of Egypt. He is for him like the horns of the wild bull. He will devour the nations who are his adversaries. He will crush their bones in pieces and shatter them with his arrows.
I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword will devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the longhaired leaders of the enemy.
Wicked people bend their bows. They set their arrows against the strings to shoot in the dark at people who are upright in heart.
Your arrows have struck me. Your hand has struck me hard.
Your arrows are sharp. The peoples fall under you. Your arrows are in the heart of the King's enemies.
Let them vanish as water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.
You will not be afraid of the terror of the night and arrows that fly during the day,
Flash lightning and scatter them. Send out your arrows and confuse them.
A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
With his bow bent, he made me the target for his arrows. He has let fly his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.
When I shoot my destructive arrows of famine at you, I will shoot to kill you. I will bring more and more famine into your land. I will cut off your food supply.
The sun and moon stood still in their habitation. They went away at the light of your arrows and the shining of your glittering spear.
Arrows » Illustrative » Of severe afflictions
The Almighty's arrows are in me. My spirit drinks in their poison. God's terrors set themselves against me.
Your arrows have struck me. Your hand has struck me hard.
Arrows » Sometimes poisoned
The Almighty's arrows are in me. My spirit drinks in their poison. God's terrors set themselves against me.
Trials » From God
Learn this lesson by heart: Jehovah your God disciplined you like parents discipline their children.
She said: Do not call me Naomi (meaning pleasant). Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life bitter.
The Almighty's arrows are in me. My spirit drinks in their poison. God's terrors set themselves against me.
I was at ease, but he shattered me. He has grabbed me by the neck and has shaken me to pieces. He has also set me up as his target.
For I have eaten ashes like bread and mingled my drink with weeping. This is because of your indignation and your anger. You have lifted me up and cast me away.
Son of man, behold, I am about to take from you the desire of your eyes with a blow. You will, however, not mourn and you will not weep, and your tears will not come.