Thematic Bible: Miscellaneous acts and states of mind attributed to


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For the Lord your God walks about in the middle of your camp to deliver you and defeat your enemies for you. Therefore your camp should be holy, so that he does not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.

Thick clouds are a veil for him, so he does not see us, as he goes back and forth in the vault of heaven.'

But you trample on the sea with your horses, on the surging, raging waters.


but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. On that day you must not do any work, you, your son, your daughter, your male slave, your female slave, your ox, your donkey, any other animal, or the foreigner who lives with you, so that your male and female slaves, like yourself, may have rest.

By the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing, and he ceased on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing. God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation.


It is a sign between me and the Israelites forever; for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.'"

For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,"

For the one who enters God's rest has also rested from his works, just as God did from his own works.


And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?


They threw away the foreign gods they owned and worshiped the Lord. Finally the Lord grew tired of seeing Israel suffer so much.

For forty years I was continually disgusted with that generation, and I said, 'These people desire to go astray; they do not obey my commands.'

"Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, 'Their hearts are always wandering and they have not known my ways.'


The Lord laughs in disgust at them, for he knows that their day is coming.

The one enthroned in heaven laughs in disgust; the Lord taunts them.

But you, O Lord, laugh in disgust at them; you taunt all the nations.

so I myself will laugh when disaster strikes you, I will mock when what you dread comes,


He sees there is no advocate; he is shocked that no one intervenes. So he takes matters into his own hands; his desire for justice drives him on.

I looked, but there was no one to help; I was shocked because there was no one offering support. So my right arm accomplished deliverance; my raging anger drove me on.

And he was amazed because of their unbelief. Then he went around among the villages and taught.


Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Wake up! Do not reject us forever!

He allowed the symbol of his strong presence to be captured; he gave the symbol of his splendor into the hand of the enemy.


The Lord swears an oath by his right hand, by his strong arm: "I will never again give your grain to your enemies as food, and foreigners will not drink your wine, which you worked hard to produce.




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