Thematic Bible: A characteristic of the wicked


Thematic Bible




Therefore now hear this, luxuriant [one] who sits in security, who says in her heart, "I [am], and besides me [there is] no one. I shall not sit [as] a widow, and I shall not know [the] loss of children."

This therefore I say and testify in the Lord, [that] you no longer walk as the Gentiles walk: in the futility of their mind,






Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and dry grass sinks down [in the] flame, so their root will become like [the] stench, and their blossom will go up like [the] dust. For they have rejected the instruction of Yahweh of hosts, and they have treated the word of the holy one of Israel with contempt.

With the coming of wickedness comes contempt also, and with dishonor, disgrace.











But you {who forsake} Yahweh, forgetting {my holy mountain}, who set a table for Fortune, and who {pour out} a jug of mixed wine for Destiny,



And those who repay evil in return for good accuse me in return for my pursuing good.






Though he congratulated his soul while he was living --and [people] will praise you when you do well for yourself--