Thematic Bible: All other nations


Thematic Bible



Lord, your hand is lifted up, but they do not see: let them see ... yes, your haters will be burned up in the fire.

For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, I will do to you as you have done in your wrath and in your envy, which you have made clear in your hate for them; and I will make clear to you who I am when you are judged by me.

Now, Sanballat, hearing that we were building the wall, was very angry, and in his wrath made sport of the Jews.


Then the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord; for he had nine hundred iron war-carriages, and for twenty years he was very cruel to the children of Israel.

For now, truly, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me, and I have seen the cruel behaviour of the Egyptians to them.

And whenever the Lord gave them judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and was their saviour from the hands of their haters all the days of the judge; for the Lord was moved by their cries of grief because of those who were cruel to them.


Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.

Judah has been taken away as a prisoner because of trouble and hard work; her living-place is among the nations, there is no rest for her: all her attackers have overtaken her in a narrow place.


You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us.

You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure. You make us a cause of war among our neighbours; our haters are laughing at us among themselves.


Because of this we are turned back by the attacker: those who have hate for us take our goods for themselves.

Because yours has been a hate without end, and you have given up the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their trouble, in the time of the punishment of the end:


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain