Thematic Bible: Anthropomorphic uses of
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You who lead Joseph like a flock;
You who sit enthroned above the cherubim [of the ark of the covenant], shine forth!
I have called upon You, for You, O God, will answer me;
Incline Your ear to me, hear my speech.
“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and listen to my cry;
Do not be silent at my tears;
For I am Your temporary guest,
A sojourner like all my fathers.
My voice rises to God, and He will hear me.
Eye » Anthropomorphic uses of
“For the eyes of the Lord are [looking favorably] upon the righteous (the upright),
And His ears are attentive to their prayer (eager to answer),
But the face of the Lord is against those who practice evil.”
Behold, the Lord's eye is upon those who fear Him [who revere and worship Him with awe], who wait for Him and hope in His mercy and loving-kindness, To deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.
The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous [those with moral courage and spiritual integrity]
And His ears are open to their cry.
He will not allow your foot to slip or to be moved; He Who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand [the side not carrying a shield].
“So when you spread out your hands [in prayer, pleading for My help],
I will hide My eyes from you;
Yes, even though you offer many prayers,
I will not be listening.
Your hands are full of blood!
For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen,
Because their words and their actions are against the Lord,
To rebel against His glorious presence and defiantly provoke Him.
“Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful [northern] kingdom [of Israel’s ten tribes]
And I shall destroy it from the face of the earth;
But I shall not totally destroy the house of Jacob [that is, the entire nation of Israel],”
Says the Lord.
Your eyes are too pure to approve evil,
And You cannot look favorably on wickedness.
Why then do You look favorably
On those who act treacherously?
Why are you silent when the wicked (Chaldean oppressors) destroy
Those more righteous than they?
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- Admission Into God's Presence
- Answered Promises
- Being A Pilgrim
- Carvings Of Flowers
- Cherubim
- Cherubim, At God's Throne
- Crying
- Disobedience, To God
- Displeasure
- Divine Manifestations
- Doubting God's Justice
- Downfall Of Israel
- Evil
- Eyes Of The Lord
- Eyes, Used Of God
- Face Of God
- Fear Of God, Results Of
- Feelings Of Alienation
- God Answered Prayer
- God Answering Prayers
- God Being Silent
- God Hears My Prayer
- God Is Pure
- God Judges The Wicked
- God Keeping Watch
- God Opposing
- God Pays Attention
- God Seeing The Righteous
- God Seeing The Wicked
- God Will Answer
- God's Intolerance Of Evil
- God's People Sinning
- God's Shekinah Glory
- God, As Shepherd
- God, Holiness Of
- God, Human Descriptions Of
- God, Joy Of
- God, Revelation Of
- Hear Prayer!
- Hearing
- I Pray
- Infidelity To God
- Iniquity, God's Attitude Toward
- Injustice
- Jacob, The Patriarch
- Jerusalem, Significance Of
- Judgment Seat
- Killing Many People
- Knowing God, Effects Of
- Listening To God
- Metaphors
- Music
- Not Destroyed
- Pay Attention O God!
- People Commended By God
- People Of God, In Ot
- Perfection, Divine
- Pilgrims
- Pilgrims, Examples Of
- Prayer, Advice For Effective
- Prayer, And God's Will
- Prayer, Practicalities Of
- Prosperity Of The Wicked
- Psalm Interjections
- Purity, Moral And Spiritual
- Receptiveness
- Reckoned As Foreigners
- Rejection Of God, Results Of
- Response
- Righteous, The
- Righteousness, Of Believers
- Security
- Shepherds, As Kings And Leaders
- Silence
- Sin, And God's Character
- Sin, Effects Of
- Sinners
- Sitting
- Speech
- Spiritual Deafness
- Spreading
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- Taking Care Of The Earth
- Tears
- Tolerance
- Unanswered Prayer
- Unfaithful
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- Watchfulness, Divine
- Weeping
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- Defiance
- Heartbroken
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