Thematic Bible: Anthropomorphisms


Thematic Bible





For the LORD your God is on the move within your camp to deliver you and to hand your enemies over to you. Therefore your camp must be holy so that he will not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you."

Thick clouds cover him so he can't see as he walks back and forth at heaven's horizon.

You rode on the sea with your horses, even riding the crested waves of mighty waters.


but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. You are not to do any work neither you, your son, nor your daughter, your male and female servants, your oxen and donkeys, nor any of your livestock, nor any foreigner who lives among you, so that your male and female servants may rest as you do.

By the seventh day God had completed the work he had been doing, so on the seventh day he stopped working on everything that he had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God stopped working on everything that he had been creating.


It is a sign forever between me and the Israelis, because the LORD made the heavens and the earth in six days, but on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.'"

even though his actions had been finished since the creation of the world. Somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day as follows: "On the seventh day God rested from all his actions,"

because the one who enters God's rest has himself rested from his own actions, just as God did from his.


And with whom was he angry for 40 years? Was it not with those who sinned and whose bodies fell dead in the wilderness?


When they put away their foreign gods and served the LORD, he brought Israel's misery to an end.

For forty years I loathed that generation, so I said, "They are a people whose hearts continuously err, and they have not understood my ways."

even though they had seen my actions for 40 years. That is why I was indignant with that generation and said, "They are always going astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.'


But the Lord laughs at him because he sees that his day is coming!

He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord scoffs at them.

But you, LORD, will laugh at them; you will mock all the nations.



He saw that there was no one, and was appalled that there was no one to intervene; so his own arm brought him victory, and his righteous acts upheld him.

I looked, but there was no helper, I was appalled that there was no one to give support; so my own arm brought me victory, and as for my wrath, it supported me.

He was amazed at their unbelief. Then he went around to the villages and continued teaching.


Recount the brief! Let's argue the matter together; Present your case, so that you may be proved right.

Then they remembered the days of old, of Moses his servant. Where is the one who brought up out of the sea the shepherds of his flock? Where is the one who put his Holy Spirit among them,


Wake up! Why are you asleep, Lord? Get up! Don't cast us off forever!

Then he sent his might into captivity and his glory into the control of the adversary.


"The LORD has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: "I will never again give your grain as food for your enemies; never again will foreigners drink your new wine for which you have toiled;






"Please come, and let's reason together," implores the LORD. "Even though your sins are like scarlet, they'll be white like snow. Though they're like crimson, they'll become like wool.


When the rainbow is in the clouds, I will observe it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living beings on the earth."


You may ask me, "Then why does God still find fault with anybody? For who can resist his will?"


International Standard Version Copyright © 1996-2008 by the ISV Foundation.