Thematic Bible: Carnal security
Thematic Bible
Carnal security » War and famine
your flowing valley,
you faithless daughter?
You who trust in your treasures
and boast, “Who can attack me?”
and insisted, “It won’t happen.
Harm won’t come to us;
we won’t see sword or famine.”
you who sit above the valley,
you atop the rocky plateau—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
you who say, “Who can come down against us?
Who can enter our hiding places?”
who say: “Disaster will never overtake
or confront us,”
will die by the sword.
Carnal security » death
and we have made an agreement with Sheol;
when the overwhelming scourge passes through,
it will not touch us,
because we have made falsehood our refuge
and have hidden behind treachery.”
Carnal security » Humiliation
you who live in clefts of the rock
in your home on the heights,
who say to yourself,
“Who can bring me down to the ground?”
Carnal security » Grief
who sits securely,
who says to herself,
‘I exist, and there is no one else.
I will never be a widow
or know the loss of children.’
Carnal security » Poverty
Gluttony » Leads to » Carnal security
If I fought wild animals in Ephesus with only human hope, what good did that do me? If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
Verse Concepts
butchering of cattle, slaughtering of sheep,
eating of meat, and drinking of wine—
“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”