Thematic Bible: Characterized by


Thematic Bible



As silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin are gathered in a furnace so that the fire can melt them, so I will gather you in my anger and in my rage. I will deposit you there and melt you.

"Son of man, the house of Israel has become slag to me. All of them are like bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the furnace; they are the worthless slag of silver.




I will break your strong pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze.


20 gold bowls worth 1,000 darics, and two exquisite vessels of gleaming bronze, as valuable as gold.


Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like bars of iron.


He made the camels kneel down by the well outside the city. It was evening, the time when the women would go out to draw water.


This is a message about the animals in the Negev: Through a land of distress and danger, inhabited by lionesses and roaring lions, by snakes and darting adders, they transport their wealth on the backs of donkeys, their riches on the humps of camels, to a nation that cannot help them.



The guards were shaken and became like dead men because they were so afraid of him.


For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything; they have no further reward -- and even the memory of them disappears.


What they loved, as well as what they hated and envied, perished long ago, and they no longer have a part in anything that happens on earth.


The dead do not praise the Lord, nor do any of those who descend into the silence of death.


For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.


The Lover to His Beloved: O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places of the mountain crags, let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.


The Lover to His Beloved: O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places of the mountain crags, let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.


The Lover to His Beloved: Oh, how beautiful you are, my beloved! Oh, how beautiful you are! Your eyes are like doves!




When you lie down among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver and with glittering gold.


Far be it from you to do such a thing -- to kill the godly with the wicked, treating the godly and the wicked alike! Far be it from you! Will not the judge of the whole earth do what is right?"

For this reason the wicked cannot withstand judgment, nor can sinners join the assembly of the godly. Certainly the Lord guards the way of the godly, but the way of the wicked ends in destruction.


Such purity characterizes the people who seek his favor, Jacob's descendants, who pray to him. (Selah)


They will be like a tree planted near a stream whose roots spread out toward the water. It has nothing to fear when the heat comes. Its leaves are always green. It has no need to be concerned in a year of drought. It does not stop bearing fruit.


For day and night you tormented me; you tried to destroy me in the intense heat of summer. (Selah)


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