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Thematic Bible
Ambition » Connected with » Covetousness
Because you [king of Babylon] have plundered many nations, all who are left of the people shall plunder you -- "because of men's blood and for the violence done to the earth, to the city and all the people who live in each city. Woe to him who obtains wicked gain for his house, [who thinks by so doing] to set his nest on high that he may be preserved from calamity and delivered from the power of evil!
Ambition » Connected with » Cruelty
“Woe (judgment is coming) to him who builds a city with bloodshed
And establishes a town by violence!
Ambition » Connected with » Pride
“Moreover, wine is treacherous and betrays the arrogant man,
So that he does not stay at home.
His appetite is large like Sheol,
And he is like death, never satisfied.
He gathers to himself all nations
And collects to himself all peoples [as if he owned them].
Anger » Connected with » Strife and contention
An angry man stirs up strife,
And a hot-tempered and undisciplined man commits many transgressions.
Surely the churning of milk produces butter,
And wringing the nose produces blood;
So the churning of anger produces strife.
Anger » Connected with » Cruelty
“Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce;
And their wrath, for it was cruel.
I will divide and disperse them in Jacob,
And
Stone is heavy and sand weighty, but a fool's [unreasoning] wrath is heavier and more intolerable than both of them. Wrath is cruel and anger is an overwhelming flood, but who is able to stand before jealousy?
Anger » Connected with » Clamor and evil-speaking
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor [perpetual animosity, resentment, strife, fault-finding] and slander be put away from you, along with every kind of malice [all spitefulness, verbal abuse, malevolence].
Anger » Connected with » Malice and blasphemy
But now rid yourselves [completely] of all these things: anger, rage, malice, slander, and obscene (abusive, filthy, vulgar) language from your mouth.
Anger » Connected with » Pride
“Proud,” “Haughty,” “Scoffer,” are his names
Who acts with overbearing and insolent pride.
Rebellion against God » Connected with » Stubbornness
For I know your rebellion and contention and your stubbornness; behold, while I am still alive with you today, you have been rebellious against the Lord; how much more, then, after my death?
Rebellion against God » Connected with » Contempt of God
Because they had rebelled against the precepts of God
And spurned the counsel of the Most High.
Rebellion against God » Connected with » Injustice and corruption
Your rulers are rebels
And companions of thieves;
Everyone loves bribes
And chases after gifts.
They do not defend the fatherless,
Nor does the widow’s cause come before them [instead they delay or turn a deaf ear].