Thematic Bible: Described as


Thematic Bible



He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death. Verse ConceptsTeeth

His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him. Verse ConceptsSnakesBitter Food

Who will not be moved by the voice of the wonder-worker, however great are his powers. Verse ConceptsSkillWisdom, Human NatureUnhearing

Issachar is a strong ass stretched out among the flocks: And he saw that rest was good and the land was pleasing; so he let them put weights on his back and became a servant.

Issachar is a strong ass stretched out among the flocks: Verse ConceptsLying Down To RestStrong IndividualsAppreciation For Pastors

Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me. Verse ConceptsKnowing PeopleDonkeysLack Of DiscernmentIngratitudeSpiritual IgnoranceMangersIgnorance Towards God, Examples OfInstinctDullnessFeeding AnimalsBeing Without UnderstandingMammalsThose Who Were Ignorant

For they have gone up to Assyria like an ass going by himself; Ephraim has given money to get lovers. Verse ConceptsActing AloneWild DonkeysNorthern Kingdom Of Israel

And so a hollow-minded man will get wisdom, when a young ass of the field gets teaching. Verse ConceptsColtsWicked Described AsWorldly WisdomWild DonkeysWise ProverbsWisdom

Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast? Verse ConceptsRopesWild DonkeysGod Freeing Captives

He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places. Verse ConceptsLionsGod Like A LionAmbushLike Creatureslieing

And I saw another beast, like a bear, and it was lifted up on one side, and three side-bones were in its mouth, between its teeth: and they said to it, Up! take much flesh. Verse ConceptsTeethBearsAnimals Eating PeopleBonesThree Other ThingsFour Beasts Of Daniel

As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake. Verse ConceptsBitingSnakesOther Supporting


As for me, I was foolish, and without knowledge; I was like a beast before you. Verse ConceptsFoolish PeopleMammalsThose Who Were IgnorantIgnorance of Godignorance



But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts. This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. (Selah.) Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever. read more.
But God will get back my soul; for he will take me from the power of death. (Selah.)

But his wrongdoing was pointed out to him: an ass, talking with a man's voice, put a stop to the error of the prophet. Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyMadnessMouthsRebukeRestraintPeople Acting MadlyDumbnessBeing ReprovedDumbThe Dumb Speaking

Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me. Verse ConceptsKnowing PeopleDonkeysLack Of DiscernmentIngratitudeSpiritual IgnoranceMangersIgnorance Towards God, Examples OfInstinctDullnessFeeding AnimalsBeing Without UnderstandingMammalsThose Who Were Ignorant


For every sort of beast and bird and every living thing on earth and in the sea has been controlled by man and is under his authority; Verse ConceptsHumanities Responsibility To CreationAnimal LifeRespect, For EnvironmentAbraham, New Testament ReferencesBirds, Features OfMan's DominionWild Beasts SubduedMan's FunctionBirdsPetshumanity

When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you; Verse ConceptsSevenSeven PeopleThe Lord Will Drive Them Out

But the people living in the land are strong, and the towns are walled and very great; further, we saw the children of Anak there. Verse ConceptsFortificationsFortified CitiesLargenessGiantsStrong Nations

When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, do not take as your example the disgusting ways of those nations. Let there not be seen among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter go through the fire, or anyone using secret arts, or a maker of strange sounds, or a reader of signs, or any wonder-worker, Or anyone using secret force on people, or putting questions to a spirit, or having secret knowledge, or going to the dead for directions.

And you have seen their disgusting doings, and the images of wood and stone and silver and gold which were among them:) Verse ConceptsGoldStones

(For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;) Verse ConceptsPolluting The Land

Though I sent destruction on the Amorite before them, who was tall as the cedar and strong as the oak-tree, cutting off his fruit from on high and his roots from under the earth. Verse ConceptsAmoritesCedarRootsGiantsOaks

You have sent your servants with evil words against the Lord, and have said, With all my war-carriages I have come up to the top of the mountains, to the inmost parts of Lebanon; and its tall cedars will be cut down, and the best trees of its woods: I will come up into his highest places, into his thick woods. Verse ConceptsChariotsCedarFelling TreesTrusting In Chariots

This is what the Lord has said: Further, I will take the highest top of the cedar and put it in the earth; cutting off from the highest of his young branches a soft one, I will have it planted on a high and great mountain; Verse ConceptsTendernessMessianic PropheciesMetaphorical PlantingThe Mountains Of Israel

The mountains were covered with its shade, and the great trees with its branches. Verse ConceptsCedarThe Mountains Of Israel

It will be planted on the high mountain of Israel: it will put out branches and have fruit and be a fair cedar: under it all birds of every sort will make their living-place, resting in the shade of its branches. Verse ConceptsBearing Fruit

Your lips are dropping honey; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your clothing is like the smell of Lebanon. Verse ConceptsHoneyRich Foodspouse

The mountains were covered with its shade, and the great trees with its branches. It sent out its arms to the Sea, and its branches to the River.

The bricks have come down, but we will put up buildings of cut stone in their place: the sycamores are cut down, but they will be changed to cedars. Verse ConceptsBricksHousesMasonsProperty, HousesStonesSycamoresFortsStone ItemsCedar WoodThings ImprovedChristmas Treerebuilding







But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath, Trouble and sorrow on all whose works are evil, to the Jew first and then to the Greek;


And the Lord said to Moses, Now you are going to rest with your fathers; and this people will be false to me, uniting themselves to the strange gods of the land where they are going; they will be turned away from me and will not keep the agreement I have made with them. Verse ConceptsProstitutionRest, PhysicalSleep, And DeathTrust, Lack OfNearness Of DeathBreaking The CovenantDeath Will Soon HappenDeath

These things said he: and after that he said to them, Lazarus our friend is at rest; but I go so that I may make him come out of his sleep. Verse ConceptsProphecies Said By JesusIntermediate Stateawakeninglazarus


If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust. Verse ConceptsBreath Of LifeFace Of GodChaosCreatures Returning To DustDeath Of CreaturesGod Hiding



And when Jacob had come to the end of these words to his sons, stretching himself on his bed, he gave up his spirit, and went the way of his people. Verse ConceptsBedsDeath Of The Saints, Examples OfLast WordsGathered To One's People

For I am conscious that in a short time I will have to put off this tent of flesh, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me. Verse ConceptsDeath Of God's PeopleNear The Time PersonallyThings RevealedDeath Of The Righteous

The dead do not give praise to the Lord; or those who go down to the underworld. Verse ConceptsDeath, Description OfAfterlifeNot Praising GodState Of The DeadDeathPraise And Worship


And straight away she went down at his feet, and her life went from her: and the young men came in and saw her dead, and they took her out and put her in the earth with her husband. Verse ConceptsMiracles Of PeterCarrying Dead BodiesPeople TumblingHaving No Breath

For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back. Verse ConceptsDeath, Description OfJourneyThe Finality Of DeathPeople not returningDeath Is Finalpast

He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again. Verse ConceptsFlowersdrynessLife, HumanPhysical LifeShadowsLife, Brevity OfTime Passing

He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again. Verse ConceptsFlowersdrynessLife, HumanPhysical LifeShadowsLife, Brevity OfTime Passing

Who was your guide through that great and cruel waste, where there were poison-snakes and scorpions and a dry land without water; who made water come out of the hard rock for you; Verse ConceptsFlintClimates, Typesdrought, physicalSnakesSuffering, HardshipThirstAnimals, Types OfGod Providing WaterDry PlacesProvision From RocksScorpions

And the children of Israel went on from the waste land of Sin, by stages as the Lord gave them orders, and put up their tents in Rephidim: and there was no drinking-water for the people. Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTTravelParticular JourneysNo Water For People

Go and say in the ears of Jerusalem, The Lord says, I still keep the memory of your kind heart when you were young, and your love when you became my bride; how you went after me in the waste of sand, in an unplanted land. Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, To GodKnowing God, Effects OfLoyaltyMarriage, Between God And His PeoplePolygamyRejection Of God, Results OfUnity, God's Goal OfWivesYouthCovenant RelationshipsYouthful DevotionFollowing GodGod Remembering DevotionMarriage To GodBetrothal, Spiritual

Why have you made us come out of Egypt into this evil place? This is no place of seed or figs or vines or other fruits, and there is no water for drinking. Verse ConceptsFruitFig treeBlamePomegranatesAssembling At The DoorwayBringing Israel Out Of EgyptNo Water For PeopleOthers Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

He came to him in the waste land, in the unpeopled waste of sand: putting his arms round him and caring for him, he kept him as the light of his eye. Verse ConceptsFruitBarren, LandGod Keeping WatchApple Of The EyeGod SurroundingEyes Cared ForFinding PeopleGod Led Them Through The Wildernesswandering

Then we went on from Horeb, through all that great and cruel waste which you saw, on our way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as the Lord gave us orders; and we came to Kadesh-barnea. Verse ConceptsMonotony

And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt; who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living? Verse ConceptsFreedom, Acts Of In OtBarren, LandDesertsWildernessDry PlacesDarkness During DaytimeEmpty By NatureWhere Is God?God Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

See, I am doing a new thing; now it is starting; will you not take note of it? I will even make a way in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country. Verse ConceptsTravelling With GodLife, Of FaithNewnessBlessing In The WildernessMaking RoadsRiversFuture Plansa new beginningNew BeginningsA New DayPathsNew

And my hand will be stretched out against them, making the land waste and unpeopled, from the waste land to Riblah, through all their living-places: and they will be certain that I am the Lord. Verse ConceptsHand Of GodGod's HandDestruction Of CountriesGod's Hands Stretched Out

Those of the family of Jeroboam who come to death in the town, will become food for the dogs; and those on whom death comes in the open country, will be food for the birds of the air; for the Lord has said it. Verse ConceptsdogsAnimals Eating PeopleEating CorpsesBirds Eating

And they went out to put her body into the earth, but nothing of her was to be seen, only the bones of her head, and her feet, and parts of her hands. So they came back and gave him word of it. And he said, This is what the Lord said by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the heritage of Jezreel the flesh of Jezebel will become food for dogs;

And the war-carriage was washed by the pool of Samaria, which was the bathing-place of the loose women, and the dogs were drinking his blood there, as the Lord had said. Verse ConceptsdogsBathing, For RefreshmentTongueWord Of GodPoolsAnimals Eating PeopleCreatures Drinking BloodClean Objects

Say to him, The Lord says, Have you put a man to death and taken his heritage? Then say to him, The Lord says, In the place where dogs have been drinking the blood of Naboth, there will your blood become the drink of dogs. Verse ConceptsdogsInjustice, Hated By GodSuffering, Nature OfTongueDivine DirectionAnimals Eating PeopleCreatures Drinking BloodReady To KillTaking Possessionsjezebel

Desiring the broken bits of food which came from the table of the man of wealth; and even the dogs came and put their tongues on his wounds. Verse ConceptsdogsTablesTongueCrumbsSeeking FoodRemaining FoodPetsAbscessFeeding The Poorlazarus

They are an example of that true saying, The dog has gone back to the food it had put out, and the pig which had been washed to its rolling in the dirty earth. Verse ConceptsdogsWicked Described AsDegradationSwinePigsUnclean SpiritsOld SayingsUnclean AnimalsBacksliderspork

He who gets mixed up in a fight which is not his business, is like one who takes a dog by the ears while it is going by. Verse ConceptsdisagreementsBusybodiesMeddlingGentlenessMinding Your Own BusinessFamily ProblemsConflictFamily ConflictPets

Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet. Verse ConceptsdogsEnemies SurroundingMessianic Prophecies

Their wine is the poison of dragons, the cruel poison of snakes. Verse ConceptsAlcoholCobrasSerpentsSnakesThings Like Snakes

And his tail was pulling a third part of the stars of heaven down to the earth, and the dragon took his place before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when the birth had taken place he might put an end to her child. Verse ConceptsSatan, As The Enemy Of GodSkySuffering, Of Jesus ChristAnimals, Figurative UseFractions, One ThirdOne ThirdTailsAnimals Eating PeopleAffecting Sun Moon And StarsPutting Things DownRebellion of Satan and Angels

I have become a brother to the jackals, and go about in the company of ostriches. Verse ConceptsBirds, Types Of BirdsOstricheslonliness


Saul and Jonathan were loved and pleasing; in their lives and in their death they were not parted; they went more quickly than eagles, they were stronger than lions. Verse ConceptsFriendshipEaglesCompanionshipFast RunnersStrong Individuals

From there he is watching for food; his eye sees it far off. Verse ConceptsGood Things From Far Away

But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and an eternal king: when he is angry, the earth is shaking with fear, and the nations give way before his wrath. Verse ConceptsGod, Living And Self sustainingGod Is TruthfulHonestyEarth, Judgment OfGod Shaking The EarthGod Has AngerNature Of GodThe Lord [Yahweh] Is GodEverlastingLiving For Godwrathreality

The earth was shaking and the heavens were streaming, because God was present; even Sinai itself was moved before God, the God of Israel. Verse ConceptsRainGod Shaking The EarthGod Controlling The Rain



The Lord says, Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is the resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, and what place will be my resting-place? Verse ConceptsFootstoolsFeetEarth, Description OfGod, Present EverywhereGod, Sovereignty OfHeaven, Nature OfHeaven, God's ThroneGod's OmnipresenceThe Temple In HeavenEarthHeaven Better Than EarthRestThe EarthGoing To Heaven

Or by the earth, because it is the resting-place for his foot; or by Jerusalem, because it is the town of the great King. Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfFootstoolsFeetNames For JerusalemCitySwearing

And there was the glory of the God of Israel coming from the way of the east: and his voice was like the sound of great waters, and the earth was shining with his glory. Verse ConceptsNoiseVoicesShiningOut Of The EastSoundGod Is LightGod's VoiceCloud of glory


The earth, O Lord, is full of your mercy: give me knowledge of your rules. Verse ConceptsEarth, God's GloryScripture Teaching


The nations were angry, the kingdoms were moved; at the sound of his voice the earth became like wax. Verse ConceptsChaosKingdomsEarth, Judgment OfRoar Of NationsGod's VoiceDisorder Among The NationsLucifer

The mountains are shaking because of him, and the hills flowing away; the earth is falling to bits before him, the world and all who are in it. Verse ConceptsearthquakesEarth, Judgment OfMountainsMountains QuakingThe Universe DestroyedGod Saves From Sin And DeathThe Presence Of God










And men will go into cracks of the rocks, and into holes of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength. Verse ConceptsCavesGuilty FearPeople In CavesTremblingPeoples Who FledTerror Of GodHoles In The GroundThe Earthhidingtrying

Men's strength will go from them in fear and in waiting for the things which are coming on the earth; for the powers of the heavens will be moved. Verse ConceptsBodySuffering, Emotional Aspects OfUniverseGod ShakingFaintingPeople WaitingFear Will ComeAnxiety And FearAnxiety And StressStress And Hard TimesWorrying About The FutureWeather In The Last Daysexpectations

And they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Come down on us, covering us from the face of him who is seated on the high seat, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of their wrath is come, and who may keep his place?

He is greatly in fear of the dark day, trouble and pain overcome him: Verse ConceptsAfflictions Of The WickedFear Will ComeOvercoming AdversityBeing Overwhelmedpressure

A sound of fear is in his ears; in time of peace destruction will come on him: Verse ConceptsThose Who DestroyFear Is Due

Fear and grief came on them; by the strength of your arm they were turned to stone; till your people went over, O Lord, till the people went over whom you have made yours. Verse ConceptsMarketsPassing ThroughPurchasingTypes Of ChristArm Of GodMotionlessnessStaying PutPeople As Rocksgreatnessterrorism

And Saul said to Samuel, Great is my sin: for I have gone against the orders of the Lord and against your words: because, fearing the people, I did what they said. Verse ConceptsConviction, Not Leading To RepentancePublic OpinionConfessionFear Of ManFearing Other PeopleWe Have Sinned

They said this because of their fear of the Jews: for the Jews had come to an agreement that if any man said that Jesus was the Christ he would be put out of the Synagogue. Verse ConceptsPersecution, Forms OfSynagogueFear, Of PersecutionFear Of ManDisfellowshipExcommunicationFear Of EnemiesBelieving In Christ

But only a great fear of being judged, and of the fire of wrath which will be the destruction of the haters of God. Verse ConceptsHell, As An ExperienceGuilty FearFire Of JudgementTerror Of GodJudgementexpectations

And you are to keep in memory the agreement which I have made with you; and you are to have no other gods. Verse ConceptsForgetting GodNot ForgettingDifferent GodsDo Not Have Other godscovenant

How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction. Verse ConceptsAfflictions Of The WickedDeath Of The WickedDestruction Of The WickedFear Will Come

The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer. Verse ConceptsThings Passing Away


The flowers are come on the earth; the time of cutting the vines is come, and the voice of the dove is sounding in our land; Verse ConceptsBirds, Features OfBirds, Types Of BirdsRosesspringtime

His face is as beds of spices, giving out perfumes of every sort; his lips like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh. Verse ConceptsLiliesFlowersCheeks


Because it is said in the Writings, See, I am placing a keystone in Zion, of great and special value; and the man who has faith in him will not be put to shame. Verse ConceptsCornerstonesConfidence, In ChristdefeatZion, As A SymbolNames And Titles For ChristSpiritual FoundationsCapstoneChrist The RockThe Effects Of FaithNot Put To ShamePreciousScripture SaysDisappointmentpeterzion


We give news to the king that the Jews who came from you have come to us at Jerusalem; they are building up again that uncontrolled and evil town; the walls are complete and they are joining up the bases. Verse ConceptsFoundationsCityJudaismBuilding Jerusalem's WallRebuilding Jerusalemrebuilding

By the king's orders great stones, stones of high price, were cut out, so that the base of the house might be made of squared stone. Verse ConceptsFoundationsBuildingHousesFoundations Of Buildings

He is like a man building a house, who went deep and put the base of it on a rock; and when the water came up and the river was driving against that house, it was not moved, because the building was good. Verse ConceptsFoundations Of BuildingsStones For Protection

In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made an order: In connection with the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be put up, the place where they make offerings, and let the earth for the bases be put in place; let it be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide; Verse ConceptsFoundationsBreadthProclamationsThe Second TempleDimensions Of BuildingsThe First Temple

Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Such is their building that if a fox goes up it, their stone wall will be broken down. Verse ConceptsAmmonitesFoxes


And he said, Go and say to that fox, I send out evil spirits and do works of mercy today and tomorrow, and on the third day my work will be complete. Verse ConceptsGoalsFigures Of Speechdriving outFoxesDemons, Exorcism OfLeaders, PoliticalThe Third Day Of The WeekJesus Casting Out DemonsTodayJesus HealingCasting Out Demonstomorrow


The Lord is high over all nations, and his glory is higher than the heavens. Verse ConceptsGlory Of GodGod On HighGod Saves From Sin And DeathGod Being Outside Of Creation


Let the glory of the Lord be for ever; let the Lord have joy in his works: Verse ConceptsDelight, God ExpressingGlory Of God

They will make songs about the ways of the Lord; for great is the glory of the Lord. Verse ConceptsPrayer, And WorshipGlory Of GodThose Singing Praise

And Solomon made two hundred body-covers of hammered gold, every one having six hundred shekels of gold in it. And he made three hundred smaller body-covers of hammered gold, with three pounds of gold in every cover: and the king put them in the house of the Woods of Lebanon.

Hammering the gold into thin plates and cutting it into wires to be worked into the blue and the purple and the red and the linen by the designer. Verse ConceptsTapestriesPlatesCordsRed MaterialBlue ClothPurple ClothBlue Purple And Scarlet

And twenty gold basins, of a thousand darics, and two vessels of the best bright brass, equal in value to gold. Verse ConceptsCoinageHoly VesselsBrassWeights Of Gold

I will make men so small in number, that a man will be harder to get than gold, even the best gold of Ophir. Verse ConceptsGoldYouthThings Like GoldShortage Other Than FoodMan's Sinful Nature

And all the people took the gold rings from their ears and gave them to Aaron. And he took the gold from them and, hammering it with an instrument, he made it into the metal image of a young ox: and they said, This is your god, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.

Gold may not be given for it, or a weight of silver in payment for it. It may not be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the onyx of great price, or the sapphire.

Will you take your rest among the flocks? like the wings of a dove covered with silver, and its feathers with yellow gold. Verse ConceptsdovesGoldSleep, PhysicalWingsSheepfoldsWings Of BirdsStock Keeping

But the free giving of God is not like the wrongdoing of man. For if, by the wrongdoing of one man death came to numbers of men, much more did the grace of God, and the free giving by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, come to men. Verse ConceptsAdam and Jesus ChristGod's attitude towards peopleParticipation, In ChristAbounding, Good ThingsGrace, Description OfSalvation, As A GiftSaving GraceGrowth In GraceMany Seeking SalvationSin Producing DeathNot Like ThingsOnly One PersonSin Produces DeathThe Grace Of ChristThe Grace Of GodGod's Grace






While their hearts go out to you in love and in prayer for you, because of the great grace of God which is in you. Verse ConceptsGrace, Description OfThe Grace Given To MenPraying For Otherssupplication



That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Verse Conceptseternal life, gift ofSin, Causes OfSin, Universality OfGrace, Description OfComplicityJustified By GraceExercise


And the children of Israel, who had come back, and all those who were joined to them, after separating themselves from the evil ways of the people of the land to become the servants of the Lord, the God of Israel, took food together, Verse ConceptsExclusivenessSeparationHeathenNations DescribedProselytesSeparation From Evil PeopleThose who returned from exileAdoption Should Lead To Holiness


For the things which are done by them in secret it is shame even to put into words. Verse ConceptsNations DescribedSecret SinsActing In SecretCurbing SpeechShame Of Bad Conductspeakingdisobedience

And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth. Verse ConceptsIncorruptibleImmortality, In NtNations DescribedBirds, Features OfNature DecayingNo DecayPeople Are CorruptibleIdolatryExchanging Good For BadNature Of IdolatryBirdscatsimage


The images of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. Verse ConceptsGoldHeathenIdolatry


For because, by the purpose of God, the world, with all its wisdom, had not the knowledge of God, it was God's pleasure, by so foolish a thing as preaching, to give salvation to those who had faith in him. Verse ConceptsConversion, God's demands forFaith, As Basis Of Salvationevangelism, nature ofGod, Revelation OfGospel, Transmission OfPreaching, Importance OfRevelation, Necessity OfWisdom, Source Of HumanNations DescribedSaved By FaithNot Knowing GodDrawbacks To WisdomFoolishness Of GodThe Gospel Preached

In frequent travels, in dangers on rivers, in dangers from outlaws, in dangers from my countrymen, in dangers from the Gentiles, in dangers in the town, in dangers in the waste land, in dangers at sea, in dangers among false brothers; Verse ConceptsDanger, PhysicalAdventureStealingTravelNations DescribedCities Under AttackFalse PeopleAntagonism From Jew And GentileIn The Heart Of The SeaFake Friendsrisk

Why are the nations so violently moved, and why are the thoughts of the people so foolish? The kings of the earth have taken their place, and the rulers are fixed in their purpose, against the Lord, and against the king of his selection, saying,


Keep in mind your undertaking; for the dark places of the earth are full of pride and cruel acts. Verse ConceptsViolence In The EarthViolenceNations DescribedDarkness Of EvilGod Keeps Covenant

What I say is that the things offered by the Gentiles are offered to evil spirits and not to God; and it is not my desire for you to have any part with evil spirits. Verse ConceptsAstrologyFalse ReligionPagansNations DescribedSacrificesDemonsSacrificeHalloweenpartnershipstatuesDemonic Influence





And will put them into the fire: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow. Verse ConceptsFurnacesThrowing PeopleFire Of HellMourning Due To CatastropheMourning In Regret

To him will be given of the wine of God's wrath which is ready unmixed in the cup of his wrath and he will have cruel pain, burning with fire before the holy angels and before the Lamb: Verse ConceptsCup, God's WrathBrimstoneHell, Description OfMetaphorical WineFire Of HellSulphurNot MixingAngels Doing God's WorkGod Making DrunkGod TroublingThe Coming Day Of God's WrathVoice Of The Archangel




In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned up in the fire which will never be put out. Verse ConceptsHell, Description OfNames For HeavenHell, As An ExperienceForksSin, God's Judgment OnThreshing FloorToolsWinnowingWicked Described AsEternal JudgmentLight As ChaffReapingBurning PlantsGod's StorehousesWeed

The sinners in Zion are full of fear; the haters of God are shaking with wonder. Who among us may keep his place before the burning fire? who among us may see the eternal burnings? Verse ConceptsEternal DeathGuilt, Human Aspects OfHell, Punishment OfHell, Description OfPunishment, By GodSinnersUngodlinessGuilty FearTerror Of God

The sinners in Zion are full of fear; the haters of God are shaking with wonder. Who among us may keep his place before the burning fire? who among us may see the eternal burnings? Verse ConceptsEternal DeathGuilt, Human Aspects OfHell, Punishment OfHell, Description OfPunishment, By GodSinnersUngodlinessGuilty FearTerror Of God






And their horses are quicker than leopards and their horsemen more cruel than evening wolves; they come from far away, like an eagle in flight rushing on its food. Verse ConceptsHorsesLeopardWingsBirds, Types Of BirdsRiding HorsesSpeedEaglesWolvesPeople From Far AwayThose Flying

Saying, No, for we will go in flight on horses; so you will certainly go in flight: and, We will go on the backs of quick-running beasts; so those who go after you will be quick-footed. Verse ConceptsBackPursuing PeopleCavalryRiding HorsesSpeed

See, he will come up like the clouds, and his war-carriages like the storm-wind: his horses are quicker than eagles. Sorrow is ours, for destruction has come on us. Verse ConceptsChariotsHorsesEaglesWhirlwindsWoeHeavenly ChariotsSpeedAutomobilesHurricanes



He is stamping with joy in the valley; he makes sport of fear. Verse ConceptsStrength Of Animals

I took note and gave ear, but no one said what is right: no man had regret for his evil-doing, saying, What have I done? everyone goes off on his way like a horse rushing to the fight. Verse ConceptsObstinacy Against GodWicked Described As

He is stamping with joy in the valley; he makes sport of fear. Verse ConceptsStrength Of Animals

Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn; Verse ConceptsNot Being StillNot Stilldistance

Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath? Verse ConceptsNosesCreatures JumpingNeighing And Braying

In his strength he goes out against the arms of war, turning not away from the sword. Verse ConceptsThose Not Fearing

You blind ones: which is greater, the offering, or the altar which makes the offering holy Verse ConceptsGreat ThingsOffering SacrificesHolier Than ThouSanctificationimportance

You blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside may become equally clean. Verse ConceptsMiracles Of ChristCleaningFirst ActionsInside And OutThe Inward BeingCleanlinessPurityFocusInner Beautycleansingmathpharisees

You foolish ones and blind: which is greater, the gold, or the Temple which makes the gold holy? Verse ConceptsHypocrites, Description OfGod's Attitude To FoolsGreat ThingsStatus Of The TempleSanctification


And with these words he gave them teaching, saying, Verse ConceptsJesus As Our TeacherChrist Teaching

But all their works they do so as to be seen by men: for they make wide their phylacteries, and the edges of their robes, Verse ConceptsPride, Examples OfHypocrites, Description OfDisplayingLong ThingsBroadnessFringe Of ClothesBeing Seen By ManSeeing PeopleGarmentspeoplephariseesdeeds

And why do you take note of the grain of dust in your brother's eye, but take no note of the bit of wood which is in your eye? Or how will you say to your brother, Let me take out the grain of dust from your eye, when you yourself have a bit of wood in your eye? You false one, first take out the bit of wood from your eye, then will you see clearly to take out the grain of dust from your brother's eye.

And the ruler of the Synagogue was angry because Jesus had made her well on the Sabbath, and he said to the people, There are six days in which men may do work: so come on those days to be made well, and not on the Sabbath. But the Lord gave him an answer and said, O you false men! do you not, every one of you, on the Sabbath, let loose his ox and his ass and take it to the water?



And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them. Verse ConceptsSpiritual MalnutritionCovetingFalse TeachingsGreed, Condemnation OfHeresiesHypocrisy, Description OfPeter, Preacher And TeacherHypocrites, Description OfUnfaithful MinistersDestruction Of The WickedFalse WaysGod Planning Of OldSelf CenterednessCovetousnessGreedFake Friends


And say not to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; because I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children for Abraham. Verse ConceptsDelusionsPeople Of God, In NtHeredityAbility, God's PowerHypocrites, Description OfSelf DelusionWorry And StressRaising ChildrenBuilding Relationships

Put no faith in false words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these. Verse ConceptsdistrustOptimismHypocrites, Description OfTrusting Deceptive ThingsStatus Of The TempleTrust

Who say, Keep away, do not come near me, for fear that I make you holy: these are a smoke in my nose, a fire burning all day. Verse ConceptsHypocrisy, Description OfNosesPrejudicePride, Examples OfSmokeHypocrites, Description OfFire Of EvilAll DayHolier Than ThouChanging YourselfsmokingSmoke Used Poetically

The Pharisee, taking up his position, said to himself these words: God, I give you praise because I am not like other men, who take more than their right, who are evil-doers, who are untrue to their wives, or even like this tax-farmer. Verse ConceptsExtortion, Examples OfAttitudes, in prayerHypocrisy, Description OfPrejudiceStandingStatusTax CollectorsHypocrites, Description OfSelf DelusionEvildoersNot Like PeopleAvoid AdulteryWe Thank GodConfession of sin

We are not again requesting your approval, but we are giving you the chance of taking pride in us, so that you may be able to give an answer to those whose glory is in seeming, and not in the heart. Verse ConceptsCommendationOutward AppearanceHypocrites, Description OfAppearancesCommending OneselfOther References To The HeartAppearances of

A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make men give a tenth of all sorts of sweet-smelling plants, but you give no thought to the more important things of the law, righteousness, and mercy, and faith; but it is right for you to do these, and not to let the others be undone. You blind guides, who take out a fly from your drink, but make no trouble over a camel.

And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves. And truly you are to them like a love song by one who has a very pleasing voice and is an expert player on an instrument: for they give ear to your words but do them not.

Then there came to Jesus from Jerusalem Pharisees and scribes, saying, Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? for they take food with unwashed hands. And in answer he said to them, Why do you, yourselves, go against the word of God on account of the teaching which has been handed down to you?

And the things desired by them are the first places at feasts, and the chief seats in the Synagogues, And words of respect in the market-places, and to be named by men, Teacher.


A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you go about land and sea to get one disciple and, having him, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves. Verse ConceptsExploitationsJudaismMission, Of IsraelPharisees, Beliefs OfPassing OverSonsTravelHypocrites, Description OfGehennaProselytesSea TravelOnly One PersonDouble PenaltyCrossing To The Other SideHypocrisy


Though they make prayer to me every day, and take pleasure in the knowledge of my ways: like a nation which has done righteousness, and has not given up the rules of their God, they make requests to me for the right orders, it is their delight to come near to God. Verse ConceptseagernessAskingNominal ReligionHypocrites, Description OfNot Coming Near To GodMaking Decisions

For the foolish man will say foolish things, having evil thoughts in his heart, working what is unclean, and talking falsely about the Lord, to keep food from him who is in need of it, and water from him whose soul is desiring it. Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfMind, The HumanMorality, And CreationSin, Nature OfHypocrites, Description OfMischiefBeing MisleadStingy PeopleErrorHypocrisy


And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood? Verse ConceptsAbominationsAbominations, Idolatry IsIgnorance Towards God, Leads ToDullnessBowing To False GodsBaking BreadFirewoodHalf Of ThingsThose Who Were Ignorant

Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but no voice; they have eyes, but they see not; They have ears, but no hearing; they have noses, but no sense of smell; read more.
They have hands without feeling, and feet without power of walking; and no sound comes from their throat. Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his faith in them.

For that which is feared by the people is foolish: it is the work of the hands of the workman; for a tree is cut down by him out of the woods with his axe. Verse ConceptsForestsChristmas Treewoodworkingcutting

You are not to put up stone pillars, for they are hated by the Lord your God. Verse ConceptsStonesObelisksGod Hating Things

And I sent all my servants the prophets to you, getting up early and sending them, saying, Do not do this disgusting thing which is hated by me. Verse ConceptsProphets, Role OfAbominations, Sin IsThose Who Rose EarlyDoing Repeatedly

And I said to them, Let every man among you put away the disgusting things to which his eyes are turned, and do not make yourselves unclean with the images of Egypt; I am the Lord your God. Verse ConceptsAbominations, Judgments OfAbominations, Sin IsSending Things AwayEvil EyesPollution ForbiddenAvoiding IdolatryI Will Be Their God

So I let loose my wrath on them because of those whom they had violently put to death in the land, and because they had made it unclean with their images: Verse ConceptsSheddingPolluting The LandIdol WorshipKilling Many People

If then we are the offspring of God, it is not right for us to have the idea that God is like gold or silver or stone, formed by the art or design of man. Verse ConceptsGod, As SpiritFalse ReligionGoldSculptureSkillStonesEvolutionProofs Of God's ExistenceStone ItemsIdolatryDivineDivinityGodheadimaginationartistsimage

Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark. Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish, And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth.

Go, send up your cry for help to the gods of your selection; let them be your saviours in the time of your trouble. Verse ConceptsFalse ReligionemptinessSarcasmPraying AmissCompetition

They put him on their backs, and take him up, and put him in his fixed place, from which he may not be moved; if a man gives a cry for help to him, he is unable to give an answer, or get him out of his trouble. Verse ConceptsFalse ReligionemptinessHearingProtection, Not Found InShouldersCarrying IdolsIdolatryOthers Not AnsweringSalvation By Other Things

The images of their gods are to be burned with fire: have no desire for the gold and silver on them, and do not take it for yourselves, for it will be a danger to you: it is a thing disgusting to the Lord your God: Verse ConceptsAbominationsCoveting, prohibition ofCalf worshipGoldMaterialism, As An Aspect Of SinWarningAbhorAbominations, To GodAbominations, PracticesWorldly SnaresBurning Idolatrous ThingsAbandoning Idolsimage

For when she had made an offering of her children to her images, she came into my holy place to make it unclean; see, this is what she has done inside my house. Verse ConceptsAt The Same TimeFood Offered To IdolsKilling Sons And Daughters


His bones are pipes of brass, his legs are like rods of iron. Verse ConceptsBeamsBronzeBodies Of AnimalsThings Like Bronze

And the fourth kingdom will be strong as iron: because, as all things are broken and overcome by iron, so it will have the power of crushing and smashing down all the earth. Verse ConceptsCrushingFractions, One FourthThings Like IronFourthOvercoming Obstaclesautonomytoughnesscrushes

As they put silver and brass and iron and lead and tin together inside the oven, heating up the fire on it to make it soft; so will I get you together in my wrath and in my passion, and, heating the fire with my breath, will make you soft. Verse ConceptsIronTinMeltingGathered By GodFurnaces

And he will be the judge between the nations, and the peoples will be ruled by his decisions: and their swords will be turned into plough-blades, and their spears into vine-knives: no longer will the nations be turning their swords against one another, and the knowledge of war will be gone for ever. Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgePruningPloughingSecuritySpearsToolsWarfare, Nature OfWeaponsNationsPeace, Effects OfDisarmamentMessianic PropheciesGod Makes PeaceMillennial Kingdom, Universal Peace And Blessing


All who go by make a noise with their hands at you; they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth? Verse ConceptsBeautifulClappingBeauty Of JerusalemNames For JerusalemApplauseShaking The HeadHissingSpectatorsPeople Made Perfect

You are beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, as fair as Jerusalem; you are to be feared like an army with flags. Verse ConceptsBanner, Figurative Use

All who go by make a noise with their hands at you; they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth? Verse ConceptsBeautifulClappingBeauty Of JerusalemNames For JerusalemApplauseShaking The HeadHissingSpectatorsPeople Made Perfect

And Solomon got together war-carriages and horsemen; he had one thousand, four hundred carriages and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king at Jerusalem. And the king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem and cedars like the sycamore-trees of the lowlands in number.

See her seated by herself, the town which was full of people! She who was great among the nations has become like a widow! She who was a princess among the countries has come under the yoke of forced work! Verse ConceptsLamentingQueensFilling PlacesWidowsEmpty CitiesGreat ThingsLuciferlonliness

See her seated by herself, the town which was full of people! She who was great among the nations has become like a widow! She who was a princess among the countries has come under the yoke of forced work! Verse ConceptsLamentingQueensFilling PlacesWidowsEmpty CitiesGreat ThingsLuciferlonliness

And nations from all sides will go past this town, and every man will say to his neighbour, Why has the Lord done such things to this great town? Verse ConceptsWhy Does God Do This?

All your rulers ... have gone in flight; all your strong ones have gone far away. Verse ConceptsIsrael Fleeing



You may not have as food anything which has come to a natural death; the man from another country who is living with you may take it for food, or you may get a price for it from one of another nation; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk. Verse ConceptsForeignersFindingMilkRitual LawEcologyStrangersYoung AnimalAnimal MothersDeath Of CreaturesCorpses Of AnimalsLaws Restricting ForeignersForbidden Foodnatural Deathpork


If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine: Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, To GodPeople Of God, In OtReward, DivineSecurityTreasureCautionObedience To GodJews As God's Chosen PeopleResponsibility, Of Natural WorldAll Things Belong To GodRoyal Priesthood


For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has taken you to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth. Verse ConceptsAdoption, nature ofChoicesBeing ChosenHoliness, Believers' Growth InMonogamyNationalismPeople Of God, In OtGod PossessingTreasureCharacter Of SaintsJews As God's Chosen PeopleA Holy NationRoyal Priesthood

For the Lord's wealth is his people; Jacob is the land of his heritage. Verse ConceptsHeirsReward, For God's PeopleNames And Titles For The ChurchInheritance




The mountains were jumping like goats, and the little hills like lambs. Verse ConceptsHillsLambsThe Presence Of Godjumping

You mountains, why were you jumping like goats, and you little hills like lambs? Verse Conceptsjumping


Then when the sun went down and it was dark, he saw a smoking fire and a flaming light which went between the parts of the bodies. Verse ConceptsFurnacesLampsPassing ThroughSmokeCandlesAnimal Sacrifices, BurntSunsetsGod Appearing In FireGod Is LightDarkness Of NightWeedsmoking

He was a burning and shining light, and for a time you were ready to be happy in his light. Verse ConceptsRadiancyRadiant LivesLight Of God's PeopleSeasons Changing



Your righteousness is an unchanging righteousness, and your law is certain. Verse ConceptsGod, Righteousness OfGod, The EternalHonestyScripture, Sufficiency OfLaw Described AsGod's Word Is True

I have seen that nothing on earth is complete; but your teaching is very wide. Verse ConceptsRestored In Jesus ChristPerfection, HumanPerfectionLaw Described AsBroadnesslimitationsperfectionism





Is it possible for the skin of the Ethiopian to be changed, or the markings on the leopard? Then it might be possible for you to do good, who have been trained to do evil. Verse ConceptsLeopardAfrican AmericansGood WorksHabitsSalvation, Necessity And Basis OfSkinAnimals, Figurative UsePeople TransformedHuman SkinNothing GoodBlack And WhiteChangeSportsColorChanging Yourself

And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and the increase of their wrongdoing. Verse ConceptsForestsLeopardCarnivorousnessWolvesIn Danger From Lions

And their horses are quicker than leopards and their horsemen more cruel than evening wolves; they come from far away, like an eagle in flight rushing on its food. Verse ConceptsHorsesLeopardWingsBirds, Types Of BirdsRiding HorsesSpeedEaglesWolvesPeople From Far AwayThose Flying




Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment? Verse ConceptsLimitednessPunishment, Nature OfHirelingsThe Fact Of ToilstruggleWarLife StrugglesGetting Through Hard Timeshumanity

Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun? Verse ConceptsPhysical LifeTravailWithheld KnowledgeUnknown FutureUnder The SunBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeEnjoying Lifeuncertainty

How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth: When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone. But the right thing to say would be, If it is the Lord's pleasure and if we are still living, we will do this and that.



For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God. Verse ConceptsLaw, And GospelSpiritual Life, Described ByDead To SinLiving The Life



It is as the light of the morning, when the sun comes up, a morning without clouds; making young grass come to life from the earth Verse ConceptsDawnGrassRainLight Of God's PeopleLightSunA New DaySunshineclouds

His sneezings give out flames, and his eyes are like the eyes of the dawn. Verse ConceptsDawnNosesSneezing

Is it possible for his armies to be numbered? and on whom is not his light shining? Verse ConceptsMany CombatantsGod, Impartiality OfLight In The Worldphotography

See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with it. Verse ConceptsOceansCreation Of The Seas

Then I saw that wisdom is better than foolish ways--as the light is better than the dark. Verse ConceptsLight And DarknessBenefits Of Wisdom

Truly the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun. Verse ConceptsBeauty, In NatureTanningLightSunA New DaySunshineEnjoying Life

The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen. But he whose life is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his acts have been done by the help of God.


And now the light is not seen, for it is dark because of the clouds; but a wind comes, clearing them away. Verse ConceptsSkySunSunshineclouds

Then on the seventh day, before he went into the bride's room, the men of the town said to him, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said to them, If you had not been ploughing with my cow you would not have got the answer to my question. Verse ConceptsPloughingHeifersThe Seventh Day Of The WeekStrength Of AnimalsMetaphorical PloughingSweetnessDay 7

The lion, which is strongest among beasts, not turning from his way for any; Verse Conceptsfearlesscats

For the Lord has said to me, As a lion, or a young lion, makes an angry noise over his food, and if a band of herdsmen come out against him, he will not be in fear of their voices, or give up his food for their noise: so the Lord of armies will come down to make war against Mount Zion and its hill. Verse ConceptsNoiseShepherds, As Kings And LeadersStock Keeping

Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear? Verse ConceptsMotionlessnessDwellings Of CreaturesOther Dwellings Of CreaturesUndisturbed

And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me: Verse ConceptsLionsSelf RespectGod Like A LionLike Creatures

The great beasts have not gone over it, and the cruel lion has not taken that way.

There are three things whose steps are good to see, even four whose goings are fair: The lion, which is strongest among beasts, not turning from his way for any;

And of Dan he said, Dan is a young lion, springing out from Bashan. Verse ConceptsYoung AnimalLike Creatures

Then even the strongest, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will become like water; for all Israel is conscious that your father is a man of war, and those who are with him are strong and without fear. Verse ConceptsFear Of Enemies


The locusts have no king, but they all go out in bands; Verse ConceptsInsectsLocustsNo King

There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are very wise: Verse ConceptsAntsInstinctFour Creaturesmistresswise

And the forms of the locusts were like horses made ready for war; and on their heads they had crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. Verse ConceptsLocustsThings Like GoldCrowns On CreaturesLike Menbugscrowns

Their form is like the form of horses, and they are running like war-horses. Verse ConceptsHorsesFast RunnersAppearancesAppearances of

For all the face of the earth was covered with them, so that the land was black; and every green plant and all the fruit of the trees which was untouched by the ice-storm they took for food: not one green thing, no plant or tree, was to be seen in all the land of Egypt. Verse ConceptsBlackCovering The EarthDarkness During DaytimeGreenRemaining FoodAnimals EatingHarming Trees

And the goods taken in war will be got together like the massing of young locusts; men will be rushing on them like the rushing of locusts. Verse ConceptsPlunderingHarvestCaterpillarsLocusts

But because of his love for you, and in order to keep his oath to your fathers, the Lord took you out with the strength of his hand, making you free from the prison-house and from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerGod, Power OfHand Of GodOaths, DivineRedemption, In OtGod's HandGod Swearing BlessingsGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptGod's Love For Israel

But the Lord had delight in your fathers and love for them, marking out for himself their seed after them, even you, from all peoples, as at this day. Verse Conceptselection, privileges ofAs At This DayGod's Love For IsraelAffection

Will a woman give up the child at her breast, will she be without pity for the fruit of her body? yes, these may, but I will not let you go out of my memory. See, your name is marked on my hands; your walls are ever before me.

The Lord your God is among you, as a strong saviour: he will be glad over you with joy, he will make his love new again, he will make a song of joy over you as in the time of a holy feast. Verse ConceptsGod, Joy OfComfortingBecoming More Like ChristGod, Power OfGod, Present EverywhereHeart, DivineSingingTendernessBirthdaysDivine FavourGod's VoiceGod Being SilentGod Is Among YouGod As A WarriorGod OvercomingRejoicing When Someone Is SavedCelebrationRenewal



Or things on high, or things under the earth, or anything which is made, will be able to come between us and the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Verse ConceptsdepthLove, Nature OfChrist, Names ForAgape LoveSpiritual DepthsNothing MissingGod's Love For UsGod's Creation

I made them come after me with the cords of a man, with the bands of love; I was to them as one who took the yoke from off their mouths, putting meat before them. Verse ConceptsGod's attitude towards peopleKindnessCordsRopesYokesDivine AttractionGod Going DownGod Feeds All The EarthGod Freeing CaptivesGod Has GuidedLike MenLove


May the Lord be praised, because he has made clear to me the wonder of his grace in a strong town. Verse ConceptsLoving Kindness Of GodAttacked By EvilBless The Lord!

And would not do them, and gave no thought to the wonders you had done among them; but made their necks stiff, and turning away from you, made a captain over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt: but you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up. Verse ConceptsGod, Compassion OfAngerAggressionAnger Of God, DescriptionListeningRestraintSin, And God's CharacterLoving Kindness Of GodSelf WillGod Not ForsakingMaking SlavesA Forgiving GodSpeed Of God's AngerAnger And Forgiveness

I will give news of the mercies of the Lord, and his great acts, even all the things the Lord has done for us, in his great grace to the house of Israel; even all he has done for us in his unnumbered mercies. Verse ConceptsGod, Compassion OfKindnessLove, Nature OfThankfulnessUnkindnessWitnessing, Importance OfLoving Kindness Of God

In overflowing wrath my face was veiled from you for a minute, but I will have pity on you for ever, says the Lord who takes up your cause. Verse ConceptsGentlenessFace Of GodGod's attitude towards peopleKindnessAnger Of God, Saved FromLoving Kindness Of GodGod HidingGod Will Show Mercywrathcredibility


Give an answer to my words, O Lord; for your mercy is good: be turned to me, because of your great pity. Verse ConceptsGod, Goodness OfLovingkindnessAbundant MercyLoving Kindness Of GodRelying Upon GodLove As A Fruit Of The SpiritGoodnessdevotion


How good is your loving mercy, O God! the children of men take cover under the shade of your wings. Verse ConceptsFindingRefugeShadowsSon Of ManWingsLoving Kindness Of GodGod's WingsShadow Of GodChildren's Protectionlegacy

And this bread was named manna by Israel: it was white, like a grain seed, and its taste was like cakes made with honey. Verse ConceptsFoodBread, Kinds OfHerbs And SpicesMannaQuestionsTasteWhiteHoneyWafersDelicaciesCorianderPeople Naming Things

Now the manna was like a seed of grain, like small clear drops. Verse ConceptsHerbs And SpicesWafersCorianderColor

And this bread was named manna by Israel: it was white, like a grain seed, and its taste was like cakes made with honey. Verse ConceptsFoodBread, Kinds OfHerbs And SpicesMannaQuestionsTasteWhiteHoneyWafersDelicaciesCorianderPeople Naming Things

Now the manna was like a seed of grain, like small clear drops. Verse ConceptsHerbs And SpicesWafersCorianderColor

The people went about taking it up from the earth, crushing it between stones or hammering it to powder, and boiling it in pots, and they made cakes of it: its taste was like the taste of cakes cooked with oil. Verse ConceptsCrushingGrindingOilCakesBricksGrinding Foodcooking

And when the dew was gone, on the face of the earth was a small round thing, like small drops of ice on the earth. Verse ConceptsFrostSmall ThingsCold Weather

And this bread was named manna by Israel: it was white, like a grain seed, and its taste was like cakes made with honey. Verse ConceptsFoodBread, Kinds OfHerbs And SpicesMannaQuestionsTasteWhiteHoneyWafersDelicaciesCorianderPeople Naming Things

I will keep my mercy for him for ever; my agreement with him will not be changed. Verse ConceptsFailture, God Will NeverLoyaltyReinstatementGod Shows His LovingkindnessLater Covenants With God

Let the Lord be praised. O give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. Verse ConceptsGod, Goodness OfPraiseGod, The EternalPraise, Manner And Methods OfThankfulnessThanksgiving, OfferedGratitudePraise The Lord!Thank God!

O give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. Verse ConceptsGod, Goodness OfAttitudes Of ThankfulfnessGod, The EternalGratitudeMercy

O give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. Verse ConceptsChristmasGod's attitude towards peopleThanksgiving, OfferedGratitudeGiving ThanksThanks



O Lord, keep in mind your pity and your mercies; for they have been from the earliest times. Verse ConceptsLovingkindnessBe Merciful!devotion

For though he sends grief, still he will have pity in the full measure of his love. Verse ConceptsCompassionGod Troublinggrieving

And so you gave them up into the hands of their haters who were cruel to them: and in the time of their trouble, when they made their prayer to you, you gave ear to them from heaven; and in your great mercy gave them saviours, who made them free from the hands of their haters. Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toAnswered PrayerRescueDeliverersGod Saving From EnemiesGod Paid Attention To ThemGod Answered Prayer

The Lord is slow to wrath and great in mercy, overlooking wrongdoing and evil, and will not let wrongdoers go free; sending punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation. Verse ConceptsFathers, Sin Of TheAbundant MercyGenerationsChildren, responsibilities to parentsGod, Patience OfReliabilityRestraintUnforgivenessLongsuffering Of GodParents SinSins Of The FathersA Forgiving GodSpeed Of God's AngerLove And ForgivenessAnger And ForgivenessParents LoveParents Being Wrong

For a short time I gave you up; but with great mercies I will take you back again. Verse ConceptsAbandoning FriendsAbandonmentBeing ForsakenGathering IsraelTransient HardshipGod Will Show Mercy


For as the heaven is high over the earth, so great is his mercy to his worshippers. Verse ConceptsHeaven, Nature OfFear Of God, Results OfGod On HighMercyGod's Love For UsThe Earthdistancesteadfastgraciousness

You will make clear your good faith to Jacob and your mercy to Abraham, as you gave your oath to our fathers from times long past. Verse ConceptsGuaranteePledgesPerforming The TruthGod Swearing BlessingsGod Speaking Of OldGod Showed His Lovingkindnessdevotion

Give ear, and come to me, take note with care, so that your souls may have life: and I will make an eternal agreement with you, even the certain mercies of David. Verse ConceptsCovenant breakersCovenant, the newEarsCovenant, God's with DavidGod, The EternalLoyaltySpiritual Life, Nature OfThe Eternal CovenantLife By God's WordLater Covenants With GodUnconditional Love





The earth, O Lord, is full of your mercy: give me knowledge of your rules. Verse ConceptsEarth, God's GloryScripture Teaching





Let us be judged as servants of Christ, and as those who are responsible for the secret things of God. Verse ConceptsApostles, Function In Early ChurchBeing A ServantSecrecyMinisters, Description OfResponsibilityVolunteeringMoney Managementsecrets

Let us be judged as servants of Christ, and as those who are responsible for the secret things of God. Verse ConceptsApostles, Function In Early ChurchBeing A ServantSecrecyMinisters, Description OfResponsibilityVolunteeringMoney Managementsecrets

So it is right for me to take thought for you all in this way, because I have you in my heart; for in my chains, and in my arguments before the judges in support of the good news, making clear that it is true, you all have your part with me in grace. Verse ConceptsFellowship, In The GospelFellowship, Among BelieversConfirmationFaith, As A Body Of BeliefsChainsdefence, humanDefenseGrace, And Christian LifeParticipation, In ChristSympathyMinisters, Description OfMinisters, Should BePartakersThe Gospel PreachedThe Grace Given To MenGod's GracePositive Thinkingpartnershipgrandmasevangelising



And have taken your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and with wonders and with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, causing great fear; Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfGod, Power OfHand Of GodStrength, DivineStrength Of GodTerror Of GodSigns And Wonders Before ChristGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

For this cause I will again do a strange thing among this people, a thing to be wondered at: and the wisdom of their wise men will come to nothing, and the sense of their guides will no longer be seen. Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfIntelligencePhilosophyReasonShrewdnessThoughtWisdom, Source Of HumanInventionsFalse WisdomWorldly WisdomDiscernment

Keep in mind the great works which he has done; his wonders, and the decisions of his mouth; Verse ConceptsPast, The

He did great works before the eyes of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan. Verse ConceptsFields

And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Zidon, by their servants who come to Jerusalem, to Zedekiah, king of Judah; Verse ConceptsenvoyVisitingMessengers Sent Out

And you are not to give attention to your prophets or your readers of signs or your dreamers or those who see into the future or those who make use of secret arts, who say to you, You will not become servants of the king of Babylon: Verse ConceptsListeningMediumsFortunetellingOccultismDivinationMisleading DreamsFalse Prophets DenouncedAvoid SorceryDo Not Listen!SorceryDreams And False Prophetsmagic

We have had word of the pride of Moab, how great it is; how he is lifted up in pride and passion: his high words about himself are false. Verse ConceptsFutilityComplacencyemptinessPride, Examples OfPride, Results OfSelf ConfidenceSuperiorityHaughtinessProud Peoplearrogance

We have had word of the pride of Moab, how great it is; how he is lifted up in pride; and his great opinion of himself, and that his heart is lifted up. Verse ConceptsProud HeartsHeart, Fallen And RedeemedPride, Examples OfHaughtinessProud Peoplearrogance

From his earliest days, Moab has been living in comfort; like wine long stored he has not been drained from vessel to vessel, he has never gone away as a prisoner: so his taste is still in him, his smell is unchanged. Verse ConceptsWineTreatment From YouthThose At Easeteenager

How say you, We are men of war and strong fighters? Verse Conceptsheroes

For because you have put your faith in your strong places, you, even you, will be taken: and Chemosh will go out as a prisoner, his priests and his rulers together. Verse ConceptsFalse GodsMoney, Attitudes ToRich, TheRiches, Ungodly Use OfTrust, Lack OfFalse ConfidenceExiled ForeignersTrusting Riches

Then Solomon put up a high place for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, in the mountain before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the disgusting god worshipped by the children of Ammon. Verse ConceptsFalse GodsBuild, LiterallyHigh Places

Who is she, looking down as the morning light, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, who is to be feared like an army with flags? Verse ConceptsThe Moon

If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way, Verse ConceptsMoonShiningIdolatrous Worship Of The MoonMoving OnSunThe MoonMoving To A New Place


For having circumcision is nothing, and not having circumcision is nothing, but only a new order of existence. Verse ConceptsGod, The CreatorNewnessRitualUncircumcisionNew Birth, Described AsSalvation Not By WorksNew LifeNecessity Of Circumcision



And the Lord your God will give to you and to your seed a circumcision of the heart, so that, loving him with all your heart and all your soul, you may have life. Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodCircumcision, spiritualHeart, And Holy SpiritHeart, RenewedWhole HeartednessRenewed HeartNew Birth, Described AsAttitudes Of LoveLove For GodLife By LovingThe Need To Love GodTrue Circumcision

But he is a Jew who is a secret one, whose circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God. Verse ConceptsChanged HeartHeart, Fallen And RedeemedPaul, Teaching OfTypesWorthinessRenewed HeartNew Birth, Described AsThe Holy Spirit, And RegenerationThe Holy Spirit, And ScriptureThe Inward BeingPeople Commended By GodJews


Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation), Verse ConceptsGrace, The Source OfSaving GraceLife With ChristSpiritually DeadJustified By GraceThe Gospel Of SalvationGraceCauses of failure inBeing Saved

We have been placed with him among the dead through baptism into death: so that as Christ came again from the dead by the glory of the Father, we, in the same way, might be living in new life. For, if we have been made like him in his death, we will, in the same way, be like him in his coming to life again; Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.




But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter. Verse ConceptsPaul, Teaching OfRitualService To GodChristian Liberty Is Freedom FromNew Birth, Described AsThe Holy Spirit, And RegenerationThe Holy Spirit, And ScriptureNew LifeOld ThingsDead To SinWithout The Law






Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and let your voice come to it; for their evil-doing has come up before me. Verse ConceptsMission, Of IsraelWitnessing, Importance Ofjonah

Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and give it the word which I have given you. Verse ConceptsMission, Of IsraelMissionary Work, Examples OfMissionary Examplesjonah

This is the town which was full of joy, living without fear of danger, saying in her heart, I am, and there is no other: how has she been made waste, a place for beasts to take their rest in! everyone who goes by her will make hisses, waving his hand. Verse ConceptsFalse ConfidencePride, Examples OfRidicule, Nature OfArrogant ExistenceAbasement, Examples OfHissingUnique NationsDwellings Of CreaturesOther Dwellings Of Creatures

The Lord has given an order about you, that no more of your name are to be planted: from the house of your gods I will have the pictured and metal images cut off; I will make your last resting-place a place of shame; for you are completely evil. Verse ConceptsThe DeadFalse ReligionExile, in assyriaTemples, HeathenDestruction Of Satan's WorksNames Blotted OutAbandoning Idols

Let your traders be increased more than the stars of heaven: Verse ConceptsTradeCommerceThings StrippedPeople MultiplyingThose Flying

And am I not to have mercy on Nineveh, that great town, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons without the power of judging between right and left, as well as much cattle? Verse ConceptsConversion, God's demands forCityLack Of DiscernmentImmaturityAnimal LifeWorldlinessAnimals, Care ForAnimals, God's Care OfOne Hundred Thousand And MoreGod Will Show MercyIgnorant Of Factsempathyjonah

All your walled places will be like fig-trees and your people like the first figs, falling at a shake into the mouth which is open for them. Verse ConceptsFortressesFig treeMouthsThings ShakingEating With MouthsThings Falling

The Lord has given an order about you, that no more of your name are to be planted: from the house of your gods I will have the pictured and metal images cut off; I will make your last resting-place a place of shame; for you are completely evil. Verse ConceptsThe DeadFalse ReligionExile, in assyriaTemples, HeathenDestruction Of Satan's WorksNames Blotted OutAbandoning Idols


Because of all the false ways of the loose woman, expert in attraction and wise in secret arts, who takes nations in the net of her false ways, and families through her secret arts. Verse ConceptsProstitutionNakednessmagicwitchesmistress

So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh as the Lord had said. Now Nineveh was a very great town, three days' journey from end to end. Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesBig Thingsjonah

Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and let your voice come to it; for their evil-doing has come up before me. Verse ConceptsMission, Of IsraelWitnessing, Importance Ofjonah

Take silver, take gold; for there is no end to the store; take for yourselves a weight of things to be desired. Verse ConceptsPlunderingAmassing SilverGold TransferredGetting Rich

And Absalom came across some of David's men. And Absalom was seated on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great tree, and his head became fixed in the tree and he was lifted up between earth and heaven, and the beast under him went on. Verse ConceptsMulesBackCovering HeadsRiding MulesHairdreadlocks

And you will be certain that I am the Lord, when their dead men are stretched among their images round about their altars on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every branching tree, and under every thick oak-tree, the places where they made sweet smells to all their images. Verse ConceptsKnowledge, Of GodShrinesOaksIdol WorshipFate Of IdolatersWorship At Trees

And even if there is still a tenth part in it, it will again be burned, like a tree of the woods whose broken end is still in the earth after the tree has been cut down (the holy seed is the broken end). Verse ConceptsRemnantNames And Titles For The ChristianTreesStumps Of A TreeA Tenth Of People

Though I sent destruction on the Amorite before them, who was tall as the cedar and strong as the oak-tree, cutting off his fruit from on high and his roots from under the earth. Verse ConceptsAmoritesCedarRootsGiantsOaks

The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the wounds. Verse ConceptsBruisesAnointing, Medical PurposedoctorsBoils Or UlcersHeadsHealingMedicineOilOintmentHoly Spirit, Types OfDisfigurement Of SinWoundsscars

And came to him and put clean linen round his wounds, with oil and wine; and he put him on his beast and took him to a house and took care of him. Verse ConceptsGesturesInnsAnointing, Medical PurposeAnointing With OilHealingHelpfulnessMedicineOilOintmentHoly Spirit, Types OfAlcohol ConsumptionStaying Temporarily

For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil; Verse ConceptsLipsMouthsPersuasionEleganceadultry

He put on cursing like a robe, and it has come into his body like water, and into his bones like oil. Verse ConceptsBodyGarments Of SinClothed With Bad ThingsDamage To The BodyThings Like WaterLike WaterSwearingcurses

The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, but they were sharp swords. Verse ConceptsSinful HeartsButterHeart, Fallen And RedeemedOilOintmentSincereitySmoothnessSmoothWarSpeech

You had been named by the Lord, A branching olive-tree, fair with beautiful fruit: with the noise of a great rushing he has put it on fire and its branches are broken. Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, SpiritualStormsColors, GreenOaksBurning PlantsBeauty Of ThingsOlive TreesGod Controls Storms

Is a fig-tree able to give us olives, my brothers, or do we get figs from a vine, or sweet water from the salt sea? Verse ConceptsGrapesBad WaterSourness

His branches will be stretched out, he will be beautiful as the olive-tree and sweet-smelling as Lebanon. Verse ConceptsSpreadingBeauty, Temporal Nature OfBeauty, In NatureFragranceOlive Trees

You had been named by the Lord, A branching olive-tree, fair with beautiful fruit: with the noise of a great rushing he has put it on fire and its branches are broken. Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, SpiritualStormsColors, GreenOaksBurning PlantsBeauty Of ThingsOlive TreesGod Controls Storms

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile, Verse ConceptsFellowship With ChristFellowship, In The GospelParticipation, In ChristSeparation From GodJoined To The ChurchGentilesOlive TreesJews

But the olive-tree said to them, Am I to give up my wealth of oil, by which men give honour to God, and go waving over the trees? Verse ConceptsTreesThe Honourable Will Be HonouredOlive Trees

You had been named by the Lord, A branching olive-tree, fair with beautiful fruit: with the noise of a great rushing he has put it on fire and its branches are broken. Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, SpiritualStormsColors, GreenOaksBurning PlantsBeauty Of ThingsOlive TreesGod Controls Storms

She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear. Verse ConceptsStrictness

For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge. Verse ConceptsForgetting Things

Without a thought that they may be crushed by the foot, and broken by the beasts of the field? Verse ConceptsTrampling AnimalsForgetting Things

When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him. Verse ConceptsLaughterSpeed

The arrowsnake will make her hole and put her eggs there, and get her young together under her shade: there the hawks will come together by twos. Verse ConceptsNestsWingsVulturesFalcons


For this I will be full of sorrow and give cries of grief; I will go uncovered and unclothed: I will give cries of grief like the jackals and will be in sorrow like the ostriches. Verse ConceptsBarefeetNakednessSandalsSorrowBirds, Types Of BirdsNaked In ShameOstrichesTragedy

And Ephraim is a trained cow, taking pleasure in crushing the grain; but I have put a yoke on her fair neck; I will put a horseman on the back of Ephraim; Judah will be working the plough, Jacob will be turning up the earth. Verse ConceptsThreshingYokesHeifersMetaphorical PloughingNorthern Kingdom Of Israeltrainingbackstabbing

Egypt is a fair young cow; but a biting insect has come on her out of the north. Verse ConceptsBeautifulHeifersOut Of The NorthFlies

Where there are no oxen, their food-place is clean; but much increase comes through the strength of the ox. Verse ConceptsHarvestMangersGrowth In WealthOxenStrength Of AnimalsClean ObjectsNo More Tending The FlockAgricultureFamily StrengthWomen's Strengthpoop


Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me. Verse ConceptsKnowing PeopleDonkeysLack Of DiscernmentIngratitudeSpiritual IgnoranceMangersIgnorance Towards God, Examples OfInstinctDullnessFeeding AnimalsBeing Without UnderstandingMammalsThose Who Were Ignorant


And wolves will be answering one another in their towers, and jackals in their houses of pleasure: her time is near, and her days of power will quickly be ended. Verse ConceptsPerils Of LuxuryPalacesAnimals, Types OfShort Time Till The End

And he made his holy place like the high heaven, like the earth which is fixed by him for ever. Verse ConceptsEternal WorldCreation Of The EarthUnicorns

You are tall like a palm-tree, and your breasts are like the fruit of the vine. Verse ConceptsPalm Treesbreasts

It is like a pillar in a garden of plants, and has no voice: it has to be lifted, for it has no power of walking. Have no fear of it; for it has no power of doing evil and it is not able to do any good. Verse ConceptsFutilityFruitResponseUnreliabilityUprightnessDisdainImpotence Of IdolsObelisksCarrying IdolsDumbnessGood Or BadDumbChristmas Treestatues



O Lord God of armies, who is strong like you, O Jah? and your unchanging faith is round about you. Verse ConceptsGod, Power OfGod, Titles And Names OfSoldiersPower Of God, DescribedWho Is Like God?FaithfulnessGod's Faithfulness


O Lord God, you have now for the first time let your servant see your great power and the strength of your hand; for what god is there in heaven or on earth able to do such great works and such acts of power? Verse ConceptsGod, Power OfMiracles, Nature OfStrength, DivinePower Of God, DescribedMiracles Showing God's PowerBeginning Of SalvationNo One Is Like GodNo Other Acts Like Godgreatness

Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? who is like you, in holy glory, to be praised with fear, doing wonders? When your right hand was stretched out, the mouth of the earth was open for them.

Full of glory, O Lord, is the power of your right hand; by your right hand those who came against you are broken. Verse ConceptsGod, Majesty OfGod, The LordHandsRight Hand Of GodAbility, God's PowerPower Of God, DescribedGod's HandStrength Of GodEnemies Of Godcrushes

He who made the arm of his glory go at the right hand of Moses, by whom the waters were parted before them, to make himself an eternal name; Verse ConceptsArmsPower Of God, DescribedArm Of GodDivision Of WatersWaters DividedBlessings For The Right Hand

From time long past I am God, and from this day I am he: there is no one who is able to take you out of my hand: when I undertake a thing, by whom will my purpose be changed? Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfDeliverance, Source OfGod, Sovereignty OfHand Of GodGod's OmnipotencePower Of God, DescribedAuthority, Belonging To GodThe AlmightyDeterminismNo One Can SaveWhat God DoesThe Pasteternity


He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last. Verse ConceptsBeautifulBeauty, In NatureAdaptabilityBeginning And EndBeing Found OutHeartbreakBeauty Of ThingsTime ManagementGod's Ways Beyond Human UnderstandingGod's TimingGods TimingBeing BeautifulWaiting For God's Timingeternity

See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge. Verse ConceptsRevelation, Necessity OfThunderUnderstandingVoicesPower Of God, ExpressedPower Of God, DescribedFaintnessUnder One's BreathEdge Of Other ThingsLimits Of Human MindThunder Showing God's Presence

And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing? Verse ConceptsAccording To His WillChallengesGod, Purpose OfGod, Sovereignty OfHand Of GodPredestinationProvidenceStrength, DivineGod's OmnipotencePower Of God, DescribedAuthority, Belonging To GodStrength Of GodWhat Does God Do?God Works His WillOther Unimportant People

See now, I myself am he; there is no other god but me: giver of death and life, wounding and making well: and no one has power to make you free from my hand. Verse ConceptsAfterlifedoctorsMonotheismOne GodSuicidePower Of God, DescribedGod Giving LifeGod KillingWoundsNo Other Is GodGod HealsGod KillsNo One Can SaveDeathHealing And ComfortLife After DeathLoss Of A Loved Onemyself




He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it? Verse ConceptsGod, Wisdom OfRevelation, Necessity OfPower Of God, DescribedStrength Of GodGod Is StrongWisdomPeace And Strengthprospering

The Lord is slow to get angry and great in power, and will not let the sinner go without punishment: the way of the Lord is in the wind and the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfFeetClouds, God's PresenceGod, Patience OfStormsWhirlwindsPower Of God, DescribedThe AlmightyAcquittalGod In The WindCondemnation Of The WickedSpeed Of God's AngerHurricanesGuiltfootstepspatientsdustfootprintsGod Controls Storms



With a strong hand and an outstretched arm: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. Verse ConceptsPower Of God, DescribedStrength Of GodStaying StrongStrength And Loveoutreach


Who does great things not to be searched out; yes, wonders without number. Verse ConceptsGod Is HolyPower Of God, DescribedUnintelligiblenesspast

Or has not the potter the right to make out of one part of his earth a vessel for honour, and out of another a vessel for shame? Verse ConceptsCraftsmenPower Of God, DescribedReprobatesPeople Have HonourPurposeBeauty And Self Worthpotmoldhonour


By which he made Christ come back from the dead, and gave him a place at his right hand in heaven, Far over all rule and authority and power and every name which is named, not only in the present order, but in that which is to come:




Who only has life for ever, living in light to which no man may come near; whom no man has seen or is able to see: to whom be honour and power for ever. So be it. Verse ConceptsImmortality, In NtReverence, And God's NatureGod Is Self ExistentGod, InvisiblePower Of Christ, DescribedGod, InfiniteGod Reigning ForeverGod Dwelling In LightNot Seeing GodAmenNo DecayuncertaintyLight As A Symbol Of God



And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing? Verse ConceptsAccording To His WillChallengesGod, Purpose OfGod, Sovereignty OfHand Of GodPredestinationProvidenceStrength, DivineGod's OmnipotencePower Of God, DescribedAuthority, Belonging To GodStrength Of GodWhat Does God Do?God Works His WillOther Unimportant People

See now, I myself am he; there is no other god but me: giver of death and life, wounding and making well: and no one has power to make you free from my hand. Verse ConceptsAfterlifedoctorsMonotheismOne GodSuicidePower Of God, DescribedGod Giving LifeGod KillingWoundsNo Other Is GodGod HealsGod KillsNo One Can SaveDeathHealing And ComfortLife After DeathLoss Of A Loved Onemyself

He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last. Verse ConceptsBeautifulBeauty, In NatureAdaptabilityBeginning And EndBeing Found OutHeartbreakBeauty Of ThingsTime ManagementGod's Ways Beyond Human UnderstandingGod's TimingGods TimingBeing BeautifulWaiting For God's Timingeternity

See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge. Verse ConceptsRevelation, Necessity OfThunderUnderstandingVoicesPower Of God, ExpressedPower Of God, DescribedFaintnessUnder One's BreathEdge Of Other ThingsLimits Of Human MindThunder Showing God's Presence

From time long past I am God, and from this day I am he: there is no one who is able to take you out of my hand: when I undertake a thing, by whom will my purpose be changed? Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfDeliverance, Source OfGod, Sovereignty OfHand Of GodGod's OmnipotencePower Of God, DescribedAuthority, Belonging To GodThe AlmightyDeterminismNo One Can SaveWhat God DoesThe Pasteternity


Full of glory, O Lord, is the power of your right hand; by your right hand those who came against you are broken. Verse ConceptsGod, Majesty OfGod, The LordHandsRight Hand Of GodAbility, God's PowerPower Of God, DescribedGod's HandStrength Of GodEnemies Of Godcrushes

He who made the arm of his glory go at the right hand of Moses, by whom the waters were parted before them, to make himself an eternal name; Verse ConceptsArmsPower Of God, DescribedArm Of GodDivision Of WatersWaters DividedBlessings For The Right Hand


With a strong hand and an outstretched arm: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. Verse ConceptsPower Of God, DescribedStrength Of GodStaying StrongStrength And Loveoutreach



The Lord is slow to get angry and great in power, and will not let the sinner go without punishment: the way of the Lord is in the wind and the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfFeetClouds, God's PresenceGod, Patience OfStormsWhirlwindsPower Of God, DescribedThe AlmightyAcquittalGod In The WindCondemnation Of The WickedSpeed Of God's AngerHurricanesGuiltfootstepspatientsdustfootprintsGod Controls Storms



He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it? Verse ConceptsGod, Wisdom OfRevelation, Necessity OfPower Of God, DescribedStrength Of GodGod Is StrongWisdomPeace And Strengthprospering


Who does great things not to be searched out; yes, wonders without number. Verse ConceptsGod Is HolyPower Of God, DescribedUnintelligiblenesspast

Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? who is like you, in holy glory, to be praised with fear, doing wonders? When your right hand was stretched out, the mouth of the earth was open for them.

Or has not the potter the right to make out of one part of his earth a vessel for honour, and out of another a vessel for shame? Verse ConceptsCraftsmenPower Of God, DescribedReprobatesPeople Have HonourPurposeBeauty And Self Worthpotmoldhonour

And moving on from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, he put up his tent, having Beth-el on the west and Ai on the east: and there he made an altar and gave worship to the name of the Lord. Verse ConceptsAi, The CityCalling upon GodNomadsShrinesTentsAbraham, The Friend Of GodAbraham, Calling And LifePrayer, Described AsAltars To The LordBuilding AltarsEast And West


Then I made my prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord, take my soul out of trouble. Verse ConceptsPrayer, Described As


But it is good for me to come near to God: I have put my faith in the Lord God, so that I may make clear all his works. Verse ConceptsFortificationsPrayer, Described AsNearness To GodStaying StrongTrusting God's PlanFaith And TrustStaying PositiveThe Presence Of Godshelterdeeds

It may be that their prayer for grace will go up to the Lord, and that every man will be turned from his evil ways: for great is the wrath and the passion made clear by the Lord against this people. Verse ConceptsPrayer, Described AsGod Answers PrayerFree Moral AgencyAnger And Forgivenesssupplicationpetition

If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all; Verse ConceptsPrayer, Described AsAnswered Promises

This poor man's cry came before the Lord, and he gave him salvation from all his troubles. Verse ConceptsPoverty, SpiritualAfflictions, Consolation DuringPrayer, Described AsCrying To GodGod Answered PrayerGod Paid Attention To Me

O Lord, let the voice of my cry come to your ears: have mercy on me, and give me an answer. Verse ConceptsCryingMercifulnessPrayer, Described AsPay Attention O God!

And Hezekiah the king, and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, made prayer because of this, crying out to heaven. Verse ConceptsTrust, Importance OfPrayer, Described As

Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens. Verse ConceptsPrayer, Described AsPrayer, Offered WithLifting Hands


And Hannah, answering him, said, No, my lord, I am a woman whose spirit is broken with sorrow: I have not taken wine or strong drink, but I have been opening my heart before the Lord. Verse ConceptsA Broken WomanPouringPrayer, Described AsStrong DrinkDrunkennessAntidepressantsStress And Hard TimesA Broken HeartPrayer During Hard Timessoulheartbrokenwomanbeeralcoholism

But Moses made prayer to God, saying, Lord, why is your wrath burning against your people whom you took out of the land of Egypt, with great power and with the strength of your hand? Verse ConceptsFace Of GodGrace, In OtMoses, Significance OfPleasing GodPrayer, Described AsStrength Of GodGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptWhy Does God Do This?Seeking The Favour Of GodEclipse





If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all; Verse ConceptsPrayer, Described AsAnswered Promises

And in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a shocking thing; they are untrue to their wives, walking in deceit, and they make strong the hands of evil-doers, so that a man may not be turned back from his evil-doing: they have all become like Sodom to me, and its people like Gomorrah Verse Conceptsencouragement, examples ofImmorality, Examples Of SexualSodom And GomorrahEvildoersWicked ProphetsThose Who Committed Adultery

For the prophet as well as the priest is unclean; even in my house I have seen their evil-doing, says the Lord. Verse ConceptsLeaders, SpiritualWicked ProphetsPeople Being Unclean

Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law. Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesSanctuaryTreacheryCorrupt PriestsPollutionsWicked ProphetsLack Of HolinessUnfaithful


And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions. Verse ConceptsAlcoholdrinking, abstention fromDrunkenness, Figurative OfDebaucheryLeaders, SpiritualStumblingDrunkenness, ResultsStaggeringStrong DrinkWicked ProphetsDrunkennessMaking DecisionsDecision Makingbeer

Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us. Verse ConceptsFalse ConfidenceLove, Abuse OfMoney, Uses OfPriests, Institution In Ot TimesSpiritual MalnutritionReward, HumanUnfaithful MinistersSelfishness, Shown InCorrupt PriestsMisteachingWicked ProphetsGod Is Among YouBelief In GodGod SupportingDivinityRewards Of RitualFinancesMaking Decisionsprophetspriests

His head is as the most delicate gold; his hair is thick, and black as a raven. Verse ConceptsBlacknessRavensAppearance Of HairColorHairdreadlocks


But the birds of the waste land will have their place there; it will be a heritage for the bittern and the raven: and it will be measured out with line and weight as a waste land. Verse ConceptsChaosRavensPlumb LineCrowsOwlsPelicansHedgehogsDwellings Of CreaturesOther Dwellings Of CreaturesChaos As Judgment




(Because it takes a great price to keep his soul from death, and man is not able to give it.) Verse ConceptsExpensiveRedemptionThe SoulBeauty And Self WorthValueSaving Moneysoulredeemedtrying

And I saw high seats, and they were seated on them, and the right of judging was given to them: and I saw the souls of those who were put to death for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and those who did not give worship to the beast, or to his image, and had not his mark on their brows or on their hands; and they were living and ruling with Christ a thousand years. Verse ConceptsForeheads666Faithfulness, To Godevil, victory overdefianceBeheadingThe BeastJudgesJudgment SeatPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSelf SacrificeThe Immortal SoulMartyrdom, Methods OfSufferings RewardedRemoving HeadsCosmic CreaturesBelievers JudgingMarks On PeopleAuthority Of DisciplesAvoiding IdolatrySubsequent Witness To ChristWorshipping The DevilMark Of The BeastHow First Resurrection Is Spread OutSigns Of The Timesend times prophecyMartyrdom








Till he came, who was very old, and the decision was made and the authority was given to the saints of the Most High; and the time came when the saints took the kingdom. Verse ConceptsAncient Of DaysSaintsA Time Of SalvationGod As An Old PersonJudgement Day


So that you may take food and drink at my table in my kingdom, and be seated like kings, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Verse ConceptsThe Number TwelveJudgment SeatSittingJesus Christ, JudgeBelievers JudgingTwelve TribesEating And DrinkingPeople Of The KingdomJudging

Is it not certain that the saints will be the judges of the world? if then the world will be judged by you, are you unable to give a decision about the smallest things? Verse ConceptsCourtsHoliness, Purpose OfMillenniumSaintsBelievers JudgingFamily ProblemsJudgement DayJudgementJudging Others Actions








Even as you gave him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all those whom you have given to him. And this is eternal life: to have knowledge of you, the only true God, and of him whom you have sent, even Jesus Christ.

Who will not get much more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life. Verse ConceptsAge To Comeeternal life, nature ofGrowth In GraceThe Future AgeEntering LifeThe FutureThe WorldAgeeternity

















And if we are children, we have a right to a part in the heritage; a part in the things of God, together with Christ; so that if we have a part in his pain, we will in the same way have a part in his glory. I am of the opinion that there is no comparison between the pain of this present time and the glory which we will see in the future.





And for this cause it is through him that a new agreement has come into being, so that after the errors under the first agreement had been taken away by his death, the word of God might have effect for those who were marked out for an eternal heritage. Verse ConceptsFreedom, Through Jesus ChristCovenant, the newAtonement, in NTHeirsReceiving An InheritanceInheritance, SpiritualMediationMoses, Significance OfNewnessRansomRedemption, In NtRevelation, In OtTypesChrist, The MediatorGod's Call, ResultsAdvocatesEternal PossessionThe Effect Of Christ's DeathRedemptionPromisesThe Blood Of JesuscovenantNew

The sun will not be your light by day, and the moon will no longer be bright for you by night: but the Lord will be to you an eternal light, and your God your glory. Verse ConceptsThe SunGod Bestowing GloryLightSunSunshineThe Moon







It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work. Verse ConceptsEnjoyment, Lack OfAffluenceDiscontentPhysical LabourBeing UnsatisfiedUseless EndeavourToiling In VainFamily And Friends



Saying, Sorrow, sorrow for the great town, she who was clothed in delicate linen, and purple, and red; with ornaments of gold and stones of great price and jewels! For in one hour such great wealth has come to nothing. And every shipmaster, and all who are sailing on the sea, and sailors and all who get their living by the sea, were watching from far away,

Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction, Verse ConceptsFutilityemptinessGoldMarketsRiches, Nature OfRiches, Description OfPossessions DecayingTransient WealthUseless EndeavourPeople Are CorruptibleMoney's Deficienciesfearlessliberationredeemed


So my heart is sounding for Moab like the sound of pipes, and my heart is sounding like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: for the wealth he has got for himself has come to an end. Verse ConceptsFlutesLamentingRiches, Nature OfMusical Instruments, types ofRiches, Description OfWailing





Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors! Verse ConceptsFraudCovenant breakersPainRidicule, Nature OfRiches, Description OfGuileSocial SelfishnessTransient WealthDo Not StealWoe To The WickedMorality

For God's word, that the earth would be his heritage, was given to Abraham, not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. Verse ConceptsImputed RighteousnessGod's Promise To AbrahamRighteous By FaithPromisesTrust In Relationships

What then may we say? That the nations who did not go after righteousness have got righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith: Verse ConceptsGospel, Promises OfJustice, In Believers' LivesImputed RighteousnessPursuing GoodForeigners Saved By FaithRighteous By FaithGentiles

But the righteousness which is of faith says these words, Say not in your heart, Who will go up to heaven? (that is, to make Christ come down:) Verse ConceptsImputed RighteousnessGoing Up To HeavenAbasing PeopleRighteous By FaithGoing To HeavenBelieving In Yourselffearless




But now without the law there is a revelation of the righteousness of God, to which witness is given by the law and the prophets; Verse ConceptsGospel, Confirmation OfRighteousness, As FaithImputed RighteousnessWitness To The GospelWithout The LawWritten In The ProphetsGrace Verse LawWitnessing

Your righteousness is an unchanging righteousness, and your law is certain. Verse ConceptsGod, Righteousness OfGod, The EternalHonestyScripture, Sufficiency OfLaw Described AsGod's Word Is True

My mouth will make clear your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for they are more than may be measured. Verse ConceptsMouthsGod's Salvation Made KnownWitnessing, Importance OfUnceasingAlways PraisingGoodnessPraising God With Your Mouth


Your righteousness, O God, is very high; you have done great things; O God, who is like you? Verse ConceptsGod, Righteousness OfSkyWho Is Like God?



I will make you an uncovered rock: you will be a place for the stretching out of nets; there will be no building you up again: for I the Lord have said it, says the Lord. Verse ConceptsSpreadingNeverEmpty CitiesThings StrippedFishing

And they will give the walls of Tyre to destruction and have its towers broken: and I will take even her dust away from her, and make her an uncovered rock Verse ConceptsFortificationsTowersWallsEmpty CitiesThings Stripped

O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back. Verse ConceptsIndifferenceMineralsPrayerlessnessRepentance, Importance OfSensitivityStubbornness, Consequences OfAfflictions Of The WickedAdmonition, RecievingObstinacy Against GodSelf WillGod, All knowing

And with an iron pen and lead be cut into the rock for ever! Verse ConceptsengravingToolsWritingIron Objects

And some of the Gadites, siding with David, went to his strong place in the waste land, great and strong men, trained for war, expert in the use of arms, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were quick-footed like roes on the mountains; Verse ConceptsCommandereagernessWarriorsFast RunnersDeer

As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love. Verse ConceptsDeersBreasts, Being AttractiveSex Within MarriageHusbands Duty To WivesDeer Etc.Loving Your WifeStaying PositiveDeerbreaststeenager

There were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab and Abishai and Asahel: and Asahel was as quick-footed as a roe of the fields. Verse ConceptsThree ChildrenFast RunnersDeer Etc.Deer

And when he had been made complete, he became the giver of eternal salvation to all those who are under his orders; Verse Conceptseternal life, gift ofGod, The EternalPerfection, DivineSalvation, Described AsChrist, Names ForEternal DeliveranceChrist Made Perfect

Let your eyes be lifted up to the heavens, and turned to the earth which is under them: for the heavens will go in flight like smoke, and the earth will become old like a coat, and its people will come to destruction like insects: but my salvation will be for ever, and my righteousness will not come to an end. Verse ConceptsFailture, God Will Nevereternity, nature ofAstronomyInsectsEarth, Destruction OfSmokeEcological ConcernsImputed RighteousnessSalvation, Described AsEternal DeliveranceThe Universe DestroyedDisappearanceThings Wearing OutLooking At God's WorksAbrasionSmoke Used Poetically

But the Lord will make Israel free with an eternal salvation: you will not be put to shame or made low for ever and ever. Verse ConceptsGod, The EternalSalvation, Described AsEternal DeliveranceGod Saves The NeedyNot Put To ShameBeing Savedeternityisrael



For like a coat they will be food for the insect, the worm will make a meal of them like wool: but my righteousness will be for ever, and my salvation to all generations. Verse ConceptsAnimals, Types OfClothingGod, Righteousness OfInsectsWoolSalvation, Described AsWicked Described AsMothsPeople Eaten By WormEternal DeliverancePeople Wearing Outclosureworms

What will come on us, if we do not give our minds to such a great salvation? a salvation of which our fathers first had knowledge through the words of the Lord, and which was made certain to us by those to whom his words came; Verse ConceptsForeknowledgeConfirmationComplacencydelay, humanHearingHistoryNeglecting God's ThingsWitnesses, To Jesus ChristSalvation, Described AsChrist PreachingEscaping EvilThe Gospel Of Salvation

My loved ones, while my thoughts were full of a letter which I was going to send you about our common salvation, it was necessary for me to send you one requesting you with all my heart to go on fighting strongly for the faith which has been given to the saints once and for ever. Verse ConceptsFight Of FaithOnly OnceAll Believers Are SaintsThe Gospel Of Salvationeffort







More to be desired are they than gold, even than much shining gold; sweeter than the dropping honey. Verse ConceptsFoodTasteBible, Described AsHoneySweetnessThings Like GoldAlternatives To MoneyWorthValue



But he puts the poor man on high from his troubles, and gives him families like a flock. Verse ConceptsGod And The PoorGod Helps The PoorHelping The PoorProtecting Your Family

Your teeth are like a flock of sheep whose wool is newly cut, which come up from the washing; every one has two lambs, and there is not one without young. Verse ConceptsTwinsTeethClean AnimalsMiscarrying Animals

This is what the Lord has said: The children of Israel will again make prayer to me for this, that I may do it for them; I will make them increased with men like a flock. Verse ConceptsPrayer, God's Promises ConcerningAnswered PromisesGod Multipling People

The mountains were jumping like goats, and the little hills like lambs. Verse ConceptsHillsLambsThe Presence Of Godjumping

You mountains, why were you jumping like goats, and you little hills like lambs? Verse Conceptsjumping

And when David saw the angel who was causing the destruction of the people, he said to the Lord, Truly, the sin is mine; I have done wrong: but these are only sheep; what have they done? let your hand be against me and against my family. Verse ConceptsIntercessionSelf CondemnationSheepShepherds, As Kings And LeadersIntercessory PrayerSeeing AngelsGod Opposing

When he has got them all out, he goes before them, and the sheep go after him, for they have knowledge of his voice. They will not go after another who is not their keeper, but will go from him in flight, because his voice is strange to them.

If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm; Verse ConceptsFleecesAnimal Skins

But there the Lord will be with us in his glory, ... wide rivers and streams; where no boat will go with blades, and no fair ship will be sailing. Verse ConceptsBreadthShipssailing

Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish: because your strong place is made waste Verse ConceptsSeafaringShipsDestruction Of Strongholds

And again ships, though they are so great and are moved by violent winds, are turned by a very small guiding-blade, at the impulse of the man who is using it. Verse ConceptsWindShipsBig ThingsSmall ThingsMarinersThe TongueDirectionStaying Strong During Hard Timessailing

They go rushing on like reed-boats, like an eagle dropping suddenly on its food. Verse ConceptsHuntingEaglesPapyrusShipsBoats

So now, get the rest of the people together, and put them in position against the town and take it, for if I take it, it will be named after my name. Verse ConceptsPeople Naming Things

Now after these things and this true-hearted work, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came into Judah, and put his army in position before the walled towns of Judah, designing to make his way into them by force. Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, Examples Of

So he sent there horses and carriages and a great army; and they came by night, circling the town. Verse ConceptsChariotsEnemies SurroundingAttacking With ChariotsEarthly ArmiesNations Attacking Israel


And I will send men to Babylon to make her clean and get her land cleared: for in the day of trouble they will put up their tents against her on every side. Verse ConceptsForeignersWinnowing

For see, I am moving and sending up against Babylon a band of great nations from the north country: and they will put their armies in position against her; and from there she will be taken: their arrows will be like those of an expert man of war; not one will come back without getting its mark. Verse ConceptsAliancesSkillOut Of The North

Now in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came against Jerusalem with all his army and took up his position before it, building earthworks all round the town. Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahAttackingInvasionsKingsSiegesTravelWarfare, Examples OfArmies, Against IsraelFortsMonth 10Years Of Zedekiah

As they put silver and brass and iron and lead and tin together inside the oven, heating up the fire on it to make it soft; so will I get you together in my wrath and in my passion, and, heating the fire with my breath, will make you soft. Verse ConceptsIronTinMeltingGathered By GodFurnaces

As silver becomes soft in the oven, so you will become soft in it; and you will be certain that I the Lord have let loose my passion on you. Verse ConceptsMeltingFurnacesThings Like Silver

Will you take your rest among the flocks? like the wings of a dove covered with silver, and its feathers with yellow gold. When the Most High put the kings to flight, it was as white as snow in Salmon.

Silver hammered into plates is sent from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the expert workman and of the hands of the gold-worker; blue and purple is their clothing, all the work of expert men. Verse ConceptsColors, BlueGoldSilverSkillToolsWisdom, Human NatureCommercePurple ClothesSkilled Peopleartistscraftsmanship

So this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, my face will be turned against you for evil, for the cutting off of all Judah; Verse ConceptsDestruction Of JerusalemGod Opposing

The way of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but he who goes after righteousness is dear to him. Verse ConceptsPursuingRighteousness, Of BelieversPathways Of SinAbominations, To GodEvil Ways

And I sent all my servants the prophets to you, getting up early and sending them, saying, Do not do this disgusting thing which is hated by me. Verse ConceptsProphets, Role OfAbominations, Sin IsThose Who Rose EarlyDoing Repeatedly

Keep well in mind how you made the Lord your God angry in the waste land; from the day when you went out of Egypt till you came to this place, you have gone against the orders of the Lord. Verse ConceptsRebellion, Of IsraelSin, Nature OfPainful Memories

Whoever goes against your orders, and does not give attention to all your words, will be put to death: only take heart and be strong. Verse ConceptsCourage, In Facing EnemiesRebellion, Against Human AuthorityRebellion Against God, Shown InBraveryStrength Of PeopleBe Courageous!Be Strong!Courage

And he took the ox which they had made, burning it in the fire and crushing it to powder, and he put it in the water and made the children of Israel take a drink of it. Verse ConceptsRepulsive FoodBurning Idolatrous ThingsWaters DividedGrandmothers

And the sin of these young men was very great before the Lord; for they gave no honour to the Lord's offerings. Verse ConceptsAbhorGrain OfferingIrreverenceSacrilegeLeaders SinningRegulating Sacrifices

For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit. Verse ConceptsFingersBlemishBlood, Figurative UseLipsThe Lips Of The WickedTongueWhy Prayer Is UnansweredUnanswered PrayerKilling Many People

There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways. Verse ConceptsPurity, Moral And SpiritualSelf DeceptionSelf Righteousness, Nature OfSelf DelusionEvil GenerationsPeople Being UncleanPure PeopleHolier Than Thou

Keep this in mind, O Lord, that your haters have said cruel things, and that your name has been looked down on by a people of evil behaviour. Verse ConceptsBlasphemy, At GodInsultsFools, Description OfFools Attitude To God

But the person who does wrong in the pride of his heart, if he is one of you or of another nation by birth, is acting without respect for the Lord, and will be cut off from his people. Verse ConceptsBanishmentdefianceHell, As Incentive To ActionIrreverencePresumptionExcommunicationInfidelity To GodMan's PurposesDeath Penalty For ViolenceThose To Be Cut Off From Israel


The sins of some men are clearly seen, going before them to be judged; but with others, their sins go after them. Verse ConceptsThings ManifestJudgement DayJudgementJudging Others Actionsfollowingothers




For her sins have gone up even to heaven, and God has taken note of her evil-doing. Verse ConceptsBabylonGod Remembering SinThe judgment of babylon

The sins of some men are clearly seen, going before them to be judged; but with others, their sins go after them. Verse ConceptsThings ManifestJudgement DayJudgementJudging Others Actionsfollowingothers







Keep your servant back from sins of pride; let them not have rule over me: then will I be upright and free from great sin. Verse Conceptsethics, and graceBlameRestraintSin, Avoidance OfSin, Nature OfDivine Restraintsdominion


For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place. Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingCruelty, examples ofBribery, Results OfInjustice, Examples OfOffenceGod's Knowledge Of PeopleRighteous, TheRighteousness, Of BelieversSin, And God's CharacterExposure Of SinBusiness At The GatewayNot Helping The Pooroppression

For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place. Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingCruelty, examples ofBribery, Results OfInjustice, Examples OfOffenceGod's Knowledge Of PeopleRighteous, TheRighteousness, Of BelieversSin, And God's CharacterExposure Of SinBusiness At The GatewayNot Helping The Pooroppression

They are an example of that true saying, The dog has gone back to the food it had put out, and the pig which had been washed to its rolling in the dirty earth. Verse ConceptsdogsWicked Described AsDegradationSwinePigsUnclean SpiritsOld SayingsUnclean AnimalsBacksliderspork

It is uprooted by the pigs from the woods, the beasts of the field get their food from it. Verse ConceptsForestsAnimals, Types OfPigs

Do not give that which is holy to the dogs, or put your jewels before pigs, for fear that they will be crushed under foot by the pigs whose attack will then be made against you. Verse ConceptsContemptdogsJewelsPrudenceAskingUngodlinessWasteWicked Described AsDespisersName CallingSwinePeople Torn To PiecesPigsUnfitting ThingsPetsHurt And Betrayalpork

If I make sharp my shining sword, and my hand is outstretched for judging, I will give punishment to those who are against me, and their right reward to my haters. Verse ConceptsHand Of GodHatredSharpeningGod Executes VengeanceHating GodGod's Sword

He is pulling it out, and it comes out of his back; and its shining point comes out of his side; he is overcome by fears. Verse ConceptsFear Will Come

... are stopped in their going, they are falling; and they say one to another, Let us get up and go back to our people, to the land of our birth, away from the cruel sword. Verse ConceptsPeople StumblingSaying Repeatedly


My soul is among lions; I am stretched out among those who are on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and whose tongue is a sharp sword. Verse ConceptsArrows, Figurative OfBitingLionsSpeech, Power And Significance OfSuffering, Of Jesus ChristTeethSharpnessEnemies Surrounding

Horsemen driving forward, and the shining sword and the bright spear: and a great number of wounded, and masses of dead bodies; they are falling over the bodies of the dead: Verse ConceptsStumblingWarfare, Nature OfRiding HorsesSpeedPeople StumblingSparklingDeath



For your mercy is great, stretching up to the heavens, and your righteousness goes up to the clouds. Verse ConceptsGod's Truthcloudsdevotion




For your mercy is great, stretching up to the heavens, and your righteousness goes up to the clouds. Verse ConceptsGod's Truthcloudsdevotion

Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store? Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you?

Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor? Verse ConceptsdistrustThreshing Floor

Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care? Verse ConceptsStrength Of Animals


I have knowledge of a man in Christ, fourteen years back (if he was in the body, or out of the body, I am not able to say, but God only), who was taken up to the third heaven. Verse ConceptsKnowing PeopleNames For HeavenSelf ConfidenceThe Number FourteenTen To Fourteen YearsGod Lifting PeopleThird PersonTaken To HeavenUs In GodHeavenIgnorant Of FactsVisualizationHeavenly VisionGoing To HeavenThe BodyThe Raptureweather





Who has gone up to heaven and come down? who has taken the winds in his hands, prisoning the waters in his robe? by whom have all the ends of the earth been fixed? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you are able to say? Verse ConceptsCreatorCloaksBindingDivine Power Over NatureClimates, TypesCovering The EarthGoing Up To HeavenGod Going DownGod Dispensing WindKnowingWhat Is God's Name?

He made streams come out of the rock; and waters came flowing down like rivers. Verse ConceptsDivine SuppliesProvision From Rocks


You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread. Verse ConceptsWaterNo FoodFeeding The Poor


But because you were uncontrolled, the first place will not be yours; for you went up to your father's bed, even his bride-bed, and made it unclean. Verse ConceptsFicklenessRash People

He put on cursing like a robe, and it has come into his body like water, and into his bones like oil. Verse ConceptsBodyGarments Of SinClothed With Bad ThingsDamage To The BodyThings Like WaterLike WaterSwearingcurses

The stones are crushed small by the force of the waters; the dust of the earth is washed away by their overflowing: and so you put an end to the hope of man. Verse ConceptsFlowing WaterThings Wearing OutWithout Hope

He is the unveiler of deep and secret things: he has knowledge of what is in the dark, and the light has its living-place with him. Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingdarkness, naturalenlightenmentLight, SpiritualShadowsSecret ThingsDeep ThingsGod Dwelling In LightGod Revealing MysteriessecretsLight As A Symbol Of God

Says the Lord, who has made these things clear from the earliest times. Verse ConceptsGod Speaking Of OldGod's Things Revealed

For his eyes go to the ends of the earth, and he sees everything under heaven. Verse ConceptsVeilsGod, All knowingGod Seeing All The Earth



Who would not have fear of you, O King of the nations? for it is your right: for among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like you. Verse ConceptsGod, Sovereignty OfGod, Wisdom OfReverence, And God's NatureGod, All knowingNo One Is Like GodGod Is WorthyGod Is To Be Fearedroyalty

If there is one like me, let him come forward and say it, let him make it clear and put it in order before me: who has made clear in the past the things to come? let him make clear the future to me. Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingGod, Wisdom OfGod's ForeknowledgePredicting The FutureWho Is Like God?



Is anyone able to give teaching to God? for he is the judge of those who are on high. Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingGod, Wisdom OfTeaching WisdomTeaching God

Who gave him suggestions, and made clear to him the right way? who gave him knowledge, guiding him in the way of wisdom? Verse ConceptsenlightenmentTeaching GodGod Has Understanding


For truly my words are not false; one who has all knowledge is talking with you. Verse ConceptsRestored In Jesus ChristPerfection, HumanGod, All knowingPeople With Knowledge

Such knowledge is a wonder greater than my powers; it is so high that I may not come near it. Verse ConceptsRevelation, Necessity OfGod, All knowingKnowingLimits Of Human Mind

Such knowledge is a wonder greater than my powers; it is so high that I may not come near it. Verse ConceptsRevelation, Necessity OfGod, All knowingKnowingLimits Of Human Mind

Truly, God gives up the hard-hearted, and will not give life to the sinner. Verse ConceptsConsistencyGuidance, God's Promises OfGod, Impartiality OfMighty One

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