Thematic Bible: Divine Presence


Thematic Bible




And Jonah got up to go in flight to Tarshish, away from the Lord; and he went down to Joppa, and saw there a ship going to Tarshish: so he gave them the price of the journey and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish, away from the Lord.

Let them be like smoke before the driving wind; as wax turning soft before the fire, so let them come to an end before the power of God.


Have you no fear of me? says the Lord; will you not be shaking with fear before me, who have put the sand as a limit for the sea, by an eternal order, so that it may not go past it? and though it is ever in motion, it is not able to have its way; though the sound of its waves is loud, they are not able to go past it.

For this cause I am in fear before him, my thoughts of him overcome me.




And he went down on the earth, and a voice said to him, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly?

And when he said to them, I am he, they went back, falling to the earth.



Then the Lord said to Jacob, Go back to the land of your fathers, and to your relations, and I will be with you.

Among the children of Israel I will make my living-place, and I will be their God.

And he said, Truly I will be with you; and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: when you have taken the children of Israel out of Egypt, you will give worship to God on this mountain.






Give songs of joy, O daughter of Zion: for I come, and I will make my resting-place among you, says the Lord.


When you go out to war against other nations, and come face to face with horses and war-carriages and armies greater in number than yourselves, have no fear of them: for the Lord your God is with you, who took you up out of the land of Egypt.






Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain