Thematic Bible: Extremity of examples of
Thematic Bible
Man » Extremity of examples of » Frailty of
he is like the animals that perish.
But David said, “Your father certainly knows that you have come to look favorably on me. He has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or else he will be grieved.’” David also swore, “As surely as the Lord lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”
and even the light of my eyes has faded.
a wind that passes and does not return.
remembering that we are dust.
turning up rocks,
so our
at the mouth of Sheol.
who has only the breath in his nostrils.
What is he really worth?
Another
“All humanity is grass,
and all its goodness is like the flower of the field.
and all our righteous acts are like a polluted
all of us wither like a leaf,
and our iniquities
For
All flesh is like grass,
and all its glory like a flower of the grass.
The grass withers, and the flower falls,
and all its glory
The grass withers, and the flower falls,
Man » Extremity of examples of » Glory of
no birth, no gestation, no conception.
For
All flesh is like grass,
and all its glory like a flower of the grass.
The grass withers, and the flower falls,
and all its glory
The grass withers, and the flower falls,
his wealth
and opens wide its enormous jaws,
and down go Zion’s dignitaries, her masses,
her crowds, and those who carouse in her!
For the Lord said this to me: “Within one year, as a hired worker counts years, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.
“‘Son of man, know that on the day I take their stronghold from them, their pride and joy, the delight of their eyes and the longing of their hearts, as well as their sons and daughters,
the more they sinned against Me.
I
for their glory is destroyed.
Listen to the roar of young lions,
for the thickets of the Jordan
Man » Extremity of examples of » The father of the demoniac
Out of the crowd, one man answered Him, "Teacher, I brought my son to You. He has a spirit that makes him unable to speak. Wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. So I asked Your disciples to drive it out, but they couldn't."
“Sir,” the sick man answered, “I don’t have a man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, someone goes down ahead of me.”
Man » Extremity of examples of » The disciples in the storm
But He was in the stern, sleeping on the cushion. So they woke Him up and said to Him, “Teacher! Don’t You care that we’re going to die?”
He saw them being battered as they rowed, because the wind was against them. Around three in the morning He came toward them walking on the sea and wanted to pass by them.
Man » Extremity of examples of » The sick woman
A woman suffering from bleeding for 12 years had endured much under many doctors. She had spent everything she had and was not helped at all. On the contrary, she became worse.
Man » Extremity of examples of » The psalmist
I was helpless, and He saved me.
Man » Extremity of examples of » Paul and his companions on the sea
For many days neither sun nor stars appeared, and the severe storm kept raging. Finally all hope that we would be saved was disappearing.
Man » Extremity of examples of » Peter in prison
On the night before Herod was to bring him out for execution, Peter, bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, while the sentries in front of the door guarded the prison.
Man » Extremity of examples of » The disciples facing a hungry multitude
“There’s a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish—but what are they for so many?”