Thematic Bible: Extremity of examples of
Thematic Bible
Man » Extremity of examples of » Frailty of
But man cannot continue in [his] pomp. He is like the beasts [that] perish.
Then David {took an oath} again and said, "Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he thought, 'Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he worry.' But {as Yahweh lives} and {as your soul lives}, surely [there is] merely a step between me and death!"
My heart throbs violently, my strength leaves me; and the light of my eyes, that also is not with me.
for he remembered that they [were] flesh, a passing wind that does not return.
For he knows our frame. He remembers that we [are] dust.
As [when one] plows and breaks up the earth, [so] our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
Turn away from humanity, who [has] breath in its nostrils, for by what [is] it esteemed?
A voice [is] saying, "Call!" And he said, "What shall I call?" All {humankind} [are] grass, and all his loyalty [is] like the flowers of the field.
And we all have become like the unclean, and all our deeds of justice like a menstrual cloth, And we all wither like leaf, and our iniquities take us away like the wind.
For "all flesh [is] like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass withers and the flower falls off,
Man » Extremity of examples of » Glory of
Ephraim's glory [is] like a bird; it will fly away-- no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.
For "all flesh [is] like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass withers and the flower falls off,
because when he dies he will not take [away] any [of it]. His wealth will not follow down after him.
Therefore Sheol has enlarged its throat, and it has opened wide its mouth without limit, and her nobles will go down, and her multitude, her tumult and those who revel in her.
For the Lord said this to me: "{In one more year}, like [the] years of a hired worker, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end.
"And you, son of man, [will it] not [be that] on the day {when I take from them} their stronghold, the joy of their glory, the delight of their eyes, and the longing of their inner self, their sons and daughters--
When they became many, their sin increased against me; they changed their glory into shame.
[Listen to] the wailing of the shepherds, for their splendor is ruined! [Listen to] the roar of [the] young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are ruined!
Man » Extremity of examples of » The father of the demoniac
And one [individual] from the crowd answered him, "Teacher, I brought to you my son who has {a spirit that makes him mute}. And whenever it seizes him, it throws him down and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth and becomes paralyzed. And I told your disciples that they should expel it, and they were not able [to do so].
The one who was sick answered him, "Sir, I do not have anyone that, whenever the water is stirred up, could put me into the pool. But {while} I am coming, another goes down before me."
Man » Extremity of examples of » The disciples in the storm
And he was in the stern sleeping on the cushion, and they woke him up and said to him, "Teacher, is it not a concern to you that we are perishing?"
And he saw them being beaten in their rowing because the wind was against them. Around the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea, and he was wanting to pass by them.
Man » Extremity of examples of » The sick woman
And [there was] a woman who was {suffering from hemorrhages} twelve years. And she had endured many [things] under many physicians, and had spent {all that she had} and had received no [help] at all, but instead {became worse}.
Man » Extremity of examples of » The psalmist
Yahweh watches over [the] simple. I was brought low, but he gave me victory.
Man » Extremity of examples of » Paul and his companions on the sea
But [when] neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and [with] not a little bad weather confronting [us], finally all hope was abandoned [that] we would be saved.
Man » Extremity of examples of » Peter in prison
Now when Herod was about to bring him [out], on that [very] night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards before the door were watching the prison.
Man » Extremity of examples of » The disciples facing a hungry multitude
"Here is a boy who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these for so many [people]?"