Thematic Bible: Guilt and consequences of


Thematic Bible




So like a lion from the thicket their enemies will kill them. Like a wolf from the desert they will destroy them. Like a leopard they will lie in wait outside their cities and totally destroy anyone who ventures out. For they have rebelled so much and done so many unfaithful things. Verse ConceptsForestsLeopardCarnivorousnessWolvesIn Danger From Lions

For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the Lord, the Lord will not be with you." Verse ConceptsConversion, God's demands forKilled With The Sword

As for those who are bent on traveling a sinful path, may the Lord remove them, along with those who behave wickedly! May Israel experience peace! Verse ConceptsBacksliding, CausesBanishmentCrookednessEvildoersTwisted Ways


For this reason deliverance is far from us and salvation does not reach us. We wait for light, but see only darkness; we wait for a bright light, but live in deep darkness. We grope along the wall like the blind, we grope like those who cannot see; we stumble at noontime as if it were evening. Though others are strong, we are like dead men. We all growl like bears, we coo mournfully like doves; we wait for deliverance, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far from us.

Why, then, do these people of Jerusalem continually turn away from me in apostasy? They hold fast to their deception. They refuse to turn back to me. Verse ConceptsConversion, God's demands forUnceasingContinual SinMen DeceivingBackslidersapostasy

I, the Lord, say: 'You people have deserted me! You keep turning your back on me.' So I have unleashed my power against you and have begun to destroy you. I have grown tired of feeling sorry for you!" Verse ConceptsForsaking God, Illustrated ByForsaking GodHand Of GodRejection Of GodRejection Of God, Results OfUnfaithfulness, To GodGod's HandGod DestroyingBackwardsGod's Hands Stretched OutGod Without MercyBacksliderstiredFalling Away From God

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