Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Afflictions of the The Wicked » Are ineffectual of themselves, for their conversion
The people did not return to the one who struck them, they did not seek reconciliation with the Lord who commands armies.
"It did no good for me to punish your people. They did not respond to such correction. You slaughtered your prophets like a voracious lion."
I struck all the products of your labor with blight, disease, and hail, and yet you brought nothing to me,' says the Lord.
Agriculture » Foes of » Blasting of crops
I struck all the products of your labor with blight, disease, and hail, and yet you brought nothing to me,' says the Lord.
"The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight and disease, or a locust invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land, or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs.
He will afflict you with weakness, fever, inflammation, infection, sword, blight, and mildew; these will attack you until you perish.
"I destroyed your crops with blight and disease. Locusts kept devouring your orchards, vineyards, fig trees, and olive trees. Still you did not come back to me." The Lord is speaking!
Blasting » Blasting of crops
I struck all the products of your labor with blight, disease, and hail, and yet you brought nothing to me,' says the Lord.
"The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight and disease, or a locust invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land, or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs.
He will afflict you with weakness, fever, inflammation, infection, sword, blight, and mildew; these will attack you until you perish.
"I destroyed your crops with blight and disease. Locusts kept devouring your orchards, vineyards, fig trees, and olive trees. Still you did not come back to me." The Lord is speaking!
Blasting » Sent as a judgment
I struck all the products of your labor with blight, disease, and hail, and yet you brought nothing to me,' says the Lord.
He will afflict you with weakness, fever, inflammation, infection, sword, blight, and mildew; these will attack you until you perish.
"I destroyed your crops with blight and disease. Locusts kept devouring your orchards, vineyards, fig trees, and olive trees. Still you did not come back to me." The Lord is speaking!
Look, I will take control of his mind; he will receive a report and return to his own land. I will cut him down with a sword in his own land."'"
Look, I will take control of his mind; he will receive a report and return to his own land. I will cut him down with a sword in his own land."'"
Famine » Caused by » Blasting and mildew
I struck all the products of your labor with blight, disease, and hail, and yet you brought nothing to me,' says the Lord.
"I destroyed your crops with blight and disease. Locusts kept devouring your orchards, vineyards, fig trees, and olive trees. Still you did not come back to me." The Lord is speaking!
Impenitence » Warnings against
I struck all the products of your labor with blight, disease, and hail, and yet you brought nothing to me,' says the Lord.
However, because I called but you refused to listen, because I stretched out my hand but no one paid attention,
You also have done all these things, says the Lord, and I have spoken to you over and over again. But you have not listened! You have refused to respond when I called you to repent!
Then Jesus began to criticize openly the cities in which he had done many of his miracles, because they did not repent.
"But surely I gave you no food to eat in any of your cities; you lacked food everywhere you live. Still you did not come back to me." The Lord is speaking!
When a sentence is not executed at once against a crime, the human heart is encouraged to do evil.
"'If in spite of these things you do not allow yourselves to be disciplined and you walk in hostility against me,
The arrogance of Israel testifies against him, yet they refuse to return to the Lord their God! In spite of all this they refuse to seek him!
The Second Temple » The jews punished for not persevering in building
I struck all the products of your labor with blight, disease, and hail, and yet you brought nothing to me,' says the Lord.
You have planted much, but have harvested little. You eat, but are never filled. You drink, but are still thirsty. You put on clothes, but are not warm. Those who earn wages end up with holes in their money bags.'"
You expected a large harvest, but instead there was little, and when you brought it home it disappeared right away. Why?' asks the Lord who rules over all. 'Because my temple remains in ruins, thanks to each of you favoring his own house! This is why the sky has held back its dew and the earth its produce. Moreover, I have called for a drought that will affect the fields, the hill country, the grain, new wine, fresh olive oil, and everything that grows from the ground; it also will harm people, animals, and everything they produce.'"
Now therefore reflect carefully on the recent past, before one stone was laid on another in the Lord's temple.