Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Afflictions made beneficial » In leading us to seek God in prayer
And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and for twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
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I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: restore me, and I shall return; for you are the LORD my God.
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The LORD has done that which he had purposed; he has fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he has thrown down, and has not pitied: and he has caused your enemy to rejoice over you, he has set up the might of your adversaries. Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give yourself no relief; let not your eyes rest. Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.
For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear them and go away; I will take them away, and none shall rescue him. I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
Backsliding » Afflictions sent to heal
I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
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Confession of sin » God requires
I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
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And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that he has sinned in that thing:
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