Thematic Bible: Insecurity of the wicked
Thematic Bible
Insecurity of the wicked » The sudden overthrow of sinners
who knows what distress these two can bring?
he will be shattered instantly—beyond recovery.
like a spreading breach,
a bulge in a high wall
whose collapse will come in an instant—suddenly!
For man certainly does not know his time: like fish caught in a cruel net or like birds caught in a trap, so people are trapped in an evil time as it suddenly falls on them.
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after many reprimands
will be shattered instantly—
beyond recovery.
you will not know how to avert it.
And it will fall on you,
but you will be unable to ward it off.
Devastation will happen to you suddenly
and unexpectedly.
than the sand of the seas.
I brought a destroyer at noon
against the mother of young men.
I suddenly released on her
agitation and terrors.
When they say, “Peace and security,” then sudden destruction comes on them, like labor pains come on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
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Insecurity of the wicked » General references to
like a spreading breach,
a bulge in a high wall
whose collapse will come in an instant—suddenly!
before He brings darkness,
before your feet stumble
on the mountains at dusk.
You wait for light,
but He brings darkest gloom
and makes thick darkness.
You make them fall into ruin.
or lying down on the top of a ship’s mast.
like slippery paths in the gloom.
They will be driven away and fall down there,
for I will bring disaster on them,
the year of their punishment.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
"Since they have led My people astray saying: Peace, when there is no peace, for when someone builds a wall they plaster it with whitewash, therefore, tell those who plaster [it] that it will fall. Torrential rain will come, and I will send hailstones plunging down, and a windstorm will be released.
But everyone who hears these words of Mine and doesn't act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. The rain fell, the rivers rose, the winds blew and pounded that house, and it collapsed. And its collapse was great!"
Insecurity of the wicked » Fall of the wicked foretold
a man cursed by the Lord will fall into it.
They weren’t at all ashamed.
They can no longer feel humiliation.
Therefore, they will fall among the fallen.
When I punish them, they will collapse,
says the Lord.
and say, “As your god lives, Dan,”
or “As the way
they will fall, never to rise again.
but the wicked person will fall because of his wickedness.
and the one who breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.
when they act promiscuously
or your daughters-in-law
when they commit adultery,
for the men themselves go off with prostitutes
and make sacrifices with cult prostitutes.
People without discernment are doomed.
“You are to say to them: This is what the Lord says:
Do people fall and not get up again?
If they turn away, do they not return?
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If they turn away, do they not return?