Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Body » Frailty of
But mortals will not continue here with what they treasure. They are like animals that die.
David again said: Your father has certainly known that I have found favor in your eyes. He said: Do not let Jonathan know this, that he not be grieved. And yet, as Jehovah lives, and you live, there is only a step between death and me.
My heart pounds. I have lost my strength. In my blindness the light of my eyes has left me.
He remembered that they were only flesh and blood, a breeze that blows and does not return.
For he knows our conception and he remembers that we are dust.
As someone plows and breaks up the ground, so our bones will be planted at the mouth of the grave.
Stop trusting people, whose breath (life) is in their nostrils. How can they be worth anything?
A voice shouts: Cry out! And I said: What shall I cry? The voice shouts: All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field.
All of us have become unclean, and all our righteous acts are like permanently stained rags. All of us wither like leaves, and our sins carry us away like the wind.
All people are like grass. All their glory is like the blossom of a flower. The grass withers and the flower drops off.
Breath » Of life
Jehovah God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. The man became a living being.
Stop trusting people, whose breath (life) is in their nostrils. How can they be worth anything?
The Lord Jehovah says to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you that you may come to life.
You lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. They have brought the vessels of his house before you and your lords, wives and concubines. They drank wine from them. You praise the gods of silver and gold, of copper, iron, wood, and stone, which you do not see, nor hear, nor know. You have not glorified the God whose hand holds your breath and life.
Men's hands do not serve him as if he needed anything. He gives life and breath to all.
Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
false Confidence » In man
A mighty army does not save the king. A warrior is not delivered by great strength.
When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to King Jareb. He is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.
Ephraim, you are like a simpleminded, senseless dove. You call to Egypt and run to Assyria for help.
Common people are only a vapor in the wind. Important people are only a delusion. When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing. They are less than a vapor in the wind.
Stop trusting people, whose breath (life) is in their nostrils. How can they be worth anything?
This is what Jehovah says: Cursed is the person who trusts humans, who makes flesh and blood his strength and whose heart turns away from Jehovah.
It is better to trust in Jehovah than to depend on people.
Do not trust in princes, in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation. His spirit (Hebrew: ruach, breath, life) departs, he returns to the earth; in that very day his thoughts perish (come to an end).
Man » Extremity of examples of » Frailty of
But mortals will not continue here with what they treasure. They are like animals that die.
David again said: Your father has certainly known that I have found favor in your eyes. He said: Do not let Jonathan know this, that he not be grieved. And yet, as Jehovah lives, and you live, there is only a step between death and me.
My heart pounds. I have lost my strength. In my blindness the light of my eyes has left me.
He remembered that they were only flesh and blood, a breeze that blows and does not return.
For he knows our conception and he remembers that we are dust.
As someone plows and breaks up the ground, so our bones will be planted at the mouth of the grave.
Stop trusting people, whose breath (life) is in their nostrils. How can they be worth anything?
A voice shouts: Cry out! And I said: What shall I cry? The voice shouts: All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field.
All of us have become unclean, and all our righteous acts are like permanently stained rags. All of us wither like leaves, and our sins carry us away like the wind.
All people are like grass. All their glory is like the blossom of a flower. The grass withers and the flower drops off.
Man » Redemption of » Trust in
You go to Egypt for help without asking for my advice. You want Egypt to protect you. You put your trust in Egypt's military might.
How horrible it will be for those who go to Egypt for help! Cursed are those who rely on very strong warhorses, who depend on many chariots. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel. They do not seek Jehovah.
When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to King Jareb. He is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.
Stop trusting people, whose breath (life) is in their nostrils. How can they be worth anything?
This is what Jehovah says: Cursed is the person who trusts humans, who makes flesh and blood his strength and whose heart turns away from Jehovah.
When you trust Egypt, you trust a broken stick for a staff. If you lean on it, it stabs your hand and goes through it. This is what Pharaoh king of Egypt is like for everyone who trusts him.
Do not trust in princes, in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation.
The Egyptians are humans, not God. Their horses are flesh and blood, not spirit. Jehovah will stretch out his powerful hand (extend his power). The one who gives help will stumble. The one who receives help will fall. Both will die together.
It is better to trust in Jehovah than to depend on human leaders.
Man » No trust to be placed in
Stop trusting people, whose breath (life) is in their nostrils. How can they be worth anything?
It is better to trust in Jehovah than to depend on people.
FALSE » Trusts » Trust in man, warnings concerning
You go to Egypt for help without asking for my advice. You want Egypt to protect you. You put your trust in Egypt's military might.
How horrible it will be for those who go to Egypt for help! Cursed are those who rely on very strong warhorses, who depend on many chariots. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel. They do not seek Jehovah.
When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to King Jareb. He is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.
Stop trusting people, whose breath (life) is in their nostrils. How can they be worth anything?
This is what Jehovah says: Cursed is the person who trusts humans, who makes flesh and blood his strength and whose heart turns away from Jehovah.
When you trust Egypt, you trust a broken stick for a staff. If you lean on it, it stabs your hand and goes through it. This is what Pharaoh king of Egypt is like for everyone who trusts him.
Do not trust in princes, in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation.
The Egyptians are humans, not God. Their horses are flesh and blood, not spirit. Jehovah will stretch out his powerful hand (extend his power). The one who gives help will stumble. The one who receives help will fall. Both will die together.
It is better to trust in Jehovah than to depend on human leaders.