Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hung our harps upon the willows in the midst of it. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. read more.
How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a foreign land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her skill. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favor the dust thereof.


Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good. Verse ConceptsFor The Sake Of ThingsGood Activity

The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life. Yes, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel.

Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labor not to comfort me, because of the devastation of the daughter of my people. Verse ConceptsBeing Earnest For IsraelSorrowNo Comfort

And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. Verse ConceptsRuinsWallsArchaeologyWaste Places RestoredRepairingbridgesrebuilding

For Zion's sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until its righteousness shall go forth as brightness, and its salvation as a lamp that burneth. Verse ConceptsBeing Earnest For IsraelRadiancySilenceGod's Salvation Made KnownSalvation, Illustrations OfFervourZealousness, Examples OfRadiant LivesThe SunGod Being SilentA Righteous PeopleFor The Sake Of God's Peoplezionvindication

I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence, And give him no rest, till he shall establish, and till he shall make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her: Verse ConceptsLoving God's Things

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As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem. And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known towards his servants, and his indignation towards his enemies.

Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! Verse ConceptsAffliction Day And NightFountainsEyes, Figurative UseBeing Earnest For IsraelNightSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfTearsMetaphorical SpringsMourning DeathFountains Used Figuratively

Therefore thou shalt say this word to them; Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow. Verse ConceptsdaughtersAffliction Day And NightNightI Mourn Catastrophe

Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind. We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD'S house.

My eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingIntestinesTearsFaintingEyes HarmedTragedy On The StreetsYoung People SufferingI Am Sufferingknots

My eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. My eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, Till the LORD shall look down, and behold from heaven. read more.
My eye affecteth my heart because of all the daughters of my city.

That thou mayest not appear to men to fast, but to thy Father, who is in secret: and thy Father, who seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly. Verse Conceptsethics, incentives towardsBeing Seen By ManGod Seeing The RighteousHow To FastSeeing PeopleRewardFastingFasting And Prayer

Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rear-ward. Then shalt thou call, and the LORD will answer; thou shalt cry, and he will say, Here I am. If thou shalt take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; And if thou shalt draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day: read more.
And the LORD will guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drouth, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah-tree, and the myrtle, and the oil-tree; I will set in the desert the fir-tree, the pine, and the box-tree together: Verse ConceptsFir TreesOlivesTreesWaste Places RestoredMyrtleOlive TreesChristmas Tree

And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. Verse ConceptsRuinsWallsArchaeologyWaste Places RestoredRepairingbridgesrebuilding

For the LORD will comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. Verse ConceptsGarden Of Eden, TheHorticultureJoy, Of IsraelLand, Spiritual Aspects OfRuinsThanksgivingAfflictions, Consolation DuringArchaeologyEdenWaste Places RestoredBlessing In The WildernessThose Singing PraiseGod Will ComfortFree Of ChargeGardensPeace And ComfortzionFinding Comfort In God

The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose. Verse ConceptsDesertsBeauty, In NatureWaste Places RestoredAutumnBlossomingBlessing In The WildernessRejoicing In ProsperityRosesspringtime

That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up her decayed places: Verse ConceptsBeginningArchaeologyWaste Places RestoredSure KnowledgeRebuilding Jerusalem

For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away. Verse ConceptsWaste Places RestoredFar From Here

Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. Verse ConceptsJerusalem, Significance OfSingingSongsArchaeologyWaste Places RestoredDestruction Of JerusalemGod Has ComfortedFinding Comfort In God

And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations. Verse ConceptsGenerationsBeginningRuinsBuilding CitiesArchaeologyWaste Places RestoredRepairingRebuilding JerusalemRenewalbridgesrebuilding

And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be built. Verse ConceptsWaste Places RestoredInhabitationGod Multipling PeopleRebuilding JerusalemRebirth Of IsraelValley Of Dry Bones