Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



By the rivers of Babylon we sit down and weep when we remember Zion. On the poplars in her midst we hang our harps, for there our captors ask us to compose songs; those who mock us demand that we be happy, saying: "Sing for us a song about Zion!" read more.
How can we sing a song to the Lord in a foreign land? If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand be crippled! May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, and do not give Jerusalem priority over whatever gives me the most joy.

Indeed, your servants take delight in her stones, and feel compassion for the dust of her ruins.


For the sake of the temple of the Lord our God I will pray for you to prosper. Verse ConceptsFor The Sake Of ThingsGood Activity

May the Lord bless you from Zion, that you might see Jerusalem prosper all the days of your life, and that you might see your grandchildren. May Israel experience peace!

So I say: "Don't look at me! I am weeping bitterly. Don't try to console me concerning the destruction of my defenseless people." Verse ConceptsBeing Earnest For IsraelSorrowNo Comfort

Your perpetual ruins will be rebuilt; you will reestablish the ancient foundations. You will be called, 'The one who repairs broken walls, the one who makes the streets inhabitable again.' Verse ConceptsRuinsWallsArchaeologyWaste Places RestoredRepairingbridgesrebuilding

"For the sake of Zion I will not be silent; for the sake of Jerusalem I will not be quiet, until her vindication shines brightly and her deliverance burns like a torch." 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 post watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they should keep praying all day and all night. You who pray to the Lord, don't be silent! Don't allow him to rest until he reestablishes Jerusalem, until he makes Jerusalem the pride of the earth.

Be happy for Jerusalem and rejoice with her, all you who love her! Share in her great joy, all you who have mourned over her! Verse ConceptsLoving God's Things

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As a mother consoles a child, so I will console you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem." When you see this, you will be happy, and you will be revived. The Lord will reveal his power to his servants and his anger to his enemies.

I wish that my head were a well full of water and my eyes were a fountain full of tears! If they were, I could cry day and night for those of my dear people who have been killed. Verse ConceptsAffliction Day And NightFountainsEyes, Figurative UseBeing Earnest For IsraelNightSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfTearsMetaphorical SpringsMourning DeathFountains Used Figuratively

"Tell these people this, Jeremiah: 'My eyes overflow with tears day and night without ceasing. For my people, my dear children, have suffered a crushing blow. They have suffered a serious wound. Verse ConceptsdaughtersAffliction Day And NightNightI Mourn Catastrophe

You who have escaped the sword, go, do not delay. Remember the Lord in a faraway land. Think about Jerusalem. We are ashamed because we have been insulted. Our faces show our disgrace. For foreigners have invaded the holy rooms in the Lord's temple.'

(Kaf) My eyes are worn out from weeping; my stomach is in knots. My heart is poured out on the ground due to the destruction of my helpless people; children and infants faint in the town squares. Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingIntestinesTearsFaintingEyes HarmedTragedy On The StreetsYoung People SufferingI Am Sufferingknots

Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed. (Ayin) Tears flow from my eyes and will not stop; there will be no break until the Lord looks down from heaven and sees what has happened. read more.
What my eyes see grieves me -- all the suffering of the daughters in my city.


At that time you will say: "I praise you, O Lord, for even though you were angry with me, your anger subsided, and you consoled me. Verse ConceptsAfflictions, Consolation DuringComfort, Of GodGod Has ComfortedGod Will No More Be AngryWe Thank GodreunitingFinding Comfort In God

Raise me to a position of great honor! Turn and comfort me! Verse ConceptsAfflictions, Consolation DuringGod Will ComfortPeace And Comfortgreatness

Show me evidence of your favor! Then those who hate me will see it and be ashamed, for you, O Lord, will help me and comfort me. Verse ConceptsGod, Goodness OfJustice, In Believers' LivesSuffering, Encouragements InSeeking A SignGod Has ComfortedGod HelpsHateFavorGoodnessBeing PositivehatershelphelpingFinding Comfort In God

Certainly the Lord will console Zion; he will console all her ruins. He will make her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the Garden of the Lord. Happiness and joy will be restored to her, thanksgiving and the sound of music. 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

"I, I am the one who consoles you. Why are you afraid of mortal men, of mere human beings who are as short-lived as grass? Verse ConceptsGrassMan As GrassFear Of ManFear, Overcome ByThe Spirit Of GodGod Will ComfortLike GrassMere Men



Certainly the Lord will console Zion; he will console all her ruins. He will make her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the Garden of the Lord. Happiness and joy will be restored to her, thanksgiving and the sound of music. 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


Yet some survivors will be left in it, sons and daughters who will be brought out. They will come out to you, and when you see their behavior and their deeds, you will be consoled about the catastrophe I have brought on Jerusalem -- for everything I brought on it. They will console you when you see their behavior and their deeds, because you will know that it was not without reason that I have done everything which I have done in it, declares the sovereign Lord."


At that time you will say: "I praise you, O Lord, for even though you were angry with me, your anger subsided, and you consoled me. Verse ConceptsAfflictions, Consolation DuringComfort, Of GodGod Has ComfortedGod Will No More Be AngryWe Thank GodreunitingFinding Comfort In God

Raise me to a position of great honor! Turn and comfort me! Verse ConceptsAfflictions, Consolation DuringGod Will ComfortPeace And Comfortgreatness

Show me evidence of your favor! Then those who hate me will see it and be ashamed, for you, O Lord, will help me and comfort me. Verse ConceptsGod, Goodness OfJustice, In Believers' LivesSuffering, Encouragements InSeeking A SignGod Has ComfortedGod HelpsHateFavorGoodnessBeing PositivehatershelphelpingFinding Comfort In God

Certainly the Lord will console Zion; he will console all her ruins. He will make her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the Garden of the Lord. Happiness and joy will be restored to her, thanksgiving and the sound of music. 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

"I, I am the one who consoles you. Why are you afraid of mortal men, of mere human beings who are as short-lived as grass? Verse ConceptsGrassMan As GrassFear Of ManFear, Overcome ByThe Spirit Of GodGod Will ComfortLike GrassMere Men