Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



Come now, you rich [people], weep aloud and lament over the miseries (the woes) that are surely coming upon you. Your abundant wealth has rotted and is ruined, and your [many] garments have become moth-eaten. Your gold and silver are completely rusted through, and their rust will be testimony against you and it will devour your flesh as if it were fire. You have heaped together treasure for the last days. read more.
[But] look! [Here are] the wages that you have withheld by fraud from the laborers who have reaped your fields, crying out [for vengeance]; and the cries of the harvesters have come to the ears of the Lord of hosts. [Here] on earth you have abandoned yourselves to soft (prodigal) living and to [the pleasures of] self-indulgence and self-gratification. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.


While I waste away like a rotten thing,
Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Verse ConceptsInsectsWasteMothsPeople RottingPossessions DecayingFood Decayingworms

Your wealth has rotted and is ruined and your [fine] clothes have become moth-eaten. Verse ConceptsDecayInsectsRiches, Description OfMothsTransient WorldPossessions DecayingFoul ClothesDrawbacks To RichesFinances



‘How much more [will He blame and charge] those who dwell in houses (bodies) of clay,
Whose foundations are in the dust,
Who are crushed like a moth.
Verse ConceptsFoundationsInsectsProperty, HousesMan, Insignificance OfMothsMetaphorical HousesCreatures From Dust


“He builds his house like a spider’s web,
Like a (temporary) hut which a watchman makes.
Verse ConceptsInsectsMothsSpidersDwellings Of CreaturesOther Dwellings Of Creatures


In fact, the Lord God helps Me;
Who is he who condemns Me [as guilty]?
Indeed, they will all wear out like a garment;
The moth will eat them.
Verse ConceptsClothingHelpfulnessInsectsWicked Described AsMothsPeople Eaten By WormPeople Wearing OutNo CondemnationGod Helps


While I waste away like a rotten thing,
Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Verse ConceptsInsectsWasteMothsPeople RottingPossessions DecayingFood Decayingworms

Your wealth has rotted and is ruined and your [fine] clothes have become moth-eaten. Verse ConceptsDecayInsectsRiches, Description OfMothsTransient WorldPossessions DecayingFoul ClothesDrawbacks To RichesFinances


Therefore I am like a moth to Ephraim
And like dry rot to the house of Judah [in My judgment against them].
Verse ConceptsInsectsMothsPeople RottingPeople Eaten By Worm

Your wealth has rotted and is ruined and your [fine] clothes have become moth-eaten. Verse ConceptsDecayInsectsRiches, Description OfMothsTransient WorldPossessions DecayingFoul ClothesDrawbacks To RichesFinances

Do not gather and heap up and store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust and worm consume and destroy, and where thieves break through and steal. But gather and heap up and store for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust nor worm consume and destroy, and where thieves do not break through and steal;


Your wealth has rotted and is ruined and your [fine] clothes have become moth-eaten. Verse ConceptsDecayInsectsRiches, Description OfMothsTransient WorldPossessions DecayingFoul ClothesDrawbacks To RichesFinances

For you know that you were not redeemed from your useless [spiritually unproductive] way of life inherited [by tradition] from your forefathers with perishable things like silver and gold, Verse ConceptsFutilityemptinessGoldMarketsRiches, Nature OfRiches, Description OfPossessions DecayingTransient WealthUseless EndeavourPeople Are CorruptibleMoney's Deficienciesfearlessliberationredeemed

Your wealth has rotted and is ruined and your [fine] clothes have become moth-eaten. Verse ConceptsDecayInsectsRiches, Description OfMothsTransient WorldPossessions DecayingFoul ClothesDrawbacks To RichesFinances