Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Condemnation » Increased by » Oppression
Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you. Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing. Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days. read more.
See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies. You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction.
See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies. You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction.
Garments » Of the rich » Often moth-eaten
Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.
Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.
Insects » Locusts » Moths
Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.
How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;
His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.
See, the Lord God is my helper; who will give a decision against me? truly, all of them will become old like a robe; they will be food for the worm.
Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.
Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.
And so to Ephraim I am like a wasting insect, and a destruction to the children of Judah.
Moth » Figurative
Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.
Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away. But make a store for yourselves in heaven, where it will not be turned to dust and where thieves do not come in to take it away:
Moths » Destructive to garments
Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.
Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.
Riches » Described as » Corruptible
Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction,
Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.