Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
physical Bondage » In prison » In stocks
And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps;
The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;
Then on the day after, Pashhur let Jeremiah loose. Then Jeremiah said to him, The Lord has given you the name of Magor-missabib (Cause-of-fear-on-every-side), not Pashhur.
The Lord has made you priest in place of Jehoiada the priest, to be an overseer in the house of the Lord for every man who is off his head and is acting as a prophet, to put such men in prison and in chains.
And he, having such orders, put them into the inner prison with chains on their feet.
Feet » Of criminals » Placed in stocks
And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps;
And he, having such orders, put them into the inner prison with chains on their feet.
human Limitations » Man subject to » Feet in the stocks
And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps;
My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.
Man » Limitations of » Feet in the stocks
And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps;
My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.
Reasoning » With God
But I would have talk with the Ruler of all, and my desire is to have an argument with God.
Give ear with care to my words, and keep what I say in your minds. See now, I have put my cause in order, and I am certain that I will be seen to be right. Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath. read more.
Only two things do not do to me, then I will come before your face: Take your hand far away from me; and let me not be overcome by fear of you. Then at the sound of your voice I will give answer; or let me put forward my cause for you to give me an answer. What is the number of my evil-doings and my sins? give me knowledge of them. Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters? Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way? For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years; And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps; Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.
Only two things do not do to me, then I will come before your face: Take your hand far away from me; and let me not be overcome by fear of you. Then at the sound of your voice I will give answer; or let me put forward my cause for you to give me an answer. What is the number of my evil-doings and my sins? give me knowledge of them. Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters? Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way? For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years; And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps; Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.
Stocks » Feet fastened in, as a punishment
And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps;
The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;