Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Afflictions » Often severe
I said to him: Sir, you know. He said to me: These are the ones who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
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One deep sea calls to another at the roar of your waterspouts. All the whitecaps on your waves have swept over me.
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He has exhausted me. You have lain waste all my company. You have shriveled me up. It has become a witness. And my leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face. His anger has torn me and hunted me down. He has gnashed at me with his teeth. My adversary glares at me. read more.
They have gaped at me with their mouth. They have slapped me on the cheek with contempt. They have massed themselves against me. God hands me over to ruffians. He tosses me into the hands of the wicked. I was at ease, but he shattered me. He has grabbed me by the neck and has shaken me to pieces. He has also set me up as his target. His arrows surround me. Without mercy he splits my kidneys open. He pours out my gall on the ground. He breaks through me with breach after breach. He runs at me like a warrior. I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and thrust my horn (strength) in the dust. My face is flushed from weeping. The shadow of death is on my eyelids.
They have gaped at me with their mouth. They have slapped me on the cheek with contempt. They have massed themselves against me. God hands me over to ruffians. He tosses me into the hands of the wicked. I was at ease, but he shattered me. He has grabbed me by the neck and has shaken me to pieces. He has also set me up as his target. His arrows surround me. Without mercy he splits my kidneys open. He pours out my gall on the ground. He breaks through me with breach after breach. He runs at me like a warrior. I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and thrust my horn (strength) in the dust. My face is flushed from weeping. The shadow of death is on my eyelids.
You let people ride over our heads. We went through fire and water, but then you brought us out and refreshed us.
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For you threw me into the deep, in the heart of the seas. The current was all around me. All your waves, your huge breakers passed over me!
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Horns » Illustrative » (bringing down,) of degradation
I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and thrust my horn (strength) in the dust.
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Sackcloth » A symbol of mourning
Cry loudly, Heshbon, because Ai is destroyed. Cry, people of Rabbah, put on your sackcloth, and mourn. Run back and forth between the walls. Milcom will be taken away into captivity with its priests and officials.
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The elders of the daughter of Zion are seated on the earth and keep silent. They throw dust on their heads. They are clothed in sackcloth. The heads of the virgins of Jerusalem are brought down to the earth.
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I looked to Jehovah God to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
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They will put on sackcloth and they will tremble all over. Their heads will be shaved, and they will all be disgraced.
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O my people put on sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn as for an only son, a lamentation most bitter. For suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
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I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and thrust my horn (strength) in the dust.
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Dress in sackcloth, beat your breasts (mourn), and cry because Jehovah's burning anger has not turned back from us.
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Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
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His servants said to him: It is said that the kings of Israel are full of mercy: let us then put on haircloth, and cords on our heads, and go to the king of Israel. Maybe he will give you your life. So they put on haircloth, and cords on their heads, and went to the king of Israel and said: Your servant Benhadad says: 'Let me now keep my life.' And he said: Is he still living? He is my brother.
They have dress themselves with sackcloth in their streets. On their housetops and in their squares everyone is wailing, taken down with tears.
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Sackcloth » Was worn » Frequently next the skin in deep afflictions
Elijah finished speaking. Ahab tore his clothes and took them off. He dressed in sackcloth. He refused food (fasted) and slept in the sackcloth. He was gloomy and depressed.
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I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and thrust my horn (strength) in the dust.
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Hearing this, the king tore his clothes. The people close to the wall could see that he was wearing sackcloth under his clothes.
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