Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Judgments » Should lead to » Humiliation
And Joshua rent his clothes and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, both he and the elders of Israel; and put earth upon their heads.
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Gird you, and make your moan, O ye priests: mourn ye ministers of the alter: go your way in, and sleep in sackcloth, O ye officers of my God: for the meat and drink offering shall be taken away from the house of your God.
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Whereupon the lords of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The LORD is righteous."
{Aleph} I am the man, that, through the rod of his wrath, have experience of misery. He drove me forth, and led me: Yea, into darkness, but not in to light. Against me only he turneth his hand, and layeth it ever upon me. read more.
{Beth} My flesh and my skin hath he made old, my bones hath he bruised. He hath builded round about me, and closed me in with gall and travail. He hath set me in darkness, as they that be dead forever. {Gimel} He hath so hedged me in, that I cannot get out; and hath laid heavy links upon me. Though I cry and call piteously, yet heareth he not my prayer. He hath stopped up my ways with four square stones, and made my paths crooked. {Daleth} He layeth wait for me like a Bear, and as a lion in a hole. He hath marred my ways, and broken me in pieces: he hath laid me waste altogether. He hath bent his bow, and made me as it were a mark to shoot at. {He} The arrows of his quiver hath he shot, even into my reins. I am laughed to scorn of all my people; they make songs upon me all the day long. He hath filled me with bitterness, and given me wormwood to drink. {Vav} He hath smitten my teeth in pieces, and rolled me in the dust. He hath put my soul out of rest; I forget all good things. I thought in myself, "I am undone; there is no hope for me in the LORD." {Zayin} O remember yet my misery and my trouble; the wormwood and the gall. Yea, thou shalt remember them, for my soul melteth away in me.
{Beth} My flesh and my skin hath he made old, my bones hath he bruised. He hath builded round about me, and closed me in with gall and travail. He hath set me in darkness, as they that be dead forever. {Gimel} He hath so hedged me in, that I cannot get out; and hath laid heavy links upon me. Though I cry and call piteously, yet heareth he not my prayer. He hath stopped up my ways with four square stones, and made my paths crooked. {Daleth} He layeth wait for me like a Bear, and as a lion in a hole. He hath marred my ways, and broken me in pieces: he hath laid me waste altogether. He hath bent his bow, and made me as it were a mark to shoot at. {He} The arrows of his quiver hath he shot, even into my reins. I am laughed to scorn of all my people; they make songs upon me all the day long. He hath filled me with bitterness, and given me wormwood to drink. {Vav} He hath smitten my teeth in pieces, and rolled me in the dust. He hath put my soul out of rest; I forget all good things. I thought in myself, "I am undone; there is no hope for me in the LORD." {Zayin} O remember yet my misery and my trouble; the wormwood and the gall. Yea, thou shalt remember them, for my soul melteth away in me.
And the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed fasting, and arrayed themselves in sackcloth, as well the great as the small of them. And the tidings came unto the king of Nineveh, which arose out of his seat, and did his apparel off and put on sackcloth, and sat him down in ashes.
Wormwood » Figurative
But at the last she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two edged sword.
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Therefore, thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, "Behold, I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them gall to drink.
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Therefore thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts concerning the prophets, "Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall. For from the prophets of Jerusalem is the sickness of hypocrisy come into all the land."
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Lest there be among you man or woman, kindred or tribe, that turneth away in his heart this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations: and lest there be among you some root that beareth gall and wormwood,
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{Zayin} O remember yet my misery and my trouble; the wormwood and the gall.
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