Thematic Bible: Longsuffering


Thematic Bible



But turning round he said sharp words to them. And they went to another small town.




Sorrow is mine! for I am as when they have got in the summer fruits, like the last of the grapes: there is nothing for food, not even an early fig for my desire.

The Lord is slow to wrath and great in mercy, overlooking wrongdoing and evil, and will not let wrongdoers go free; sending punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation.








Because of my name I will put away my wrath, and for my praise I will keep myself from cutting you off.


Who, in the days of Noah, went against God's orders; but God in his mercy kept back the punishment, while Noah got ready the ark, in which a small number, that is to say eight persons, got salvation through water:

The Lord is slow to wrath and great in mercy, overlooking wrongdoing and evil, and will not let wrongdoers go free; sending punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation.

But still my eye had pity on them and I kept them from destruction and did not put an end to them completely in the waste land.





But turning round he said sharp words to them. And they went to another small town.


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain