Thematic Bible: Moments of Discouragement


Thematic Bible



Who rescued us out of so great a death, and does rescue, in whom we have hoped that he will also still rescue.

He will deliver thee in six troubles. Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

For he will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.








Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but stiffened their neck, like the neck of their fathers who did not believed in LORD their God.

And in the time of his distress he trespassed yet more against LORD, this same king Ahaz.

And he did not humble himself before LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself, but this same Amon trespassed more and more.

and testified against them, that thou might bring them again to thy law. Yet they dealt proudly, and did not hearken to thy commandments, but sinned against thine ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), and withdre

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, nor could they blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall. At the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, says LORD.

As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come upon us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of LORD our God, that we should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in thy truth.

And he said to him, If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if some man would rise from the dead.

And they did not repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.



And she said to them, Call me not Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which my spirit drinks up. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yea, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his mark.

Thou brought us into the net. Thou laid a great burden upon our loins.

For we are consumed in thine anger, and in thy wrath are we troubled.

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping, because of thine indignation and thy wrath. For thou have taken me up, and cast me away.

Son of man, behold, I take the desire of thine eyes away from thee with a stroke. Yet thou shall neither mourn nor weep. Neither shall thy tears run down.


And have ye forgotten the exhortation that reasons with you as with sons, My son, do not disparage the chastening of Lord, nor become disheartened when punished by him?




Therefore I ask that ye not become discouraged at my tribulations on your behalf, which is your glory.



O my God, my soul is cast down within me. Therefore I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, and the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

I sink in deep mire where there is no standing. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

When I thought how I might understand this, it was too painful for me,



Woe is me, my mother, that thou have bore me, a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, nor have men lent to me, [yet] every one of them curses me.

Woe is me! For I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage. There is no cluster to eat. My soul desires the first ripe fig.


My soul is weary of my life. I will give free reign to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are wasted away.


And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in thy sight, and let me not see my wretchedness.


But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. And he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is enough, now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my


And he said to them, What are these words that ye toss back to each other, while walking and are looking sad.


And Joshua said, Alas, O lord LORD, why have thou at all brought this people over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? Would that we had been content and dwelt beyond the Jordan!