Thematic Bible: Moments of Discouragement


Thematic Bible




He shall deliver thee in six tribulations, and in the seventh no evil shall touch thee.

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler and from the mortal pestilence.








Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, who had never believed in the LORD their God.

Furthermore, king Ahaz in the time of his distress trespassed even more against the LORD,

But he never humbled himself before the LORD as Manasseh, his father, humbled himself; to the contrary Amon multiplied the guilt.

and didst protest unto them, that they return unto thy law; yet they dealt proudly and did not hearken unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments (which if a man shall do, in them he shall live) and withdrew the shoulder and hardened their neck and would not hear.

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? no, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush; therefore, they shall fall among those that shall fall: at the time that I visit them they shall fall, saith the LORD.

As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us, and we never sought the face of the LORD our God, that we might be converted from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.

And he said unto him, If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, even though one rose from the dead.

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



And she said unto 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; my spirit drinks of the poison; and terrors of God combat me.

I was prosperous, but he has broken me asunder; he has taken me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for his mark.

Thou didst bring us into the net; thou didst lay affliction upon our loins.

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

For I have eaten ashes like bread and mingled my drink with weeping, because of thine indignation and thy wrath; for thou hast lifted me up and cast me down.

Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes by death; yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.


And ye have quite forgotten the consolation which speaks unto you as unto sons, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art reproved of him:




Therefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.



O my God, my soul is cast down within me; therefore I will remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the mountain of Mizar.

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

I shall meditate that I might understand this; it is very hard for me to see.



Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them curses me.

Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.


My soul is cut off in my life; therefore, I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

For my life is spent with grief and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.


And if thou must deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found grace 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 desiring to die, he said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am not better than my fathers.


And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another as ye walk and are sad?


And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, why hast thou caused this people to pass the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? We should have been content and dwelt on the other side of the Jordan!