Thematic Bible: Moments of Discouragement


Thematic Bible




He will deliver you in six troubles; yea, in seven no evil shall touch you.

Surely He will deliver you from the fowler's trap and from the destroying plague.








But they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like the neck of their fathers who did not believe in Jehovah their God.

And in the time of his distress he trespassed even more against Jehovah, this King Ahaz.

And he did not bow before Jehovah, like the humbling of his father Manasseh. For Amon himself multiplied guilt.

and testified against them that You might bring them again to Your Law. But they acted proudly and did not listen to Your commandments, but sinned against Your judgments (which if a man do, he shall live in them), 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, 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 Jehovah.

As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we did not make our prayer before Jehovah our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand Your truth.

And he said to him, If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded, even though one rose 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, Do not call me Naomi, call me Mara. For the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, their fury is drinking my spirit; the terrors of God are set against me.

I was at ease, but He has broken me in pieces; yea, He has also taken me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for His mark.

You have brought us into the net; You have laid affliction on our loins.

For we are burned up by Your anger, and by Your wrath we are troubled.

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and have mixed my drink with weeping, because of Your anger and Your wrath; for You have lifted me up and cast me down.

Son of man, behold, I take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke. Yet neither shall you mourn nor weep, nor shall your tears run down.


And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons, "My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked by Him;




For this reason I desire that you 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 You from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermons, from mount 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 deeply in order to understand this, it was painful for me,



Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not loaned, nor have men loaned to me; yet every one curses me.

Woe is me! For I am like the gatherings of summer fruits, like the grape-gleanings of the vintage. There is no cluster to eat; my soul desires the first-ripe fruit.


My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint on my self; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

For my life is ending with grief, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones have wasted away.


And if You are going to part this way with me, I beg You to kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your sight, and let me not see my misery.


And he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he begged for his life, that he might die. And he said, It is enough. O Jehovah, take away my life. For I am no better than my fathers.


And He said to them, What words are these that you have with one another as you walk, and are so sad?


And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord God, why have You at all brought this people over Jordan to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? And, oh that we had been content and lived on the other side Jordan!