Thematic Bible: Moments of Discouragement


Thematic Bible



and which delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver - on whom we trust, that yet hereafter he will deliver us,

He delivereth thee out of six troubles, so that in the seventh there can no harm touch thee.

For he shall deliver thee from the snare of the hunter, and from the noisome pestilence.








Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the necks of their fathers that did not believe the LORD their God.

And thereto in the very time of his tribulation did king Ahaz trespass yet more against the LORD.

and meekened not himself before the LORD as Manasseh his father had meekened himself: But Amon trespassed greatly.

and testified unto them, that they should turn again unto thy law. Notwithstanding, they were proud, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned in thy laws, which a man should do and live in them, and turned the shoulder away, and were stiff-necked, and would not hear.

Therefore they must be ashamed, for they have committed abomination. But how should they be ashamed, when they know nothing, neither of shame nor good nurture? And therefore they shall fall among the slain; and in the hour when I shall visit them, they shall be brought down," sayeth the LORD.

Yea, all this plague, as it is written in the law of Moses, is come upon us. Yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn again from our wickedness, and to be learned in thy verity.

He said unto him, 'If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they believe, though one rose from death again.'"

Also they repented not of their murder, and of their sorcery, neither of their fornication, neither of their theft.



But she said unto them, "Call me not Naomi: call me Mara, for the Almighty hath made me very bitter.

For the arrows of the almighty are in me, whose indignation hath drunk up my spirit, and the terrible fears of God fight against me.

I was some time in wealth, but suddenly hath he brought me to naught. He hath taken me by the neck, he hath rent me, and set me, as it were a mark for him to shoot at.

Thou hast brought us into captivity, and laid trouble upon our loins.

For we consume away in thy displeasure, and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation.

I eat ashes with my bread, and mingle my drink with weeping, and that because of thine indignation and wrath; for thou hast taken me up, and cast me down.

"Thou son of man, behold, I take away the pleasure of thine eyes with a plague: yet shalt thou neither mourn, nor weep, nor water thy cheeks therefore.


And ye have forgotten the consolation which speaketh unto you, as unto children, "My son despise not the chastening of the Lord, neither faint when thou art rebuked of him:




Wherefore, I desire that ye faint not because of my tribulations which I suffer for your sakes: which is your praise.



My God, my soul is vexed within me; therefore I remember the land of Jordan, and the little hill of Hermon.

I stick fast in the deep mire, where no ground is; I am come into deep waters, so that the floods run over me.

Then thought I to understand this; but it was too hard for me,



O mother, alas that ever thou didst bear me, an enemy and hated of the whole land: Though I never lent nor received upon usury, yet all men speak evil upon me.

Woe is me! I am become as one that goeth a gleaning in the harvest. There are no more grapes to eat, yet would I fain, with all my heart, have of the best fruit.


It grieveth my soul to live. Nevertheless, now will I put forth my words: I will speak out of the very heaviness of my soul,

For my life is waxen old with heaviness, and my years with mourning. My strength faileth me, because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.


Wherefore, if thou deal thus with me; kill me, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thy sight: and let me not see my wretchedness."


And he went a day's journey into the wilderness, and when he was come sat down under a Juniper tree, and desired for his soul, that he might die, and said, "It is now enough, O LORD, take my soul; 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, "Ah, Lord Jehovah, wherefore hast thou brought this people over Jordan to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy us? Would to God we had adventured and dwelt on the other side Jordan.