Thematic Bible: Mysteries of


Thematic Bible




When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and will cover you with my hand while I pass by.



You hide them with you, where they are safe from the attacks of men; you conceal them in a shelter, where they are safe from slanderous attacks.


Be my protector and refuge, a stronghold where I can be safe! For you are my high ridge and my stronghold.


For you are a protector for the poor, a protector for the needy in their distress, a shelter from the rainstorm, a shade from the heat. Though the breath of tyrants is like a winter rainstorm,

Return to the stronghold, you prisoners, with hope; today I declare that I will return double what was taken from you.


Into your hand I entrust my life; you will rescue me, O Lord, the faithful God.



O Israel, hope in the Lord, for the Lord exhibits loyal love, and is more than willing to deliver.

Now, this is what the Lord says, the one who created you, O Jacob, and formed you, O Israel: "Don't be afraid, for I will protect you. I call you by name, you are mine.

"Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, because he has come to help and has redeemed his people.

At that moment, she came up to them and began to give thanks to God and to speak about the child to all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.


However, because I called but you refused to listen, because I stretched out my hand but no one paid attention,

But my people did not obey me; Israel did not submit to me.

Consequently the one who rejects this is not rejecting human authority but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.

However, the Pharisees and the experts in religious law rejected God's purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)

The Lord said to Samuel, "Do everything the people request of you. For it is not you that they have rejected, but it is me that they have rejected as their king.




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