Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Assyria » As a power, was » Intolerant and oppressive
Your destruction is like an incurable wound; your demise is like a fatal injury! All who hear what has happened to you will clap their hands for joy, for no one ever escaped your endless cruelty!
Dishonour » The wicked are brought to
The one who says to the guilty, "You are innocent," peoples will curse him, and nations will denounce him.
And you, Zion, city doomed to destruction, you accomplish nothing by wearing a beautiful dress, decking yourself out in jewels of gold, and putting on eye shadow! You are making yourself beautiful for nothing. Your lovers spurn you. They want to kill you.
A person who has a quick temper does foolish things, and a person with crafty schemes is hated.
Your destruction is like an incurable wound; your demise is like a fatal injury! All who hear what has happened to you will clap their hands for joy, for no one ever escaped your endless cruelty!
A person is praised in accordance with his wisdom, but the one who has a twisted mind is despised.
Many of those who sleep in the dusty ground will awake -- some to everlasting life, and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence.
It claps its hands at him in derision and hisses him away from his place.
When the godly see this, they will be filled with awe, and will mock the evildoer, saying:
"They will go out and observe the corpses of those who rebelled against me, for the maggots that eat them will not die, and the fire that consumes them will not die out. All people will find the sight abhorrent."
The wicked » Despised
The one who says to the guilty, "You are innocent," peoples will curse him, and nations will denounce him.
And you, Zion, city doomed to destruction, you accomplish nothing by wearing a beautiful dress, decking yourself out in jewels of gold, and putting on eye shadow! You are making yourself beautiful for nothing. Your lovers spurn you. They want to kill you.
A person who has a quick temper does foolish things, and a person with crafty schemes is hated.
Your destruction is like an incurable wound; your demise is like a fatal injury! All who hear what has happened to you will clap their hands for joy, for no one ever escaped your endless cruelty!
A person is praised in accordance with his wisdom, but the one who has a twisted mind is despised.
Many of those who sleep in the dusty ground will awake -- some to everlasting life, and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence.
It claps its hands at him in derision and hisses him away from his place.
When the godly see this, they will be filled with awe, and will mock the evildoer, saying:
"They will go out and observe the corpses of those who rebelled against me, for the maggots that eat them will not die, and the fire that consumes them will not die out. All people will find the sight abhorrent."