Thematic Bible: Often caused by prosperity
Thematic Bible
national Sins » Often caused by prosperity
Behold, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters (outlying cities) had arrogance, abundant food, and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy.
Verse Concepts
By your great wisdom and by your trade
You have increased your riches and power,
And your heart is proud and arrogant because of your wealth;
“But Jeshurun (Israel) became fat and kicked [at God].
You became fat, thick, sleek, and obstinate!
Then he abandoned God who had made him,
And scorned the Rock of his salvation.
“Moab has been at ease from his youth;
He has also been undisturbed, and settled like wine on his dregs,
And he has not been emptied from one vessel to another,
Nor has he gone into exile.
Therefore his flavor remains in him,
And his scent has not changed.
“But as soon as they had rest, they again did evil before You;
Therefore You abandoned them into the hand of their enemies, so that they ruled over them.
Yet when they turned and cried out again to You, You heard them from heaven,
And You rescued them many times in accordance with Your compassion,
Related Topics
- Abandonment
- Arrogance, Characterizes The Wicked
- Arrogant Existence
- Attitudes, to other people
- Bread, Figurative Of
- Causes of failure in
- Degradation
- Doing Repeatedly
- Fat People
- Fatness
- Found Guilty
- God Paid Attention To Them
- God, Compassion Of
- God, The Rock
- Greed