Thematic Bible: Often caused by prosperity
Thematic Bible
national Sins » Often caused by prosperity
Look! This was the sin of your sister Sodom and her daughters: Pride, too much food, undisturbed peace, and failure to help the poor and needy.
By your great wisdom, by your skills in trading you have amassed wealth for yourself and your heart has become arrogant because of your wealth."
Jacob dined until satisfied; Jeshurun grew fat and kicked. He grew fat, coarse, and gross, so that he abandoned the God who made him and spurned the Rock that was his salvation.
Moab has been at ease from his youth. He has been undisturbed like wine on its dregs and not poured from vessel to vessel. He has not gone into exile. Therefore, his flavor has remained, and his aroma has not changed.
"But after they had gained relief, they returned to doing evil before you. Therefore you abandoned them to the control of their enemies, who continued to oppress them. But when they came back and cried out to you, you listened from heaven and delivered them in your compassion on many occasions.
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