Thematic Bible: Often caused by prosperity
Thematic Bible
national Sins » Often caused by prosperity
"'See here -- this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters had majesty, abundance of food, and enjoyed carefree ease, but they did not help the poor and needy.
By your great skill in trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart is proud because of your wealth.
But Jeshurun became fat and kicked, you got fat, thick, and stuffed! Then he deserted the God who made him, and treated the Rock who saved him with contempt.
"From its earliest days Moab has lived undisturbed. It has never been taken into exile. Its people are like wine allowed to settle undisturbed on its dregs, never poured out from one jar to another. They are like wine which tastes like it always did, whose aroma has remained unchanged.
"Then, when they were at rest again, they went back to doing evil before you. Then you abandoned them to their enemies, and they gained dominion over them. When they again cried out to you, in your compassion you heard from heaven and rescued them time and again.
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