Thematic Bible: Often displeased God by their sins


Thematic Bible



They made Him jealous with strange gods;
With abominations they provoked Him to anger.
Verse ConceptsGod, Zeal OfJealousyGod, Jealous

Alas, sinful nation,
People weighed down with iniquity,
Offspring of evildoers,
Sons who act corruptly!
They have abandoned the Lord,
They have despised the Holy One of Israel,
They have turned away from Him.
Verse ConceptsCorruption, Of HumanityAbandonmentForsaking God, Illustrated ByImpenitence, Warnings AgainstNationalismRejection Of GodEvildoersGod's People Sinningcorruption

So Israel joined themselves to Baal of Peor, and the Lord was angry against Israel. Verse ConceptsFalse ReligionGod's Intolerance Of EvilJoined To Evilalignment

“Inasmuch as I exalted you from the dust and made you leader over My people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made My people Israel sin, provoking Me to anger with their sins, Verse ConceptsImitating Wicked KingsGod Lifting People

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble And dry grass collapses into the flame, So their root will become like rot and their blossom blow away as dust; For they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. On this account the anger of the LORD has burned against His people, And He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them down And the mountains quaked, and their corpses lay like refuse in the middle of the streets For all this His anger is not spent, But His hand is still stretched out.