Thematic Bible




Thematic Bible






Cleanse your heart from wickedness, Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. {How long} will your thoughts of mischief dwell in your inner part?


{Take care} so that there will not be {a thought of wickedness} in your heart, {saying}, 'The seventh year, the year of the remission of debt is near,' {and you view your needy neighbor with hostility}, and [so] you [do] not give to him, and he might cry [out] against you to Yahweh, and {you would incur guilt against yourself}.




For, like hair in his {throat}, so it is. "Eat and drink!" he will say to you, but his heart will not be with you.

"And I--their works and thoughts!--[am] about to come to gather all nations and tongues, and they shall come and see my glory.





Men of scoffing set a city aflame, but the wise turn away wrath.



Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, men of mockery, rulers of these people in Jerusalem: Because you have said, "We have {made} a covenant with death, and we have made an agreement with Sheol. [The] overwhelming flood, when it passes through, will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves in falsehood."


A scoffer seeks wisdom, but there is none, but knowledge {comes easily to him who understands}.

"{How long}, O simple ones, will you love simplicity? And [how long] will scoffers delight in their scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?

The curse of Yahweh [is] on the house of the wicked, and the abode of the righteous ones he blesses. With those who scorn, he is scornful, but to those who are humble, he gives favor.






The faith that you have, have with respect to yourself before God. Blessed [is] the one who does not pass judgment on himself by what he approves. But the one who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not [do so] from faith, and everything that [is] not from faith is sin.



All unrighteousness is sin, and [there] is a sin not [leading] to death.)

Haughtiness of [the] eyes and pride of heart, [the] lamp of the wicked [are] sin.

"{When you make a vow} to Yahweh your God, you shall not postpone {fulfillment of it}, [for] certainly Yahweh your God shall require it from you and [if postponed] {you will incur guilt}.







Cleanse your heart from wickedness, Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. {How long} will your thoughts of mischief dwell in your inner part?


{Take care} so that there will not be {a thought of wickedness} in your heart, {saying}, 'The seventh year, the year of the remission of debt is near,' {and you view your needy neighbor with hostility}, and [so] you [do] not give to him, and he might cry [out] against you to Yahweh, and {you would incur guilt against yourself}.




For, like hair in his {throat}, so it is. "Eat and drink!" he will say to you, but his heart will not be with you.

"And I--their works and thoughts!--[am] about to come to gather all nations and tongues, and they shall come and see my glory.