Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Backsliding » Guilt and consequences of
and Jesus said unto him, 'No one having put his hand on a plough, and looking back, is fit for the reign of God.'
Therefore smitten them hath a lion out of the forest, A wolf of the deserts doth spoil them, A leopard is watching over their cities, Every one who is going out of them is torn, For many have been their transgressions, Mighty have been their backslidings.
for the Amalekite and the Canaanite are there before you, and ye have fallen by the sword, because that ye have turned back from after Jehovah, and Jehovah is not with you.'
As to those turning to their crooked ways, Jehovah causeth them to go with workers of iniquity. Peace on Israel!
But your iniquities have been separating Between you and your God, And your sins have hidden The Presence from you -- from hearing.
Therefore hath judgment been far from us, And righteousness reacheth us not, We wait for light, and lo, darkness, For brightness -- in thick darkness we go, We feel like the blind for the wall, Yea, as without eyes we feel, We have stumbled at noon as at twilight, In desolate places as the dead. We make a noise as bears -- all of us, And as doves we coo sorely; We wait for judgment, and there is none, For salvation -- it hath been far from us.
Wherefore hath this people of Jerusalem Turned back -- a perpetual backsliding? They have kept hold on deceit, They have refused to turn back.
Thou -- thou hast left Me -- an affirmation of Jehovah, Backward thou goest, And I stretch out My hand against thee, And I destroy thee, I have been weary of repenting,
Crookedness » Crookedness, general references to
As to those turning to their crooked ways, Jehovah causeth them to go with workers of iniquity. Peace on Israel!
It hath done corruptly to Him; Their blemish is not His sons', A generation perverse and crooked!
Whose paths are crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.
A way of peace they have not known, And there is no judgment in their paths, Their paths they have made perverse for themselves, No treader in it hath known peace.
Duplicity » Crookedness, general references to
As to those turning to their crooked ways, Jehovah causeth them to go with workers of iniquity. Peace on Israel!
It hath done corruptly to Him; Their blemish is not His sons', A generation perverse and crooked!
Whose paths are crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.
A way of peace they have not known, And there is no judgment in their paths, Their paths they have made perverse for themselves, No treader in it hath known peace.
Peace » The church shall enjoy
And He hath judged between the nations, And hath given a decision to many peoples, And they have beat their swords to ploughshares, And their spears to pruning-hooks, Nation doth not lift up sword unto nation, Nor do they learn any more -- war.
As to those turning to their crooked ways, Jehovah causeth them to go with workers of iniquity. Peace on Israel!
And I have made to them a covenant in that day, with the beast of the field, And with the fowl of the heavens, And the creeping thing of the ground, And bow, and sword, and war I break from off the land, And have caused them to lie down confidently.
And see the sons of thy sons! Peace on Israel!