Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Alliance and society with the enemies of God » Saints hate and avoid
I have not sat with men of deceit, nor, with dissemblers, would I enter;
I hate such as give heed to false vanities, I, then, in Yahweh, have set my hope.
There shall not dwell in the midst of my house, One who worketh deceit, - he that speaketh falsehoods, shall not be established before mine eyes;
I know thy works, and thy toil, and endurance, and that thou canst not bear bad men, and thou hast tried them who were affirming themselves to be apostles, and they were not, and hast found them false;
Sickness » Saints » Acknowledge that, comes from God
My dwelling, hath been broken up. And is stripped from me, like a shepherds tent, - I have roiled up - as a weaver - my life From the loom, doth he cut me off, From day until night, I said - Thou wilt finish me.
In thee, O Yahweh, have I sought refuge, Let me not be ashamed to times age-abiding, In thy righteousness, deliver me: Incline unto me, thine ear, Speedily rescue me, - Become to me a Rock of refuge, a Place of security, For saving me. Because, my mountain crag and my stronghold, thou art, Therefore, for the sake of thine own Name, wilt thou lead me and guide me? read more.
Wilt thou bring me forth, out of the net which they have hidden for me? For, thou, art my refuge. Into thy hand, do I commit my spirit - Thou hast ransomed me, O Yahweh, GOD most faithful. I hate such as give heed to false vanities, I, then, in Yahweh, have set my hope. I will indeed exult and rejoice, in thy lovingkindness, - In that thou hast looked upon my humiliation, thou hast taken note that in distresses was my life; And hast not shut me up in the hand of the foe, Thou hast given standing, in a roomy place, unto my feet.
Wilt thou bring me forth, out of the net which they have hidden for me? For, thou, art my refuge. Into thy hand, do I commit my spirit - Thou hast ransomed me, O Yahweh, GOD most faithful. I hate such as give heed to false vanities, I, then, in Yahweh, have set my hope. I will indeed exult and rejoice, in thy lovingkindness, - In that thou hast looked upon my humiliation, thou hast taken note that in distresses was my life; And hast not shut me up in the hand of the foe, Thou hast given standing, in a roomy place, unto my feet.
What can I say? Since he hath promised for me, Himself, will perform. I will go softly, all my years. Because of the bitterness of my soul,
Vanity » Idolatry is
I hate such as give heed to false vanities, I, then, in Yahweh, have set my hope.
But at once, do they become brutish and stupid, - An example of utmost vanity, is, a tree!
Yet my people have forgotten me, Unto vanity, have they been burning incense; And it hath caused them to stumble In their ways The roads of age-past times, To walk in by-paths - A way not cast up.
but rejected his statutes, and his covenant, which he solemnised with their fathers, and his testimonies wherewith he testified against them, - and followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were round about them, as to whom Yahweh charged them, so that they should not do like them.
The fashioners of an image - all of them, are emptiness, And, the things they delight in, cannot profit, - And, their, witnesses, they, neither see nor know, That they may be ashamed. Who hath fashioned a GOD, Oran image, hath molten? It cannot profit!