Thematic Bible: Should lead to
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Judgments » Should lead to » Humiliation
And Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Israel, and they put dust upon their heads.
Gird yourselves [with sackcloth], and lament, ye priests. Wail, ye ministers of the altar. Come, lay all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God. For the meal-offering and the drink-offering are withheld from the house of your G
Then the rulers of Israel and the king humbled themselves, and they said, LORD is righteous.
I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light. Surely he turns his hand against me, again and again all the day. read more.
He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones. He has built against me, and encompassed me with gall and travail. He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those who have long been dead. He has walled me around, that I cannot go forth. He has made my chain heavy. Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer. He has walled up my ways with hewn stone. He has made my paths crooked. He is to me as a bear laying in wait, as a lion in concealed places. He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate. He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins. I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day. He has filled me with bitterness. He has sated me with wormwood. He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones. He has covered me with ashes. And thou have removed my soul far off from peace. I forgot prosperity. And I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from LORD. Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. My soul still has them in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.
He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones. He has built against me, and encompassed me with gall and travail. He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those who have long been dead. He has walled me around, that I cannot go forth. He has made my chain heavy. Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer. He has walled up my ways with hewn stone. He has made my paths crooked. He is to me as a bear laying in wait, as a lion in concealed places. He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate. He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins. I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day. He has filled me with bitterness. He has sated me with wormwood. He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones. He has covered me with ashes. And thou have removed my soul far off from peace. I forgot prosperity. And I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from LORD. Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. My soul still has them in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.
And the people of Nineveh believed God, and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. And the news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Judgments » Should lead to » Contrition
And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days. And I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,
And in every province, wherever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
And in that day the Lord, LORD of hosts, called for weeping, and for mourning, and for baldness, and for girding with sackcloth.
Judgments » Should lead to » Prayer
If evil comes upon us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house, and before thee, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry out to thee in our affliction, and thou will hear and save.
Judgments » Should lead to » Learning righteousness
With my soul I have desired thee in the night. Yea, with my spirit within me I will seek thee earnestly. For when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Pardon » Should lead to » Praising God
Bless LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all thine iniquities, who heals all thy diseases,
Pardon » Should lead to » Returning to God
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed thee.
Pardon » Should lead to » Fearing God
But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou may be feared.
Pardon » Should lead to » Loving God
For this reason I say to thee, her many sins are forgiven, because she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, loves little.