Thematic Bible: Stubble


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“For indeed, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. The coming day will consume them,” says the Lord of Hosts, “not leaving them root or branches. Verse ConceptsFurnacesFaithlessness, As Disobedienceevil, victory overevil, warnings againstPride, Results OfPunishment, By GodRootsAbaseWicked Described AsAbasement Of The ProudThe ProudEvildoersLight As ChaffBurning PeopleResidueThe Proud Will Be Abased

Are they like straw before the wind,
like chaff a storm sweeps away?
Verse ConceptsStrawWicked Described AsLight As ChaffHurricanes

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw
and as dry grass shrivels in the flame,
so their roots will become like something rotten
and their blossoms will blow away like dust,
for they have rejected
the instruction of the Lord of Hosts,
and they have despised
the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Verse ConceptsRejecting God's WordDecayGrassRejection Of GodStrawRejection Of God's WordWord Of GodRootsPeople RottingBurning Plants

They bound on the tops of the mountains.
Their sound is like the sound of chariots,
like the sound of fiery flames consuming stubble,
like a mighty army deployed for war.
Verse ConceptsNoiseLeapingWheelsAttacking With ChariotsCreatures JumpingBurning PlantsBangsRumbling

Who has stirred him up from the east?
He calls righteousness to his feet.
The Lord hands nations over to him,
and he subdues kings.
He makes them like dust with his sword,
like wind-driven stubble with his bow.
Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfGod's Activity In The NationsChaffOut Of The EastLight As Chaff

For they will be consumed
like entangled thorns,
like the drink of a drunkard
and like straw that is fully dry.
Verse Conceptsdrunkards

Look, they are like stubble;
fire burns them up.
They cannot deliver themselves
from the power of the flame.
This is not a coal for warming themselves,
or a fire to sit beside!
Verse ConceptsCoal, Uses OfBurning PeopleSaving Oneself

They are barely planted, barely sown,
their stem hardly takes root in the ground
when He blows on them and they wither,
and a whirlwind carries them away like stubble.
Verse ConceptsBreath Of GodRootsWhirlwindsPeople WitheredMetaphorical Planting

You overthrew Your adversaries
by Your great majesty.
You unleashed Your burning wrath;
it consumed them like stubble.
Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfAnger Of God, ConsequencesConfrontationGod Angry With The Nations

Make them like tumbleweed, my God,
like straw before the wind.
Verse ConceptsWicked Described AsLight As ChaffWeed

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I will scatter you like drifting chaff
before the desert wind.
Verse Conceptsdispersion, theChaffGod Scattering Israel

“For indeed, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. The coming day will consume them,” says the Lord of Hosts, “not leaving them root or branches. Verse ConceptsFurnacesFaithlessness, As Disobedienceevil, victory overevil, warnings againstPride, Results OfPunishment, By GodRootsAbaseWicked Described AsAbasement Of The ProudThe ProudEvildoersLight As ChaffBurning PeopleResidueThe Proud Will Be Abased

Are they like straw before the wind,
like chaff a storm sweeps away?
Verse ConceptsStrawWicked Described AsLight As ChaffHurricanes

“For indeed, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. The coming day will consume them,” says the Lord of Hosts, “not leaving them root or branches. Verse ConceptsFurnacesFaithlessness, As Disobedienceevil, victory overevil, warnings againstPride, Results OfPunishment, By GodRootsAbaseWicked Described AsAbasement Of The ProudThe ProudEvildoersLight As ChaffBurning PeopleResidueThe Proud Will Be Abased

Are they like straw before the wind,
like chaff a storm sweeps away?
Verse ConceptsStrawWicked Described AsLight As ChaffHurricanes

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