Thematic Bible: The wicked indulge in, against


Thematic Bible



We’ve had more than enough
scorn from the arrogant
and contempt from the proud.
Verse ConceptsPride, Results OfArrogance, Characterizes The WickedThe Proud

I am a laughingstock to all my people,
mocked by their songs all day long.
Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofMockeryRidicule, Objects OfSongsUnceasingContinual Hardship

When they sit and when they rise, look,
I am mocked by their songs.
Verse ConceptsHabitual Getting UpFun

to those who say:
“Let Him hurry up and do His work quickly
so that we can see it!
Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel take place
so that we can know it!”
Verse ConceptsDoubting God's WordScoffers

Hear how they keep challenging me,
“Where is the word of the Lord?
Let it come!”
Verse ConceptsDoubting God's WordDoubtAtheism, Description OfInfidelity To GodScoffersWhere Are Things?

So the couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the hand of the king and his officials, and according to the king's command, saying, "Israelites, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel so that He may return to those of you who remain, who have escaped from the grasp of the kings of Assyria. Don't be like your fathers and your brothers who were unfaithful to the Lord God of their ancestors so that He made them an object of horror as you yourselves see. Don't become obstinate now like your fathers did. Give your allegiance to the Lord, and come to His sanctuary that He has consecrated forever. Serve the Lord your God so that He may turn His fierce wrath away from you, read more.
for when you return to the Lord, your brothers and your sons [will receive] mercy in the presence of their captors and will return to this land. For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful; He will not turn [His] face away from you if you return to Him." The couriers traveled from city to city in the land of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun, but the inhabitants laughed at them and mocked them.

But they kept ridiculing God’s messengers, despising His words, and scoffing at His prophets, until the Lord’s wrath was so stirred up against His people that there was no remedy. Verse ConceptsAbuse, To God's PeopleContemptMockeryRejection Of God, Results OfRejection Of GodResentment, Against GodSin, And God's CharacterRejection Of Spiritual InstructionInfidelity To GodScoffersFunServant Leadershipprophetsacting

ז ZayinDuring the days of her affliction and homelessness
Jerusalem remembers all her precious belongings
that were hers in days of old.
When her people fell into the adversary’s hand,
she had no one to help.
The adversaries looked at her,
laughing over her downfall.
Verse ConceptsInfidelity To GodWanderersPeople RememberingHistory Of NationsNo HelpScoffers

First, be aware of this: scoffers will come in the last days to scoff, following their own lusts, saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they have been since the beginning of creation."

When they heard about resurrection of the dead, some began to ridicule him. But others said, “We’d like to hear from you again about this.” Verse ConceptsAbuse, To God's PeopleGospel, Responses ToInsultsMockeryNosesPreaching, Effects OfSaying RepeatedlyAre The Dead Raised?Mocking Christflexibility


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