Thematic Bible: Threatened


Thematic Bible




So are the paths of all who forget God. And the hope of the profane man shall perish,

Wicked men shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

Now consider this, ye who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:

For thou have forgotten the God of thy salvation, and have not been mindful of the rock of thy strength. Therefore thou plant pleasant plants, and set it with foreign slips.

For Israel has forgotten his maker, and built palaces. And Judah has multiplied fortified cities. But I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the castles thereof.


Because of thy raging against me, and because thine arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou came.

As for thy formidableness, the pride of thy heart has deceived thee, O thou who dwells in the clefts of the rock, who holds the height of the hill. Though thou should make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from

Though they dig into Sheol, from there my hand shall take them, and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.

Let them be put to shame and confounded together who rejoice at my hurt. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

And I will punish the world for the evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. And I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

And I will thrust thee from thine office, and thou shall be pulled down from thy station.

And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of it as he who swims spreads forth [his hands] to swim. But [LORD] will lay low his pride together with the craft of his hands.

For he has brought down those who dwell on high. The lofty city, he lays it low. He lays it low even to the ground. He brings it even to the dust.

And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shall die the death of those who are slain, in the heart of the seas.

Therefore thus says lord LORD: An adversary [shall be], even round about the land, and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be plundered.