5 occurrences

'Scourge' in the Bible

know certainly that Jehovah your God is not continuing to dispossess these nations from before you, and they have been to you for a gin, and for a snare, and for a scourge, in your sides, and for thorns in your eyes, till ye perish from off this good ground which Jehovah your God hath given to you.

Verse ConceptsWorldly SnaresNot Driving Them OutEyes HarmedMan TrappingTroubling Groups Of People

If a scourge doth put to death suddenly, At the trial of the innocent He laugheth.

Verse ConceptsInnocence, Examples OfDoubting God's JusticeDespair

And awaking for him is Jehovah of Hosts, A scourge like the smiting of Midian at the rock Oreb, And his rod is over the sea, And he hath lifted it in the way of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsFloggingRemnantDoing Repeatedly

Because ye have said: 'We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we have made a provision, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Doth not meet us, Though we have made a lie our refuge, And in falsehood have been hidden.'

Verse ConceptsAgreement, Example OfFalse ConfidenceGrave, TheHell, As An ExperienceImmunityRefugeSelf ConfidenceTrust, Lack OfArrogance, Characterizes The WickedHiding From Peopleshelter

And disannulled hath been your covenant with death, And your provision with Sheol doth not stand, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Then ye have been to it for a treading-place.

Verse ConceptsAgreementTrampling PeopleNot DyingDeath Preventedcovenantcheaters

Bible Theasaurus

Cudgel (4 instances)
Desolate (212 instances)
Devastate (25 instances)
Nemesis (1 instance)
Ravage (15 instances)
Scourge (23 instances)