Thematic Bible: The wicked


Thematic Bible




And now, hear this, O luxurious one, Who is sitting confidently -- Who is saying in her heart, 'I am, and none else, I sit not a widow, nor know bereavement.' Verse ConceptsCarePride, Examples OfWorldly Pleasures, Characteristic Of The WickedPleasure SeekersUnique NationsNo Loss

This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind, Verse ConceptsConformityThe Carnal MindWorldly Pleasures, Characteristic Of The WickedNot Imitating EvilUseless PeopleWhat Foreigners Are LikeGentiles





Thy hand cometh to all Thine enemies, Thy right hand doth find Thy haters. Thou makest them as a furnace of fire, At the time of Thy presence. Jehovah in His anger doth swallow them, And fire doth devour them.

Man in honour, who understandest not, Hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off! Verse ConceptsMoney, Attitudes ToRich, TheMen Similar To AnimalsAnimals Having A Soulhonour


Who are saying, 'Let Him hurry, Let Him hasten His work, that we may see, And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel Draw near and come, and we know.' Verse ConceptsDoubting God's WordScoffers

They have not known the thoughts of Jehovah, Nor have they understood His counsel, For He hath gathered them as a sheaf into a threshing-floor. Verse ConceptsBinding cornLack Of DiscernmentSicklesThreshing FloorDullnessSpiritual IgnoranceGod's ThoughtsNot Understanding God's Things

but the Pharisees, and the lawyers, the counsel of God did put away for themselves, not having been baptized by him. Verse ConceptsAttorneyLawyersRejection Of GodJewish SectsBaptised By JohnCharacteristics Of PhariseesRejection


but if thine eye may be evil, all thy body shall be dark; if, therefore, the light that is in thee is darkness -- the darkness, how great! Verse ConceptsDarkness, As A Symbol Of SinBlindness, SymbolicSpiritual Blindness, Consequences OfTemptation, Sources OfWorldly WisdomDamage To The BodyDarkness Of EvilEvil EyesDarknessEyesSpiritual Darkness



He hath dug in the darkness -- houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light. Verse ConceptsSecret Sinsthieves

The pride of thy heart hath lifted thee up, O dweller in clifts of a rock, (A high place is his habitation, He is saying in his heart, 'Who doth bring me down to earth?')

'Thus said Jehovah: Lift not up your souls saying, The Chaldeans surely go from off us, for they do not go; Verse ConceptsDeceiving Oneself

Unto the border sent thee have all thine allies, Forgotten thee, prevailed over thee, have thy friends, Thy bread they make a snare under thee, There is no understanding in him! Verse ConceptsAllegiancesFriends FailingGroups Sent AwayMen Of PeaceFriendship And Trust

And those seeking my soul lay a snare, And those seeking my evil Have spoken mischievous things, And they do deceits meditate all the day. Verse ConceptsDeception In Fallen Human NaturePersecution, Forms OfEvil PlansTrapCharacter Of WickedMan TrappingAll DayAttempting To Kill Me


For they speak not peace, And against the quiet of the land, Deceitful words they devise, Verse ConceptsClaimsDeception In Fallen Human NatureQuietnessPeace, In The WickedDeceitful TonguesNo Peace


The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit, He ceased to act prudently -- to do good. Verse ConceptsMouthsDeception In Fallen Human NatureSpeech, Negative Aspects OfFalse WisdomDeceitful Tongues



Sweet to a man is the bread of falsehood, And afterwards is his mouth filled with gravel. Verse ConceptsDeceit, Practice OfDeceit Leading to JudgmentTasteSweetnessMen DeceivingSand And GravelDeceptionconsequencescheaters

And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured. Verse ConceptsManipulationMen DeceivingFriendsFriendship And TrustDeceptionLying And Deceitlieing




Thy princes are apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them. Verse ConceptsGiftsBribery, Results OfExploitationsWicked RulersOppression, Nature OfOrphansReward, HumanRiches, Dangers OfRulersStealingLeadershipRulers, WickedCovetousness, Example OfEvil AssociationsCompanionshipNot Helping Widows

They have been fat, they have shone, Yea, they have overpassed the acts of the evil, Judgment they have not judged, The judgment of the fatherless -- and they prosper, And the judgment of the needy they have not judged. Verse ConceptsOpposition, To Sin And EvilOrphansFat PeopleNot Helping The Poorprospering


To turn aside from judgment the poor, And to take violently away the judgment Of the afflicted of My people, That widows may be their prey, That the fatherless they may spoil. Verse ConceptsFraudThe NeedyPlunderingHuntingOppression, Nature OfPoverty, Attitudes TowardsPoor, Oppression OfExtortionNo JusticeNot Helping WidowsHelping The Pooroppression


Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend. Verse ConceptsOrphansGamblingBarteringTaking AdvantageFriends Failing

The ass of the fatherless they lead away, They take in pledge the ox of the widow, Verse ConceptsOxenCreditAbhorGuaranteeOppression, Nature OfOrphansWidowsCreditorsOwning LivestockNot Helping Widows


And ye are those forsaking Jehovah, Who are forgetting My holy mountain, Who are setting in array for Gad a table, And who are filling for Meni a mixture. Verse ConceptsAlcoholRejection Of GodTablesTrust, Lack OfFood For Other godsfate

Till when do ye judge perversely? And the face of the wicked lift up? Selah. Verse ConceptsFavouritismDoubting God's JusticeSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfBefore People ActPsalm Interjections

And again, I have seen under the sun the place of judgment -- there is the wicked; and the place of righteousness -- there is the wicked. Verse ConceptsUnder The SunInjusticeSunfairnesswickedness

Therefore doth law cease, And judgment doth not go forth for ever, For the wicked is compassing the righteous, Therefore wrong judgment goeth forth. Verse ConceptsInjustice, Examples OfOpposition, To Sin And EvilRighteous, TheNo JusticeBreaking God's Law

They were ashamed when they did abomination! Yea, they are not at all ashamed, Yea, blushing they have not known, Therefore they do fall among those falling, In the time I have inspected them, They stumble, said Jehovah. Verse ConceptsAbominationsRegretCorrupted ConsciencesThe Insecurity Of The WickedBlushingPeople StumblingRed FacesUnknown ThingsAbsence Of RegretFeeling Lost

For from their least unto their greatest, Every one is gaining dishonest gain, And from prophet even unto priest, Every one is dealing falsely, Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofGreed, Condemnation OfPriests, Function In Ot TimesProfitsCovetousness, Example OfWicked ProphetsGreat And SmallCovetousnessGreedpractice

The wicked findeth favour, He hath not learned righteousness, In a land of straightforwardness he dealeth perversely, And seeth not the excellency of Jehovah. Verse ConceptsGod, Majesty OfGrace, In OtCharacter Of WickedNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsContinuing In Sin


A laughter to his friend I am: 'He calleth to God, and He answereth him,' A laughter is the perfect righteous one. Verse ConceptsHumourRidicule, Objects OfAnswered PromisesThe Righteous PerishingGod Answered Prayerjoking

A worthless witness scorneth judgment, And the mouth of the wicked swalloweth iniquity. Verse ConceptsWitnesses, False

And removed backward is judgment, And righteousness afar off standeth, For truth hath been feeble in the street, And straightforwardness is not able to enter, Verse ConceptsInjustice, Nature And Source OfPlumb LineRoadsStumblingEvil TimesFar From OneUnfaithfulMorality

There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity. Verse ConceptsemptinessUnreliabilityCharacter Of Wicked


Hear this, I pray you, heads of the house of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Who are making judgment abominable, And all uprightness do pervert. Verse ConceptsTwistingMisrepresentationHating Good

And it cometh to pass, at the establishing of the kingdom of Rehoboam, and at his strengthening himself, he hath forsaken the law of Jehovah, and all Israel with him. Verse ConceptsAbandonmentForsaking GodForsaking God's Things

And Jehovah saith: Because of their forsaking My law that I set before them, And they have not hearkened to My voice nor walked in it, Verse ConceptsDisobedience, To GodForsaking God's ThingsBreaking God's Law

Hear, O earth, lo, I am bringing evil on this people, The fruit of their devices, For to My words they gave no attention, And My law -- they kick against it. Verse ConceptsRejecting ThingsRejection Of GodRejection Of God, Results OfRejection Of God's CallRefusing To HearGod Will Bring Harm

That a rebellious people is this, sons -- liars, Sons not willing to hear the law of Jehovah. Verse ConceptsChildren, attitudes towardsSin, Nature OfBible, Names OfRefusing To HearLying And Deceitrebellion

They have not kept the covenant of God, And in His law they have refused to walk, Verse ConceptsContemptDisobedience, To GodProvokingSelf WillBreaking The CovenantBreaking God's Law

Therefore, as a tongue of fire devoureth stubble, And flaming hay falleth, Their root is as muck, And their flower as dust goeth up. Because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of Hosts, And the saying of the Holy One of Israel despised. Verse ConceptsRejecting God's WordDecayGrassRejection Of GodStrawRejection Of God's WordWord Of GodRootsPeople RottingBurning Plants

Cut off have been My people for lack of knowledge, Because thou knowledge hast rejected, I reject thee from being priest to Me, And thou forgettest the law of thy God, I forget thy sons, I also! Verse ConceptsBad CounselDangers Of IgnorancedecisionsPoverty, SpiritualRejection Of GodRejection Of God, Results OfRetributionAdvice, Rejecting God's AdviceWisdom, Source Of HumanValuing KnowledgeGod ForgettingForsaking God's ThingsDeposingIgnorance of GodRejectionignorance

Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, And for four, I do not reserve it, Because of their loathing the law of Jehovah, And His statutes they have not kept, And their lies do cause them to err, After which their fathers did walk, Verse ConceptsAncestorsBad ParentsFalse GodsGuidance, Need For God'sRejecting ThingsRejection Of GodAbominations, Judgments OfThree Or FourBreaking God's Law

Every one who is hating his brother -- a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining, Verse ConceptsHatredBullyingAccepting OthersNot Maintaining LifeJudged As MurderersEternal lifeHateForgiving Others Who Hurt YouSibling Lovehaters

And speaking boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, 'To you it was necessary that first the word of God be spoken, and seeing ye do thrust it away, and do not judge yourselves worthy of the life age-during, lo, we do turn to the nations; Verse ConceptsGentiles, In NtCourage, In Facing EnemiesBoldness, Proclaiming Gospeldenial of Jesus ChristNecessityRejection Of GodRejection Of God's CallUnworthinessAdvice, Rejecting God's AdvicePreaching Gospel To ForeignersNot Maintaining LifeTo The Jew Firstholy Boldness



'And, if that evil servant may say in his heart, My Lord doth delay to come, and may begin to beat the fellow-servants, and to eat and to drink with the drunken, the lord of that servant will arrive in a day when he doth not expect, and in an hour of which he doth not know, read more.
and will cut him off, and his portion with the hypocrites will appoint; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.

Because sentence hath not been done on an evil work speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of man is full within them to do evil. Verse ConceptsSecurity, FalseDivine DelaysPunishmentPunishmentsPunishment of the The WickedExerciseconsequences

'And, if that evil servant may say in his heart, My Lord doth delay to come, and may begin to beat the fellow-servants, and to eat and to drink with the drunken,


who sometime disbelieved, when once the long-suffering of God did wait, in days of Noah -- an ark being preparing -- in which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water; Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with NoahBaptism, significance ofBefore The FloodGod's attitude towards peopleGod, Patience OfNoahSeafaringPunishment, DelayedLongsuffering Of GodThe DelugeDivine DelaysEight PeopleGod WaitingFew Peopledisobedienceinvesting


And they bend their tongue, their bow is a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah! Verse ConceptsBow And Arrows, Illustrations OfDebaucheryTongueLukewarmnessDissipationMighty in its influence

And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured. Verse ConceptsManipulationMen DeceivingFriendsFriendship And TrustDeceptionLying And Deceitlieing

An evil doer is attentive to lips of vanity, Falsehood is giving ear to a mischievous tongue. Verse ConceptsEvil SpeakingEvildoersLipsRumoursgossiping


Lo, he travaileth with iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood. Verse ConceptsPregnancyMalice Of The Wicked


Thou hast loved evil rather than good, Lying, than speaking righteousness. Selah. Verse ConceptsLoving EvilPsalm InterjectionsTelling The TruthLying And DeceitThe Environmentlieinglovers

Sons of men! till when is my glory for shame? Ye love a vain thing, ye seek a lie. Selah. Verse ConceptsFalse GodsUseless ThingsTrust, Lack OfAvoiding DeceitLoving EvilPsalm Interjections


and the rest, having laid hold on his servants, did insult and slay them. Verse ConceptsMalice Of The WickedKilling ProphetsOppressors


because of this, if I may come, I will cause him to remember his works that he doth, with evil words prating against us; and not content with these, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and those intending he doth forbid, and out of the assembly he doth cast. Verse ConceptsInhospitalityWelcoming BelieversNot Welcoming PeopleExcommunicationBeing Contentaccusationsattentionwelcome

Lo, he travaileth with iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood. Verse ConceptsPregnancyMalice Of The Wicked


And they forget His doings, And His wonders that He shewed them. Verse ConceptsPast, TheAffections Should Not Grow Cold

yea, they refuse to hearken, and have not remembered Thy wonders that Thou hast done with them, and harden their neck and appoint a head, to turn back to their service, in their rebellion; and Thou art a God of pardons, gracious, and merciful, long-suffering, and abundant in kindness, and hast not forsaken them. Verse ConceptsGod, Compassion OfAngerAggressionAnger Of God, DescriptionListeningRestraintSin, And God's CharacterLoving Kindness Of GodSelf WillGod Not ForsakingMaking SlavesA Forgiving GodSpeed Of God's AngerAnger And Forgiveness

An Instruction of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law, Incline your ear to sayings of my mouth.

And Herod having seen Jesus did rejoice exceedingly, for he was wishing for a long time to see him, because of hearing many things about him, and he was hoping some sign to see done by him, Verse ConceptsHope, Nature OfSeeking SignsThe First Sight Of ChristGood NewsSigns Performed By ChristSeeking A SignRight Desires

'Others he saved; himself he is not able to save! If he be King of Israel, let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe him; Verse ConceptsNames And Titles For ChristHeartlessnessChrist Going DownReasons For Faith In ChristChrist Is King Of IsraelSaving OneselfThose Not Saved

And the multitudes crowding together upon him, he began to say, 'This generation is evil, a sign it doth seek after, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet, Verse ConceptsSeeking SignsUnbelief, As Response To GodJesus Christ, Temptation OfCrowds SeekingCrowds Around JesusSeeking For Abstract ThingsNo SignsBeginning To Teach


for all the men who are seeing My honour, and My signs, which I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and try Me these ten times, and have not hearkened to My voice -- Verse ConceptsGod, As SaviorTen TimesTesting GodNot Believing Signs

the chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered together a sanhedrim, and said, 'What may we do? because this man doth many signs? Verse ConceptsChief priestsSigns Of The TimesProphecies Concerning ChristPlottingSigns Performed By ChristThe Chief Priests Convenedaccomplishment

saying, 'What shall we do to these men? because that, indeed, a notable sign hath been done through them, to all those dwelling in Jerusalem is manifest, and we are not able to deny it; Verse ConceptsContradictingOther MiraclesSigns And Wonders Of The Gospel

Our fathers in Egypt, Have not considered wisely Thy wonders, They have not remembered The abundance of Thy kind acts, And provoke by the sea, at the sea of Suph. Verse ConceptsKindnessMiracles, Responses ToRebellion, Of IsraelSelf PityThoughtIngratitude To GodDullnessComing To The Red SeaCauses of failure in

for they understood not concerning the loaves, for their heart hath been hard. Verse ConceptsUnbelief, And Life Of FaithApathyStiffnecked PeopleObstinate IndividualsNot Understanding God's Things

And she writeth letters in the name of Ahab, and sealeth with his seal, and sendeth the letters unto the elders, and unto the freemen, who are in his city, those dwelling with Naboth, and she writeth in the letters, saying, 'Proclaim a fast, and cause Naboth to sit at the head of the people, and cause two men -- sons of worthlessness -- to sit over-against him, and they testify of him, saying, Thou hast blessed God and Melech; and they have brought him out, and stoned him, and he dieth.'

If they say, 'Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause, Verse ConceptsGoing TogetherAmbushAttempting To KillFun

And they see him from afar, even before he draweth near unto them, and they conspire against him to put him to death. Verse ConceptsPlottingSeeing At A DistanceAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleSeeing PeopleConspiracySiblingsdistance


For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood. Verse ConceptsSheddingRunning After EvilFeet In ActionReady To Kill


At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief. Verse ConceptsMurderNightRising EarlySecret SinsNot Helping The Poor

and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: The city is shedding blood in its midst, For the coming in of its time, And it hath made idols on it for defilement. Verse ConceptsSheddingThe Day Of JudgementPeople Polluting ThemselvesKilling Many People

But thine eyes and thy heart are not, Except on thy dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence. Verse ConceptsDeceitful HeartsAbuse Of Authority, Warnings AgainstHeart, Fallen And RedeemedOppression, Nature OfProfitsSelf IndulgenceInnocent BloodSheddingKilling The InnocentOppressorsCovetousnessDishonestyoppression

He doth sit in an ambush of the villages, In secret places he doth slay the innocent. His eyes for the afflicted watch secretly, He lieth in wait in a secret place, as a lion in a covert. He lieth in wait to catch the poor, He catcheth the poor, drawing him into his net. He is bruised -- he boweth down, Fallen by his mighty ones hath the afflicted.




Destruction hath come, And they have sought peace, and there is none. Verse ConceptsPeace, In The WickedUnrestThe Ungodly SufferingNo Peace


For they speak not peace, And against the quiet of the land, Deceitful words they devise, Verse ConceptsClaimsDeception In Fallen Human NatureQuietnessPeace, In The WickedDeceitful TonguesNo Peace

Too much hath my soul dwelt with him who is hating peace. Verse ConceptsPeace, In The WickedHating GoodNo Peacehaters

Draw me not with the wicked, And with workers of iniquity, Speaking peace with their neighbours, And evil in their heart. Verse ConceptsDeceitful HeartsHeart, Fallen And RedeemedEvil PlansPeace, In The WickedMischiefEvil AssociationsTaking Other PeopleNo Peace



He entereth into peace, they rest on their beds, Each is going straightforward. Verse ConceptsPeace, Believers Experience OfRest, EternalThe Righteous PerishingDeath Of The RighteousSleeping Peacefully

And a way of peace they did not know. Verse ConceptsWay, TheUnrestNo Peace

'And it hath been, in his hearing the words of this oath, and he hath blessed himself in his heart, saying, I have peace, though in the stubbornness of my heart I go on, in order to end the fulness with the thirst. Verse ConceptsSelf IndulgenceSelf DelusionFalse ConfidencePathways Of SinMoist ThingsObstinate IndividualsPersistence

And they heal the breach of the daughter of my people slightly, Saying, 'Peace, peace!' and there is no peace. Verse ConceptsFalse ConfidenceComplacencyNeglecting PeopleRefugeUnfaithful MinistersNo HealingNo PeacePeace And SafetyHurthurting

saying -- 'If thou didst know, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things for thy peace; but now they were hid from thine eyes. Verse ConceptsMisused PrivilegesTodayGod's Things ConcealedNo Peace

For an enemy hath pursued my soul, He hath bruised to the earth my life, He hath caused me to dwell in dark places, As the dead of old. Verse ConceptsMonotonyColors, BlackState Of The Deadcrushes

Swifter have been our pursuers, Than the eagles of the heavens, On the mountains they have burned after us, In the wilderness they have laid wait for us. Verse ConceptsPursuing PeopleSkySpeedEaglesAmbushrelentless

Lest mine enemy say, 'I overcame him,' Mine adversaries joy when I am moved. Verse ConceptsdefeatRejoicing In Evil

and those dwelling upon the land shall rejoice over them, and shall make merry, and gifts they shall send to one another, because these -- the two prophets -- did torment those dwelling upon the land.' Verse ConceptsGiving To OthersMerrinessTwo WitnessesTwo WitnessesIndividual ProphetsRejoicing In EvilUnnamed Prophets Of The LordCelebration

For they have pursued him Thou hast smitten, And recount of the pain of Thy pierced ones. Verse ConceptsCharacter Of WickedPersecution, Nature OfGod Beating PeopleHurtharassment


Saying, 'God hath forsaken him, Pursue and catch him, for there is no deliverer.' Verse ConceptsAbandonmentPursuing PeopleGod Abandoning IndividualsNo One Can Save

They turn aside the needy from the way, Together have hid the poor of the earth. Lo, wild asses in a wilderness, They have gone out about their work, Seeking early for prey, A mixture for himself -- food for young ones. In a field his provender they reap, And the vineyard of the wicked they glean. read more.
The naked they cause to lodge Without clothing. And there is no covering in the cold. From the inundation of hills they are wet, And without a refuge -- have embraced a rock. They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on the poor they lay a pledge. Naked, they have gone without clothing, And hungry -- have taken away a sheaf.

The afflicted and needy he hath oppressed, Plunder he hath taken violently away, A pledge he doth not return, And unto the idols he hath lifted up his eyes, Abomination he hath done! Verse ConceptsCreditPoor, The Wicked Response ToOppressorsDo Not StealLaws About PledgesNot Helping The Poor


Thou hast pierced with his staves the head of his leaders, They are tempestuous to scatter me, Their exultation is as to consume the poor in secret. Verse ConceptsPoor, The Wicked Response ToActing In SecretNot Helping The PoorRejoicing In Evil

A gathering of silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, Unto the midst of a furnace -- to blow on it fire, to melt it, So do I gather in Mine anger and in My fury, And I have let rest, and have melted you. Verse ConceptsIronTinMeltingGathered By GodFurnaces

What -- to you? ye bruise My people, And the faces of the poor ye grind.' An affirmation of the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, And Jehovah saith: Verse ConceptsCrushingGrindingUnkindnessPoor, The Wicked Response ToGrinding PeopleNot Helping The Poorcrushes

The counsel of the poor ye cause to stink, Because Jehovah is his refuge. Verse ConceptsPlansPoverty, Remedies ForGod And The PoorPoor, The Wicked Response ToShaming People


Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit. To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.



Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, Who are in the mountain of Samaria, Who are oppressing the poor, Who are bruising the needy, Who are saying to their lords: 'Bring in, and we do drink.' Verse ConceptsCowsThe NeedyLeisure, Nature And Purpose OfOppression, Nature OfSuffering, Nature OfPoor, The Wicked Response ToAlcohol ConsumptionGetting WineWomen Doing WrongNot Helping The Poorwomanhood

Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of their selling for silver the righteous, And the needy for a pair of sandals. Verse ConceptsCreditCoveting, prohibition ofBribery, Results OfOppression, God's Attitude ToRighteousness, Of BelieversSandalsTradeAbominations, Judgments OfPoor, The Wicked Response ToShoesThree Or FourNorthern Kingdom Of IsraelPrice Set On Individuals


but I will show to you, whom ye may fear; Fear him who, after the killing, is having authority to cast to the gehenna; yes, I say to you, Fear ye Him. Verse ConceptsGospel, Responses ToPunishment, By GodGehennaReverence To GodGod KillingGod KillsFear God!

for I was ashamed to ask from the king a force and horsemen to help us because of the enemy in the way, for we spake to the king, saying, 'The hand of our God is upon all seeking Him for good, and His strength and His wrath is upon all forsaking Him.' Verse ConceptsForsaking GodGrace, In OtRejection Of God, Results OfRoadsGod's HandConsequences Of Forsaking GodGod's Hands On PeopleShame Has Come

Lo, a presumptuous one! Not upright is his soul within him, And the righteous by his stedfastness liveth. And also, because the wine is treacherous, A man is haughty, and remaineth not at home, Who hath enlarged as sheol his soul, And is as death that is not satisfied, And doth gather unto itself all the nations, And doth assemble unto itself all the peoples,

and men were scorched with great heat, and they did speak evil of the name of God, who hath authority over these plagues, and they did not reform -- to give to Him glory. Verse ConceptsCurses, HumanHardened HeartsHeart, Fallen And RedeemedHeatCharacter Of WickedScorchingProfaning God's NameBlasphemyGod Showed His PowerWeather In The Last DaysweatherNot Glorifying God

and the rest of men, who were not killed in these plagues, neither did reform from the works of their hands, that they may not bow before the demons, and idols, those of gold, and those of silver, and those of brass, and those of stone, and those of wood, that are neither able to see, nor to hear, nor to walk, Verse ConceptsDeafnessFalse ReligionDemons, Evil Work Ofdemons, Kinds ofGoldStonesWoodIdolatry Consists OfAtheism, Description OfBrassImpotence Of IdolsIdols Not SeeingIdol WorshipIdolatryUnhearingWorshipping The DevilWood And StoneBronze For IdolsRepentance

I have given attention, yea, I hearken, They do not speak right, No man hath repented of his wickedness, Saying, What have I done? Every one hath turned to his courses, As a horse is rushing into battle. Verse ConceptsObstinacy Against GodWicked Described As

for John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him, and the tax-gatherers and the harlots did believe him, and ye, having seen, repented not at last -- to believe him. Verse ConceptsPrejudiceRepentance, Importance OfUnbelief, As Response To GodWay, TheSkepticismBelieving ProphetsNot Believing PeoplePeople Changing Their MindsRepentancePeople Who Did RightRewards Of Ritual

and I did give to her a time that she might reform from her whoredom, and she did not reform; Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TimeRepentance, Importance OfThey Committed ImmoralitySexual Immoralityspacejezebel

and he said, No, father Abraham, but if any one from the dead may go unto them, they will reform. And he said to him, If Moses and the prophets they do not hear, neither if one may rise out of the dead will they be persuaded.'

Then began he to reproach the cities in which were done most of his mighty works, because they did not reform. Verse ConceptsRepentance, Importance Of


There is who is making himself rich, and hath nothing, Who is making himself poor, and wealth is abundant. Verse ConceptsPretencePretendingBlessings Of The PoorPoor Or Richacting

In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit is to its possessor except the sight of his eyes? Verse ConceptsGrowth In WealthFinancesFamily ProblemsWealth And ProsperitySaving Money

Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, in vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them. Verse ConceptsBusynessFutilityWealthHuman IgnoranceRest, PhysicalRiches, Ungodly Use OfTreasureCare, WorldlyCovetousness, Nature ofNot Knowing The FutureDrawbacks To Richesgathering

For to a man who is good before Him, He hath given wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; and to a sinner He hath given travail, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good before God. Even this is vanity and vexation of spirit. Verse ConceptsWealthBeing A BlessingEnjoyment, Lack OfBeing BlessedPromised JoyUseless EndeavourGod Judges The WickedPeople With KnowledgeGod Gives WisdomWisdomWisdom And GuidanceSaving Moneystriving

If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare clothing, Verse ConceptsWealthClaySilverDressNumerous As Dust


and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction, for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;

Those trusting on their wealth, And in the multitude of their riches, Do shew themselves foolish. Verse ConceptsRich, TheStrength, HumanMaterialismCharacter Of WickedFalse ConfidenceTrusting RichesSatisfied With Riches


There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil. Verse ConceptsBad SituationsMisersHoardingStoring Treasure On EarthUnder The SunTragedy


Lo, these are the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength. Verse ConceptsRiches, Ungodly Use OfProsperityThose At EaseGetting RichWealth And Prosperityprospering


They wear out in good their days, And in a moment to Sheol go down. Verse ConceptsDeath Of The WickedSudden DeathThe Wicked ProsperWealth And Prosperity

Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out. Verse ConceptsGetting RichFinancesA Fool And His Money Shall PartWealth And Prosperity

that on you may come all the righteous blood being poured out on the earth from the blood of Abel the righteous, unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar: Verse ConceptsAbelAbel and CainBlood, Figurative UseMartyrdom, Examples OfSheddingResponsibility For Blood ShedKilling ProphetsKilling Named IndividualsNamed Prophets Of The Lord


The wicked is watching for the righteous, And is seeking to put him to death. Verse ConceptsAttempting To KillWaitingWatchfulness, Of BelieversWatching To EntrapSpying



Let lips of falsehood become dumb, That are speaking against the righteous, Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt. Verse ConceptsdisrespectIrreverenceLipsSuperiorityArrogance, Characterizes The WickedCurbing SpeechLyingPrideThe TonguespeakingLying And Deceitarrogancelieingaccusations

and those passing by were speaking evil of him, wagging their heads, and saying, 'Thou that art throwing down the sanctuary, and in three days building it, save thyself; if Son thou art of God, come down from the cross.' And in like manner also the chief priests mocking, with the scribes and elders, said, read more.
'Others he saved; himself he is not able to save! If he be King of Israel, let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe him; he hath trusted on God, let Him now deliver him, if He wish him, because he said -- Son of God I am;' with the same also the robbers, who were crucified with him, were reproaching him.

Hearken unto Me, ye mighty in heart, Who are far from righteousness. Verse ConceptsPay Attention To God!

Near have been my wicked pursuers, From Thy law they have been far off. Verse ConceptsBreaking God's Law

The wicked findeth favour, He hath not learned righteousness, In a land of straightforwardness he dealeth perversely, And seeth not the excellency of Jehovah. Verse ConceptsGod, Majesty OfGrace, In OtCharacter Of WickedNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsContinuing In Sin

Many times He doth deliver them, And they rebel in their counsel, And they are brought low in their iniquity. Verse ConceptsRebellion, Of IsraelUnbelief, Nature And Effects OfWasteHumbling The ProudGod Saving From Enemies

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit, He ceased to act prudently -- to do good. Verse ConceptsMouthsDeception In Fallen Human NatureSpeech, Negative Aspects OfFalse WisdomDeceitful Tongues

Ye who are turning to wormwood judgment, And righteousness to the earth have put down, Verse ConceptsBitter FoodNo JusticeBitterness

awake up, as is right, and sin not; for certain have an ignorance of God; for shame to you I say it. Verse ConceptsConversion, God's demands forSin, Avoidance OfWakefulnessRighteousnessIgnorance of GodMoving OnKnowing Godignoranceawakeningshunning

Who hath counted the dust of Jacob, And the number of the fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of upright ones, And let my last end be like his!' Verse ConceptsUncountableNumerous As DustA Fourth PartDeath Of God's PeopleMany In Israelcredibility

'Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and thy sins by righteousness break off, and thy perversity by pitying the poor, lo, it is a lengthening of thine ease. Verse ConceptsGood Human Adviceevil, believers' responses toKindnessWise CouncelRenunciationRepentance, Nature OfAction For A Long TimePeople Showing MercyMan's Counsel

Sow for yourselves in righteousness, Reap according to loving-kindness, Till for yourselves tillage of knowledge, To seek Jehovah, Till he come and shew righteousness to you. Verse ConceptsBeing PreparedPresent, TheRighteousness, Of BelieversSeedSeeking GodHoly Spirit, Types OfFruits Of RighteousnessSowing GoodReapingFallow LandBreakupsReaping What You SowPlanting SeedsSeedsSowing Seedssowing

Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, Who are called by the name of Israel, And from the waters of Judah came out, Who are swearing by the name of Jehovah, And of the God of Israel make mention, Not in truth nor in righteousness. Verse ConceptseagernessPerjuryProfessingSwearing Oaths FalselyGod Renaming PeopleSwearingListening To Godisrael


What, then, shall we say? that nations who are not pursuing righteousness did attain to righteousness, and righteousness that is of faith, Verse ConceptsGospel, Promises OfJustice, In Believers' LivesImputed RighteousnessPursuing GoodForeigners Saved By FaithRighteous By FaithGentiles

for when ye were servants of the sin, ye were free from the righteousness, Verse ConceptsSubject To EvilslaveryGod Being In Controlfree


Thou hast loved evil rather than good, Lying, than speaking righteousness. Selah. Verse ConceptsLoving EvilPsalm InterjectionsTelling The TruthLying And DeceitThe Environmentlieinglovers

said, 'O full of all guile, and all profligacy, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease perverting the right ways of the Lord? Verse ConceptsSatan, Agents OfShrewdnessDenunciationsMischiefChildren Of EvilTwistingStraight PathsMen DeceivingChildren Of The DevilEnemies Of GodDemonic Influence

And -- rebel against me do the house of Israel in the wilderness, In My statutes they have not walked, And My judgments they have despised, Which the man who doth -- liveth by them. And My sabbaths they have greatly polluted, And I say to pour out My fury on them in the wilderness, to consume them. Verse ConceptsRejection Of GodSabbath, In OtJudgement In The WildernessIf You Keep The CommandmentsLife Through Keeping The LawSabbath ViolatedWorks Of The LawRebellion against God

Because against My judgments they did kick, And in My statutes they have not walked, And My sabbaths they have polluted, For after their idols their heart is going. Verse ConceptsRejecting ThingsNature Of IdolatrySabbath ViolatedThey Do Not Keep Commands

O the happiness of a man who doth this, And of a son of man who keepeth hold on it, Keeping the sabbath from polluting it, And keeping his hand from doing any evil. Verse ConceptsCommendationethics, personalLaw, Ten CommandmentsSabbath, In OtSabbath Observed

and the peoples of the land who are bringing in the wares and any corn on the sabbath-day to sell, we receive not of them on the sabbath, and on a holy day, and we leave the seventh year, and usury on every hand. Verse Conceptsethics, personalBuying and sellingCreditRespect, For EnvironmentSabbatical YearSabbath, In OtTradeYearsDebtorsCancellation Of DeptCancelling DebtsSabbath ObservedDebt

In those days I have seen in Judah those treading wine-vats on sabbath, and bringing in the sheaves, and lading on the asses, and also, wine, grapes, and figs, and every burden, yea, they are bringing in to Jerusalem on the sabbath-day, and I testify in the day of their selling provision. And the Tyrians have dwelt in it, bringing in fish, and every ware, and selling on sabbath to the sons of Judah and in Jerusalem.

And I have caused to cease all her joy, Her festival, her new moon, and her sabbath, Even all her appointed times, Verse ConceptsNew Moon FestivalSabbath, In OtCessationStopping RejoicingFestivals DisregardedLack Of RejoicingSabbath ViolatedCelebration

And He shaketh as a garden His tabernacle, He hath destroyed His appointed place, Jehovah hath forgotten in Zion the appointed time and sabbath, And despiseth, in the indignation of His anger, king and priest. Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalDecayDestruction Of The TempleGod Living In The TabernacleBoothsForgetting ThingsDeposed PriestsFestivals DisregardedSabbath Violated

And I strive with the freemen of Judah, and say to them, 'What is this evil thing that ye are doing, and polluting the sabbath-day? Verse ConceptsNoblesProfanityAnger, Justified ExamplesDisputesSabbath Violated

My holy things thou hast despised, And My sabbaths thou hast polluted. Verse ConceptsSabbath, In OtSabbath Violated

Of the Pharisees, therefore, certain said, 'This man is not from God, because the sabbath he doth not keep;' others said, 'How is a man -- a sinful one -- able to do such signs?' and there was a division among them. Verse ConceptsFaultsHumiliationLegalismPublic OpinionSigns Of The TimesDissensionSchismsDivisions Of OpinionSigns Performed By ChristChrist's OriginPharisees Concerned About ChristThe Sabbath And ChristThey Do Not Keep CommandsFinding Fault With JesusJesus Healing On Sabbathdivisionpharisees

And the chief of the synagogue answering -- much displeased that on the sabbath Jesus healed -- said to the multitude, 'Six days there are in which it behoveth us to be working; in these, then, coming, be healed, and not on the sabbath-day.' Verse ConceptsDays, Natural UsePharisees, Beliefs OfLegalismSix DaysAngry With ChristDoing One's WorkJesus HealingThe Sabbath And ChristJesus Healing On Sabbath

And the sons of Israel are in the wilderness, and they find a man gathering wood on the sabbath-day, Verse ConceptsSabbath, In OtIsrael In The WildernessFirewoodSabbath Violated

Thus said Jehovah, Take ye heed to yourselves, And ye bear not a burden on the day of rest, Nor have ye brought it in by the gates of Jerusalem. Nor do ye take out a burden from your houses on the day of rest, Yea, any work ye do not do, And ye have sanctified the day of rest, As I have commanded your fathers. And they have not hearkened nor inclined their ear, And they stiffen their neck not to hear, And not to receive instruction.

And it cometh to pass on the seventh day, some of the people have gone out to gather, and have not found. Verse ConceptsGathering FoodNot Finding

Remembered hath Jerusalem In the days of her affliction and her mournings, all her desirable things that were from the days of old, In the falling of her people into the hand of an adversary, And she hath no helper; Seen her have adversaries, They have laughed at her cessation. Verse ConceptsInfidelity To GodWanderersPeople RememberingHistory Of NationsNo HelpScoffers

and they having gone through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia, and having gone into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, they sat down, Verse ConceptsLord's Day, TheSabbath, In NtOn The Sabbath


And the sons of Israel are in the wilderness, and they find a man gathering wood on the sabbath-day, and those finding him gathering wood bring him near unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto all the company, and they place him in ward, for it is not explained what is to be done to him.

In those days I have seen in Judah those treading wine-vats on sabbath, and bringing in the sheaves, and lading on the asses, and also, wine, grapes, and figs, and every burden, yea, they are bringing in to Jerusalem on the sabbath-day, and I testify in the day of their selling provision. Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofFig treeAgriculture, TermsGrapesReformationRest, PhysicalWinepressFigsTreading GrapesSabbath Violated

In those days I have seen in Judah those treading wine-vats on sabbath, and bringing in the sheaves, and lading on the asses, and also, wine, grapes, and figs, and every burden, yea, they are bringing in to Jerusalem on the sabbath-day, and I testify in the day of their selling provision. Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofFig treeAgriculture, TermsGrapesReformationRest, PhysicalWinepressFigsTreading GrapesSabbath Violated

Its priests have wronged My law, And they pollute My holy things, Between holy and common they have not made separation, And between the unclean and the clean they have not made known, And from my sabbaths they have hidden their eyes, And I am pierced in their midst. Verse ConceptsAtonement, in OTHoliness,  Worldly SeparationPriests, Function In Ot TimesUnfaithfulness, To GodCorrupt PriestsClean And UncleanSabbath ViolatedThey Do Not Keep CommandsLack Of Holiness

If thou dost turn from the sabbath thy foot, Doing thine own pleasure on My holy day, And hast cried to the sabbath, 'A delight,' To the holy of Jehovah, 'Honoured,' And hast honoured it, without doing thine own ways, Without finding thine own pleasure, And speaking a word. Verse ConceptsSabbath, In OtDesecrationSabbath Observed

Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit. Verse ConceptsFraudCovenant breakersCheatingDishonesty, Kinds OfBuying and sellingMarketsMonthNew Moon FestivalSabbath, In OtBalances, For BusinessStealingWeighingBig ThingsSmall ThingsBeginning Of PeriodsSabbath ViolatedThose Who Deceivedbalancemarketing

for every one with fire shall be salted, and every sacrifice with salt shall be salted. Verse ConceptsSaltBurning PeopleSournessSacrifice


I have seen treacherous ones, And grieve myself, Because Thy saying they have not kept. Verse ConceptsFaithlessness, As DisobedienceBible, In Christian LivingDisgustHating EvilThey Do Not Keep Commandstraitors

as also in all the epistles, speaking in them concerning these things, among which things are certain hard to be understood, which the untaught and unstable do wrest, as also the other Writings, unto their own destruction. Verse ConceptsDelusionsInstabilityWord Of GodThe Biblical CanonFicklenessDestroying OneselfTwistingNot Understanding SayingsUse Of The ScripturesSpecial RevelationIgnorance of GodHard WorkScriptureWorking Hard And Not Being Lazyuncertaintyignorancepeter

Ashamed have been the wise, They have been affrighted, and are captured, Lo, against a word of Jehovah they kicked, And the wisdom of what -- have they? Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfdiscouragementRejection Of God's WordWord Of GodRejecting God's WordFalse WisdomForsaking God's ThingsShaming PeopleGod's Word Gives WisdomDisappointmentrelentlesswise

And he said to them, 'Well do ye put away the command of God that your tradition ye may keep; for Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother -- let him die the death; and ye say, If a man may say to father or to mother, Korban (that is, a gift), is whatever thou mayest be profited out of mine, read more.
and no more do ye suffer him to do anything for his father or for his mother, setting aside the word of God for your tradition that ye delivered; and many such like things ye do.'

and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence -- who are stumbling at the word, being unbelieving, -- to which also they were set; Verse ConceptsLibertinismPredestined PlansStumblingAbuse, Of Christian FreedomProphecies Concerning ChristStumbling Over ChristPeople StumblingChrist The RockRoyal Priesthood

and as the days of Noah -- so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man; for as they were, in the days before the flood, eating, and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, till the day Noah entered into the ark, and they did not know till the flood came and took all away; so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man.



in flaming fire, giving vengeance to those not knowing God, and to those not obeying the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ; who shall suffer justice -- destruction age-during -- from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his strength,

'And, if that evil servant may say in his heart, My Lord doth delay to come, Verse ConceptsServants Of The LordSoliloquyNot Serving God

this first knowing, that there shall come in the latter end of the days scoffers, according to their own desires going on, and saying, 'Where is the promise of his presence? for since the fathers did fall asleep, all things so remain from the beginning of the creation;'

Seeing -- Me day by day they seek, And the knowledge of My ways they desire, As a nation that righteousness hath done, And the judgment of its God hath not forsaken, They ask of me judgments of righteousness, The drawing near of God they desire: Verse ConceptseagernessAskingNominal ReligionHypocrites, Description OfNot Coming Near To GodMaking Decisions

and they draw nigh unto Zerubbabel, and unto heads of the fathers, and say to them, 'Let us build with you; for, like you, we seek to your God, and we are not sacrificing since the days of Esar-Haddon king of Asshur, who brought us up hither.' Verse ConceptsSamaritansExiled ForeignersTimes Of People

and he doth the evil thing, for he hath not prepared his heart to seek Jehovah. Verse ConceptsFailureHeart, Of Unregenerate PeopleHeart, Fallen And RedeemedMind, The HumanNot Seeking God


Jehovah from the heavens Hath looked on the sons of men, To see if there is a wise one -- seeking God. The whole have turned aside, Together they have been filthy: There is not a doer of good, not even one.

And the people hath not turned back unto Him who is smiting it, And Jehovah of Hosts they have not sought. Verse ConceptsPrayerlessnessGod Is TruthfulAfflictions Of The WickedNot Returning To GodGod Beating PeopleNot Seeking God


For his soul in his life he blesseth, (And they praise thee when thou dost well for thyself.) Verse ConceptsSelf DelusionCommending OneselfBlessings And Prosperity

Also all his days in darkness he consumeth, and sadness, and wrath, and sickness abound. Verse ConceptsSickness

And David saith to him, 'Whose art thou? and whence art thou?' And he saith, 'An Egyptian youth I am, servant to a man, an Amalekite, and my lord forsaketh me, for I have been sick three days, Verse ConceptsAbandonmentEmployers, Bad ExamplesSick IndividualsWhere From?

a stranger I was, and ye did not receive me; naked, and ye put not around me; infirm, and in prison, and ye did not look after me. Verse ConceptsSocial SelfishnessOppressing ForeignersClothing The NeedyNaked In PovertyPeople VisitingNot Welcoming ChristReceiving Jesus As A Guestjail


surely there hath none been like Ahab, who sold himself to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, whom Jezebel his wife hath moved, Verse ConceptsBad ExampleBad Wives ExamplesTemptressesUnique IndividualsNamed Wivesjezebel

My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing. If they say, 'Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause, We swallow them as Sheol -- alive, And whole -- as those going down to the pit, read more.
Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses with spoil, Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is -- to all of us.'

Because that I have raised thee up out of the dust, and appoint thee leader over My people Israel, and thou walkest in the way of Jeroboam, and causest My people Israel to sin -- to provoke Me to anger with their sins; Verse ConceptsImitating Wicked KingsGod Lifting People

These thou didst, and I kept silent, Thou hast thought that I am like thee, I reprove thee, and set in array before thine eyes. Verse ConceptsRebukeSilenceSecurity, FalseInfidelity To GodGod Being SilentThe Same As GodGod Requite Them!Thoughtsaccusations

He said in his heart, 'God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.' Verse ConceptsVeilsInfidelity To GodGod, All knowingGod Not SeeingGod ForgettingGod Hidingrehabilitation

And they say, 'Jehovah doth not see, And the God of Jacob doth not consider.' Verse ConceptsJacob, The PatriarchVeilsGod Not Seeing



With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies -- princes. Verse ConceptsLiesRejoicing In Evil

and the man saith, 'The woman whom Thou didst place with me -- she hath given to me of the tree -- and I do eat.' And Jehovah God saith to the woman, 'What is this thou hast done?' and the woman saith, 'The serpent hath caused me to forget -- and I do eat.'

And Samuel cometh in unto Saul, and Saul saith to him, 'Blessed art thou of Jehovah; I have performed the word of Jehovah.' And Samuel saith, 'And what is the noise of this flock in mine ears -- and the noise of the herd which I am hearing?' And Saul saith, 'From Amalek they have brought them, because the people had pity on the best of the flock, and of the herd, in order to sacrifice to Jehovah thy God, and the remnant we have devoted.'

Withhold thy foot from being unshod, And thy throat from thirst, And thou sayest, 'It is incurable, No, for I have loved strangers, and after them I go.' Verse ConceptsHopelessnessDebaucheryEvil AssociationsWithout Hope

And they have said, It is incurable, For after our own devices we do go, And each the stubbornness of his evil heart we do. Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfHardened Heartsevil, origins ofHardness Of HeartHeart, Fallen And RedeemedPlansEvil DevicesGod's PlanGods PlanGod's Plan For Usimagination


Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of your causing your iniquity to be remembered, In your transgressions being revealed, For your sins being seen, in all your doings, Because of your being remembered, By the hand ye are caught. Verse ConceptsReminders Of Sin


Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth. Their seed is established, Before their face with them, And their offspring before their eyes. Their houses are peace without fear, Nor is a rod of God upon them. read more.
His bullock hath eaten corn, and doth not loath. His cow bringeth forth safely, And doth not miscarry. They send forth as a flock their sucklings, And their children skip, They lift themselves up at timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of an organ. They wear out in good their days, And in a moment to Sheol go down. And they say to God, 'Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired. What is the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'


And ye have come in and stood before Me, In this house on which My name is called, And have said, 'We have been delivered,' In order to do all these abominations. Verse ConceptsA Place For God's Name




And they add still to sin against Him, To provoke the Most High in the dry place. Verse ConceptsObstinacy Against God


have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness? Verse ConceptsFreedom, Of The WillSin, Causes OfSin, Effects OfSin Producing DeathContinuing In SinSin Produces DeathSubject To EvilObedienceThe Surrendered lifeslaverySurrenderObeying Godobeying

and Samuel saith, 'What hast thou done?' And Saul saith, 'Because I saw that the people were scattered from off me, and thou hadst not come at the appointment of the days, and the Philistines are gathered to Michmash, and I say, Now do the Philistines come down unto me to Gilgal, and the face of Jehovah I have not appeased; and I force myself, and cause the burnt-offering to ascend.'

and the man saith, 'The woman whom Thou didst place with me -- she hath given to me of the tree -- and I do eat.' And Jehovah God saith to the woman, 'What is this thou hast done?' and the woman saith, 'The serpent hath caused me to forget -- and I do eat.'

Woe to those drawing out iniquity with cords of vanity, And as with thick ropes of the cart -- sin. Who are saying, 'Let Him hurry, Let Him hasten His work, that we may see, And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel Draw near and come, and we know.'

Thou also -- bear thy shame, That thou hast adjudged to thy sisters, Because of thy sins that thou hast done more abominably than they, They are more righteous than thou, And thou, also, be ashamed and bear thy shame, In thy justifying thy sisters. Verse ConceptsAppearancesPeople In RighteousnessShame Has ComeGod's People Sinning

Fools mock at a guilt-offering, And among the upright -- a pleasing thing. Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfGrace, In Human RelationshipsMockeryFools, Description Ofjoking



The appearance of their faces witnessed against them, And their sin, as Sodom, they declared, They have not hidden! Woe to their soul, For they have done to themselves evil. Verse ConceptsSodom And GomorrahFruits Of SinDisfigurement Of SinCountenanceExpressions On FacesSin Made KnownHarming OneselfWoe To Israel And JerusalemAppearances of

They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, 'Who doth look at it?' Verse Conceptsencouragement, examples ofParticipation, In SinInfidelity To GodNot Seeing PeopleUnseenActing In SecretMan TrappingEncouraging Othersencouraging

They have spoken words, To swear falsehood in making a covenant, And flourished as a poisonous herb hath judgment, on the furrows of a field. Verse ConceptsBad LanguageInjustice, Examples OfLawsuitsPerjuryFurrowsPoisonTreatyWeedsCursingSwearing Oaths FalselyMere TalkNo Justice

And if they say, 'Jehovah liveth,' Surely to a falsehood they swear. Verse ConceptsPerjurySwearing Oaths Falsely

Stealing, murdering, and committing adultery, And swearing to falsehood, and giving perfume to Baal, And going after other gods whom ye knew not. And ye have come in and stood before Me, In this house on which My name is called, And have said, 'We have been delivered,' In order to do all these abominations.

I have brought it out -- an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts -- and it hath come in unto the house of the thief, and unto the house of him who hath sworn in My name to a falsehood, and it hath remained in the midst of his house, and hath consumed it, both its wood and its stones.' Verse ConceptsSwearing Oaths FalselyBuilding Stones RejectedHouses Under AttackWood And StoneSwearingflyingthieves

And he saith unto me, 'This is the execration that is going forth over the face of all the land, for every one who is stealing, on the one side, according to it, hath been declared innocent, and every one who hath sworn, on the other side, according to it, hath been declared innocent. Verse ConceptsPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSwearing Oaths FalselyThe Curse Of The LawSwearing

And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts. Verse ConceptsAdultery, Consequences OfGod, Righteousness OfInjustice, Hated By GodMastersMoney, Stewardship OfOppression, Nature OfOrphansPerjuryPoverty, Attitudes TowardsRiches, Dangers OfServants, Working Conditions OfSexual Sin, Nature OfSuffering, Nature OfSuffering, Of The InnocentWagesWidowsAliens, God's AttitudeHirelingsDivinationStrangersEmployersThreateningsOppressing ForeignersSpeedThe Witness Of GodThose OppressedAdulteryNo Fear Of GodNot Helping WidowsSorceryImmigrantswitches



And he putteth on reviling as his robe, And it cometh in as water into his midst, And as oil into his bones. Verse ConceptsBodyGarments Of SinClothed With Bad ThingsDamage To The BodyThings Like WaterLike WaterSwearingcurses

And he loveth reviling, and it meeteth him, And he hath not delighted in blessing, And it is far from him. Verse ConceptsBad LanguageCursingLoving EvilPeople BlessingUngodly CursingBlessing OthersSwearingcurses

Ye may not give that which is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, that they may not trample them among their feet, and having turned -- may rend you. Verse ConceptsContemptdogsJewelsPrudenceAskingUngodlinessWasteWicked Described AsDespisersName CallingSwinePeople Torn To PiecesPigsUnfitting ThingsPetsHurt And Betrayalpork



said, 'O full of all guile, and all profligacy, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease perverting the right ways of the Lord? Verse ConceptsSatan, Agents OfShrewdnessDenunciationsMischiefChildren Of EvilTwistingStraight PathsMen DeceivingChildren Of The DevilEnemies Of GodDemonic Influence





and it behoveth him also to have a good testimony from those without, that he may not fall into reproach and a snare of the devil. Verse ConceptsConsistencyBondage, SpiritualOutsidersReputationSatan, As DeceiverSatan, As TempterEvil TrappingAttitudes Towards ForeignersBeing ReprovedLeadership Qualitiesprepping


And the spirit goeth out, and standeth before Jehovah, and saith, I -- I do entice him; and Jehovah saith unto him, By what? and he saith, I go out, and have been a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of all his prophets; and He saith, Thou dost entice, and also thou art able; go out and do so.

for already certain did turn aside after the Adversary. Verse ConceptsBacksliding, Causes




In the withering of its branch it is broken off, Women are coming in setting it on fire, For it is not a people of understanding, Therefore pity it not doth its Maker, And its Former doth not favour it. Verse ConceptsSympathyDullnessFirewoodGod Without Mercy

And I have cast you from off this land, On to a land that ye have not known, Ye and your fathers, And ye have served there other gods by day and by night, Where I do not give to you grace. Verse ConceptsAffliction Day And NightLand, As A Divine GiftThrowing PeopleUnknown ThingsDifferent Gods

The wicked findeth favour, He hath not learned righteousness, In a land of straightforwardness he dealeth perversely, And seeth not the excellency of Jehovah. Verse ConceptsGod, Majesty OfGrace, In OtCharacter Of WickedNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsContinuing In Sin

At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief. Verse ConceptsMurderNightRising EarlySecret SinsNot Helping The Poor

If thieves have come in to thee, If spoilers of the night, How hast thou been cut off! Do they not steal their sufficiency? If gatherers have come in to thee, Do they not leave gleanings? Verse ConceptsPeople Destroying Foreign NationsLuciferthieves

yea they did not reform from their murders, nor from their sorceries, nor from their whoredoms, nor from their thefts. Verse ConceptsChastityImmorality, Nature Of SexualDebaucheryMagiciansThey Committed ImmoralitySorcerySexual ImmoralitySexual PurityDrugsmagicwitches

Stealing, murdering, and committing adultery, And swearing to falsehood, and giving perfume to Baal, And going after other gods whom ye knew not. And ye have come in and stood before Me, In this house on which My name is called, And have said, 'We have been delivered,' In order to do all these abominations.

The spoil of the wicked catcheth them, Because they have refused to do judgment. Verse ConceptsFreedom From Violence

Cords of the wicked have surrounded me, Thy law I have not forgotten. Verse ConceptsForgetting GodRopesCords

Thy princes are apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them. Verse ConceptsGiftsBribery, Results OfExploitationsWicked RulersOppression, Nature OfOrphansReward, HumanRiches, Dangers OfRulersStealingLeadershipRulers, WickedCovetousness, Example OfEvil AssociationsCompanionshipNot Helping Widows

If thou hast seen a thief, Then thou art pleased with him, And with adulterers is thy portion. Verse ConceptsParticipation, In SinConnivanceEvil AssociationsComplicityThose Who Committed Adulterythieves

And they have not known to act straightforwardly, An affirmation of Jehovah, Who are treasuring up violence and spoil in their palaces. Verse ConceptsHoardingSpiritual IgnoranceMisersPursuing ViolenceNo JusticeStoring Other ThingsDoing The Right Thing

And as bands do wait for a man, A company of priests do murder -- the way to Shechem, For wickedness they have done. Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesRoadsCorrupt PriestsLeaders Sinning

At peace are the tents of spoilers, And those provoking God have confidence, He into whose hand God hath brought. Verse ConceptsSecurityTentsApparent InjusticeThe Wicked Prosperthieves

And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured. Verse ConceptsManipulationMen DeceivingFriendsFriendship And TrustDeceptionLying And Deceitlieing

For these things do not I see after them? An affirmation of Jehovah, Against a nation such as this doth not My soul avenge itself? Verse ConceptsGod Executes Vengeance

And removed backward is judgment, And righteousness afar off standeth, For truth hath been feeble in the street, And straightforwardness is not able to enter, And the truth is lacking, And whoso is turning aside from evil, Is making himself a spoil. And Jehovah seeth, and it is evil in His eyes, That there is no judgment.

And they bend their tongue, their bow is a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah! Verse ConceptsBow And Arrows, Illustrations OfDebaucheryTongueLukewarmnessDissipationMighty in its influence

And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured. Verse ConceptsManipulationMen DeceivingFriendsFriendship And TrustDeceptionLying And Deceitlieing

There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity. Verse ConceptsemptinessUnreliabilityCharacter Of Wicked

Hear a word of Jehovah, sons of Israel, For a strife is to Jehovah with inhabitants of the land, For there is no truth, nor kindness, Nor knowledge of God, in the land, Verse ConceptsLitigationForgetting GodFaithfulness, To GodProphecy, Methods Of OtWord Of GodCharacter Of WickedNot Knowing GodPeople Without Mercy

Their best one is as a brier, The upright one -- than a thorn-hedge, The day of thy watchmen -- Thy visitation -- hath come. Now is their perplexity. Verse ConceptsThornsWeedsVisitationThe Timing Of His Coming

Perished hath the kind out of the land, And upright among men -- there are none, All of them for blood lie in wait, Each his brother they hunt with a net. Verse ConceptsHuntingNetsEvil TimesUprightnessPeople WaitingMan TrappingNo One AvailableThe Righteous PerishingGodly ManA Good Man

Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness, Verse ConceptsNightWalking In DarknessThe Paths Of The LordUprightnessDarkness Of EvilPaths




And if he came to see -- vanity he speaketh, His heart gathereth iniquity to itself, He goeth out -- at the street he speaketh. Verse ConceptsFaultsSinful HeartsHeart, Fallen And RedeemedSpreading Storiesgossiping

who, through the mouth of David thy servant, did say, Why did nations rage, and peoples meditate vain things? Verse ConceptsMinistry, Nature OfMouthsTrapThe Holy Spirit, And ScriptureWhat Foreigners DoSpeaking By The SpiritAngry With GodSpeaking The Word God Gives


Why have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity? Verse ConceptsFutilityOutsidersRageEvil PlansHeathenWhat Foreigners DoUseless Words And Thinking

They sowed wheat, and have thorns reaped, They have become sick -- they profit not, And they have been ashamed of your increases, Because of the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah. Verse ConceptsHarvestProfitsSin, Effects OfSowing And ReapingThornsWheatUnprofitable SinsNot Reaping What You SowToiling In Vain

Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out. Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstSeedDestinySowing And ReapingFruits Of SinReapingInjusticeReaping What You Sow

Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, in vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them. Verse ConceptsBusynessFutilityWealthHuman IgnoranceRest, PhysicalRiches, Ungodly Use OfTreasureCare, WorldlyCovetousness, Nature ofNot Knowing The FutureDrawbacks To Richesgathering

This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind, Verse ConceptsConformityThe Carnal MindWorldly Pleasures, Characteristic Of The WickedNot Imitating EvilUseless PeopleWhat Foreigners Are LikeGentiles

When thou criest, let thy gatherings deliver thee, And all of them carry away doth wind, Take away doth vanity, And whoso is trusting in Me inheriteth the land, And doth possess My holy mountain. Verse ConceptsFalse ReligionFalse ConfidenceemptinessTrust, Importance OfLight As ChaffSalvation By Other Things


What is the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?' Verse ConceptsPrayerlessnessProfitsSkepticismCharacter Of WickedWho Is God?Serving God

Ye have said, 'A vain thing to serve God! And what gain when we kept His charge? And when we have gone in black, Because of Jehovah of Hosts? Verse ConceptsFutilityProfitsUseless ReligionServing Godimprovement

O Jehovah, my strength, and my fortress, And my refuge in a day of adversity, Unto Thee nations do come from the ends of earth, And say, Only falsehood did our fathers inherit, Vanity, and none among them is profitable. Verse ConceptsFutilityAfflicted SaintsConversion, examples ofFalse GodsGod, The RockIdolatry, Objections ToUseless ThingsMission, Of IsraelRefugeesGod Being Our RefugeVanityGod Our StrengthThe Gospel To The NationsFamily Strength

for overswellings of vanity speaking, they do entice in desires of the flesh -- lasciviousnesses, those who had truly escaped from those conducting themselves in error, Verse ConceptsFutilityFaultsemptinessEloquenceCharmdesiresTemptation, Sources OfEnticersBoastersAllurements Of SinWantonnessLiving For The MaterialEnticingUseless WordsEscaping From PeopleEvil DesiresError

Thus said Jehovah: What -- have your fathers found in Me perversity, That they have gone far off from Me, And go after the vanity, and become vain, Verse ConceptsFutilityFalse ReligionIdolatry, Objections ToPrayerlessnessSyncretismWord Of GodEstrangementVanityBeing Found OutUseless PeopleIs God Unjust?

Iniquity he deviseth on his bed, He stationeth himself on a way not good, Evil he doth not refuse.' Verse ConceptsEvil WaysImagination, Evil SchemingEvil PlansBedsEvil DevicesMischiefPlottingContinuing In SinStaying Positive

And empty man is bold, And the colt of a wild ass man is born. Verse ConceptsColtsWicked Described AsWorldly WisdomWild DonkeysWise ProverbsWisdom

For he hath known men of vanity, And He seeth iniquity, And one doth not consider it! Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingUseless People

Sons of men! till when is my glory for shame? Ye love a vain thing, ye seek a lie. Selah. Verse ConceptsFalse GodsUseless ThingsTrust, Lack OfAvoiding DeceitLoving EvilPsalm Interjections


Iniquity he deviseth on his bed, He stationeth himself on a way not good, Evil he doth not refuse.' Verse ConceptsEvil WaysImagination, Evil SchemingEvil PlansBedsEvil DevicesMischiefPlottingContinuing In SinStaying Positive

Whoso is devising to do evil, Him they call a master of wicked thoughts. Verse ConceptsIntentionsEvil PlansCharacter Of WickedEvil Devices

And they have said, It is incurable, For after our own devices we do go, And each the stubbornness of his evil heart we do. Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfHardened Heartsevil, origins ofHardness Of HeartHeart, Fallen And RedeemedPlansEvil DevicesGod's PlanGods PlanGod's Plan For Usimagination



Do not they err who are devising evil? And kindness and truth are to those devising good, Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstImagination, Evil SchemingPlansEvil PlansEvil DevicesFinding LoveMaking Mistakes

Consulting his eyes to devise froward things, Moving his lips he hath accomplished evil. Verse ConceptsLipsEvil DevicesPlottingWinkingMoving Onmovement

And the miser -- his instruments are evil, He hath counselled wicked devices, To corrupt the poor with lying sayings, Even when the needy speaketh justly. Verse ConceptsDishonesty, Kinds OfEvil PlansTrapEvil DevicesPlottinginstruments

And He saith unto me, 'Son of man, these are the men who are devising iniquity, and who are giving evil counsel in this city; Verse ConceptsEvil PlansEvil DevicesThe Entrance Of Sin



no great thing, then, if also his ministrants do transform themselves as ministrants of righteousness -- whose end shall be according to their works. Verse ConceptsServants Of The LorddisguisesServants Of PeoplePeople EndedRepaid For DeedsMinisterssurprises


because it is the time of the beginning of the judgment from the house of God, and if first from us, what the end of those disobedient to the good news of God? Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeFamily, Showing God's RelationshipFaith, Testing OfPeople EndedJudgmentsFamiliesChurch Of Goda new beginningFamily FirstGoing To ChurchJudgement DayJudgementServing The Churchrevivalfateprocesspeter

And transgressors were destroyed together, The latter end of the wicked was cut off. Verse ConceptsEternal DeathSin, God's Judgment OnSinnersDestruction Of The WickedChildren SufferingGod Judges The WickedThe Future

what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those is death. Verse ConceptsLifestylesPunishment, Nature OfFruitful LabourSin Producing DeathShame Of Bad ConductSin Produces Death

and that which is bearing thorns and briers is disapproved of, and nigh to cursing, whose end is for burning; Verse ConceptsCreation Spoilt By SinBarren, LandThornsBurning PlantsPeople EndedGod CursingRejectionFarmingcultureapostasy

Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end. Verse ConceptsFate Of The UngodlyPeople Endedfateprospering

When, therefore, the chief priests and the officers did see him, they cried out, saying, 'Crucify, crucify;' Pilate saith to them, 'Take ye him -- ye, and crucify; for I find no fault in him;' Verse ConceptsChief priestsAccusations, Against ChristCorrupt PriestsChrist Would Be KilledThe Chief Priests Condemning Christ

And in like manner also the chief priests mocking, with the scribes and elders, said, Verse ConceptsChief priestsCorrupt PriestsMocking ChristOpposition To Christ From ScribesFunpriests


Her prophets unstable -- men of treachery, Her priests have polluted the sanctuary, They have violated the law. Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesSanctuaryTreacheryCorrupt PriestsPollutionsWicked ProphetsLack Of HolinessUnfaithful

and the chief priests did move the multitude, that he might rather release Barabbas to them. Verse ConceptsPersuasionInciting To EvilCorrupt PriestsBarabbasPeople Set Free By People

The prophets have prophesied falsely, And the priests bear rule by their means, And My people have loved it so, And what do they at its latter end? Verse ConceptsSelf DeceptionCorrupt PriestsWicked ProphetsLoving EvilDirectionprophets

Its priests have wronged My law, And they pollute My holy things, Between holy and common they have not made separation, And between the unclean and the clean they have not made known, And from my sabbaths they have hidden their eyes, And I am pierced in their midst. Verse ConceptsAtonement, in OTHoliness,  Worldly SeparationPriests, Function In Ot TimesUnfaithfulness, To GodCorrupt PriestsClean And UncleanSabbath ViolatedThey Do Not Keep CommandsLack Of Holiness

Hear this, O priests, and attend, O house of Israel, And, O house of the king, give ear, For the judgment is for you, For, a snare ye have been on Mizpah, And a net spread out on Tabor. Verse ConceptsNetsTrapCorrupt PriestsSnares Laid for PeopleMan Trapping

And as bands do wait for a man, A company of priests do murder -- the way to Shechem, For wickedness they have done. Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesRoadsCorrupt PriestsLeaders Sinning

And the chief priests and the elders did persuade the multitudes that they might ask for themselves Barabbas, and might destroy Jesus; Verse ConceptsMultitudesChief priestsPersuasionInciting To EvilCorrupt PriestsBarabbasAttempts To Kill Christ


and do not be like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against Jehovah, God of their fathers, and He giveth them to desolation, as ye do see. Verse ConceptsGod Of The FathersBeing A Good FatherParents Being Wrong

Lo, left desolate to you is your house; Verse ConceptsEmpty Places


and she saith, 'Philistines are upon thee, Samson;' and he awaketh out of his sleep, and saith, 'I go out as time by time, and shake myself;' and he hath not known that Jehovah hath turned aside from off him. Verse ConceptsSelf ConfidenceWeakness, PhysicalGod Abandoning Individualsresilienceflexibilitypremonitions

and Saul asketh at Jehovah, and Jehovah hath not answered him, either by dreams, or by Urim, or by prophets. Verse Conceptsenquiring of GodThe Urim And ThummimGod Not AnsweringProphecy AbolishedUrim And ThummimRevelation Through Prophetssaul

And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels. Verse ConceptsGod Hardening PeoplePassionimaginationfollowing


and God did turn, and did give them up to do service to the host of the heaven, according as it hath been written in the scroll of the prophets: Slain beasts and sacrifices did ye offer to Me forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? Verse ConceptsBody40 To 50 YearsIsrael In The WildernessBooks Of ProphecyWorshiping Together



wild waves of a sea, foaming out their own shames; stars going astray, to whom the gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept. Verse ConceptsBlackAstronomyRageColors, BlackHopelessnessThe Fate Of The WickedWanderersWavesEternal JudgementFoamsGod KeepsOuter DarknessShame Has Comewandering

His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden. Verse ConceptsSin, Effects OfSin, Consequences OfThe Fate Of The WickedContinuing In SinPunishment of the The Wicked

For a cup is in the hand of Jehovah, And the wine hath foamed, It is full of mixture, and He poureth out of it, Only its dregs wring out, and drink, Do all the wicked of the earth, Verse ConceptsCup, God's WrathAlcoholdrinkingHand Of GodHerbs And SpicesWineThe Fate Of The WickedMetaphorical WineMixed WineGod Making DrunkMark Of The Beast On Forehead

And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I -- I do trust in Thee! Verse ConceptsDeceit, Practice OfDeceit Leading to JudgmentHell, As An ExperienceLiesPitsLiarsThe Fate Of The WickedAbasing PeopleHalf Of ThingsPits As A Term For Graves

The wicked seeth, and hath been angry, His teeth he gnasheth, and hath melted, The desire of the wicked doth perish! Verse ConceptsFutilityBitingDecayRest, SpiritualTeethGnashing Of TeethThe Fate Of The WickedFrustration

When the wicked flourish as a herb, And blossom do all workers of iniquity -- For their being destroyed for ever and ever! Verse ConceptsGrassWicked Described AsThe Fate Of The WickedEvildoersEternal JudgementDestruction Of The WickedGod Judges The WickedLike GrassProsperity Of The Wicked


And yet a little, and the wicked is not, And thou hast considered his place, and it is not. Verse ConceptsThe Fate Of The WickedPeople Passing Away


'All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one. Verse ConceptsAfflictions Of The WickedMiseryPhysical PainPleasurableness


And Samuel saith unto Saul, 'Why hast thou troubled me, to bring me up?' And Saul saith, 'I have great distress, and the Philistines are fighting against me, God hath turned aside from me, and hath not answered me any more, either by the hand of the prophets, or by dreams; and I call for thee to let me know what I do.' Verse ConceptsMiseryApostasy Of SaulGod Not AnsweringProphecy AbolishedTroubling Individualswitchesawakeningsaul

in the morning thou sayest, O that it were evening! and in the evening thou sayest, O that it were morning! from the fear of thy heart, with which thou art afraid, and from the sight of thine eyes which thou seest. Verse ConceptsHuman EmotionDespondency, Causes OfHeart, HumanSleeplessnessMiseryUnrestIn The Morning

Good understanding giveth grace, And the way of the treacherous is hard. Verse ConceptsFruits Of SinMiseryPathways Of SinEvil WaysFavorSuccess And Hard Work


in every place where they have gone out, the hand of Jehovah hath been against them for evil, as Jehovah hath spoken, and as Jehovah hath sworn to them, and they are distressed -- greatly. Verse ConceptsdefeatMiseryGod OpposingGod Harmed Them


Whoso is saying to the wicked, 'Thou art righteous,' Peoples execrate him -- nations abhor him. Verse ConceptsAbhorConnivanceAcquitting The Guilty

And thou, O spoiled one, what dost thou? For thou puttest on scarlet, For thou adornest thyself with ornaments of gold. For thou rendest with pain thine eyes, In vain thou dost make thyself fair, Kicked against thee have doting ones, Thy life they do seek. Verse ConceptsCrimsonAdornment, Of WomenGoldCosmeticsRed ClothesUseless LabourAttempting To KillWearing Jewelleryloversmakeup

Whoso is short of temper doth folly, And a man of wicked devices is hated. Verse ConceptsAngerAggressionShrewdnessTemperAnger In Christian LivingAnger ManagementQuick Tempered

There is no weakening of thy destruction, Grievous is thy smiting, All hearing thy fame have clapped the hand at thee, For over whom did not thy wickedness pass continually? Verse ConceptsClappingApplauseWoundsIn One AnotherPeople Actually Doing EvilBruisesHope And Healing

According to his wisdom is a man praised, And the perverted of heart becometh despised. Verse ConceptsCommendationProverbsPerversionDespising PeopleLife Despisedgays


It clappeth at him its hands, And it hisseth at him from his place. Verse ConceptsClappingHissing

And the righteous see, And fear, and laugh at him. Verse ConceptsLaughter

And they have gone forth, And looked on the carcases of the men Who are transgressing against me, For their worm dieth not, And their fire is not quenched, And they have been an abhorrence to all flesh! Verse ConceptsCarcass, Figurative UseGod, Justice OfHell, As An ExperienceRebellion, Against GodRegretSin, God's Judgment OnSinnersPeople Eaten By WormMaggotsFire Of HellKingdom Of Godworms

And Jehovah doth scatter them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city; Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfGod's Activity In The NationsWork, Divine And HumanAnger Of God, Examples OfDeparturesScattering The PeoplesCessation

They have been ashamed, And they have even blushed -- all of them, Together gone in confusion have those carving images. Verse ConceptsdisgraceBeing AshamedShameFate Of IdolatersShame Of IdolatryDisappointmentSolar Eclipse

Making void the tokens of devisers, And diviners it maketh mad, Turning the wise backward, And their knowledge it maketh foolish. Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfIntelligenceWisdom, Source Of HumanThe Vanity Of Human KnowledgeFalse WisdomFrustrationCounted As Fools

Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom. Verse ConceptsGuidance, Need For God'sEvil DevicesDeviousnessFrustrationDisappointmentSuccess And Hard Work

And their inhabitants are feeble-handed, They were broken down, and are dried up. They have been the herb of the field, And the greenness of the tender grass, Grass of the roofs, And blasted corn, before it hath risen up. Verse ConceptsGrassPlantsTendernessMan As GrassScorchingLike GrassNo Strength Left

Lo, all those displeased with thee, They are ashamed and blush, They are as nothing, yea, perish Do the men who strive with thee. Verse ConceptsShame Will ComeUnnamed People Angry With Others

And Jehovah is with me, as a terrible mighty one, Therefore my persecutors stumble and prevail not, They have been exceedingly ashamed, For they have not acted wisely, Confusion age-during is not forgotten. Verse ConceptsStumblingSuffering, Encouragements InWarriorsNot ForgettingGod With Specific PeopleGod As A WarriorShame Will ComeCauses of failure inMighty in its influenceDisappointmentMotivationadvertisingprospering

Causing counsellors to go away a spoil, And judges He maketh foolish. Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfGod's Attitude To FoolsWisdomFools

He who is making princes become nothing, Judges of earth as emptiness hath made; Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeStrength, Divine

Whoso is causing the upright to err in an evil way, Into his own pit he doth fall, And the perfect do inherit good. Verse ConceptsApostasy, Personal WarningsRetributionTrapEnticersDigging Pits

For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually. Verse ConceptsNets

Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured. Verse ConceptsNetsPitsHeathenDigging PitsHidden ThingsTrapping OneselfPit Used As Traps

Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And whoso is breaking a hedge, a serpent biteth him. Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The WickedDigging Pits

Thorns -- snares are in the way of the perverse, Whoso is keeping his soul is far from them. Verse ConceptsThornsEvil AssociationsGod TrappingPitfalls

Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And the roller of a stone, to him it turneth. Verse ConceptsPitsRetributionDigging PitsRollingPit Used As TrapsKarma

In the transgression of the evil is a snare, And the righteous doth sing and rejoice. Verse ConceptsSin, Consequences OfFruits Of SinMusic To CelebrateGod Trapping

And many among them have stumbled and fallen, And been broken, and snared, and captured. Verse ConceptsPeople Stumbling

For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not some to stumble. Verse ConceptsMischiefCausing Others To StumbleRestForgiving Others Who Hurt YouHurtSleeping PeacefullyHurt And BetrayalLosing Someonewickednesshurting


Ah, sinning nation, a people heavy with iniquity, A seed of evil doers, sons -- corrupters! They have forsaken Jehovah, They have despised the Holy One of Israel, They have gone away backward. Verse ConceptsCorruption, Of HumanityAbandonmentForsaking God, Illustrated ByImpenitence, Warnings AgainstNationalismRejection Of GodEvildoersGod's People Sinningcorruption

Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow -- a bitter word. Verse ConceptsArrows, Described AsArrows, Figurative OfSharpeningArrows

wild waves of a sea, foaming out their own shames; stars going astray, to whom the gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept. Verse ConceptsBlackAstronomyRageColors, BlackHopelessnessThe Fate Of The WickedWanderersWavesEternal JudgementFoamsGod KeepsOuter DarknessShame Has Comewandering

Thou hast loved evil rather than good, Lying, than speaking righteousness. Selah. Verse ConceptsLoving EvilPsalm InterjectionsTelling The TruthLying And DeceitThe Environmentlieinglovers


The wicked is devising against the righteous, And gnashing against him his teeth. Verse ConceptsBitingEvil PlansTeethWickedGnashing Of TeethPlottingBackstabbers

And the wicked are as the driven out sea, For to rest it is not able, And its waters cast out filth and mire. Verse ConceptsTroubleSeaWicked Described AsUnrestThings Like The SeaSea, Metaphorical ReferencesUnclean Things


And it hath come to pass, at that time, I search Jerusalem with lights, And I have laid a charge on the men Who are hardened on their preserved things, Who are saying in their heart: Jehovah doth no good, nor doth He evil. Verse ConceptsFalse ConfidenceComplacencyLampsReward, DivineSin, God's Judgment OnHoly Spirit, Types OfImpietyInfidelity To GodGod Searching For PeopleGood Or BadFeeling

'And that servant, who having known his lord's will, and not having prepared, nor having gone according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes, Verse ConceptsAccording To His WillSin, Nature OfSins Of OmissionKnowing God's WillKnowing FactsStrictnessDoing The Right ThingservanthoodNot Serving God


And I have appointed on the world evil, And on the wicked their iniquity, And have caused to cease the excellency of the proud, And the excellency of the terrible I make low. Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toendHumiliationHumilityPresumptionPride, Results OfPunishment, By GodReward, DivineSin, God's Judgment OnSuperiorityWarningArrogance, Punishment OfPridePunishmentPunishmentsPunishment of the The WickedLuciferarrogance

For, lo, Jehovah is coming out of His place, To charge the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth upon him, And revealed hath the earth her blood, Nor doth she cover any more her slain!' Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with NoahBlood, as symbol of guiltBlood, as basis of lifePunishment, By GodReward, DivineSin, God's Judgment OnVeilsSin Made Known

According to deeds -- so He repayeth. Fury to His adversaries, their deed to His enemies, To the isles their deed He repayeth. Verse ConceptsIslandsReward, DivineSin, God's Judgment OnThe Recompense Of The WickedGod Will Requite

And I have laid a charge against you, According to the fruit of your doings, An affirmation of Jehovah, And I have kindled a fire in its forest, And it hath consumed -- all its suburbs! Verse ConceptsForestsSin, God's Judgment OnWarningFruits Of SinBurning PlantsHarming TreesRepaid For DeedsPunishment

I also do this to you, and I have appointed over you trouble, the consumption, and the burning fever, consuming eyes, and causing pain of soul; and your seed in vain ye have sowed, and your enemies have eaten it; Verse ConceptsEyes, Affected BydiseasesdisabilitiesVisionPunishment Of the WickedFeverThreateningsSowing In VainEyes HarmedUseless LabourFear Will ComeDepressionSpilling Your Seed On The Groundterrorism

And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts. Verse ConceptsAdultery, Consequences OfGod, Righteousness OfInjustice, Hated By GodMastersMoney, Stewardship OfOppression, Nature OfOrphansPerjuryPoverty, Attitudes TowardsRiches, Dangers OfServants, Working Conditions OfSexual Sin, Nature OfSuffering, Nature OfSuffering, Of The InnocentWagesWidowsAliens, God's AttitudeHirelingsDivinationStrangersEmployersThreateningsOppressing ForeignersSpeedThe Witness Of GodThose OppressedAdulteryNo Fear Of GodNot Helping WidowsSorceryImmigrantswitches

If one turn not, His sword he sharpeneth, His bow he hath trodden -- He prepareth it, Verse ConceptsSwordsThreateningsSharpening

And have made it for a possession of a bittern, And ponds of waters, And daubed it with the mire of destruction, The affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts! Verse ConceptsAnimals, Types OfPoolsThreateningsHedgehogsSweepingdistractions

I also -- I fix on their vexations, And their fears I bring in to them, Because I have called, and there is none answering, I spake, and they have not hearkened, And they do the evil things in Mine eyes, And on that which I desired not -- fixed. Verse ConceptsImpenitence, Warnings AgainstRejection Of God's CallGod's Call, Few RespondGuilty FearThreateningsAnswering GodNot Pleasing GodOthers Not AnsweringStrong Delusion

then I have cut off Israel from the face of the ground that I have given to them, and the house that I have hallowed for My name I send away from My presence, and Israel hath been for a simile and for a byword among all the peoples; Verse ConceptsAbandonmentThreateningsFunjoking

'And it hath been, as there hath come upon you all the good thing which Jehovah your God hath spoken unto you, so doth Jehovah bring upon you the whole of the evil thing, till His destroying you from off this good ground which Jehovah your God hath given to you; Verse ConceptsReliabilityThreateningsGod Will Kill His People

and if ye really do evil, both ye and your king are consumed.' Verse ConceptsThreateningsDestruction Of CountriesPersistence

And Jehovah hath smitten Israel as the reed is moved by the waters, and hath plucked Israel from off this good ground that He gave to their fathers, and scattered them beyond the River, because that they made their shrines, provoking Jehovah to anger; Verse ConceptsFalse Godsdispersion, theReedsRootsGod Scattering IsraelGod Beating PeopleGod ShakingBeyond The EuphratesServing Asherah


Also -- God doth break thee down for ever, Taketh thee, and pulleth thee out of the tent, And He hath uprooted thee Out of the land of the living. Selah. Verse ConceptsMisersRootsPlucking OutGod KillingPsalm InterjectionsGod Killing Individuals

and Jehovah doth pluck them from off their ground in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath, and doth cast them unto another land, as at this day. Verse ConceptsGod's IndignationAs At This Day

and this house that I have sanctified for My name, I cast from before My face, and make it for a proverb, and for a byword, among all the peoples.

See, I have charged thee this day concerning the nations, and concerning the kingdoms, to pluck up, and to break down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.' Verse ConceptsKingdomsRootsDestructionDestruction Of PlantsPlucking OutGod Appointing OthersGod Saves From Sin And DeathGod's People Plantedrebuilding

And he answering said, 'Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant shall be rooted up; Verse ConceptsRootsPlucking OutOur Father In HeavenRelationship Of Father And SonPlanting Seeds

Therefore is this iniquity to you as a breach falling, Swelled out in a wall set on high, Whose destruction suddenly, at an instant cometh. Verse ConceptsSin, God's Judgment OnWallsAfflictions Of The WickedThe Insecurity Of The WickedSudden DestructionSuddenlyThings Falling

Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed it for thick darkness. Verse ConceptsHope, Nature OfProcrastinationStumblingThe Insecurity Of The WickedPeople Stumbling

Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations. Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The WickedSlipperyness

And thou hast been as one lying down in the heart of the sea, And as one lying down on the top of a mast. Verse ConceptsAlcoholSleep, PhysicalThe Insecurity Of The WickedIn The Heart Of The Sea

Therefore is their way to them as slippery places, Into thick darkness they are driven, And they have fallen in it, For I bring in against them evil, The year of their inspection, An affirmation of Jehovah. Verse ConceptsYearsThe Insecurity Of The WickedWalking In DarknessThe Day Of JudgementSlipperynessGod SuingGod Will Bring HarmPaths

Because, even because, they did cause My people to err, Saying, Peace! and there is no peace, And that one is building a wall, And lo, they are daubing it with chalk. Say to those daubing with chalk -- It falleth, There hath been an overflowing shower, And ye, O hailstones, do fall, And a tempestuous wind doth rend,

'And every one who is hearing of me these words, and is not doing them, shall be likened to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand; and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.'

And Abraham draweth nigh and saith, 'Dost Thou also consume righteous with wicked? peradventure there are fifty righteous in the midst of the city; dost Thou also consume, and not bear with the place for the sake of the fifty -- the righteous who are in its midst? Far be it from Thee to do according to this thing, to put to death the righteous with the wicked; that it hath been -- as the righteous so the wicked -- far be it from Thee; doth the Judge of all the earth not do justice?' read more.
And Jehovah saith, 'If I find in Sodom fifty righteous in the midst of the city, then have I borne with all the place for their sake.' And Abraham answereth and saith, 'Lo, I pray thee, I have willed to speak unto the Lord, and I -- dust and ashes; peradventure there are lacking five of the fifty righteous -- dost Thou destroy for five the whole of the city?' and He saith, 'I destroy it not, if I find there forty and five.' And he addeth again to speak unto Him and saith, 'Peradventure there are found there forty?' and He saith, 'I do it not, because of the forty.' And he saith, 'Let it not be, I Pray thee, displeasing to the Lord, and I speak: peradventure there are found there thirty?' and He saith, 'I do it not, if I find there thirty.' And he saith, 'Lo, I pray thee, I have willed to speak unto the Lord: peradventure there are found there twenty?' and He saith, 'I do not destroy it, because of the twenty.' And he saith, 'Let it not be, I pray Thee, displeasing to the Lord, and I speak only this time: peradventure there are found there ten?' and He saith, 'I do not destroy it, because of the ten.'

And Jacob is left alone, and one wrestleth with him till the ascending of the dawn; and he seeth that he is not able for him, and he cometh against the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh is disjointed in his wrestling with him; and he saith, 'Send me away, for the dawn hath ascended:' and he saith, 'I send thee not away, except thou hast blessed me.' read more.
And he saith unto him, 'What is thy name?' and he saith, 'Jacob.' And he saith, 'Thy name is no more called Jacob, but Israel; for thou hast been a prince with God and with men, and dost prevail.' And Jacob asketh, and saith, 'Declare, I pray thee, thy name;' and he saith, 'Why is this, thou askest for My name?' and He blesseth him there. And Jacob calleth the name of the place Peniel: for 'I have seen God face unto face, and my life is delivered;'

And king David cometh in and sitteth before Jehovah, and saith, 'Who am I, Lord Jehovah? and what my house, that Thou hast brought me hitherto? And yet this is little in Thine eyes, Lord Jehovah, and Thou dost speak also concerning the house of Thy servant afar off; and this is the law of the Man, Lord Jehovah. And what doth David add more to speak unto Thee? and Thou, Thou hast known Thy servant, Lord Jehovah. read more.
Because of Thy word, and according to Thy heart, Thou hast done all this greatness, to cause Thy servant to know it. Therefore Thou hast been great, Jehovah God, for there is none like Thee, and there is no God save Thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears. And who is as Thy people, as Israel -- one nation in the earth, whom God hath gone to redeem to Him for a people, and to make for Him a name -- and to do for you the greatness -- even fearful things for Thy land, at the presence of Thy people, whom Thou hast redeemed to Thee out of Egypt -- among the nations and their gods? Yea, Thou dost establish to Thee Thy people Israel, to Thee for a people unto the age, and Thou, Jehovah, hast been to them for God. 'And now, Jehovah God, the word which Thou hast spoken concerning Thy servant, and concerning his house, establish unto the age, and do as Thou hast spoken; And Thy Name is great unto the age, saying, Jehovah of Hosts is God over Israel, and the house of Thy servant David is established before Thee, For Thou, Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Thou hast uncovered the ear of Thy servant, saying, A house I build for thee, therefore hath Thy servant found his heart to pray unto Thee this prayer; And now, Lord Jehovah, Thou art God Himself, and Thy words are truth, and Thou speakest unto Thy servant this goodness, And now, begin and bless the house of Thy servant, to be unto the age before Thee, for Thou, Lord Jehovah, hast spoken, and by Thy blessing is the house of Thy servant blessed -- to the age.'

And Solomon standeth before the altar of Jehovah, over-against all the assembly of Israel, and spreadeth his hands towards the heavens, and saith, 'Jehovah, God of Israel, there is not a God like Thee, in the heavens above, and on the earth beneath, keeping the covenant and the kindness for Thy servants, those walking before Thee with all their heart, who hast kept for Thy servant David my father that which Thou spakest to him; yea, Thou speakest with Thy mouth, and with Thy hand hast fulfilled it, as at this day. read more.
And now, Jehovah, God of Israel, keep for Thy servant David my father that which Thou spakest to him, saying, There is not cut off to thee a man from before Me, sitting on the throne of Israel -- only, if thy sons watch their way, to walk before Me as thou hast walked before Me. 'And now, O God of Israel, let it be established, I pray Thee, Thy word which Thou hast spoken to Thy servant, David my father. But, is it true? -- God dwelleth on the earth! lo, the heavens, and the heavens of the heavens do not contain Thee, how much less this house which I have builded! 'Then thou hast turned unto the prayer of Thy servant, and unto his supplication, O Jehovah my God, to hearken unto the cry and unto the prayer which Thy servant is praying before Thee to-day, for Thine eyes being open towards this house night and day, towards the place of which Thou hast said, My Name is there; to hearken unto the prayer which Thy servant prayeth towards this place. Then Thou hast hearkened unto the supplication of Thy servant, and of Thy people Israel, which they pray towards this place; yea, Thou dost hearken in the place of Thy dwelling, in the heavens -- and Thou hast hearkened, and hast forgiven, that which a man sinneth against his neighbour, and he hath lifted up upon him an oath to cause him to swear, and the oath hath come in before Thine altar in this house, then Thou dost hear in the heavens, and hast done, and hast judged Thy servants, to declare wicked the wicked, to put his way on his head, and to declare righteous the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness. 'In Thy people Israel being smitten before an enemy, because they sin against Thee, and they have turned back unto Thee, and have confessed Thy name, and prayed, and made supplication unto Thee in this house, then thou dost hear in the heavens, and hast forgiven the sin of Thy people Israel, and brought them back unto the ground that Thou gavest to their fathers. 'In the heavens being restrained, and there is no rain, because they sin against Thee, and they have prayed towards this place, and confessed Thy name, and from their sin turn back, for Thou dost afflict them, then Thou dost hear in the heavens, and hast forgiven the sin of Thy servants, and of Thy people Israel, for Thou directest them the good way in which they go, and hast given rain on Thy land which Thou hast given to Thy people for inheritance. Famine -- when it is in the land; pestilence -- when it is; blasting, mildew, locust; caterpillar -- when it is; when its enemy hath distressed it in the land in its gates, any plague, any sickness, -- any prayer, any supplication that is of any man of all Thy people Israel, who know each the plague of his own heart, and hath spread his hands towards this house, then Thou dost hear in the heavens, the settled place of Thy dwelling, and hast forgiven, and hast done, and hast given to each according to all his ways, whose heart Thou knowest, (for Thou hast known -- Thyself alone -- the heart of all the sons of man), so that they fear Thee all the days that they are living on the face of the ground that Thou hast given to our fathers. And also, unto the stranger who is not of Thy people Israel, and hath come from a land afar off for Thy name's sake -- (for they hear of Thy great name, and of Thy strong hand, and of Thy stretched-out arm) -- and he hath come in and prayed towards this house, Thou dost hear in the heavens, the settled place of Thy dwelling, and hast done according to all that the stranger calleth unto Thee for, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know Thy name, to fear Thee like Thy people Israel, and to know that Thy name hath been called on this house which I have builded. 'When Thy people doth go out to battle against its enemy, in the way that Thou dost send them, and they have prayed unto Jehovah the way of the city which thou hast fixed on, and of the house which I have builded for Thy name; then Thou hast heard in the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and hast maintained their cause. 'When they sin against Thee (for there is not a man who sinneth not), and Thou hast been angry with them, and hast given them up before an enemy, and they have taken captive their captivity unto the land of the enemy far off or near; and they have turned it back unto their heart in the land whither they have been taken captive, and have turned back, and made supplication unto Thee, in the land of their captors, saying, We have sinned and done perversely -- we have done wickedly; yea, they have turned back unto Thee, with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies who have taken them captive, and have prayed unto Thee the way of their land, which Thou gavest to their fathers, the city which Thou hast chosen, and the house which I have builded for Thy name: 'Then Thou hast heard in the heavens, the settled place of Thy dwelling, their prayer and their supplication, and hast maintained their cause, and hast forgiven Thy people who have sinned against Thee, even all their transgressions which they have transgressed against Thee, and hast given them mercies before their captors, and they have had mercy on them -- (for Thy people and Thy inheritance are they, whom Thou didst bring out of Egypt, out of the midst of the furnace of iron) -- for Thine eyes being open unto the supplication of Thy servant, and unto the supplication of Thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all they call unto Thee for; for Thou hast separated them to Thyself for an inheritance, out of all the peoples of the earth, as Thou didst speak by the hand of Moses Thy servant, in Thy bringing out our fathers from Egypt, O Lord Jehovah.' And it cometh to pass, at Solomon's finishing to pray unto Jehovah all this prayer and supplication, he hath risen from before the altar of Jehovah, from bending on his knees, and his hands spread out to the heavens, and he standeth and blesseth all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying, Blessed is Jehovah who hath given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He hath spoken; there hath not fallen one word of all His good word, which He spake by the hand of Moses his servant. 'Jehovah our God is with us as He hath been with our fathers; He doth not forsake us nor leave us; to incline our heart unto Himself, to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commands, and His statutes, and His judgments, which He commanded our fathers; and these my words with which I have made supplication before Jehovah, are near unto Jehovah our God by day and by night, to maintain the cause of His servant, and the cause of His people Israel, the matter of a day in its day; for all the peoples of the earth knowing that Jehovah, He is God; there is none else; and your heart hath been perfect with Jehovah our God, to walk in His statutes, and to keep His commands, as at this day.'

And it came to pass, in his being in a certain place praying, as he ceased, a certain one of his disciples said unto him, 'Sir, teach us to pray, as also John taught his disciples.' And he said to them, 'When ye may pray, say ye: Our Father who art in the heavens; hallowed be Thy name: Thy reign come; Thy will come to pass, as in heaven also on earth; our appointed bread be giving us daily; read more.
and forgive us our sins, for also we ourselves forgive every one indebted to us; and mayest Thou not bring us into temptation; but do Thou deliver us from the evil.' And he said unto them, 'Who of you shall have a friend, and shall go on unto him at midnight, and may say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves, seeing a friend of mine came out of the way unto me, and I have not what I shall set before him, and he from within answering may say, Do not give me trouble, already the door hath been shut, and my children with me are in the bed, I am not able, having risen, to give to thee. 'I say to you, even if he will not give to him, having risen, because of his being his friend, yet because of his importunity, having risen, he will give him as many as he doth need; and I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you; for every one who is asking doth receive; and he who is seeking doth find; and to him who is knocking it shall be opened. And of which of you -- the father -- if the son shall ask a loaf, a stone will he present to him? and if a fish, will he instead of a fish, a serpent present to him? and if he may ask an egg, will he present to him a scorpion? If, then, ye, being evil, have known good gifts to be giving to your children, how much more shall the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him!'

And he spake also a simile to them, that it behoveth us always to pray, and not to faint, saying, 'A certain judge was in a certain city -- God he is not fearing, and man he is not regarding -- and a widow was in that city, and she was coming unto him, saying, Do me justice on my opponent, read more.
and he would not for a time, but after these things he said in himself, Even if God I do not fear, and man do not regard, yet because this widow doth give me trouble, I will do her justice, lest, perpetually coming, she may plague me.' And the Lord said, 'Hear ye what the unrighteous judge saith: and shall not God execute the justice to His choice ones, who are crying unto Him day and night -- bearing long in regard to them? I say to you, that He will execute the justice to them quickly; but the Son of Man having come, shall he find the faith upon the earth?'





For the arms of the wicked are shivered, And Jehovah is sustaining the righteous. Verse ConceptsBones BrokenSustaining ProvidenceGod SupportingSupport

Lo, My servants sing from joy of heart, And ye cry from pain of heart, And from breaking of spirit ye do howl. Verse ConceptsAgony, In HeartPromised JoyOthers MourningA Broken Heart

And all horns of the wicked I cut off, Exalted are the horns of the righteous! Verse ConceptsHornsHorns VictoriousHorns WeakenedHorns BrokenUnicornscutting

And ye have turned back and considered, Between the righteous and the wicked, Between the servant of God and him who is not His servant. Verse ConceptsMan DifferentiatingDiscernmentServing GodServing The ChurchBeing Unique


Of painful deaths they die, They are not lamented, nor are they buried, For dung on the face of the ground they are, And by sword and by famine are consumed, And their carcase hath been for food To the fowl of the heavens, And to the beast of the earth. Verse ConceptsDead bodiesdirtUnburied BodiesAnimals Eating PeopleDefecationNearness Of DeathEating CorpsesNo BurialsWild Animals DevouringFamine KillingDeath Looms NearNot MourningLack Of A Proper Burial


And he passeth away, and lo, he is not, And I seek him, and he is not found! Verse ConceptsColors, GreenPeople Passing AwaySeeking But Not Finding People

He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself! Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfFolly, Effects OfDeath For Other ReasonsFalling Away From God

And so I have seen the wicked buried, and they went in, even from the Holy Place they go, and they are forgotten in the city whether they had so done. This also is vanity. Verse ConceptsOblivionVanityUseless EndeavourBurying places

At even-time, lo, terror, before morning it is not, This is the portion of our spoilers, And the lot of our plunderers! Verse ConceptsMorningAt Morning And EveningFear Will Cometerrorism


They were ashamed when they did abomination! Yea, they are not at all ashamed, Yea, blushing they have not known, Therefore they do fall among those falling, In the time I have inspected them, They stumble, said Jehovah. Verse ConceptsAbominationsRegretCorrupted ConsciencesThe Insecurity Of The WickedBlushingPeople StumblingRed FacesUnknown ThingsAbsence Of RegretFeeling Lost

Those swearing by the guilt of Samaria, And have said, Live doth thy god, O Dan, And, Live doth the way of Beer-Sheba, And they have fallen -- and rise not again!' Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The WickedHarlotsLiving ThingsShame Of IdolatrySwearing

The righteousness of the perfect maketh right his way, And by his wickedness doth the wicked fall. Verse ConceptsGod's WaysThe Insecurity Of The WickedDistinctives Of Righteousnesswickedness

Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And whoso is breaking a hedge, a serpent biteth him. Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The WickedDigging Pits

Therefore commit whoredom do your daughters, And your spouses commit adultery, I do not see after your daughters when they commit whoredom, And after your spouses when they commit adultery, For they with the harlots are separated, And with the whores they do sacrifice, A people that doth not understand kicketh. Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The WickedBeing Without UnderstandingMale Prostitutesadultrywhores

And thou hast said unto them: Thus said Jehovah, Do they fall, and not rise? Doth he turn back, and not return? Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The Wicked


and the hireling, and not being a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, doth behold the wolf coming, and doth leave the sheep, and doth flee; and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep; Verse ConceptsSatan, Compared With AnimalsUnfaithful MinistersScattered Like SheepMen Similar To AnimalsWolvesPeople Abandoning People

for I have known this, that there shall enter in, after my departing, grievous wolves unto you, not sparing the flock, Verse ConceptsShepherds, As Church LeaderWatchfulness, Of LeadersApostasy, CauseWolvesFierce MenNot Sparing

And the Lord said unto him, 'Now do ye, the Pharisees, the outside of the cup and of the plate make clean, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness; Verse ConceptsGluttonyCups, Figurative UseCovetingevil, origins ofGreed, Condemnation OfHypocrisy, Description OfHypocrites, Description OfExternalsThe Inward BeingCharacteristics Of PhariseesGreedcleansingpreppingpharisees

and if one another ye do bite and devour, see -- that ye may not by one another be consumed. Verse ConceptsCriticism, amongst believersContention, CausesBackbitingBitingGrudgesDramaContentiousnessOppressorscriticismothers

ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking; Verse ConceptsAmbition, Warnings RegardingPrayer, Practicalities OfPrayerlessnessCovetousness, Nature ofEvil DesiresReady To KillFighting One Anothergrandmas

who devour the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, these shall receive more abundant judgment.' Verse ConceptsPrayerfulnessPride, Examples OfPunishment, By GodNot Helping WidowsProperty

and having seen him, the husbandmen reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir; come, we may kill him, that the inheritance may become ours; Verse ConceptsInheritance, MaterialChrist Would Be Killed

And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I -- I do trust in Thee! Verse ConceptsDeceit, Practice OfDeceit Leading to JudgmentHell, As An ExperienceLiesPitsLiarsThe Fate Of The WickedAbasing PeopleHalf Of ThingsPits As A Term For Graves

For His blessed ones do possess the land, And His reviled ones are cut off. Verse ConceptsBanishmentBlessing And Curse


Who have been cut down unexpectedly, A flood is poured out on their foundation. Verse ConceptsChaosThe DelugeEarly Death

Do not much wrong, neither be thou a fool, why dost thou die within thy time? Verse ConceptsEuthanasiaEarly DeathFools Becoming WiseDeathAssisted Suicide

Yea, they have not been planted, Yea, they have not been sown, Yea, not taking root in the earth is their stock, And also He hath blown upon them, and they wither, And a whirlwind as stubble taketh them away. Verse ConceptsBreath Of GodRootsWhirlwindsPeople WitheredMetaphorical Planting

And transgressors were destroyed together, The latter end of the wicked was cut off. Verse ConceptsEternal DeathSin, God's Judgment OnSinnersDestruction Of The WickedChildren SufferingGod Judges The WickedThe Future

And so I have seen the wicked buried, and they went in, even from the Holy Place they go, and they are forgotten in the city whether they had so done. This also is vanity. Verse ConceptsOblivionVanityUseless EndeavourBurying places

His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street. Verse ConceptsOblivionDeath Of The WickedForgetting Peopleremembrance


I have said: I blow them away, I cause their remembrance to cease from man; Verse ConceptsOblivionPeople Cut In PiecesForgetting Peopleremembrance

They are before Jehovah continually, And He cutteth off from earth their memorial. Verse ConceptsOblivionBlotted Out

For in vanity he came in, and in darkness he goeth, and in darkness his name is covered, Verse ConceptsOblivionOvertaken By DarknessUseless PeopleMiscarriages And Stillborn

Jehovah is not willing to be propitious to him, for then doth the anger of Jehovah smoke, also His zeal, against that man, and lain down on him hath all the oath which is written in this book, and Jehovah hath blotted out his name from under the heavens, Verse ConceptsOblivionGod, Zeal OfJealousyNames Blotted OutBook of the LawThe Curse Of The LawGod Not ForgivingAnger And Forgivenesssmoking

desist from Me, and I destroy them, and blot out their name from under the heavens, and I make thee become a nation more mighty and numerous than it. Verse ConceptsOblivionGod Might Kill His People

The remembrance of the righteous is for a blessing, And the name of the wicked doth rot. Verse ConceptsOblivionMemoriesReputationDeath Of The WickedPeople RottingPeople RememberingGodly ManBlessing Othersremembrance

Thou hast rebuked nations, Thou hast destroyed the wicked, Their name Thou hast blotted out to the age and for ever. Verse ConceptsOblivionEternal JudgementBlotted OutGod Judges The WickedGod Requite Them!rebuking

His posterity is for cutting off, In another generation is their name blotted out. Verse ConceptsOblivionReasons For BarrennessNames Blotted Outcutting

And I have risen up against them, (The affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts,) And have cut off, in reference to Babylon, Name and remnant, and continuator and successor, The affirmation of Jehovah. Verse ConceptsOblivionSurvivors DestroyedBabylon Left Desolate

He poureth on the wicked snares, fire, and brimstone, And a horrible wind is the portion of their cup. Verse ConceptsCups, Figurative UseBrimstoneDisastersCoal, Uses OfWorldly SnaresBurning PeopleSulphurPunishment of the The WickedResolving Conflict

the lord of that servant will come in a day in which he doth not look for him, and in an hour that he doth not know, and will cut him off, and his portion with the unfaithful he will appoint. Verse ConceptsUnbelieversUnbelief, Nature And Effects OfPeople Cut In PiecesNot Believing The GospelLack Of ExpectationThe Time Unknown

and will cut him off, and his portion with the hypocrites will appoint; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth. Verse ConceptsAgony, God's JudgmentBitingHell, As Incentive To ActionTeethGnashing Of TeethPeople Cut In PiecesMourning In RegretHypocritesHypocrisyfate

This is the portion of wicked man with God, And the inheritance of terrible ones From the Mighty they receive. Verse ConceptsThe Fate Of The WickedHeritageGod Judges The Wicked

This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from Me -- an affirmation of Jehovah, Because thou hast forgotten me, And dost trust in falsehood. Verse ConceptsFalse GodsdistrustTrusting Deceptive Thingsfate

Light he is on the face of the waters, Vilified is their portion in the earth, He turneth not the way of vineyards. Verse ConceptsFlowing WaterPurgatory

This is the portion of a wicked man from God. And an inheritance appointed him by God. Verse ConceptsThe Fate Of The WickedHeritageGod Judges The Wickedfate

A son of thirty and two years was he in his reigning, and eight years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and he goeth without desire, and they bury him in the city of David, and not in the graves of the kings. Verse ConceptsRegretTombsAbsence Of Regret

Of painful deaths they die, They are not lamented, nor are they buried, For dung on the face of the ground they are, And by sword and by famine are consumed, And their carcase hath been for food To the fowl of the heavens, And to the beast of the earth. Verse ConceptsDead bodiesdirtUnburied BodiesAnimals Eating PeopleDefecationNearness Of DeathEating CorpsesNo BurialsWild Animals DevouringFamine KillingDeath Looms NearNot MourningLack Of A Proper Burial

And the pierced of Jehovah have been in that day, From the end of the earth even unto the end of the earth, They are not lamented, nor gathered, nor buried, For dung on the face of the ground they are. Verse ConceptsdirtUnburied BodiesDefecationGod KillingNo BurialsGod KillsNot MourningLack Of A Proper Burial

Therefore, thus said Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: They do not lament for him, Ah, my brother, and Ah, sister, They do not lament for him, Ah, lord, and Ah, his honour. Verse ConceptsNot Mourning

The violence hath risen to a rod of wickedness, There is none of them, nor of their multitude, Nor of their noise, nor is there wailing for them. Verse ConceptsThings Passing AwayGathering MuchPursuing ViolencePlants Growing UpBecoming Poor

For Jehovah is loving judgment, And He doth not forsake His saintly ones, To the age they have been kept, And the seed of the wicked is cut off. Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, To GodOffspringSaintsFaithful, Choose To RemainParents SinSustaining ProvidenceEternal DeliveranceGod Not ForsakingGod Judges The WickedGod Keepsatheismpreservation

Thou art not united with them in burial, For thy land thou hast destroyed, Thy people thou hast slain, Not named to the age is the seed of evil doers. Verse ConceptsBad ParentsParents SinSins Of The Fathers

Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things -- being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak. Verse ConceptsBad PeopleSnakesParents SinThings Like SnakesNothing GoodBeware Of Your Speechmath

If his sons multiply -- for them is a sword. And his offspring are not satisfied with bread. Verse ConceptsParents SinKilling Sons And Daughters

Their fruit from earth Thou destroyest, And their seed from the sons of men. Verse ConceptsParents Sin

And ye, come near hither, O sons of a sorceress, seed of an adulterer, Even thou dost commit whoredom. Verse ConceptsHarlotsParents Sinwitcheswhores

At peace are the tents of spoilers, And those provoking God have confidence, He into whose hand God hath brought. Verse ConceptsSecurityTentsApparent InjusticeThe Wicked Prosperthieves

Righteous art Thou, O Jehovah, When I plead towards thee, Only, judgments do I speak with Thee, Wherefore did the way of the wicked prosper? At rest have been all treacherous dealers. Verse ConceptsFaithlessness, As DisobedienceGod, Righteousness OfQuestionsApparent InjusticePartialityDoubting God's JusticeProsperity Of The WickedThe Wicked ProsperprosperingQuestioning Life

They have been fat, they have shone, Yea, they have overpassed the acts of the evil, Judgment they have not judged, The judgment of the fatherless -- and they prosper, And the judgment of the needy they have not judged. Verse ConceptsOpposition, To Sin And EvilOrphansFat PeopleNot Helping The Poorprospering

The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death, Verse ConceptsPride, Results OfSuffering, Of The InnocentThe Wicked ProsperThose Who Enviedwellnessprospering

I have seen the wicked terrible, And spreading as a green native plant, Verse ConceptsColors, GreenAffluenceWicked Described AsPursuing ViolenceAbuse

Lo, these are the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength. Verse ConceptsRiches, Ungodly Use OfProsperityThose At EaseGetting RichWealth And Prosperityprospering


The good bringeth forth favour from Jehovah, And the man of wicked devices He condemneth. Verse ConceptsBehaviourShrewdnessDivine FavourEvil DevicesCondemnation Of The WickedA Good Man

Jehovah made void the counsel of nations, He disallowed the thoughts of the peoples. Verse ConceptsAdvice, From GodPlansEvil DevicesPlans Of MenNothingGod Hindering

and in her coming in before the king, he said with the letter, 'Let his evil device that he devised against the Jews turn back upon his own head,' and they have hanged him and his sons on the tree, Verse ConceptsEvil DevicesPeople Hung To Death

Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom. Verse ConceptsGuidance, Need For God'sEvil DevicesDeviousnessFrustrationDisappointmentSuccess And Hard Work


whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will gather his wheat to the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.' Verse ConceptsHell, Description OfNames For HeavenHell, As An ExperienceForksSin, God's Judgment OnThreshing FloorToolsWinnowingWicked Described AsEternal JudgmentLight As ChaffReapingBurning PlantsGod's StorehousesWeed

They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away, Verse ConceptsStrawWicked Described AsLight As ChaffHurricanes

Not so the wicked: But -- as chaff that wind driveth away! Verse ConceptsWindWicked Described AsChaffLight As ChaffThe Wicked Will Perish

Therefore, as a tongue of fire devoureth stubble, And flaming hay falleth, Their root is as muck, And their flower as dust goeth up. Because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of Hosts, And the saying of the Holy One of Israel despised. Verse ConceptsRejecting God's WordDecayGrassRejection Of GodStrawRejection Of God's WordWord Of GodRootsPeople RottingBurning Plants

Nations as the wasting of many waters are wasted, And He hath pushed against it, And it hath fled afar off, And been pursued as chaff of hills before wind, And as a rolling thing before a hurricane. Verse ConceptsChaffWindWhirlwindsLight As ChaffRoar Of NationsGod Requite Them!

Therefore they are as a cloud of the morning, And as dew, rising early, going away, As chaff tossed about out of a floor, And as smoke out of a window. Verse ConceptsdewChaffMistMorningSmokeThreshing FloorWeather, As God's JudgmentWicked Described AsPassing AwayLight As ChaffsmokingSmoke Used Poetically

for ye know that also afterwards, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was disapproved of, for a place of reformation he found not, though with tears having sought it. Verse ConceptsCryingWeepingDelay, Examples OfGod Abandoning IndividualsMourning In RegretRejection


And Jehovah kicketh against all the seed of Israel, and afflicteth them, and giveth them into the hand of spoilers, till that He hath cast them out of His presence, Verse ConceptsDriven From God's Presence

and he answering said, Verily I say to you, I have not known you. Verse ConceptsNot Knowing PeopleChrist Telling The TruthTelling The Truth

and he shall say, I say to you, I have not known you whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of the unrighteousness. Verse ConceptsEvildoersChrist Driving Out PeopleNot Knowing PeopleGod Judges The WickedWhere From?

How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended -- consumed from terrors. Verse ConceptsAfflictions Of The WickedDeath Of The WickedDestruction Of The WickedFear Will Come

For the company of the profane is gloomy, And fire hath consumed tents of bribery. Verse ConceptsBribery, Is SinGodlessnessTentsHypocrisy


They are desolate because of their shame, Who are saying to me, 'Aha, aha.' Verse ConceptsDuplicating WordsDespising People

Lo, left desolate to you is your house; Verse ConceptsEmpty Places

For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood. Verse ConceptsSheddingRunning After EvilFeet In ActionReady To Kill


Their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed innocent blood, Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, Spoiling and destruction are in their highways. Verse ConceptsFeetevil, origins ofInnocence, Teaching OnCharacter Of WickedInnocent BloodSheddingPaths Of The WickedDestructionThoughts Of The WickedReady To Kill


and Saul asketh at Jehovah, and Jehovah hath not answered him, either by dreams, or by Urim, or by prophets. Verse Conceptsenquiring of GodThe Urim And ThummimGod Not AnsweringProphecy AbolishedUrim And ThummimRevelation Through Prophetssaul

'And ye turn back and weep before Jehovah, and Jehovah hath not hearkened to your voice, nor hath he given ear unto you; Verse ConceptsWeepingSpiritual Deafness

And Saul asketh of God, 'Do I go down after the Philistines? dost Thou give them into the hand of Israel?' and He hath not answered him on that day. Verse ConceptsGod Not AnsweringTo Be Given Into One's Handssaul

Then Judas -- he who delivered him up -- having seen that he was condemned, having repented, brought back the thirty silverlings to the chief priests, and to the elders, saying, Verse ConceptsBeing AshamedUnhappinessDelay, Examples OfSocial SelfishnessJudas Betraying ChristCondemning JesusThe Chief Priests Condemning ChristPrice Set On IndividualsRegretting


And they say one unto another, 'Verily we are guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul, in his making supplication unto us, and we did not hearken: therefore hath this distress come upon us.' Verse ConceptsGuilty ConsciencesGuilt, Human Aspects OfAfflicted Saints, Examples OfFound GuiltyPeople Without MercyWhy It HappenedHuman Awareness Of Guilt

And Pharaoh sendeth, and calleth for Moses and for Aaron, and saith unto them, 'I have sinned this time, Jehovah is the Righteous, and I and my people are the Wicked, Verse ConceptsConviction, Not Leading To RepentanceGuilty ConsciencesGod, Righteousness OfPunishment, By GodAcknowledge, SinKings SummoningWe Have Sinned



And David saith unto God, 'Did not I -- I say to number the people? Yea, I it is who have sinned, and done great evil: and these, the flock, what did they? O Jehovah, my God, let, I pray Thee, Thy hand be on me, and on the house of my father, and not on Thy people -- to be plagued.' Verse ConceptsNumberingLonelinessAngst

lest any one be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food did sell his birthright, for ye know that also afterwards, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was disapproved of, for a place of reformation he found not, though with tears having sought it.


And it cometh to pass, as He called, And they have not hearkened, So do they call, and I do not hearken, Said Jehovah of Hosts. Verse ConceptsHelpfulnessPrayer, Advice For EffectiveReceptivenessGod SpeakingSpeaking To GodListening To God

And Moses speaketh these words unto all the sons of Israel, and the people mourn exceedingly, Verse ConceptsUnhappinessAngst

and Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, he having said to him -- 'Before cock-crowing, thrice thou wilt deny me;' and having gone without, he did weep bitterly. Verse ConceptsConviction, Leading To RepentanceLonelinessPeter, The DiscipleRegretRememberingRepentance, Examples OfSorrowWeepingTearsCommunicating Three TimesChickensBird SoundsRemembering ChristMourning In RegretOthers Mourningdenial



and the people come in unto Moses and say, 'We have sinned, for we have spoken against Jehovah, and against thee; pray unto Jehovah, and He doth turn aside from us the serpent;' and Moses prayeth in behalf of the people. Verse ConceptsCalling upon GodMoses, Significance OfRepentance, Examples OfAcknowledge, SinAfflictions, Benefits OfPraying For SinnersWe Have SinnedComplaints


and let him ask in faith, nothing doubting, for he who is doubting hath been like a wave of the sea, driven by wind and tossed, for let not that man suppose that he shall receive anything from the Lord --


For compassed me have evils innumerable, Overtaken me have mine iniquities, And I have not been able to see; They have been more than the hairs of my head, And my heart hath forsaken me. Verse ConceptsAn Innumerable NumberGuilty ConsciencesDespair, Description OfNumber Of HairsHair


and they having heard, and by the conscience being convicted, were going forth one by one, having begun from the elders -- unto the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. Verse ConceptsAge, Glories OfConsciences, Description OfCommunicationOld Age, Attainment OfStandingAccusations, Source OfIsolated PersonsLeaving

and say, 'O my God, I have been ashamed, and have blushed to lift up, O my God, my face unto Thee, for our iniquities have increased over the head, and our guilt hath become great unto the heavens. Verse ConceptsGuilty ConsciencesConfession, Examples OfGuilt, Human Aspects OfShameSin, Effects OfBlushingFound GuiltyShame Has Come

To turn aside from judgment the poor, And to take violently away the judgment Of the afflicted of My people, That widows may be their prey, That the fatherless they may spoil. Verse ConceptsFraudThe NeedyPlunderingHuntingOppression, Nature OfPoverty, Attitudes TowardsPoor, Oppression OfExtortionNo JusticeNot Helping WidowsHelping The Pooroppression

'Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye eat up the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, because of this ye shall receive more abundant judgment. Verse ConceptsLegalismHypocrites, Description OfProfessingAge DiscriminationNot Helping WidowsToo Many WordsHypocritesHypocrisy


Thy princes are apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them. Verse ConceptsGiftsBribery, Results OfExploitationsWicked RulersOppression, Nature OfOrphansReward, HumanRiches, Dangers OfRulersStealingLeadershipRulers, WickedCovetousness, Example OfEvil AssociationsCompanionshipNot Helping Widows


Treating evil the barren who beareth not, And to the widow he doth no good, Verse ConceptsAbhorKindnessAttitudes To BarrennessNot Helping Widows

The ass of the fatherless they lead away, They take in pledge the ox of the widow, Verse ConceptsOxenCreditAbhorGuaranteeOppression, Nature OfOrphansWidowsCreditorsOwning LivestockNot Helping Widows

Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised. Verse ConceptsOrphansPoverty, Attitudes TowardsNot Helping Widows

and dost give signs and wonders on Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land, for Thou hast known that they have acted proudly against them, and Thou makest to Thee a name as at this day. Verse ConceptsPride, Results OfArrogance, Punishment OfGod, All knowingAs At This Day

For he hath known men of vanity, And He seeth iniquity, And one doth not consider it! Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingUseless People