Thematic Bible




Thematic Bible



But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the Lord God.”

Yet the people do not turn back to Him who struck them,
Nor do they seek the Lord of hosts.

In vain I have struck your sons;
They accepted no chastening.
Your sword has devoured your prophets
Like a destroying lion.

I smote you and every work of your hands with blasting wind, mildew and hail; yet you did not come back to Me,’ declares the Lord.


and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,
My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
Nor faint when you are reproved by Him;

Yet the people do not turn back to Him who struck them,
Nor do they seek the Lord of hosts.

In vain I have struck your sons;
They accepted no chastening.
Your sword has devoured your prophets
Like a destroying lion.

“I smote you with scorching wind and mildew;
And the caterpillar was devouring
Your many gardens and vineyards, fig trees and olive trees;
Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.

and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores; and they did not repent of their deeds.

Where will you be stricken again,
As you continue in your rebellion?
The whole head is sick
And the whole heart is faint.

So He poured out on him the heat of His anger
And the fierceness of battle;
And it set him aflame all around,
Yet he did not recognize it;
And it burned him, but he paid no attention.

O Lord, do not Your eyes look for truth?
You have smitten them,
But they did not weaken;
You have consumed them,
But they refused to take correction.
They have made their faces harder than rock;
They have refused to repent.

“I said, ‘Surely you will revere Me,
Accept instruction.’
So her dwelling will not be cut off
According to all that I have appointed concerning her.
But they were eager to corrupt all their deeds.


In vain I have struck your sons;
They accepted no chastening.
Your sword has devoured your prophets
Like a destroying lion.


for they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink. They deserve it.”

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, just as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not have it!

They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were tempted, they were put to death with the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out. They are not pleasing to God, but hostile to all men,

And he sent another, and that one they killed; and so with many others, beating some and killing others.