Thematic Bible: Moments of Discouragement


Thematic Bible



who delivered us from so great a peril of death, and will deliver us, He on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us,

From six troubles He will deliver you,
Even in seven evil will not touch you.

For it is He who delivers you from the snare of the trapper
And from the deadly pestilence.








However, they did not listen, but stiffened their neck like their fathers, who did not believe in the Lord their God.

Now in the time of his distress this same King Ahaz became yet more unfaithful to the Lord.

Moreover, he did not humble himself before the Lord as his father Manasseh had done, but Amon multiplied guilt.

And admonished them in order to turn them back to Your law.
Yet they acted arrogantly and did not listen to Your commandments but sinned against Your ordinances,
By which if a man observes them he shall live.
And they turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck, and would not listen.

“Were they ashamed because of the abomination they have done?
They were not even ashamed at all;
They did not even know how to blush.
Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;
At the time that I punish them,
They shall be cast down,” says the Lord.

As it is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come on us; yet we have not sought the favor of the Lord our God by turning from our iniquity and giving attention to Your truth.

But he said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’”

and they did not repent of their murders nor of their sorceries nor of their immorality nor of their thefts.



She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

“For the arrows of the Almighty are within me,
Their poison my spirit drinks;
The terrors of God are arrayed against me.

“I was at ease, but He shattered me,
And He has grasped me by the neck and shaken me to pieces;
He has also set me up as His target.

You brought us into the net;
You laid an oppressive burden upon our loins.

For we have been consumed by Your anger
And by Your wrath we have been dismayed.

For I have eaten ashes like bread And mingled my drink with weeping Because of Your indignation and Your wrath, For You have lifted me up and cast me away.

“Son of man, behold, I am about to take from you the desire of your eyes with a blow; but you shall not mourn and you shall not weep, and your tears shall not come.


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;




Therefore I ask you not to lose heart at my tribulations on your behalf, for they are your glory.



O my God, my soul is in despair within me;
Therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan
And the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

I have sunk in deep mire, and there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters, and a flood overflows me.

When I pondered to understand this,
It was troublesome in my sight



Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me
As a man of strife and a man of contention to all the land!
I have not lent, nor have men lent money to me,
Yet everyone curses me.

Woe is me! For I am
Like the fruit pickers, like the grape gatherers.
There is not a cluster of grapes to eat,
Or a first-ripe fig which I crave.


I loathe my own life;
I will give full vent to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

For my life is spent with sorrow
And my years with sighing;
My strength has failed because of my iniquity,
And my body has wasted away.


So if You are going to deal thus with me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your sight, and do not let me see my wretchedness.”


But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.”


And He said to them, “What are these words that you are exchanging with one another as you are walking?” And they stood still, looking sad.


Joshua said, “Alas, O Lord God, why did You ever bring this people over the Jordan, only to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? If only we had been willing to dwell beyond the Jordan!