Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Condemnation » Increased by » Oppression
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten. Your gold and your silver have rusted; and their rust will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have stored up your treasure! read more.
Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and the outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. You have lived luxuriously on the earth and led a life of wanton pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and the outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. You have lived luxuriously on the earth and led a life of wanton pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
Garments » Of the rich » Often moth-eaten
Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Insects » Locusts » Moths
Whose
Who are crushed before the moth!
Or as a hut which the watchman has made.
Behold,
The moth will eat them.
Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Moth » Figurative
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. "But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal;
Moths » Destructive to garments
Riches » Described as » Corruptible
knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers,