Isaiah 27:8 你打发他们去，是相机宜与他们相争；刮东风的日子，就用暴风将他们逐去。

27:8 MSG

逐节对照

新标点和合本 - 你打发他们去，是相机宜与他们相争；刮东风的日子，就用暴风将他们逐去。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 你驱赶他们，放逐他们，与他们相争。在刮东风的日子，他以暴风赶逐他们。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 你驱赶他们，放逐他们，与他们相争。在刮东风的日子，他以暴风赶逐他们。
当代译本 - 祂与以色列人为敌，使他们被掳，祂驱逐他们离开本地，在刮东风的日子，用暴风吹散他们。
圣经新译本 - 不，你只是渐渐地，藉着他们被掳与他们相争；在吹东风的日子，就用暴风把他们逐去。
中文标准译本 - 你与他们相争，赶走、流放他们；在刮东风的日子，用暴风除掉他们。
现代标点和合本 - 你打发他们去，是相机宜与他们相争，刮东风的日子，就用暴风将他们逐去。
和合本（拼音版） - 你打发他们去，是相机宜与他们相争；刮东风的日子，就用暴风将他们逐去。
New International Version - By warfare and exile you contend with her— with his fierce blast he drives her out, as on a day the east wind blows.
New International Reader's Version - The Lord will use war to punish Israel. He will make them leave their land. With a strong blast of his anger he will drive them out. It will be as if the east wind were blowing.
English Standard Version - Measure by measure, by exile you contended with them; he removed them with his fierce breath in the day of the east wind.
New Living Translation - No, but he exiled Israel to call her to account. She was exiled from her land as though blown away in a storm from the east.
Christian Standard Bible - You disputed with Israel by banishing and driving her away. He removed her with his severe storm on the day of the east wind.
New American Standard Bible - You contended with them by banishing them, by driving them away. With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the east wind.
New King James Version - In measure, by sending it away, You contended with it. He removes it by His rough wind In the day of the east wind.
Amplified Bible - You contended with them by exile, by driving them away [from Canaan]; He has expelled them with His fierce wind on the day of the east wind.
American Standard Version - In measure, when thou sendest them away, thou dost contend with them; he hath removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
King James Version - In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
New English Translation - When you summon her for divorce, you prosecute her; he drives her away with his strong wind in the day of the east wind.
World English Bible - In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
新標點和合本 - 你打發他們去，是相機宜與他們相爭；颳東風的日子，就用暴風將他們逐去。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 你驅趕他們，放逐他們，與他們相爭。在颳東風的日子，他以暴風趕逐他們。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 你驅趕他們，放逐他們，與他們相爭。在颳東風的日子，他以暴風趕逐他們。
當代譯本 - 祂與以色列人為敵，使他們被擄，祂驅逐他們離開本地，在刮東風的日子，用暴風吹散他們。
聖經新譯本 - 不，你只是漸漸地，藉著他們被擄與他們相爭；在吹東風的日子，就用暴風把他們逐去。
呂振中譯本 - 不，他是一步一步以打發她去的方式來和她相爭的；當颳東風的日子、他就用烈風將她掃除掉。
中文標準譯本 - 你與他們相爭，趕走、流放他們；在颳東風的日子，用暴風除掉他們。
現代標點和合本 - 你打發他們去，是相機宜與他們相爭，颳東風的日子，就用暴風將他們逐去。
文理和合譯本 - 昔爾遷之、譴責從輕、東風大作之日、爾以烈風驅之、
文理委辦譯本 - 昔我督責斯民、其罰惟輕、東風驅之、暴風吹之、徙諸遠方、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 主加之懲罰、相度機宜、惟使之遷離故土、當東風大作之日、主以暴風驅之、
Nueva Versión Internacional - Contendió con él con guerra y destierro; lo expulsó con su soplo violento al soplar el viento del este.
현대인의 성경 - 여호와께서는 자기 백성을 포로로 잡혀가게 하심으로 벌하셨다. 여호와께서 그들을 동풍에 날려보내듯이 먼 땅으로 보내셨으므로
Новый Русский Перевод - Войной и пленом Ты боролся с ними – Твоим свирепым дыханием Ты изгнал их, как в день, когда дует свирепый восточный ветер.
Восточный перевод - Войной и пленом Он наказывал исраильтян – Он изгнал их Своим свирепым дыханием, подобным восточному ветру.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Войной и пленом Он наказывал исраильтян – Он изгнал их Своим свирепым дыханием, подобным восточному ветру.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Войной и пленом Он наказывал исроильтян – Он изгнал их Своим свирепым дыханием, подобным восточному ветру.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Non, c’est avec mesure ╵que tu as conduit leur procès , ╵en les envoyant en exil. Tu les as enlevés ╵par ton souffle terrible en un jour de vent d’est.
Nova Versão Internacional - Pelo desterro e pelo exílio o julga, com seu sopro violento ele o expulsa, como num dia de rajadas do vento oriental.
Hoffnung für alle - Nein, Herr, du hast den Israeliten eine erträgliche Strafe auferlegt: Du hast sie aus ihrer Heimat vertrieben, sie weggeblasen wie ein stürmischer Ostwind.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Không, nhưng Chúa đã dùng cách lưu đày đối với Ít-ra-ên. Nó bị lưu đày ra khỏi xứ của mình như cơn gió đông thổi bay đi.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - พระองค์ทรงลงโทษอิสราเอลด้วยสงคราม และการเนรเทศ ทรงขับไล่เขาออกไปด้วยความเกรี้ยวกราด เหมือนวันที่ลมตะวันออกพัด
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - พระองค์ราวีอิสราเอลด้วยการให้พวกเขาถูกขับออกไปนอกแผ่นดิน พระองค์ขับไล่พวกเขาเพราะความกริ้ว เช่นเดียวกับวันที่ลมตะวันออกพัดมา

交叉引用

1 Corinthians 10:13 - No test or temptation that comes your way is beyond the course of what others have had to face. All you need to remember is that God will never let you down; he’ll never let you be pushed past your limit; he’ll always be there to help you come through it.
Micah 6:3 - “Dear people, how have I done you wrong? Have I burdened you, worn you out? Answer! I delivered you from a bad life in Egypt; I paid a good price to get you out of slavery. I sent Moses to lead you— and Aaron and Miriam to boot! Remember what Balak king of Moab tried to pull, and how Balaam son of Beor turned the tables on him. Remember all those stories about Shittim and Gilgal. Keep all God’s salvation stories fresh and present.”
Psalms 6:1 - Please, God, no more yelling, no more trips to the woodshed. Treat me nice for a change; I’m so starved for affection.
Isaiah 10:12 - When the Master has finished dealing with Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he’ll say, “Now it’s Assyria’s turn. I’ll punish the bragging arrogance of the king of Assyria, his high and mighty posturing, the way he goes around saying,
Psalms 38:1 - Take a deep breath, God; calm down— don’t be so hasty with your punishing rod. Your sharp-pointed arrows of rebuke draw blood; my backside stings from your discipline.
Isaiah 1:18 - “Come. Sit down. Let’s argue this out.” This is God’s Message: “If your sins are blood-red, they’ll be snow-white. If they’re red like crimson, they’ll be like wool. If you’ll willingly obey, you’ll feast like kings. But if you’re willful and stubborn, you’ll die like dogs.” That’s right. God says so.
Psalms 78:38 - And God? Compassionate! Forgave the sin! Didn’t destroy! Over and over he reined in his anger, restrained his considerable wrath. He knew what they were made of; he knew there wasn’t much to them, How often in the desert they had spurned him, tried his patience in those wilderness years. Time and again they pushed him to the limit, provoked Israel’s Holy God. How quickly they forgot what he’d done, forgot their day of rescue from the enemy, When he did miracles in Egypt, wonders on the plain of Zoan. He turned the River and its streams to blood— not a drop of water fit to drink. He sent flies, which ate them alive, and frogs, which drove them crazy. He turned their harvest over to caterpillars, everything they had worked for to the locusts. He flattened their grapevines with hail; a killing frost ruined their orchards. He pounded their cattle with hail, let thunderbolts loose on their herds. His anger flared, a wild firestorm of havoc, An advance guard of disease-carrying angels to clear the ground, preparing the way before him. He didn’t spare those people, he let the plague rage through their lives. He killed all the Egyptian firstborns, lusty infants, offspring of Ham’s virility. Then he led his people out like sheep, took his flock safely through the wilderness. He took good care of them; they had nothing to fear. The Sea took care of their enemies for good. He brought them into his holy land, this mountain he claimed for his own. He scattered everyone who got in their way; he staked out an inheritance for them— the tribes of Israel all had their own places.
1 Peter 1:6 - I know how great this makes you feel, even though you have to put up with every kind of aggravation in the meantime. Pure gold put in the fire comes out of it proved pure; genuine faith put through this suffering comes out proved genuine. When Jesus wraps this all up, it’s your faith, not your gold, that God will have on display as evidence of his victory.
Hosea 4:1 - Attention all Israelites! God’s Message! God indicts the whole population: “No one is faithful. No one loves. No one knows the first thing about God. All this cussing and lying and killing, theft and loose sex, sheer anarchy, one murder after another! And because of all this, the very land itself weeps and everything in it is grief-stricken— animals in the fields and birds on the wing, even the fish in the sea are listless, lifeless. * * *
Isaiah 5:3 - “Now listen to what I’m telling you, you who live in Jerusalem and Judah. What do you think is going on between me and my vineyard? Can you think of anything I could have done to my vineyard that I didn’t do? When I expected good grapes, why did I get bitter grapes?
Isaiah 10:5 - “Doom to Assyria, weapon of my anger. My wrath is a club in his hands! I send him against a godless nation, against the people I’m angry with. I command him to strip them clean, rob them blind, and then push their faces in the mud and leave them. But Assyria has another agenda; he has something else in mind. He’s out to destroy utterly, to stamp out as many nations as he can. Assyria says, ‘Aren’t my commanders all kings? Can’t they do whatever they like? Didn’t I destroy Calno as well as Carchemish? Hamath as well as Arpad? Level Samaria as I did Damascus? I’ve eliminated kingdoms full of gods far more impressive than anything in Jerusalem and Samaria. So what’s to keep me from destroying Jerusalem in the same way I destroyed Samaria and all her god-idols?’”
Isaiah 50:1 - God says: “Can you produce your mother’s divorce papers proving I got rid of her? Can you produce a receipt proving I sold you? Of course you can’t. It’s your sins that put you here, your wrongs that got you shipped out. So why didn’t anyone come when I knocked? Why didn’t anyone answer when I called? Do you think I’ve forgotten how to help? Am I so decrepit that I can’t deliver? I’m as powerful as ever, and can reverse what I once did: I can dry up the sea with a word, turn river water into desert sand, And leave the fish stinking in the sun, stranded on dry land . . . Turn all the lights out in the sky and pull down the curtain.” * * *
Judges 10:10 - The People of Israel cried out to God for help: “We’ve sinned against you! We left our God and worshiped the Baal gods!”
Judges 10:11 - God answered the People of Israel: “When the Egyptians, Amorites, Ammonites, Philistines, Sidonians—even Amalek and Midian!—oppressed you and you cried out to me for help, I saved you from them. And now you’ve gone off and betrayed me, worshiping other gods. I’m not saving you anymore. Go ahead! Cry out for help to the gods you’ve chosen—let them get you out of the mess you’re in!”
Judges 10:15 - The People of Israel said to God: “We’ve sinned. Do to us whatever you think best, but please, get us out of this!”
Judges 10:16 - Then they cleaned house of the foreign gods and worshiped only God. And God took Israel’s troubles to heart.
Isaiah 1:5 - “Why bother even trying to do anything with you when you just keep to your bullheaded ways? You keep beating your heads against brick walls. Everything within you protests against you. From the bottom of your feet to the top of your head, nothing’s working right. Wounds and bruises and running sores— untended, unwashed, unbandaged. Your country is laid waste, your cities burned down. Your land is destroyed by outsiders while you watch, reduced to rubble by barbarians. Daughter Zion is deserted— like a tumbledown shack on a dead-end street, Like a tarpaper shanty on the wrong side of the tracks, like a sinking ship abandoned by the rats. If God-of-the-Angel-Armies hadn’t left us a few survivors, we’d be as desolate as Sodom, doomed just like Gomorrah.
Isaiah 54:7 - Your Redeemer God says: “I left you, but only for a moment. Now, with enormous compassion, I’m bringing you back. In an outburst of anger I turned my back on you— but only for a moment. It’s with lasting love that I’m tenderly caring for you.
Hosea 6:1 - “Come on, let’s go back to God. He hurt us, but he’ll heal us. He hit us hard, but he’ll put us right again. In a couple of days we’ll feel better. By the third day he’ll have made us brand-new, Alive and on our feet, fit to face him. We’re ready to study God, eager for God-knowledge. As sure as dawn breaks, so sure is his daily arrival. He comes as rain comes, as spring rain refreshing the ground.” * * *
Jeremiah 4:27 - Yes, this is God’s Word on the matter: “The whole country will be laid waste— still it won’t be the end of the world. The earth will mourn and the skies lament Because I’ve given my word and won’t take it back. I’ve decided and won’t change my mind.”
Jeremiah 2:18 - “And now, what do you think you’ll get by going off to Egypt? Maybe a cool drink of Nile River water? Or what do you think you’ll get by going off to Assyria? Maybe a long drink of Euphrates River water? Your evil ways will get you a sound thrashing, that’s what you’ll get. You’ll pay dearly for your disloyal ways. Take a long, hard look at what you’ve done and its bitter results. Was it worth it to have walked out on your God?” God’s Decree, Master God-of-the-Angel-Armies.
Jeremiah 2:20 - “A long time ago you broke out of the harness. You shook off all restraints. You said, ‘I will not serve!’ and off you went, Visiting every sex-and-religion shrine on the way, like a common whore. You were a select vine when I planted you from completely reliable stock. And look how you’ve turned out— a tangle of rancid growth, a poor excuse for a vine. Scrub, using the strongest soaps. Scour your skin raw. The sin-grease won’t come out. I can’t stand to even look at you!” God’s Decree, the Master’s Decree.
Jeremiah 2:23 - “How dare you tell me, ‘I’m not stained by sin. I’ve never chased after the Baal sex gods’! Well, look at the tracks you’ve left behind in the valley. How do you account for what is written in the desert dust— Tracks of a camel in heat, running this way and that, tracks of a wild donkey in rut, Sniffing the wind for the slightest scent of sex. Who could possibly corral her! On the hunt for sex, sex, and more sex— insatiable, indiscriminate, promiscuous.
Jeremiah 2:25 - “Slow down. Take a deep breath. What’s the hurry? Why wear yourself out? Just what are you after anyway? But you say, ‘I can’t help it. I’m addicted to alien gods. I can’t quit.’ * * *
Jeremiah 2:26 - “Just as a thief is chagrined, but only when caught, so the people of Israel are chagrined, Caught along with their kings and princes, their priests and prophets. They walk up to a tree and say, ‘My father!’ They pick up a stone and say, ‘My mother! You bore me!’ All I ever see of them is their backsides. They never look me in the face. But when things go badly, they don’t hesitate to come running, calling out, ‘Get a move on! Save us!’ Why not go to your handcrafted gods you’re so fond of? Rouse them. Let them save you from your bad times. You’ve got more gods, Judah, than you know what to do with.
Jeremiah 2:29 - “What do you have against me, running off to assert your ‘independence’?” God’s Decree. “I’ve wasted my time trying to train your children. They’ve paid no attention to me, ignored my discipline. And you’ve gotten rid of your God-messengers, treating them like dirt and sweeping them away.
Jeremiah 2:31 - “What a generation you turned out to be! Didn’t I tell you? Didn’t I warn you? Have I let you down, Israel? Am I nothing but a dead-end street? Why do my people say, ‘Good riddance! From now on we’re on our own’? Young women don’t forget their jewelry, do they? Brides don’t show up without their veils, do they? But my people forget me. Day after day after day they never give me a thought. * * *
Jeremiah 2:33 - “What an impressive start you made to get the most out of life. You founded schools of sin, taught graduate courses in evil! And now you’re sending out graduates, resplendent in cap and gown— except the gowns are stained with the blood of your victims! All that blood convicts you. You cut and hurt a lot of people to get where you are. And yet you have the nerve to say, ‘I’ve done nothing wrong. God doesn’t mind. He hasn’t punished me, has he?’ Don’t look now, but judgment’s on the way, aimed at you who say, ‘I’ve done nothing wrong.’
Jeremiah 2:36 - “You think it’s just a small thing, don’t you, to try out another sin-project when the first one fails? But Egypt will leave you in the lurch the same way that Assyria did. You’re going to walk away from there wringing your hands. I, God, have blacklisted those you trusted. You’ll get not a lick of help from them.”
Jeremiah 4:11 - At that time, this people, yes, this very Jerusalem, will be told in plain words: “The northern hordes are sweeping in from the desert steppes— A wind that’s up to no good, a gale-force wind. I ordered this wind. I’m pronouncing my hurricane judgment on my people.”
Hosea 13:15 - “God’s tornado is on its way, roaring out of the desert. It will devastate the country, leaving a trail of ruin and wreckage. The cities will be gutted, dear possessions gone for good. Now Samaria has to face the charges because she has rebelled against her God: Her people will be killed, babies smashed on the rocks, pregnant women ripped open.”

逐节对照

交叉引用

新标点和合本 - 你打发他们去，是相机宜与他们相争；刮东风的日子，就用暴风将他们逐去。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 你驱赶他们，放逐他们，与他们相争。在刮东风的日子，他以暴风赶逐他们。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 你驱赶他们，放逐他们，与他们相争。在刮东风的日子，他以暴风赶逐他们。
当代译本 - 祂与以色列人为敌，使他们被掳，祂驱逐他们离开本地，在刮东风的日子，用暴风吹散他们。
圣经新译本 - 不，你只是渐渐地，藉着他们被掳与他们相争；在吹东风的日子，就用暴风把他们逐去。
中文标准译本 - 你与他们相争，赶走、流放他们；在刮东风的日子，用暴风除掉他们。
现代标点和合本 - 你打发他们去，是相机宜与他们相争，刮东风的日子，就用暴风将他们逐去。
和合本（拼音版） - 你打发他们去，是相机宜与他们相争；刮东风的日子，就用暴风将他们逐去。
New International Version - By warfare and exile you contend with her— with his fierce blast he drives her out, as on a day the east wind blows.
New International Reader's Version - The Lord will use war to punish Israel. He will make them leave their land. With a strong blast of his anger he will drive them out. It will be as if the east wind were blowing.
English Standard Version - Measure by measure, by exile you contended with them; he removed them with his fierce breath in the day of the east wind.
New Living Translation - No, but he exiled Israel to call her to account. She was exiled from her land as though blown away in a storm from the east.
Christian Standard Bible - You disputed with Israel by banishing and driving her away. He removed her with his severe storm on the day of the east wind.
New American Standard Bible - You contended with them by banishing them, by driving them away. With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the east wind.
New King James Version - In measure, by sending it away, You contended with it. He removes it by His rough wind In the day of the east wind.
Amplified Bible - You contended with them by exile, by driving them away [from Canaan]; He has expelled them with His fierce wind on the day of the east wind.
American Standard Version - In measure, when thou sendest them away, thou dost contend with them; he hath removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
King James Version - In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
New English Translation - When you summon her for divorce, you prosecute her; he drives her away with his strong wind in the day of the east wind.
World English Bible - In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
新標點和合本 - 你打發他們去，是相機宜與他們相爭；颳東風的日子，就用暴風將他們逐去。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 你驅趕他們，放逐他們，與他們相爭。在颳東風的日子，他以暴風趕逐他們。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 你驅趕他們，放逐他們，與他們相爭。在颳東風的日子，他以暴風趕逐他們。
當代譯本 - 祂與以色列人為敵，使他們被擄，祂驅逐他們離開本地，在刮東風的日子，用暴風吹散他們。
聖經新譯本 - 不，你只是漸漸地，藉著他們被擄與他們相爭；在吹東風的日子，就用暴風把他們逐去。
呂振中譯本 - 不，他是一步一步以打發她去的方式來和她相爭的；當颳東風的日子、他就用烈風將她掃除掉。
中文標準譯本 - 你與他們相爭，趕走、流放他們；在颳東風的日子，用暴風除掉他們。
現代標點和合本 - 你打發他們去，是相機宜與他們相爭，颳東風的日子，就用暴風將他們逐去。
文理和合譯本 - 昔爾遷之、譴責從輕、東風大作之日、爾以烈風驅之、
文理委辦譯本 - 昔我督責斯民、其罰惟輕、東風驅之、暴風吹之、徙諸遠方、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 主加之懲罰、相度機宜、惟使之遷離故土、當東風大作之日、主以暴風驅之、
Nueva Versión Internacional - Contendió con él con guerra y destierro; lo expulsó con su soplo violento al soplar el viento del este.
현대인의 성경 - 여호와께서는 자기 백성을 포로로 잡혀가게 하심으로 벌하셨다. 여호와께서 그들을 동풍에 날려보내듯이 먼 땅으로 보내셨으므로
Новый Русский Перевод - Войной и пленом Ты боролся с ними – Твоим свирепым дыханием Ты изгнал их, как в день, когда дует свирепый восточный ветер.
Восточный перевод - Войной и пленом Он наказывал исраильтян – Он изгнал их Своим свирепым дыханием, подобным восточному ветру.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Войной и пленом Он наказывал исраильтян – Он изгнал их Своим свирепым дыханием, подобным восточному ветру.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Войной и пленом Он наказывал исроильтян – Он изгнал их Своим свирепым дыханием, подобным восточному ветру.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Non, c’est avec mesure ╵que tu as conduit leur procès , ╵en les envoyant en exil. Tu les as enlevés ╵par ton souffle terrible en un jour de vent d’est.
Nova Versão Internacional - Pelo desterro e pelo exílio o julga, com seu sopro violento ele o expulsa, como num dia de rajadas do vento oriental.
Hoffnung für alle - Nein, Herr, du hast den Israeliten eine erträgliche Strafe auferlegt: Du hast sie aus ihrer Heimat vertrieben, sie weggeblasen wie ein stürmischer Ostwind.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Không, nhưng Chúa đã dùng cách lưu đày đối với Ít-ra-ên. Nó bị lưu đày ra khỏi xứ của mình như cơn gió đông thổi bay đi.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - พระองค์ทรงลงโทษอิสราเอลด้วยสงคราม และการเนรเทศ ทรงขับไล่เขาออกไปด้วยความเกรี้ยวกราด เหมือนวันที่ลมตะวันออกพัด
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - พระองค์ราวีอิสราเอลด้วยการให้พวกเขาถูกขับออกไปนอกแผ่นดิน พระองค์ขับไล่พวกเขาเพราะความกริ้ว เช่นเดียวกับวันที่ลมตะวันออกพัดมา

1 Corinthians 10:13 - No test or temptation that comes your way is beyond the course of what others have had to face. All you need to remember is that God will never let you down; he’ll never let you be pushed past your limit; he’ll always be there to help you come through it.
Micah 6:3 - “Dear people, how have I done you wrong? Have I burdened you, worn you out? Answer! I delivered you from a bad life in Egypt; I paid a good price to get you out of slavery. I sent Moses to lead you— and Aaron and Miriam to boot! Remember what Balak king of Moab tried to pull, and how Balaam son of Beor turned the tables on him. Remember all those stories about Shittim and Gilgal. Keep all God’s salvation stories fresh and present.”
Psalms 6:1 - Please, God, no more yelling, no more trips to the woodshed. Treat me nice for a change; I’m so starved for affection.
Isaiah 10:12 - When the Master has finished dealing with Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he’ll say, “Now it’s Assyria’s turn. I’ll punish the bragging arrogance of the king of Assyria, his high and mighty posturing, the way he goes around saying,
Psalms 38:1 - Take a deep breath, God; calm down— don’t be so hasty with your punishing rod. Your sharp-pointed arrows of rebuke draw blood; my backside stings from your discipline.
Isaiah 1:18 - “Come. Sit down. Let’s argue this out.” This is God’s Message: “If your sins are blood-red, they’ll be snow-white. If they’re red like crimson, they’ll be like wool. If you’ll willingly obey, you’ll feast like kings. But if you’re willful and stubborn, you’ll die like dogs.” That’s right. God says so.
Psalms 78:38 - And God? Compassionate! Forgave the sin! Didn’t destroy! Over and over he reined in his anger, restrained his considerable wrath. He knew what they were made of; he knew there wasn’t much to them, How often in the desert they had spurned him, tried his patience in those wilderness years. Time and again they pushed him to the limit, provoked Israel’s Holy God. How quickly they forgot what he’d done, forgot their day of rescue from the enemy, When he did miracles in Egypt, wonders on the plain of Zoan. He turned the River and its streams to blood— not a drop of water fit to drink. He sent flies, which ate them alive, and frogs, which drove them crazy. He turned their harvest over to caterpillars, everything they had worked for to the locusts. He flattened their grapevines with hail; a killing frost ruined their orchards. He pounded their cattle with hail, let thunderbolts loose on their herds. His anger flared, a wild firestorm of havoc, An advance guard of disease-carrying angels to clear the ground, preparing the way before him. He didn’t spare those people, he let the plague rage through their lives. He killed all the Egyptian firstborns, lusty infants, offspring of Ham’s virility. Then he led his people out like sheep, took his flock safely through the wilderness. He took good care of them; they had nothing to fear. The Sea took care of their enemies for good. He brought them into his holy land, this mountain he claimed for his own. He scattered everyone who got in their way; he staked out an inheritance for them— the tribes of Israel all had their own places.
1 Peter 1:6 - I know how great this makes you feel, even though you have to put up with every kind of aggravation in the meantime. Pure gold put in the fire comes out of it proved pure; genuine faith put through this suffering comes out proved genuine. When Jesus wraps this all up, it’s your faith, not your gold, that God will have on display as evidence of his victory.
Hosea 4:1 - Attention all Israelites! God’s Message! God indicts the whole population: “No one is faithful. No one loves. No one knows the first thing about God. All this cussing and lying and killing, theft and loose sex, sheer anarchy, one murder after another! And because of all this, the very land itself weeps and everything in it is grief-stricken— animals in the fields and birds on the wing, even the fish in the sea are listless, lifeless. * * *
Isaiah 5:3 - “Now listen to what I’m telling you, you who live in Jerusalem and Judah. What do you think is going on between me and my vineyard? Can you think of anything I could have done to my vineyard that I didn’t do? When I expected good grapes, why did I get bitter grapes?
Isaiah 10:5 - “Doom to Assyria, weapon of my anger. My wrath is a club in his hands! I send him against a godless nation, against the people I’m angry with. I command him to strip them clean, rob them blind, and then push their faces in the mud and leave them. But Assyria has another agenda; he has something else in mind. He’s out to destroy utterly, to stamp out as many nations as he can. Assyria says, ‘Aren’t my commanders all kings? Can’t they do whatever they like? Didn’t I destroy Calno as well as Carchemish? Hamath as well as Arpad? Level Samaria as I did Damascus? I’ve eliminated kingdoms full of gods far more impressive than anything in Jerusalem and Samaria. So what’s to keep me from destroying Jerusalem in the same way I destroyed Samaria and all her god-idols?’”
Isaiah 50:1 - God says: “Can you produce your mother’s divorce papers proving I got rid of her? Can you produce a receipt proving I sold you? Of course you can’t. It’s your sins that put you here, your wrongs that got you shipped out. So why didn’t anyone come when I knocked? Why didn’t anyone answer when I called? Do you think I’ve forgotten how to help? Am I so decrepit that I can’t deliver? I’m as powerful as ever, and can reverse what I once did: I can dry up the sea with a word, turn river water into desert sand, And leave the fish stinking in the sun, stranded on dry land . . . Turn all the lights out in the sky and pull down the curtain.” * * *
Judges 10:10 - The People of Israel cried out to God for help: “We’ve sinned against you! We left our God and worshiped the Baal gods!”
Judges 10:11 - God answered the People of Israel: “When the Egyptians, Amorites, Ammonites, Philistines, Sidonians—even Amalek and Midian!—oppressed you and you cried out to me for help, I saved you from them. And now you’ve gone off and betrayed me, worshiping other gods. I’m not saving you anymore. Go ahead! Cry out for help to the gods you’ve chosen—let them get you out of the mess you’re in!”
Judges 10:15 - The People of Israel said to God: “We’ve sinned. Do to us whatever you think best, but please, get us out of this!”
Judges 10:16 - Then they cleaned house of the foreign gods and worshiped only God. And God took Israel’s troubles to heart.
Isaiah 1:5 - “Why bother even trying to do anything with you when you just keep to your bullheaded ways? You keep beating your heads against brick walls. Everything within you protests against you. From the bottom of your feet to the top of your head, nothing’s working right. Wounds and bruises and running sores— untended, unwashed, unbandaged. Your country is laid waste, your cities burned down. Your land is destroyed by outsiders while you watch, reduced to rubble by barbarians. Daughter Zion is deserted— like a tumbledown shack on a dead-end street, Like a tarpaper shanty on the wrong side of the tracks, like a sinking ship abandoned by the rats. If God-of-the-Angel-Armies hadn’t left us a few survivors, we’d be as desolate as Sodom, doomed just like Gomorrah.
Isaiah 54:7 - Your Redeemer God says: “I left you, but only for a moment. Now, with enormous compassion, I’m bringing you back. In an outburst of anger I turned my back on you— but only for a moment. It’s with lasting love that I’m tenderly caring for you.
Hosea 6:1 - “Come on, let’s go back to God. He hurt us, but he’ll heal us. He hit us hard, but he’ll put us right again. In a couple of days we’ll feel better. By the third day he’ll have made us brand-new, Alive and on our feet, fit to face him. We’re ready to study God, eager for God-knowledge. As sure as dawn breaks, so sure is his daily arrival. He comes as rain comes, as spring rain refreshing the ground.” * * *
Jeremiah 4:27 - Yes, this is God’s Word on the matter: “The whole country will be laid waste— still it won’t be the end of the world. The earth will mourn and the skies lament Because I’ve given my word and won’t take it back. I’ve decided and won’t change my mind.”
Jeremiah 2:18 - “And now, what do you think you’ll get by going off to Egypt? Maybe a cool drink of Nile River water? Or what do you think you’ll get by going off to Assyria? Maybe a long drink of Euphrates River water? Your evil ways will get you a sound thrashing, that’s what you’ll get. You’ll pay dearly for your disloyal ways. Take a long, hard look at what you’ve done and its bitter results. Was it worth it to have walked out on your God?” God’s Decree, Master God-of-the-Angel-Armies.
Jeremiah 2:20 - “A long time ago you broke out of the harness. You shook off all restraints. You said, ‘I will not serve!’ and off you went, Visiting every sex-and-religion shrine on the way, like a common whore. You were a select vine when I planted you from completely reliable stock. And look how you’ve turned out— a tangle of rancid growth, a poor excuse for a vine. Scrub, using the strongest soaps. Scour your skin raw. The sin-grease won’t come out. I can’t stand to even look at you!” God’s Decree, the Master’s Decree.
Jeremiah 2:23 - “How dare you tell me, ‘I’m not stained by sin. I’ve never chased after the Baal sex gods’! Well, look at the tracks you’ve left behind in the valley. How do you account for what is written in the desert dust— Tracks of a camel in heat, running this way and that, tracks of a wild donkey in rut, Sniffing the wind for the slightest scent of sex. Who could possibly corral her! On the hunt for sex, sex, and more sex— insatiable, indiscriminate, promiscuous.
Jeremiah 2:25 - “Slow down. Take a deep breath. What’s the hurry? Why wear yourself out? Just what are you after anyway? But you say, ‘I can’t help it. I’m addicted to alien gods. I can’t quit.’ * * *
Jeremiah 2:26 - “Just as a thief is chagrined, but only when caught, so the people of Israel are chagrined, Caught along with their kings and princes, their priests and prophets. They walk up to a tree and say, ‘My father!’ They pick up a stone and say, ‘My mother! You bore me!’ All I ever see of them is their backsides. They never look me in the face. But when things go badly, they don’t hesitate to come running, calling out, ‘Get a move on! Save us!’ Why not go to your handcrafted gods you’re so fond of? Rouse them. Let them save you from your bad times. You’ve got more gods, Judah, than you know what to do with.
Jeremiah 2:29 - “What do you have against me, running off to assert your ‘independence’?” God’s Decree. “I’ve wasted my time trying to train your children. They’ve paid no attention to me, ignored my discipline. And you’ve gotten rid of your God-messengers, treating them like dirt and sweeping them away.
Jeremiah 2:31 - “What a generation you turned out to be! Didn’t I tell you? Didn’t I warn you? Have I let you down, Israel? Am I nothing but a dead-end street? Why do my people say, ‘Good riddance! From now on we’re on our own’? Young women don’t forget their jewelry, do they? Brides don’t show up without their veils, do they? But my people forget me. Day after day after day they never give me a thought. * * *
Jeremiah 2:33 - “What an impressive start you made to get the most out of life. You founded schools of sin, taught graduate courses in evil! And now you’re sending out graduates, resplendent in cap and gown— except the gowns are stained with the blood of your victims! All that blood convicts you. You cut and hurt a lot of people to get where you are. And yet you have the nerve to say, ‘I’ve done nothing wrong. God doesn’t mind. He hasn’t punished me, has he?’ Don’t look now, but judgment’s on the way, aimed at you who say, ‘I’ve done nothing wrong.’
Jeremiah 2:36 - “You think it’s just a small thing, don’t you, to try out another sin-project when the first one fails? But Egypt will leave you in the lurch the same way that Assyria did. You’re going to walk away from there wringing your hands. I, God, have blacklisted those you trusted. You’ll get not a lick of help from them.”
Jeremiah 4:11 - At that time, this people, yes, this very Jerusalem, will be told in plain words: “The northern hordes are sweeping in from the desert steppes— A wind that’s up to no good, a gale-force wind. I ordered this wind. I’m pronouncing my hurricane judgment on my people.”
Hosea 13:15 - “God’s tornado is on its way, roaring out of the desert. It will devastate the country, leaving a trail of ruin and wreckage. The cities will be gutted, dear possessions gone for good. Now Samaria has to face the charges because she has rebelled against her God: Her people will be killed, babies smashed on the rocks, pregnant women ripped open.”