Jeremiah 6:14 (ESV)
They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’
when there is no peace.
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, 1630
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669)
Mark 4:25 (ESV)
Pay attention to what you hear: with the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and still more will be added to you. For to the one who has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
Woman by the Light of a Candle
Martin Ferdinand Quadal (Polish, 1736-1809)
Matthew 7:11 (LSB)
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!
Matthew 7:9-10 (LSB)
What man is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he?
Genesis 15:5-6 (ESV)
"Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." ... "So shall your offspring be."
And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness.
Abraham's Oak, 1905
Henry Ossawa Tanner (American, 1859-1937)
The tree depicted is known as the Oak of Mamre, which in some traditions marks where Abraham pitched his tent.
Isaiah 1:31 (ESV)
And the strong shall become tinder, and his work a spark, and both of them shall burn together, with none to quench them.
Deuteronomy 31:8 (NIV)
The Lord himself goes before you
and will be with you;
he will never leave you nor forsake you.
Do not be afraid;
do not be discouraged.
The Israelites Led by the Pillar of Fire by Night, c 1845
William West (English, 1793-1861)
Numbers 6:24-26 (BSB)
May the Lord bless you and keep you;
may the Lord cause His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;
may the Lord lift up His countenance toward you and give you peace.
Jesus with Woman Praying in Church, c. 1885
Joseph Malachy Kavanagh (Ireland, 1856-1918)
Exodus 14:27 (ESV)
So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal course when the morning appeared. And as the Egyptians fled into it, the Lord threw the Egyptians into the midst of the sea.
The Destruction of Pharaoh's Host, 1836
John Martin (English, 1789-1854)
Daniel 11:3-4 (ESV)
Then a mighty king shall arise, who shall rule with great dominion and do as he wills. And as soon as he has arisen, his kingdom shall be broken and divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not to his posterity
Alexander at the Tomb of Cyrus the Great, 1983
Pierre Henri de Valenciennes (French, 1750-1819)
Genesis 8:1 (KJV)
And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged; the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.
The Assuaging of the Waters, 1840
John Martin (English, 1789-1854)
Genesis 7:6-7 (ESV)
Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth. And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
The Eve of the Deluge, 1840
John Martin (English, 1789-1854)
Ezekiel 30:13 (NIV)
This is what the Sovereign Lord says:
“I will destroy the idols
and put an end to the images in Memphis.
No longer will there be a prince in Egypt,
and I will spread fear throughout the land.”
Sandstorm Approaching the Sphinx at Giza at Sunset, Egypt, 1849
Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts (Scottish, 1796-1864)
Ezekiel 26:17-18 (ESV)
How you have perished,
you who were inhabited from the seas,
O city renowned,
who was mighty on the sea;
she and her inhabitants imposed their terror
on all her inhabitants!
Now the coastlands tremble
on the day of your fall,
and the coastlands that are on the sea
are dismayed at your passing.
Siege of Tyre.
Alexander the Great and his armies prepare for the The Siege of Tyre.
Ruxing Gao
Matthew 2:13 (ESV)
“Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.”
Rest on the Flight into Egypt, 1880
Luc-Olivier Merson (French, 1846-1920)
Genesis 19:29 (DARBY)
And it came to pass when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.
Lot and His Daughters Guided by Angels, the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah Beyond, 1593
Gillis Mostaert (Flemish, 1528-1598)
Jeremiah 25:11 (KJV)
And this whole land shall be a desolation,
and an astonishment;
and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
"By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion." Psalm 137
Waters of Babylon (1920)
Jews sit on the banks of the Tigris, which flows through Babylon, and remembering Jerusalem.
Gebhard Fugel (German, 1863-1939)
Isaiah 23:8-9 (ESV)
Who has purposed this against Tyre,
the bestower of crowns,
whose merchants were princes,
whose traders were the honored of the earth?
The Lord of hosts has purposed it,
to defile the pompous pride of all glory,
to dishonor all the honored of the earth.
The ancient city of Tyre, taken from the Isthmus.
Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1843
Isaiah 19:1-4 (ESV)
An oracle concerning Egypt.
Behold, the Lord is riding on a swift cloud and comes to Egypt;
and the idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence,
and the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.
And I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians,
and they will fight,
each against another and each against his neighbor,
city against city,
kingdom against kingdom;
and the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out,
and I will confound their counsel;
and they will inquire of the idols and the sorcerers,
and the mediums and the necromancers;
and I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a hard master,
and a fierce king will rule over them,
declares the Lord God of hosts.
The Nile in Flood, Thebes
Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824-1904)
Isaiah 19:1 (ESV)
Behold, the Lord is riding on a swift cloud and comes to Egypt;
and the idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence,
and the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.
L'incendie d'Alexandrie, 1876
Burning of the Library of Alexandria, woodcut
Hermann Göll (German, 1822-1886)
Isaiah 13:19 (ESV)
And Babylon,
the glory of kingdoms,
the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans,
will be like Sodom and Gomorrah
when God overthrew them.
The Fall of Babylon; Cyrus the Great Defeating the Babylonian Army (1831).
Mezzotint by John Martin (English, 1789-1854)
He was in the world,
and though the world was made through Him,
the world did not recognize Him.
He came to His own,
and His own did not receive Him.
But to all who did receive Him,
to those who believed in His name,
He gave the right to become children of God
Head of Christ, c. 1648-1656,
Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch, 1606 - 1669
Isaiah 42:6-7 (ESV)
I am the Lord;
I have called you in righteousness;
I will take you by the hand and keep you;
I will give you as a covenant for the people,
a light for the nations,
to open the eyes that are blind,
to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon,
from the prison those who sit in darkness.
Rejoice in His Light
Yongsung Kim
Matthew 28:19 (ESV)
“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”
De prediking op het Meer van Galilea (The Sermon on the Sea of Galilee), 1597
Jan Brueghel the Elder (Flemish, 1568-1625)
Luke 2:29-32 (The Nunc Dimittis)
Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace,
according to thy word.
For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
which thou hast prepared before the face of all people;
To be a light to lighten the Gentiles,
and to be the glory of thy people Israel.
The Evening Prayer, 1857
Edouard Frère (French, 1819-1886)