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)
Revelation 1:8 (ESV)
"I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God,
"who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."
Peace is Coming
Jon McNaughton (American, 1965-present)
2 Corinthians 5:18-19 (ESV)
“... in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself,
not counting their trespasses against them,
and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.”
The Woman Caught in Adultery
Harry Anderson (American, 1952-2018)
Romans 8:3-4 (NASB1995)
For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us
Christ Carrying the Cross, 1508
Titian // Tiziano Vecellio (1490?-1576)
Colossians 1:15-16 (NASB1995)
He is the image of the invisible God,
the firstborn of all creation.
For by Him all things were created,
both in the heavens and on earth,
visible and invisible,
whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities–
all things have been created through Him and for Him.
Among the Sierra Nevada, California, 1868
Albert Bierstadt (American, 1830-1902)
Philippians 2:5-8 (ESV)
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
The Temptation in the Wilderness, 1898
Briton Riviere (British, 1840-1920)
Sketch for Christ in the Wilderness, 1872
Ivan Kramskoi (Russian, 1837-1887)
Galatians 4:4-6 (ESV)
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
Suffer the Little Children to Come Unto Me, 1884
Fritz von Uhde (German, 1848-1911)
Almighty God, who hast given us thy only begotten Son to take our nature upon him, and as at this time to be born of a pure Virgin: Grant that we being regenerate, and made thy children by adoption and grace, may daily be renewed by thy Holy Spirit; through the same our Lord Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the same Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.
John 1:14 (ESV)
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Christ in Glory
Luca Giordano (Italian, 1634-1705)