Despair
Deuteronomy 28:65
Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart.
The chapter begins by describing all the blessings that will come to Israel if they obey God's commands. Then begins a longer section detailing the bad things that will happen if they do not obey. The list of horrors begins with a list of curses that reverse all the blessings of the first part of the chapter. But then the terrors and calamities continue to pile up, eventually to extremes, the worst things one could imagine. The siege of Jerusalem, Auschwitz, all foretold...
This verse describes the emotional state of a people who plunged from God's favor to God's wrath: anxiety, weariness, longing...and a despairing heart.
Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart.
The chapter begins by describing all the blessings that will come to Israel if they obey God's commands. Then begins a longer section detailing the bad things that will happen if they do not obey. The list of horrors begins with a list of curses that reverse all the blessings of the first part of the chapter. But then the terrors and calamities continue to pile up, eventually to extremes, the worst things one could imagine. The siege of Jerusalem, Auschwitz, all foretold...
This verse describes the emotional state of a people who plunged from God's favor to God's wrath: anxiety, weariness, longing...and a despairing heart.
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