Malachi 2 rebukes partiality and treachery, restoring God’s design for faithful leaders, faithful marriages, and truthful worship.
Bible Themes and Doctrines
Malachi 2 rebukes partiality and treachery, restoring God’s design for faithful leaders, faithful marriages, and truthful worship.
Psalm 137 weeps by Babylon’s rivers, swears fidelity to Jerusalem, and entrusts justice to God against betrayers and conquerors. The psalm equips worshipers to lament honestly, remember faithfully, and hope for the day when the Lord keeps every promise to Zion.
Psalm 59 moves from a watched doorway to morning worship, teaching trust in God as fortress and righteous judge. Learn the context, structure, and hope that steadies faith in the night.
Psalm 10 names the ache of God’s seeming distance and the cruelty of predatory power. It pairs precise lament with bold petition and ends in confidence that the King hears, defends, and will call hidden evil to account.
Elihu counters the despairing claim that serving God is useless by defending the Lord’s impartial justice and inviting teachable repentance. Job 34 steadies faith with the assurance that God sees, hears, and acts in his time.
Job 9 pairs a hymn to God’s power with a courtroom dilemma no mortal can win. The chapter ends in longing for a mediator—answered in Scripture by the One who removes the rod and opens fearless access to God.
Bildad defends God’s justice with vivid images and confident maxims, yet misapplies them to a blameless sufferer. This chapter helps us prize true doctrine, resist weaponized proverbs, and seek God earnestly while we wait for promised joy.
Eliphaz’s counsel in Job 5 blends true praise of God’s providence with an overconfident verdict on Job’s pain. This study weighs those truths, shows their limits, and points sufferers to prayer, patience, and the Mediator who heals.