Mary’s Magnificat is Scripture-shaped praise that reveals God’s character and plan. Her song gathers old promises into present joy and future hope.
Bible Themes and Doctrines
Mary’s Magnificat is Scripture-shaped praise that reveals God’s character and plan. Her song gathers old promises into present joy and future hope.
Hosea weds a covenant lawsuit to a wedding vow. The prophet exposes Israel’s unfaithfulness under the Law and promises healing love that renews the people and points to David’s greater Son.
Lamentations gives the covenant community a grammar for catastrophe. In acrostic poems shaped by truth and tears, Judah confesses sin, accepts the Lord’s righteousness, and discovers mercies new every morning. The book trains faith to lament honestly, repent deeply, and hope stubbornly for Zion’s comfort under the coming King.
2 Samuel centers on the Lord’s promise to David—a house, a throne, a kingdom that endures—while telling hard truths about sin, discipline, and mercy. It honors the Law’s order, advances the promise, and lifts hope toward the visible reign of the righteous Son of David.
Delegates asked about keeping a fast; God asked about their hearts. Zechariah 7 calls worshipers to true justice, mercy, and humble hearing so that fasting and feasting alike become Godward and neighbor-loving.
Habakkuk 3 closes the book with a prayer-psalm that remembers God’s saving march, asks for mercy amid wrath, and teaches the faithful to rejoice in the Lord when fields are empty—trusting the Sovereign Lord for surefooted strength on the heights.
Nahum 3 unmaskes the “city of blood” and answers its sorceries with God’s public exposure and final word. The fall of Nineveh becomes relief for the nations and a warning to every city that builds prosperity on victims rather than on truth.
Micah 7 laments a barren society, then waits in hope for the Lord who hears. The chapter ends in doxology: God pleads the case of the repentant, restores his flock, and buries sins in the sea.
Micah 6 summons creation to hear God’s case, recalls his rescue, and exposes dishonest worship that cheats neighbors. The Lord answers with a simple good—do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with him—so that disciplined people can return to a life that honors his name.
Jonah 4 ends not with a tidy moral but with God’s question about compassion. Through a plant, a worm, and a wind, the Lord exposes narrow pity and invites His servant to share His concern for a great city and every life within it.
Jonah 3 records obedience after mercy and a citywide turn from evil. Nineveh’s fast, the king’s humility, and God’s relenting reveal how powerful the Lord’s word is and how ready He is to forgive when people truly turn.
From the belly of the fish, Jonah prays Scripture, looks toward God’s temple, renounces idols, and confesses, “Salvation comes from the Lord.” His gratitude before landfall trains us to trust God’s mercy in every deep.
Jonah 1 opens with a call and a flight that triggers a storm, a confession, and a surprising calm. God pursues His prophet for the sake of a lost city and turns a pagan crew into worshipers, pointing to a greater mercy that will reach the nations.
Amos 7 presents two relenting visions and a third that sets God’s plumb line, then narrates a clash at Bethel where the prophet’s calling outlasts royal religion. The chapter calls readers to intercede boldly, realign to God’s standard, and speak with steady courage.
Joel 2 unfolds God’s urgent call to repent, his pledge to restore what locusts consumed, and his promise to pour out the Spirit on all who call on his name.