Anthropomorphisms

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• 1 Chronicles 21:15 OT

  God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was standing by the threshing…

• Psalms 31:2 OT

  Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.

• Psalms 33:6 OT

  By Yahweh’s word, the heavens were made: all their army by the breath of his mouth.

• Psalms 35:1-3 OT

  Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me. Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help. Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me. Tell my soul, “I am your salvation.”

• Psalms 36:7 OT

  How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.

• Psalms 57:1 OT

  Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed.

• Psalms 68:17 OT

  The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands. The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.

• Psalms 94:9 OT

  He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he see?

• Psalms 121:4 OT

  Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

• Isaiah 1:15 OT

  When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

• Ezekiel 1:24 OT

  When they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult like the noise of an army. When they stood, they let down their wings.

• Ezekiel 1:28 OT

  As the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of Yahweh’s glory. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice…

• Habakkuk 1:13 OT

  You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

• 1 Peter 3:12 NT

  For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

• Isaiah 43:26 OT

  Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.

• Isaiah 63:11 OT

  Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, “Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among them?”

• Isaiah 1:18 OT

  “Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

• Psalms 147:5 OT

  Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.

• Romans 9:19 NT

  You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”

• Genesis 3:8 OT

  They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

• Leviticus 26:12 OT

  I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.

• Deuteronomy 23:14 OT

  for Yahweh your God walks in the middle of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you. Therefore your camp shall be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.

• Job 22:14 OT

  Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see. He walks on the vault of the sky.’

• Habakkuk 3:15 OT

  You trampled the sea with your horses, churning mighty waters.