Sacred texts of our time
- stme
- May 2, 2020
- 3 min read
Updated: May 6, 2020
“Whenever I hold back the rain or send locusts to eat up the crops or send an epidemic on my people, if they pray to me and repent and turn away from the evil they have been doing, then I will hear them in heaven, forgive their sins, and make their land prosperous again”
2 Chronicles 7:13-14
“Whatever plague, whatever sickness there is, whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and stretching out his hands toward this house, then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind), that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land that you gave to our fathers.”
1 Kings 8:37-40
“If I were to cause wild beasts to pass through the land and they depopulated it, and it became desolate so that no one would pass through it because of the beasts…”
Ezekiel 14:15
“I call on you, my God, for you will answer me; turn your ear to me and hear my prayer.”
Psalms 17:6
“This I declare, that he alone is my refuge, my place of safety; he is my God, and I am trusting him. For he rescues you from every trap and protects you from the fatal plague. He will shield you with his wings! They will shelter you. His faithful promises are your armor. Now you don’t need to be afraid of the dark anymore, nor fear the dangers of the day; nor dread the plagues of darkness, nor disasters in the morning”
Psalms 91: 2-6
“On that day I will give Gog a burial ground there in Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea, and it will block off those who would pass by. So they will bury Gog there with all his horde, and they will call it the valley of Hamon-gog.”
Ezekiel 39:11
”Whoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world. And whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world.”
Mishnah, Sanhedrin 4:5
”We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land - it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one - it is as if he had saved mankind entirely.”
Qur'an 5:32
“If you hear of an outbreak of plague in a land, do not enter it; if the plague breaks out in a place while you are in it, do not leave that place.”
Sahih Al-Bukhari in the Hadith
“When it is said to them: 'Do not make mischief on earth,' they say: 'We who make peace.' Beware! They are the ones who make mischief but they do not realize it. When they are told: 'Believe as the others believe,' they sarcastically ask: 'Should we believe like fools?' Be aware! They themselves are the fools, if only they could understand.“
Qur'an 2:10
“For behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stock and the store, the whole supply of bread and the whole supply of water…”
Isaiah 3:1
“If you do not stand firm in your faith, you won’t stand at all”
Isaiah 7:9
By Anita Adu Manu, Brigitte Gibbs, and Daina Jameison
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