Amanda Mauricio

fire consumes cedars of Lebanon, oaks of Bashan

Zechariah 11:1-2 (NLT)
Open your doors, Lebanon, so that fire may devour your cedar forests.

How the mighty are felled

Ezekiel 31:3-18 (NLT)
You are like mighty Assyria, which was once like a cedar of Lebanon, with beautiful branches that cast deep forest shade and with its top high among the clouds.

vine of scepters

Ezekiel 19:10-14 (NLT)
“Your mother was like a vine planted by the water’s edge. It had lush, green foliage because of the abundant water.

keeper of the trees

Ezekiel 17:22-24 (NLT)
“This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will take a branch from the top of a tall cedar, and I will plant it on the top of Israel’s highest mountain.

trees that trust in the Lord

Jeremiah 17:5-10 (NLT)
This is what the LORD says: “Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans, who rely on human strength and turn their hearts away from the LORD.

live long

Isaiah 65:22 (NLT)
Unlike the past, invaders will not take their houses and confiscate their vineyards. For my people will live as long as trees, and my chosen ones will have time to enjoy their hard-won gains.

oaks of righteousness

Isaiah 61:3 (NLT)
To all who mourn in Israel, he will give a crown of beauty for ashes, a joyous blessing instead of mourning, festive praise instead of despair. In their righteousness, they will be like great oaks that the LORD has planted for his own glory.

planted in Israel

Isaiah 60:21 (NLT)
All your people will be righteous. They will possess their land forever, for I will plant them there with my own hands in order to bring myself glory.

trees will clap

Isaiah 55:12-13 (NLT)
You will live in joy and peace. The mountains and hills will burst into song, and the trees of the field will clap their hands!

put down roots then attacked

Psalm 80:9-19 (NLT)
You cleared the ground for us, and we took root and filled the land.

putting down roots after seige

2 Kings 19:30 (NLT)
And you who are left in Judah, who have escaped the ravages of the siege, will put roots down in your own soil and will grow up and flourish.

break into song, trees!

Isaiah 44:23 (NLT)
Sing, Oheavens, for the LORD has done this wondrous thing. Shout for joy, Odepths of the earth! Break into song, Omountains and forests and every tree! For the LORD has redeemed Jacob and is glorified in Israel.

righteous branch

Isaiah 11:1-5 (NLT)
Out of the stump of David’s family will grow a shoot— yes, a new Branch bearing fruit from the old root.

tree cut down

Isaiah 10:33-34 (NLT)
But look! The Lord, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, will chop down the mighty tree of Assyria with great power! He will cut down the proud. That lofty tree will be brought down.

burning forest

Isaiah 10:17-19 (NLT)
The LORD, the Light of Israel, will be a fire; the Holy One will be a flame. He will devour the thorns and briers with fire, burning up the enemy in a single night.

trees in a storm

Isaiah 7:2 (NLT)
The news had come to the royal court of Judah: “Syria is allied with Israel against us!” So the hearts of the king and his people trembled with fear, like trees shaking in a storm.

stump, holy seed

Isaiah 6:13 (NLT)
If even a tenth—a remnant—survive, it will be invaded again and burned. But as a terebinth or oak tree leaves a stump when it is cut down, so Israel’s stump will be a holy seed.”

six to hate seven to despise 1

Proverbs 6:16-19 (NLT)
There are six things the LORD hates— no, seven things he detests:

callous to God's law

Psalm 119:69-70 (NIV)
Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep your precepts with all my heart.

harmful are humiliated

Psalm 71:24 (NLT)
I will tell about your righteous deeds all day long, for everyone who tried to hurt me has been shamed and humiliated.

humiliation and shame

Psalm 71:13 (NLT)
Bring disgrace and destruction on my accusers. Humiliate and shame those who want to harm me.

thr Lords stands by the falsely accused

Psalm 109:2-6 (NLT)
while the wicked slander me and tell lies about me.

Psalm 109:19-22 (NLT)
Now may his curses return and cling to him like clothing; may they be tied around him like a belt.”

Psalm 109:27 (NLT)
Let them see that this is your doing, that you yourself have done it, LORD.

Psalm 109:29 (NLT)
May my accusers be clothed with disgrace; may their humiliation cover them like a cloak.

Psalm 109:31 (NLT)
For he stands beside the needy, ready to save them from those who condemn them.

God will shoot down plotting liars

Psalm 64:3-4 (NLT)
They sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows.

Psalm 64:7-8 (NLT)
But God himself will shoot them with his arrows, suddenly striking them down.

God is a fortress against liars

Psalm 62:4 (NLT)
They plan to topple me from my high position. They delight in telling lies about me. They praise me to my face but curse me in their hearts. Interlude

Psalm 62:7 (NLT)
My victory and honor come from God alone. He is my refuge, a rock where no enemy can reach me.

Psalm 62:12 (NLT)
unfailing love, OLord, is yours. Surely you repay all people according to what they have done.

don't be afraid of curses

2 Samuel 16:12 (NLT)
And perhaps the LORD will see that I am being wronged and will bless me because of these curses today.”