Bible Verses About Instability: General references

"Re'uven, you are my firstborn, my strength, the firstfruits of my manhood.

Though superior in vigor and power you are unstable as water, so your superiority will end, because you climbed into your father's bed and defiled it -he climbed onto my concubine's couch!

So Moshe and Aharon were brought to Pharaoh again, and he said to them, "Go, worship ADONAI your God. But who exactly is going?"

Moshe answered, "We will go with our young and our old, our sons and our daughters; and we will go with our flocks and herds; for we must celebrate a feast to ADONAI."

Pharaoh said to them, "ADONAI certainly will be with you if I ever let you go with your children! It's clear that you are up to no good.

Nothing doing! Just the men among you may go and worship ADONAI. That's what you want, isn't it?"And they were driven out of Pharaoh's presence.

Pharaoh hurried to summon Moshe and Aharon and said, "I have sinned against ADONAI your God and against you.

Now, therefore, please forgive my sin just this once; and intercede with ADONAI your God, so that he will at least take away from me this deadly plague!"

He went out from Pharaoh and interceded with ADONAI.

ADONAI reversed the wind and made it blow very strongly from the west. It took up the locusts and drove them into the Sea of Suf; not one locust remained on Egyptian soil.

But ADONAI made Pharaoh hardhearted, and he didn't let the people of Isra'el go.

So quickly they have turned aside from the way I ordered them to follow! They have cast a metal statue of a calf, worshipped it, sacrificed to it and said, 'Isra'el! Here is your god, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!'"

ADONAI continued speaking to Moshe: "I have been watching these people; and you can see how stiffnecked they are.

Now leave me alone, so that my anger can blaze against them, and I can put an end to them! I will make a great nation out of you instead."

Then they believed his words, and they sang his praise.

But soon they forgot his deeds and wouldn't wait for his counsel.

My son, don't get involved with revolutionaries, but fear ADONAI and the king.

For disaster from them will suddenly appear, and who knows what ruin they both can cause?

"Efrayim, what should I do to you? Y'hudah, what should I do to you? For your 'faithful love' is like a morning cloud, like dew that disappears quickly.

This is why I have cut them to pieces by the prophets, slaughtered them with the words from my mouth - the judgment on you shines out like light.

A Torah-teacher approached and said to him, "Rabbi, I will follow you wherever you go."

Yeshua said to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds flying about have nests, but the Son of Man has no home of his own."

The seed sown on rocky ground is like a person who hears the message and accepts it with joy at once,

but has no root in himself. So he stays on for a while; but as soon as some trouble or persecution arises on account of the message, he immediately falls away.

The sower sows the message.