Bible Verses About Instability

Reuben! my first-born thou, My power, and beginning of my strength, The abundance of exaltation, And the abundance of strength;

Unstable as water, thou art not abundant; For thou hast gone up thy father's bed; Then thou hast polluted: My couch he went up!

And Moses is brought back--Aaron also--unto Pharaoh, and he saith unto them, `Go, serve Jehovah your God; --who and who are those going?'

And Moses saith, `With our young ones, and with our aged ones, we go, with our sons, and with our daughters, with our flock, and our herd, we go, for we have a festival to Jehovah.'

And he saith unto them, `Be it so, Jehovah be with you when I send you and your infants away; see--for evil is before your faces;

not so! go now, ye who are men, and serve Jehovah, for that ye are seeking;' and one casteth them out from the presence of Pharaoh.

And Pharaoh hasteth to call for Moses and for Aaron, and saith, `I have sinned against Jehovah your God, and against you,

and now, bear with, I pray you, my sin, only this time, and make ye supplication to Jehovah your God, that He turn aside from off me only this death.'

And he goeth out from Pharaoh, and maketh supplication unto Jehovah,

and Jehovah turneth a very strong sea wind, and it lifteth up the locust, and bloweth it into the Red Sea--there hath not been left one locust in all the border of Egypt;

and Jehovah strengtheneth the heart of Pharaoh, and he hath not sent the sons of Israel away.

they have turned aside hastily from the way that I have commanded them; they have made for themselves a molten calf, and bow themselves to it, and sacrifice to it, and say, These thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.'

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `I have seen this people, and lo, it is a stiff-necked people;

and now, let Me alone, and My anger doth burn against them, and I consume them, and I make thee become a great nation.'

And they believe in His words, they sing His praise,

They have hasted--forgotten His works, They have not waited for His counsel.

Fear Jehovah, my son, and the king, With changers mix not up thyself,

For suddenly doth their calamity rise, And the ruin of them both--who knoweth!

What do I do to thee, O Ephraim? What do I do to thee, O Judah? Your goodness is as a cloud of the morning, And as dew rising early--going.

Therefore I have hewed by prophets, I have slain them by sayings of My mouth, And My judgments to the light goeth forth.

and a certain scribe having come, said to him, `Teacher, I will follow thee wherever thou mayest go;'

and Jesus saith to him, `The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven places of rest, but the Son of Man hath not where he may lay the head.'

`And that sown on the rocky places, this is he who is hearing the word, and immediately with joy is receiving it,

and he hath not root in himself, but is temporary, and persecution or tribulation having happened because of the word, immediately he is stumbled.

He who is sowing doth sow the word;