For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee.
Luke
GospelsIs not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
Job
Wisdom / JobIs this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThese are the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.
Ruth
History / SamuelAnd the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
1 Kings
HistoryNeither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahTherefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the palace of the king's house, and burnt the king's house over him with fire, and died,
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBut in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielWhen I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more;)
Job
Wisdom / JobThen said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if thy father answer thee roughly?
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
Genesis
LawAnd it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
Acts
History / LukeWhoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraStand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.