Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielOf the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.
Ezra
HistoryHis flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth:
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelIf thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
Job
WisdomThe sons also of Jediael; Bilhan: and the sons of Bilhan; Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraSaul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
2 Samuel
HistoryThou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
Job
Wisdom / JobSo the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;
1 Chronicles
HistoryThus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered morter, and will say unto you, The wall is no more, neither they that daubed it;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahO come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
Psalms
PoetryFor all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanJesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
John
GospelsBut he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
John
GospelsBut he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAfter him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired the other piece, from the turning of the wall unto the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahA wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelOn that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her.