If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersForasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation.
Daniel
Major ProphetsShe sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.
John
GospelsTeach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.
Psalms
PoetryAgain the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples;
John
Gospels / JohnIt is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanNow I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
Daniel
Major ProphetsBut I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosNow the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.
Numbers
Law / MosesThey came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
Job
WisdomTimotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesBut ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsArt thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
Nahum
Minor ProphetsThen on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
Genesis
LawMarriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Hebrews
General EpistlesWherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahSing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsOh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!