Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
Job
WisdomDare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThis is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,
Joshua
HistoryAnd Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.
2 Chronicles
HistoryHe that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
Exodus
Law / MosesThey kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?
Luke
GospelsThough a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:
Ecclesiastes
WisdomI charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonWho will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
Psalms
PoetryAnd we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.
John
GospelsNow there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.
Mark
Gospels / MarkDo not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
Psalms
PoetryAnd now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king, thou knowest it not:
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.
Judges
HistoryIf I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
Job
WisdomAnd they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house.
Leviticus
LawO the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram;
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
Psalms
PoetryWhich were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.