TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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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.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.
Leviticus
Law / MosesSo I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHe taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.
Job
WisdomAnd he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThen Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, wilt thou not hearken unto me?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBy his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.
Luke
GospelsI will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumMy lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a great victory.
2 Samuel
HistoryRejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd hearing the multitude pass by, he asked what it meant.
Luke
Gospels / LukeI saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great.
Daniel
Major ProphetsSurely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:
Genesis
Law / MosesKeep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhat time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
Job
Wisdom / JobAhaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraWhilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.