Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
Psalms
PoetryWhere the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Jethro said, Blessed be the LORD, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
Exodus
Law / MosesThey are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
John
Gospels / JohnThe LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHe putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBreach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.
Leviticus
LawRejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
Deuteronomy
LawThen said the Jews, Behold how he loved him!
John
GospelsAnd if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?
Acts
HistoryOf old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
Psalms
PoetryAnd at the fountain gate, which was over against them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the going up of the wall, above the house of David, even unto the water gate eastward.
Nehemiah
HistoryI said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
Esther
HistoryHe turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
Psalms
PoetryPreserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewA wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
Proverbs
WisdomBehold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them?