Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
Judges
History / SamuelBut camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which the LORD did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThey wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
Psalms
PoetryThou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesNow is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
Proverbs
WisdomAnd now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelPraise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
Job
Wisdom / JobOf the sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of the Punites:
Numbers
Law / MosesSo the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Genesis
LawThey give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMy soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Psalms
PoetryMy soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
Psalms
PoetryBut the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
Exodus
Law / MosesThough the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
Genesis
LawAnd he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.
Leviticus
Law / MosesHe delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.
Psalms
PoetryLet men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken unto me.
Job
Wisdom / JobWho can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?