And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word.
Psalms
PoetryTheir roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsAnd the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house;
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Numbers
Law / MosesI behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
Psalms
PoetryI will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersCease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
Proverbs
WisdomWherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsLet not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
Amos
Minor ProphetsFor he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
2 Kings
HistoryNow the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who is mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraNevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsSlothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Proverbs
WisdomDo good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts.
Psalms
PoetryThe memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
Proverbs
WisdomI have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezaleel.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThe dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.