I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesTherefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAlthough the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsHe lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.
Proverbs
WisdomHast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThat they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.
Mark
GospelsSave us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesO let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
Psalms
PoetryThe likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHow our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:
Numbers
LawThis day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThis day came ye out in the month Abib.
Exodus
LawAnd they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.
Luke
GospelsHer filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is toward the north.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHow then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation;