Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
Psalms
PoetryAnd what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonYe shall offer them beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, (they shall be unto you without blemish) and their drink offerings.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
Leviticus
LawThey set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsHaran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the LORD.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahSurely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Psalms
PoetryHear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThere is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahYet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahExhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;
Titus
Pauline Epistles / PaulA merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Proverbs
WisdomThen said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.
John
GospelsFor all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsIs not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?