As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
Psalms
PoetryThus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
Haggai
Minor Prophets / HaggaiAnd I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
Exodus
LawSon of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:
Numbers
LawThey also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments:
Judges
History / SamuelAnd Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and Balak also went his way.
Numbers
Law / MosesA good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThis we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.
Joshua
History / JoshuaBut if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hair in the bright spot, and it be no lower than the other skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them before me, shall I be your head?
Judges
HistoryHe will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
Psalms
PoetryWhere their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThen shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Revelation
ApocalypticSound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
Titus
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the LORD their God, and laid them by heaps.
2 Chronicles
HistoryArise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us.