That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
Numbers
Law / MosesBe ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraHath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsWhat is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Job
Wisdom / JobLet us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWho redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
Psalms
PoetryDo good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhen the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonNow the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSeparate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
Numbers
LawFor he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
Psalms
PoetryHe shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.
Genesis
LawBut if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahLikewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.
Exodus
LawThere is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.