For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
Genesis
LawHe cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Job
WisdomA true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.
Joshua
HistoryBe ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left;
Joshua
History / JoshuaOf how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth king Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me to day that he will not slay his servant with the sword.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahOne of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd there was not a man left in Ai or Beth-el, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.
Joshua
HistoryLift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
Psalms
PoetryUnto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
Job
WisdomAnd the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered unto one, whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;
Ezra
History / EzraAnd came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Matthew
GospelsBehold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSlay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
Psalms
PoetryVerily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBut I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
Psalms
PoetryThou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:
Deuteronomy
LawFor David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
Acts
History / LukeThe boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.