I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd one tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs:
Numbers
Law / MosesThen shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
Job
Wisdom / JobThy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonConcerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.
Exodus
LawTheir knops and their branches were of the same: all of it was one beaten work of pure gold.
Exodus
LawBut if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.
Numbers
Law / MosesO LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsAnd there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man's hand under their wings.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielNow the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entering in of the tabernacle,
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIn my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
John
GospelsWhen Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were spoken of him.
Luke
GospelsHe answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
Genesis
LawAnd many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this great city?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBe not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
Proverbs
WisdomTherefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.