In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.
Judges
History / SamuelShall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of their's be our's? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.
Genesis
Law / MosesThou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth rib: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this was the first row.
Exodus
LawFrom the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThey have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThey are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul;
1 Samuel
HistoryWhose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the LORD, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord GOD! for because I have seen an angel of the LORD face to face.
Judges
HistoryA fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
Proverbs
WisdomBut I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
Luke
Gospels / LukeYea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.
Acts
HistoryAnd thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThere was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThe nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.