I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSee, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
Deuteronomy
Law(After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;)
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBecause the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
Joshua
HistoryShe obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahAnd he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.
Numbers
Law / MosesHe brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.
Esther
History / MordecaiOr if there be any flesh, in the skin whereof there is a hot burning, and the quick flesh that burneth have a white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white;
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumIf his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Job
Wisdom / JobWhilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
Judges
HistoryNevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.
Joshua
HistoryAnd when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
Psalms
PoetryThe two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsNow therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThat I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.