This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
Deuteronomy
LawThe young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
2 Samuel
HistoryIs Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
Exodus
LawAnd the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him.
Judges
History / SamuelThese are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.
Numbers
LawHe brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
Psalms
PoetryBut he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.
Luke
GospelsAnd I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD. And they did so.
Exodus
LawAnd the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.
Acts
History / LukeBut unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off.
Exodus
LawBut the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go.
Exodus
LawAnd it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,