Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
Psalms
PoetryHe shall build an house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraEnvyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesDid not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
John
Gospels / JohnA false witness shall perish: but the man that heareth speaketh constantly.
Proverbs
WisdomTruly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.
Judges
History / SamuelBeat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelAnd whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahMoreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahJehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahIs it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Samuel said unto the people, It is the LORD that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
1 Samuel
HistoryTo shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahTherefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd when the sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
Luke
GospelsAnd he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?