Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
Matthew
GospelsO God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.
Exodus
Law / MosesTherefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon: he went and said thus unto him; Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will shew unto the king the interpretation.
Daniel
Major ProphetsNow in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD.
Ezra
History / EzraSuffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.
Job
WisdomLet the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.
Psalms
PoetryThen the king held out the golden sceptre toward Esther. So Esther arose, and stood before the king,
Esther
HistoryAnd David distributed them, both Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their offices in their service.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.
John
Gospels / JohnHe built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
2 Chronicles
HistoryWherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?
Judges
History / SamuelAnd they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaJoshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan.
Joshua
HistoryBut when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
Matthew
GospelsAnd Aaron lifted up his hand toward the people, and blessed them, and came down from offering of the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and peace offerings.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelSo Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was laid down. And she took flour, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.