And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
Exodus
LawAnd God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Genesis
LawKeep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersZebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
Judges
History / SamuelThen said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThat our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was noised that he was in the house.
Mark
GospelsRighteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBe not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomBecause of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsFor Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man and an holy, and observed him; and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly.
Mark
GospelsAnd I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.
Genesis
LawAnd after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.
John
Gospels / JohnBehold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
Revelation
ApocalypticSimon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
Matthew
GospelsThe hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.
Acts
History / LukeThus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers' skins above that.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;