Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahBut this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsFollow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBy what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?
Job
Wisdom / JobWhen the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
1 Samuel
HistoryI have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
3 John
General Epistles / JohnAnd the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWatch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Matthew
GospelsTherefore the king said unto Shimei, Thou shalt not die. And the king sware unto him.
2 Samuel
HistoryThen said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahHe that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonMy heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahEat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
Proverbs
WisdomAnd when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanIssachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
Genesis
LawAnd Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,
Exodus
LawAnd in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAlthough affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;