All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Acts
History / LukeAnd God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
Genesis
LawNow Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.
Joshua
History / JoshuaFrom the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsSo David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWhoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
Proverbs
WisdomNow when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten women, which were concubines, to keep the house.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
Luke
GospelsThe eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
Job
WisdomTake away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;
Judges
History / SamuelAll nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulMake a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonNevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked therein: and there remained the grove also in Samaria.)
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.