And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
Numbers
Law / MosesNot because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name ye shall reckon the instruments of the charge of their burden.
Numbers
LawHis mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
Acts
HistoryAnd I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahRemember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
Psalms
PoetryThere is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Proverbs
WisdomOh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
Psalms
PoetryAnd the likeness of their faces was the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight forward.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had said unto him: and so it was, because he feared his father's household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.
Judges
History / SamuelFlee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahOne cherub on the end on this side, and another cherub on the other end on that side: out of the mercy seat made he the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.
Mark
Gospels / MarkLet all things be done decently and in order.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesIn the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Psalms
PoetryFor who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God?
2 Samuel
HistorySpeak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,
2 Chronicles
HistoryThen upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation;
2 Chronicles
HistoryLet us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
Proverbs
WisdomPERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.