I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWhich is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterThou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
Psalms
PoetryWhich leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,
Job
Wisdom / JobSo that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
Luke
Gospels / LukeOh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsI have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
Psalms
PoetryAnd all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahHear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
Judges
History / SamuelOnly rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
Numbers
Law / MosesSon of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this same day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
Genesis
Law / MosesThese things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnAnd I said unto them, Ye are holy unto the LORD; the vessels are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering unto the LORD God of your fathers.
Ezra
HistoryHezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd these were they which went up also from Tel-melah, Tel-haresha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shew their father's house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahWhosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
Mark
Gospels / MarkMy heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.