Scripture to anchor the day. Search by book, person, theme, or keyword.
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.
Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God,
The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house:
For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
(As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us.
And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?
And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God.
And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;
But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.
And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.
I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.
And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands were upon the threshold.
Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.
Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.
