A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsUnto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo the chief captain then let the young man depart, and charged him, See thou tell no man that thou hast shewed these things to me.
Acts
History / LukeAnd they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.
Psalms
PoetryO LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsBut when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelWho hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Matthew
GospelsAnd I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThen said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonIf the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?