Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Ye are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by a statute for ever from among the children of Israel.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
Numbers
LawHis children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
Job
WisdomAnd joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSo the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
Job
Wisdom / JobHath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWhich came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
Ezra
HistoryThy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersYet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosNow therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.
Genesis
LawBecause ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
Job
WisdomPray without ceasing.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets; This man is not worthy to die: for he hath spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSo the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahFaithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesWherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of thine hand?
2 Chronicles
HistoryHear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.