Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsThen Job answered the LORD, and said,
Job
WisdomFor Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahNow it came to pass on a certain day, that he went into a ship with his disciples: and he said unto them, Let us go over unto the other side of the lake. And they launched forth.
Luke
GospelsBut their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulMake thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Genesis
LawAnd when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukI have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.
Exodus
LawAnd David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that was with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanI should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
2 Kings
HistoryAs well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSon of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahIs not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
Joel
Minor ProphetsAnd David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD'S anointed, and be guiltless?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBehold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
Job
Wisdom / JobNow Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him: and he was perplexed, because that it was said of some, that John was risen from the dead;
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:
Exodus
LawAnd the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.