And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThey say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
Psalms
PoetryAnd there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
Judges
HistoryTake us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
Solomon's Song
PoetryWherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
Psalms
PoetryAnd all the guests that were with Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and went every man his way.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahGive us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
Psalms
PoetryHe will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?
Genesis
Law / MosesBut Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahA minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThe children of Zattu, eight hundred forty and five.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto Misrephoth-maim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left them none remaining.
Joshua
HistoryAnd as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of hosts.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAt thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIncline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.
Solomon's Song
PoetryIf they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
Proverbs
WisdomBetter is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThe sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.