For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
Micah
Minor ProphetsAlso on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.
1 Chronicles
HistoryLove worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesIsrael was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAfterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen was Abner very wroth for the words of Ish-bosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head, which against Judah do shew kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to day with a fault concerning this woman?
2 Samuel
HistoryO how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
Genesis
LawThen answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsNow after the time that Amaziah did turn away from following the LORD they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
Leviticus
LawAnd it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:
Genesis
LawIn the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomI have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThen Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
Daniel
Major ProphetsSimon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahI will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaWhile the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto them.