Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:
Judges
HistoryThat which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
2 Peter
General EpistlesAnd as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.
Matthew
GospelsCast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
Psalms
PoetryIf any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
Titus
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare him. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his father.
Luke
GospelsTherefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
Acts
HistoryHow say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the war?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHe shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Job
WisdomThe incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it not into his mind?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAlso, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAll the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.
Ezra
History / EzraO house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsTherefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
Matthew
GospelsBehold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBeloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
1 Peter
General EpistlesAnd rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,