And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
Matthew
GospelsAnd Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBut after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix' room: and Felix, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound.
Acts
HistoryLORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.
2 Kings
HistoryNow we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesNotwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesWherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
Job
Wisdom / JobHe hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsAll our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsDeclare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahThat which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIf it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThough I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
Job
WisdomOut of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
Job
Wisdom / JobHe shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.
Numbers
Law / MosesThen we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.
Ezra
HistoryOf Judah; Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
Numbers
Law / MosesWhen thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.
Deuteronomy
LawIn that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahFor indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWho hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?