The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.
Genesis
Law / MosesOr a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersObserve thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
Revelation
ApocalypticNevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.
Joshua
History / JoshuaSing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.
Psalms
PoetrySo all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.
Judges
HistoryBecause he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
Job
WisdomAnd they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
Genesis
LawAnd the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
Psalms
PoetryThis is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.
Exodus
Law / MosesThou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThere is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWhen I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he put the breastplate upon him: also he put in the breastplate the Urim and the Thummim.
Leviticus
Law / MosesLet the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryNow I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.