O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.
1 Kings
HistoryShe weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHe asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
Judges
HistoryThen said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.
2 Samuel
HistoryThe young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThese things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!
John
GospelsAnd be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Humtah, and Kirjath-arba, which is Hebron, and Zior; nine cities with their villages:
Joshua
HistoryAnd righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
Numbers
Law / MosesThat saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThere shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Beth-shemesh, and passed on to Timnah:
Joshua
HistoryFor mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.