As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahEven in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
Proverbs
WisdomBehold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumAnd the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWhen they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.
Exodus
Law / MosesWhat man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;
Leviticus
Law / MosesGive ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace.
2 Samuel
HistoryFor he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMy brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
Job
Wisdom / JobBehold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
Job
WisdomThou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.
Judges
History / SamuelHe that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.
Joshua
HistoryThe land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsConcerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBehold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.
Luke
Gospels / LukeI have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThat the LORD sent a prophet unto the children of Israel, which said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage;
Judges
HistoryAnd say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.