My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielI am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
Leviticus
Law / MosesTell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahFor who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
Romans
Pauline EpistlesGet thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
1 Kings
HistoryThou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness.
Leviticus
LawOne ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD.
Numbers
Law / MosesHe rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsNow when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThere shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahMy lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
Genesis
LawFor our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesFor even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Mark
GospelsAnd they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
Numbers
Law / MosesO LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: