Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
Genesis
LawThey made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the LORD.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSon of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraHe said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
John
Gospels / John(Touch not; taste not; handle not;
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesThus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielSpeak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.
Judges
HistoryOh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahI know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBlessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAt midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me.
Acts
History / LukeAnd Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahIn the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.
Psalms
PoetryIf thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.
Numbers
Law / MosesIn the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.