Scripture to anchor the day. Search by book, person, theme, or keyword.
And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.
Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.
Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,
And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,
And the children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan's sister was Timna.
And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.
And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee aside from following me: wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab thy brother?
Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
This is the LORD'S doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.
Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.
For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.
Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
