Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
Matthew
GospelsI lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWoe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat:
Acts
History / LukeTherefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
2 Kings
HistorySaying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it.
Acts
HistoryThen said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
John
GospelsFor her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnNow ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulHaving therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come:
Acts
HistoryAnd the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSo that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:
Deuteronomy
LawAnd ye shall measure from without the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.
Numbers
LawAnd they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraShould he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
Job
Wisdom / JobO praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.
Daniel
Major ProphetsFor the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.