That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem.
Exodus
LawThus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God, and will hear them.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsO keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty and six.
Ezra
HistoryThese are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.
Numbers
LawThe womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
Job
WisdomAnd to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesOn the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran, prince of the children of Asher, offered:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
Deuteronomy
LawThe Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
Mark
GospelsAnd every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd they pitched by Jordan, from Beth-jesimoth even unto Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.
Numbers
LawI have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow the men did diligently observe whether any thing would come from him, and did hastily catch it: and they said, Thy brother Ben-hadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Ben-hadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.
1 Kings
HistoryJudgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd some of the sons of the priests made the ointment of the spices.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah: all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.