Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThey stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBlessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,
2 Kings
History / JeremiahA gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.
Proverbs
WisdomThou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I the LORD have spoken it.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielSpeak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;
Haggai
Minor Prophets / HaggaiHis remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
Job
Wisdom / JobWhich also king David did dedicate unto the LORD, with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued;
2 Samuel
HistoryThat he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThe word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto Babylon.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
Luke
Gospels / LukeRob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThere was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all other they took in battle.
Joshua
HistoryAnd some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?
John
GospelsThe preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonSo shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHe shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Job
Wisdom / JobOf the children of Perez was the chief of all the captains of the host for the first month.