For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWhy will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSay thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe children of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred twenty and one.
Ezra
History / EzraLet this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulTherefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielSome trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd David said to Uriah, Tarry here to day also, and to morrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.
Judges
HistoryThy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
Psalms
PoetryThe king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielBut if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThe bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.
Psalms
PoetryHast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
Job
Wisdom / JobTherefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: because the riches that he hath gotten are perished.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWhen they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it came to pass, that when David was come to the top of the mount, where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head:
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.
Luke
Gospels / LukeTill another king arose, which knew not Joseph.
Acts
History / LukeAnd Moses and Aaron and the chief of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites after their families, and after the house of their fathers,
Numbers
Law / MosesThus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,