I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
Genesis
Law / MosesThink upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:
Leviticus
LawLook not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonYet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.
Esther
HistoryAlso I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.
Ezra
HistoryTheir inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.
Psalms
PoetryThen said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.
Genesis
LawNow an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
Exodus
LawAnd touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye the word of the LORD;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;
Acts
HistoryLet, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
Genesis
Law / MosesMoab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph.
Psalms
PoetryTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus
LawAnd thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover.
Exodus
Law / MosesIn whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.