Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;
Proverbs
WisdomSeeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielI will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer?
2 Kings
HistoryAnd my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein,
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThere is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of Judah and their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.
Psalms
PoetryO give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
PoetryAnd of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided from the men that warred,
Numbers
Law / MosesThen I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonFear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the LORD; come ye down, and fetch it up to you.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelI the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonGod is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Numbers
LawAnd Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples.
Matthew
GospelsWhy, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
Job
Wisdom / JobBut go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsOr as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.
Leviticus
LawAnd Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,