Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
Psalms
PoetryBut Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD'S anointed?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the king's servants said unto the king, Behold, thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Beth-el, southward; and the border descended to Ataroth-adar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether Beth-horon.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThe ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
Psalms
PoetryAnd conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
Nehemiah
HistoryThe LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanHe shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.
Exodus
LawIs it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
Job
WisdomAnd Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD'S house.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsNow the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf.
Mark
Gospels / MarkNow when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose out of all the choice of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraMoreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraMoreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the sons of Elkanah; Amasai, and Ahimoth.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsWith whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.