I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
Job
WisdomBut Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down, and prayed; and turning him to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up.
Acts
HistoryJesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
John
Gospels / JohnSeeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIn the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsLet us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.
2 Kings
HistoryNamely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
Judges
HistoryAnd the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
Numbers
LawAnd the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAsshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaOf Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;
Nehemiah
HistoryDoth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
Job
WisdomAnd said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThey gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.
Matthew
GospelsAnd it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?
Judges
History / SamuelAnd we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:
Acts
HistoryBut that ye also may know my affairs, and how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all things:
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.
Mark
GospelsThou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.