And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
Genesis
LawOne dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
Job
WisdomAnd unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBut the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahSo he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThe murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
Job
Wisdom / JobA land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
Job
WisdomAnd he shall take all his fat from him, and burn it upon the altar.
Leviticus
LawFor my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSon of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFrom the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
Deuteronomy
LawSend me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFor if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
Luke
GospelsAnd if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
Exodus
LawBut the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewNow therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
Genesis
Law / MosesHis servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
2 Chronicles
HistoryTherefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his house.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me.