For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.
Genesis
LawThey feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?
Joshua
HistoryAnd the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraWould ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me.
Ruth
HistoryI will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
Psalms
PoetryAnd I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd Eleasah begat Sisamai, and Sisamai begat Shallum,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThen the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.
Matthew
GospelsAnd where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
Job
Wisdom / JobThus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber, and lay there.
2 Kings
HistoryIt is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.