And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonIf thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
Proverbs
WisdomHe weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
Acts
HistoryAnd the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;
Exodus
LawFor the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHe giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThey are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
Psalms
PoetryAnd hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
Deuteronomy
LawAnd when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraWhat shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness;
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
Genesis
LawAnd he that sitteth on any thing whereon he sat that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Leviticus
LawSeeing 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 Prophets / EzekielAnd they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
John
Gospels / JohnI beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.
Judges
HistoryDoth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?