We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.
Nehemiah
HistoryWhen I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukThen the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadesh-barnea.
Joshua
History / JoshuaNeither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, namely, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles, and cities of store.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBut I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
Acts
HistoryThe children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
Ezra
HistoryAnd the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahTrust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsO magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThe sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shage the Hararite,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWhich removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD; and, behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThey shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.