We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
Ezra
HistoryAnd come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
Exodus
LawThen said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Luke
Gospels / LukeOur necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAs a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
Proverbs
WisdomO LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelThen a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
Exodus
Law / MosesDestruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
Job
WisdomThe great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahShall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
Job
WisdomAnd Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelSaying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
Acts
HistoryAnd I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Matthew
GospelsAnd all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.
Exodus
Law / MosesBy humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBehold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.
Luke
GospelsAnd he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:
Luke
Gospels / LukeHe said, Bring them hither to me.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAmong whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ: