Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersShe that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThese discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielOr if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this;
Ezra
History / EzraO Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielOnly the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
Deuteronomy
LawI was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto Babylon.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBeat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
Joel
Minor ProphetsWherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.
Acts
History / LukeA righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.
Genesis
LawSo the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;
2 Samuel
HistoryThe LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me?
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh; Iru, Elah, and Naam: and the sons of Elah, even Kenaz.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewSo Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Genesis
LawDo they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?