Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.
Genesis
LawAnd when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd all the guests that were with Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and went every man his way.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.
Ezra
HistoryAnd he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThey are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
Job
Wisdom / JobHe hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.
Psalms
PoetryAccording to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
Genesis
LawAnd Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Beth-lehem: twelve cities with their villages.
Joshua
History / JoshuaTherefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
Genesis
LawAnd Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
Genesis
LawSix days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWho gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
Psalms
PoetryIn the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.
Psalms
PoetryNow gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahThe wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomBow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.