The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHave ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBehold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
James
General EpistlesSurely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
Amos
Minor ProphetsHarness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIn that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if thy father answer thee roughly?
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:
Genesis
Law / MosesThe heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonO LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukWhat shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, who remaining in the chambers were free: for they were employed in that work day and night.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThen was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
Daniel
Major ProphetsTheir meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
Numbers
LawThat thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Genesis
LawThe hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.