I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraTo him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Psalms
PoetryPraise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.
Exodus
LawBehold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsGod came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukJudge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies;
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThe shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumI have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
Psalms
PoetryBut the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
Deuteronomy
LawI would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBe not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsI therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBehold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain.