For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.
Psalms
PoetrySo he offered upon the altar which he had made in Beth-el the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.
1 Kings
HistoryFor they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahMine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAs in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Genesis
Law / MosesBut as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesNow the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHow can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Deuteronomy
LawFor he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsGad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
Genesis
LawAnd Shallum begat Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begat Azariah,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahLet the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraLet them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.