Scripture to anchor the day. Search by book, person, theme, or keyword.
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.
For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear thou from thy dwelling place, even from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive.
But if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father's servant hitherto, so will I now also be thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.
And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle.
And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?
In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.
But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.
And he laid his hands on them, and departed thence.
And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors.
And Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, which also was the traitor.
Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.
I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.
And set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight.
And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.
Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days.
Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.
And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel.
