Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Moses took them from off their hands, and burnt them on the altar upon the burnt offering: they were consecrations for a sweet savour: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
Numbers
LawAnd Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.
Judges
HistoryThey that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
Psalms
PoetryI became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward with Achish.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.
Luke
GospelsAnd the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
Judges
HistoryHearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.
Genesis
Law / MosesBeside the chief of Solomon's officers which were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahHow oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
Job
Wisdom / JobMake haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
Solomon's Song
PoetrySpeak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.
Leviticus
Law / MosesMagpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahMy kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
Job
WisdomThey that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd their brethren, which were in their villages, were to come after seven days from time to time with them.