Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesYea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsLet the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThis is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.
Genesis
LawThey turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Job
Wisdom / JobNow therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now.
2 Samuel
HistoryFor thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsWithout natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahIn that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
Luke
GospelsAnd he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat,
Ezra
HistorySo there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
Joshua
HistoryAnd Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces to the ground.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahWho hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Genesis
Law / MosesAs for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
Psalms
PoetryHe cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,