I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?
Psalms
PoetryThen I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
Ezra
HistoryAnd how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
Acts
History / LukeBehold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
Job
WisdomThey spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
Job
WisdomI have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukAnd she went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept.
Mark
Gospels / MarkHath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
Job
WisdomAnd he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBlow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
Joel
Minor ProphetsThey said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.
John
GospelsThese are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,
Deuteronomy
LawAnd God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
Genesis
LawAnd through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and numbered all Israel.
2 Kings
HistoryAs for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them after their families, by the house of their fathers;
Numbers
LawThen Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim.
Esther
HistoryWhosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnAnd Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBecause they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsChrist hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: