If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsHe shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonWoe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
Matthew
GospelsBut a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,
Acts
History / LukeThen he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBehold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAgain the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadarezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraHowl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
Genesis
Law / MosesWhen the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king's house unto the house of the LORD, and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the LORD'S house.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass offering:
Leviticus
LawBecause thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
Numbers
LawOf Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
Numbers
LawAnd he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to Beth-maachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him.
2 Samuel
HistoryWherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulHave pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Job
WisdomAnd Zebadiah, and Arad, and Ader,