The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
Proverbs
WisdomJudah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.
2 Samuel
HistoryI am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
Esther
HistoryIs not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Genesis
Law / MosesSo he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?
Luke
GospelsHe turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
Law / MosesThe next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
John
GospelsTo be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink?
Luke
GospelsAnd I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas:
Luke
GospelsThe king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
Proverbs
WisdomNow Benjamin begat Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their Lord.