Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahTo such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the king, and all the people that were with him, came weary, and refreshed themselves there.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFor in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraNow therefore thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah departed.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBehold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.
Judges
HistoryAnd say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with weapons of war.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, and of them that oppressed you:
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd they removed from Ezion-gaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.
Numbers
LawOn the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun, did offer:
Numbers
LawBut now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD is not with Israel, to wit, with all the children of Ephraim.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraPharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard's house, both me and the chief baker:
Genesis
Law / MosesBut God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSubmitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the children of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,
Joshua
HistoryAs the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
Job
WisdomFor the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThen the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin; he is clean.
Leviticus
LawAnd Samuel said unto the people, It is the LORD that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd God said, Let there be light: and there was light.