The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:
Genesis
LawAnd the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is our's: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.
Genesis
Law / MosesWhen he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonKnow for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThat he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
1 Kings
HistoryAlas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
Joel
Minor ProphetsBehold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.
Job
WisdomThou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?
Psalms
PoetryHe shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd turneth toward the sunrising to Beth-dagon, and reacheth to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthah-el toward the north side of Beth-emek, and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul on the left hand,
Joshua
History / JoshuaFor my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it?
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut Absalom pressed him, that he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
Luke
GospelsAnd from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd Jethro, Moses' father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God:
Exodus
LawBut Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahTherefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.