Scripture to anchor the day. Search by book, person, theme, or keyword.
Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.
For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.
Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.
And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;
I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?
Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto thy word.
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.
He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.
Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.
And they said unto him, We neither received letters out of Judaea concerning thee, neither any of the brethren that came shewed or spake any harm of thee.
His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.
I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
