Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahLet not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesFrom men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Jattir with her suburbs, and Eshtemoa with her suburbs,
Joshua
HistoryIf thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?
Deuteronomy
LawBut when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBehold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and Ish-bosheth said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father's concubine?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
Job
WisdomThen went king David in, and sat before the LORD, and he said, Who am I, O Lord GOD? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThese were they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe fourth to Izri, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulHuram said moreover, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build an house for the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraSaul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.