The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.
Psalms
PoetryO God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersUpon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil: three tenth deals shall ye offer for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram;
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the LORD did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies.
Exodus
Law / MosesNeither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
Revelation
ApocalypticVerily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWhen the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth, and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahNow, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father be established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
2 Chronicles
HistoryIf I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:
Genesis
LawHowbeit the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah to be the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all Israel:
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAll that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.
Exodus
LawAnd one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen: who took it, and went out.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
Matthew
GospelsAnd they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem;