Scripture to anchor the day. Search by book, person, theme, or keyword.
Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:
For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.
But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
The children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty.
So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.
And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way.
So David stayed his servants with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.
Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary, came every man from his work which they made;
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
And of the children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul.
And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:
And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.
Yet I will send my servants unto thee to morrow about this time, and they shall search thine house, and the houses of thy servants; and it shall be, that whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes, they shall put it in their hand, and take it away.
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.
LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.
Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers.
