And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBehold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonI will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahFor he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahWhere there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
Proverbs
WisdomTherefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the beeves were thirty and six thousand; of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and twelve.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai; Jether, and Jonathan: and Jether died without children.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBut the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the LORD.
Judges
HistoryAfter two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
Mark
GospelsAnd offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
Ezra
HistoryThen lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsWith long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
Psalms
PoetryThen Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
Matthew
GospelsAnd Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar:
Numbers
LawBut what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
Genesis
Law / MosesBut he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
Judges
History / SamuelWithdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
Job
WisdomAnd the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.