For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
Job
WisdomAnd they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelMishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraI will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
Psalms
PoetrySpeak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
Deuteronomy
LawThen Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
Law / MosesEven the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even: and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot.
1 Kings
HistoryThey conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThe children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.
Ezra
HistoryBehold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that were within.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWho shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Romans
Pauline EpistlesTherefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valour.
2 Chronicles
HistorySmite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
Proverbs
WisdomWoe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.