I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, to be king for the LORD thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.
2 Samuel
HistorySaul 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.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.
Ruth
HistoryWhy doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
Job
Wisdom / JobBlessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
Psalms
PoetryBut Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
Exodus
LawBut some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done.
John
GospelsAnd he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahSay not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:
Job
Wisdom / JobLORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
Judges
HistoryAll these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
Acts
HistoryAnd in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Luke
GospelsAnd the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd we went before to ship, and sailed unto Assos, there intending to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, minding himself to go afoot.
Acts
History / LukeAnd I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAll therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
Matthew
GospelsHear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahThen went Solomon to Ezion-geber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom.