A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsNow they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahLet my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
Psalms
PoetryAnd Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years.
1 Kings
HistoryHe sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonMen do therefore fear him: he respecteth not any that are wise of heart.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
Luke
GospelsAnd Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulI say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
Luke
GospelsI am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
Numbers
Law / MosesFrom men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
Leviticus
LawFor he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about.
1 Kings
HistoryMany therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father.