The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAll my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAs the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
Esther
HistoryWho hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
Luke
GospelsTheir inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahGo through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord?
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsBut Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand:
Genesis
Law / MosesAll these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Mark
GospelsThey are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsLet them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTo whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Judah.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast.
John
GospelsAnd almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownThen I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks, whereof one went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate:
Nehemiah
HistoryFor the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.
Psalms
PoetryAnd say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar: