And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonTherefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaBe afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
James
General Epistles / JamesA bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth.
Luke
Gospels / LukeHe will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersOr with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
Job
Wisdom / JobBut we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
Leviticus
Law / MosesWhoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of thine hand?
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
Proverbs
WisdomGather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahDo ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
Deuteronomy
LawThen I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.
Genesis
LawAnd the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door: