Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
Luke
Gospels / LukeIn vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSo the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
Job
WisdomHe shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWhen Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelKnow ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraNow Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.
Genesis
Law / MosesI will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty:
Exodus
Law / MosesBut his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.
Judges
History / SamuelSpeak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the LORD shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is the children's of Israel.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
Genesis
LawWhose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD, and out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAgain, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
Hebrews
General EpistlesNot that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.