I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBehold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn into his house.
Judges
History / SamuelThen she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground, and took up her son, and went out.
2 Kings
HistoryFor the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
Joshua
HistoryAnd in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the LORD; for that he heareth your murmurings against the LORD: and what are we, that ye murmur against us?
Exodus
LawHe rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumAnd he could not answer Abner a word again, because he feared him.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.
1 Kings
HistoryLet another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.
Esther
History / MordecaiLest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnGrace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielIf he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.
Genesis
LawNow the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
Job
WisdomBut I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.