And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahWhich alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
Job
WisdomAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
LawAnd one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsIs this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them,
Luke
GospelsThen again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,
John
GospelsBut he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.
Matthew
GospelsBut when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother slew him.
1 Chronicles
HistoryPalal the son of Uzai, over against the turning of the wall, and the tower which lieth out from the king's high house, that was by the court of the prison. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh.
Nehemiah
HistoryI know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
Revelation
ApocalypticFor I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
Luke
Gospels / LukeHe teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
Job
WisdomOr he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesBut we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHow many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
Psalms
PoetryBut as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWhatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonGo and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.
2 Samuel
HistoryThey cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.