The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
Job
WisdomAnd there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:
Ezra
History / EzraThe sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.
Mark
GospelsThen Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto them, What seek ye? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou?
John
Gospels / JohnYea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
Proverbs
WisdomThe rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahI have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.
Luke
GospelsWherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
Exodus
LawAnd men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
Leviticus
LawRemember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
Luke
GospelsAnd I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.
Leviticus
LawIf his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThey pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
Job
WisdomBut those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomWhere their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Mark
GospelsAnd certain of them that stood there said unto them, What do ye, loosing the colt?
Mark
Gospels / MarkThe best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.