Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomTherefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahNot purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
Titus
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side.
Matthew
GospelsBut I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahEven so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
James
General Epistles / JamesThis man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John.
Acts
History / LukeBehold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,
Luke
Gospels / LukeMoreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
Hebrews
General EpistlesSix days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
Exodus
Law / MosesSeven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:
Acts
HistoryTrouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
Psalms
PoetryAnd 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
HistoryIt was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen took they him, and led him, and brought him into the high priest's house. And Peter followed afar off.
Luke
GospelsThe LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaManasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzi-bah.
2 Kings
HistoryJudgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side: