Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsSon of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsOf the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraHear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
Psalms
PoetryCry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsCome now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahOpen thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahTherefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsNot because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
2 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesAnd if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, unto the LORD; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.
Leviticus
Law / MosesNow the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,
1 Chronicles
HistoryI made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonOne kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers
LawThou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersOur cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our God; and we know not with what we must serve the LORD, until we come thither.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
Psalms
PoetryThere is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the two ends of the two wreathen chains they fastened in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod, before it.
Exodus
LawTherefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
Micah
Minor ProphetsThe altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.