I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him:
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFor I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor he that is dead is freed from sin.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThe meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.
Joel
Minor ProphetsAnd the king of the south shall be strong, and one of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion; his dominion shall be a great dominion.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among them.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcase of them shall be unclean until the even.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
Exodus
LawAnd he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
1 Kings
HistoryThen the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
Exodus
LawTo hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesTherefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahFor every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
Mark
Gospels / MarkIn the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThe nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahLover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
Psalms
PoetryThat saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers: