How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulYet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.
Judges
History / SamuelSo David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelNow therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;
Genesis
LawAnd the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
Job
Wisdom / JobSo Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.
1 Kings
HistoryJudge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.
Luke
Gospels / LukeSo Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the LORD; that he might fulfil the word of the LORD, which he spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
1 Kings
HistoryThe Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
John
Gospels / JohnLet no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.
Judges
HistoryMy soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
Psalms
PoetryFor he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken:
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThem did Moses the servant of the LORD and the children of Israel smite: and Moses the servant of the LORD gave it for a possession unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh.
Joshua
History / JoshuaWho died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesHe hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.
Exodus
LawFor the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.