And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon.
1 Samuel
HistoryThese things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
John
GospelsBut there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.
Judges
HistoryThen again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThis he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.
Psalms
PoetryAnd David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him.
1 Samuel
HistoryIf his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Job
WisdomThy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.
Genesis
LawFor thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money.
Genesis
LawBaana the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, even unto the place that is beyond Jokneam:
1 Kings
HistorySo he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.
Genesis
LawThine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
2 Samuel
HistoryThe full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:
Genesis
Law / MosesThy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them.