For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBut take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief rulers.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanSo they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.
Genesis
LawAs well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.
Psalms
PoetryThe LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersLet them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
Job
Wisdom / JobWith the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.
Exodus
LawFor though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielEven these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulSix days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThe same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,
Acts
History / LukeFor every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThe elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAlso I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.
Numbers
LawThere is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
Psalms
PoetryBehold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: