This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,
2 Chronicles
HistoryBut the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
Mark
Gospels / MarkLet the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFrom thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.
Genesis
Law / MosesBut when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewTherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThe noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen on that day David delivered first this psalm to thank the LORD into the hand of Asaph and his brethren.
1 Chronicles
HistoryTherefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.
Leviticus
LawAnd divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:
Numbers
LawTherefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.
Joshua
History / JoshuaOf these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulKnowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?
Job
WisdomFor it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesI opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsNow when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem.
Acts
History / LukeThen the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
Psalms
PoetryWhat doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?