For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;
Amos
Minor ProphetsTherefore Saul said unto the LORD God of Israel, Give a perfect lot. And Saul and Jonathan were taken: but the people escaped.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBehold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
Job
WisdomAnd the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
Numbers
LawShake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.
Numbers
LawAnd am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBehold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in peace, then hath not the LORD spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, all ye people.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraLet us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAwake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd now it is true that I am thy near kinsman: howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I.
Ruth
History / SamuelThy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?
1 Kings
History / JeremiahForasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
1 Peter
General EpistlesAnd he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king's house;
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the son of Shammai was Maon: and Maon was the father of Beth-zur.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
Leviticus
LawAnd them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahThen shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAn evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.