I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd they brought him to Jesus: and they cast their garments upon the colt, and they set Jesus thereon.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsProud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.
Proverbs
WisdomHe that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?
Genesis
LawThou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
Job
Wisdom / Job(For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAlso her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.
Numbers
LawThis is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
Acts
HistoryThese are the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were numbered of them; who were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
Numbers
LawPERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
LawHe that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.
Daniel
Major ProphetsThe proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
Psalms
PoetryBut, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosThe noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsAnd they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.