The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
Psalms
PoetrySo he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season.
Acts
HistoryAnd take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
Luke
Gospels / LukeIf thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
Job
WisdomBut when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.
Exodus
LawIf David then call him Lord, how is he his son?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThese are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.
Numbers
Law / MosesO Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaGod forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
Job
WisdomYet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king's house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women.
Esther
HistoryTo fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.
2 Samuel
HistoryFor thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThat thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him:
Mark
GospelsHaving many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.
2 John
General EpistlesFor he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
1 Peter
General EpistlesAnd they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?