Scripture to anchor the day. Search by book, person, theme, or keyword.
In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,
Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua,
Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.
Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.
And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.
The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?
The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together:
Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.
And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour,
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.
I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
