Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:
2 Kings
HistoryAnd he said unto him that was over the vestry, Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought them forth vestments.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThis shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsHe chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.
Judges
History / SamuelHe is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
Job
WisdomDoth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
Job
WisdomAfter two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
Joel
Minor ProphetsAnd the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly.
Deuteronomy
LawThe posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
Matthew
GospelsThus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
Acts
History / LukeAnd thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons; and shalt wave them for a wave offering before the LORD.
Exodus
LawEphraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.