The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
Scripture to anchor the day. Search by book, person, theme, or keyword.
Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised.
Obadiah
Minor ProphetsAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus
LawThen he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.
2 Kings
HistoryThe earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
2 Samuel
HistoryThe sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
Genesis
LawAs for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer them unto the LORD: but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a sweet savour.
Leviticus
LawThen they went out of the city, and came unto him.
John
GospelsAnd I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
Exodus
Law / MosesWhen thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesLet every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he said unto me, Who art thou? And I answered him, I am an Amalekite.
2 Samuel
HistoryThe Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
Psalms
PoetryAnd she took it up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed.
Ruth
History / SamuelAnd he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsA fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd the name of Hebron before was Kirjath-arba; which Arba was a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.
Joshua
HistorySo they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraJehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.
2 Chronicles
HistoryLet them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.