Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.
Psalms
PoetryThe sons of Eliphaz; Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.
Genesis
LawAnd it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThe singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred twenty and eight.
Ezra
History / EzraFor it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?
Genesis
Law / MosesAs the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
Numbers
Law / MosesSo when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.
John
Gospels / JohnAll thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall bless thee.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAccording to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
1 Chronicles
HistorySurely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Psalms
PoetryThen Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him,
Acts
HistoryHe deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Solomon went up thither to the brasen altar before the LORD, which was at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahDid I then begin to enquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute any thing unto his servant, nor to all the house of my father: for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or more.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Ben-hadad, saying, Although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children;
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.
Mark
Gospels / MarkOn that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king.