Mike Swann

Proverbs 5:15, Proverbs 5:17-23

Proverbs 5:15 (NIV)
Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well.

Proverbs 5:17-23 (NIV)
Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.

Hebrews 13:1, Hebrews 13:4-8

Hebrews 13:1 (NIV)
Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters.

Hebrews 13:4-8 (NIV)
Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.

Lamentations 2:11, Lamentations 2:13, Lamentations 2:17-21

Lamentations 2:11 (NIV)
My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within; my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are destroyed, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

Lamentations 2:13 (NIV)
What can I say for you? With what can I compare you, Daughter Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may comfort you, Virgin Daughter Zion? Your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can heal you?

Lamentations 2:17-21 (NIV)
The lord has done what he planned; he has fulfilled his word, which he decreed long ago. He has overthrown you without pity, he has let the enemy gloat over you, he has exalted the horn of your foes.

Lamentations 1:8-9, Lamentations 1:16, Lamentations 1:18-22

Lamentations 1:8-9 (NIV)
Jerusalem has sinned greatly and so has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, for they have all seen her naked; she herself groans and turns away.

Lamentations 1:16 (NIV)
"This is why I weep and my eyes overflow with tears. No one is near to comfort me, no one to restore my spirit. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed."

Lamentations 1:18-22 (NIV)
"The lord is righteous, yet I rebelled against his command. Listen, all you peoples; look on my suffering. My young men and young women have gone into exile.

Lamentations 5:14-17, Lamentations 5:20-22

Lamentations 5:14-17 (NIV)
The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.

Lamentations 5:20-22 (NIV)
Why do you always forget us? Why do you forsake us so long?

Lamentations 4:21-22

Lamentations 4:21-22 (NIV)
Rejoice and be glad, Daughter Edom, you who live in the land of Uz. But to you also the cup will be passed; you will be drunk and stripped naked.

Lamentations 3:18-28, Lamentations 3:31-33, Lamentations 3:39-50, Lamentations 3:55-56, Lamentations 3:59-60, Lamentations 3:65-66

Lamentations 3:18-28 (NIV)
So I say, "My splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the lord."

Lamentations 3:31-33 (NIV)
For no one is cast off by the Lord forever.

Lamentations 3:39-50 (NIV)
Why should the living complain when punished for their sins?

Lamentations 3:55-56 (NIV)
I called on your name, lord, from the depths of the pit.

Lamentations 3:59-60 (NIV)
lord, you have seen the wrong done to me. Uphold my cause!

Lamentations 3:65-66 (NIV)
Put a veil over their hearts, and may your curse be on them!

Psalm 73:10, Psalm 73:16-17

Psalm 73:10 (NIV)
Therefore their people turn to them and drink up waters in abundance.

Psalm 73:16-17 (NIV)
When I tried to understand all this, it troubled me deeply

Psalm 73:10, Psalm 73:23-26

Psalm 73:10 (NIV)
Therefore their people turn to them and drink up waters in abundance.

Psalm 73:23-26 (NIV)
Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand.

Psalm 73:2

Psalm 73:2 (NIV)
But as for me, my feet had almost slipped; I had nearly lost my foothold.

Proverbs 28:4, Proverbs 28:7, Proverbs 28:9

Proverbs 28:4 (NIV)
Those who forsake instruction praise the wicked, but those who heed it resist them.

Proverbs 28:7 (NIV)
A discerning son heeds instruction, but a companion of gluttons disgraces his father.

Proverbs 28:9 (NIV)
If anyone turns a deaf ear to my instruction, even their prayers are detestable.

Proverbs 28:14

Proverbs 28:14 (NIV)
Blessed is the one who always trembles before God, but whoever hardens their heart falls into trouble.

Psalm 31:1-24

Psalm 31:1-24 (NIV)
In you, lord, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; deliver me in your righteousness.

Psalm 32:1-11

Psalm 32:1-11 (NIV)
Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

1 Peter 4:7

1 Peter 4:7 (NIV)
The end of all things is near. Therefore be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray.

1 John 5:14

1 John 5:14 (NIV)
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.