Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
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The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
Matthew
GospelsFor these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.
Genesis
Law / MosesNow also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
Micah
Minor ProphetsAnd when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahKnowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
2 Peter
General EpistlesBehold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
Job
Wisdom / JobSo shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersLet favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the people.
Leviticus
Law / MosesTherefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe LORD hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanI have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd again he sent a third: and they wounded him also, and cast him out.
Luke
Gospels / LukeTherefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
Luke
Gospels / LukeI say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.
Ezra
History / EzraO LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.
Psalms
PoetryFor I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWoe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
Matthew
GospelsThe LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.