How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
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If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
Job
WisdomIt came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSo they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriage before them.
Judges
History / SamuelBecause the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd they departed into a desert place by ship privately.
Mark
Gospels / MarkIt is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahIt shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say,
Luke
Gospels / LukeWherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.
Genesis
LawSo they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThen they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulIn the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat.
Luke
GospelsO LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;
Psalms
PoetryRedeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesBut if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:
Numbers
LawAnd the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king's son was over the house, judging the people of the land.
2 Kings
HistoryYour riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.