For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
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And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
Numbers
LawI will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, The LORD be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsO Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.
Psalms
PoetryWhere is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
Job
Wisdom / JobOn that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Acts
History / LukeFor my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
Psalms
PoetryAnd one kid of the goats for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
Deuteronomy
LawBut the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.
Acts
History / LukeIn whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersLet his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the LORD for a drink offering.
Numbers
LawAnd all Israel from Dan even to Beer-sheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the LORD.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.
Nehemiah
HistoryBut they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahTherefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsSend one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.
Genesis
LawAnd when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.