O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
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For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIf I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
LawAnd after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThey shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsFor 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
LawThe children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
Nehemiah
HistoryBut the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.
Judges
HistoryWhen the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
Job
Wisdom / JobThen sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
Judges
HistoryBefore him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsAnd Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
Genesis
LawFor the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsSmite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
Proverbs
WisdomBut man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
Job
WisdomThese were the sons of Caleb the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah; Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / Moses(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
Exodus
LawNow the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.