Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
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He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewJesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
John
GospelsThen thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his neighbour in the word of the LORD, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused to smite him.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.
Job
WisdomNeither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulIn these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
John
GospelsFill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBy thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.
2 Kings
HistoryThat the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I.
1 Samuel
HistoryNow when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.
Matthew
GospelsDelight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
Proverbs
WisdomFor our God is a consuming fire.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel.
Genesis
LawI will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?