Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
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Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
Leviticus
Law / MosesNow the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that were with him.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty and six.
Ezra
History / EzraBut my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the LORD their God, and laid them by heaps.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWhich goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.
Proverbs
WisdomHis countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
Matthew
GospelsWherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBuild ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWoe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Haphraim, and Shion, and Anaharath,
Joshua
HistoryThou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Psalms
PoetryAnd if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
Exodus
Law / MosesNeither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.