Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
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And the LORD did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies.
Exodus
LawDeath and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Proverbs
WisdomYet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.
John
Gospels / JohnO LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
Psalms
PoetryAnd Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.
Numbers
Law / MosesThe king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielFor not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulPrepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.
Proverbs
WisdomThe heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnAt what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms: because there was pasture there for their flocks.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraIs it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water:
Numbers
LawTherefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThese things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnBecause the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
Numbers
LawFor this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.
Acts
History / Luke(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.