The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
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He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersArise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsHe shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
Psalms
PoetryTo satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
Job
Wisdom / JobNow when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSon of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the young men that were brought up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraSo the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWe know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
1 John
General EpistlesFor all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
Revelation
ApocalypticThe Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
John
Gospels / JohnBut they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd the hangings of the court, and the hanging for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and all that is made for them: so shall they serve.
Numbers
LawHe that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?
Luke
Gospels / LukeCursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
Deuteronomy
LawI will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsShould he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
Job
WisdomAnd for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.
Nehemiah
HistoryThe earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.