The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
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And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.
Mark
Gospels / MarkWill he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.
Job
WisdomShall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
Job
WisdomThey prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
2 Samuel
HistoryThy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukAnd the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.
Numbers
LawFor the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsAnd with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand men: for they had many wives and sons.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThat thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHow he went into the house of God, and did take and eat the shewbread, and gave also to them that were with him; which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests alone?
Luke
GospelsAlso their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonDavid also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself.
1 Samuel
HistoryWho leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of the wilderness from the river Euphrates: because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraCry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah, Go down with him: be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him unto the king.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.
1 Kings
HistoryFor the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.