Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
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And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against;
Luke
Gospels / LukeHe that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money.
Genesis
LawAnd there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, a Beth-lehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
2 Samuel
HistoryA time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThat thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place.
2 Chronicles
HistoryBelshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Luke
GospelsMoses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahNow 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 / SamuelBut the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
Luke
Gospels / LukeA time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.
Numbers
LawAnd I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsNone eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBehold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.