Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;
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O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
Psalms
PoetryThe sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsYe have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand?
Mark
GospelsEven there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFor without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
Psalms
PoetryPass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahSo Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:
Matthew
GospelsI am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesSettle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:
Luke
Gospels / LukeWill ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
Job
WisdomNevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine ears, and in the ears of all the people;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth.
Acts
History / LukeGo in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.
Exodus
LawOf Zerah, the family of the Zarhites: of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBlessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.
Exodus
LawAnd they that were sent, returning to the house, found the servant whole that had been sick.