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 GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Genesis
Law / MosesWhat shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?
Daniel
Major ProphetsBecause he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
Job
WisdomAnd when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBe wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraNow these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,
Ruth
HistoryFor Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.
Esther
HistoryCame unto me, and stood, and said unto me, Brother Saul, receive thy sight. And the same hour I looked up upon him.
Acts
History / LukeAnswer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
Proverbs
WisdomWhich I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd at Hazar-shual, and at Beer-sheba, and in the villages thereof,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahFor I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsMy lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
Job
WisdomThen the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the elders of the Jews, beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?
Luke
GospelsThen I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahAnd there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahEven thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.