Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
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And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.
Judges
HistoryAll ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBecause of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumAnd I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaSet a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Psalms
PoetryThen said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
Ezra
History / EzraReturn, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake.
Psalms
PoetryYet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.
2 Chronicles
HistoryBut the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Proverbs
WisdomTherefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Titus
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
1 Peter
General EpistlesHe that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAfterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days.
Acts
History / LukeNow Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
1 Samuel
HistoryWherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,
Esther
HistoryThe dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIn the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.