For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
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Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.
Genesis
LawSo neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing.
Nehemiah
HistoryThey are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.
Psalms
PoetryAnd his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen.
2 Chronicles
HistoryTherefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownFor I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Genesis
LawGather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the old man said, Peace be with thee; howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street.
Judges
History / SamuelUnless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.
Psalms
PoetryAt his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWho knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?
Job
Wisdom / JobThus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosSaying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
Luke
Gospels / LukeArt thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
Nahum
Minor ProphetsAnd the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king's son.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahPrepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBehold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:
Luke
Gospels / LukeFive and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.
2 Kings
HistoryIf he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
Exodus
Law / MosesLet us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.