O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
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And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.
Joshua
HistoryCommand the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd they said unto him, We neither received letters out of Judaea concerning thee, neither any of the brethren that came shewed or spake any harm of thee.
Acts
HistoryEven so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesAnd David enquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? and wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said unto him, Go up; for I will deliver them into thine hand.
1 Chronicles
HistoryEven so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
Job
WisdomAnd whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
Ezra
History / EzraHear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
Amos
Minor 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 / IsaiahSo Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
1 Kings
HistoryWas not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
James
General EpistlesAll the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
Revelation
ApocalypticAlas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelAnd the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
Judges
HistoryThe children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty and two.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.
Acts
History / LukeAnd Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahOn the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd Obed-edom with their brethren, threescore and eight; Obed-edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be porters:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAs he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.