I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
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Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
Job
WisdomAnd the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door,
Exodus
LawAnd she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThen said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days?
2 Kings
HistoryAnd it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelSettle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:
Luke
Gospels / LukeThou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryThen came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.
Luke
Gospels / LukeIn the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.
Luke
GospelsHe hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,
2 Kings
HistoryAnd they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.
Exodus
LawAnd the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesTake heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
Deuteronomy
LawThey that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhen the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIn that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me?