And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
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Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have wrought with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.
Luke
GospelsAnd so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.
Luke
GospelsTherefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,
Joshua
History / JoshuaSo Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahArt thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsNow then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThen Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah, that will make known unto the king the interpretation.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight. So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.
Ezra
HistoryMan is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Psalms
PoetryMy tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielMine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.
Psalms
PoetryTake great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the clay in the brickkiln, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.