And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,
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And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her.
Luke
Gospels / LukeNow therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
Acts
HistoryAnd now is not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley to night in the threshingfloor.
Ruth
HistoryAnd thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
James
General Epistles / JamesPreserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut if we shall say, Of men; they feared the people: for all men counted John, that he was a prophet indeed.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThen the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryFor the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
Luke
Gospels / LukeWhy dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukTheir meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,
2 Chronicles
HistoryI have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
Genesis
LawAnd foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:
Nehemiah
HistoryFor we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesI have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp. And they said, Woe unto us! for there hath not been such a thing heretofore.
1 Samuel
HistoryNow these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.
Exodus
LawWho goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulA bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.