All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.
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When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
HistoryWhom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahIn that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFree among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
Psalms
PoetryThe thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
John
GospelsAnd it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.
Genesis
LawWoe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
Luke
GospelsMoreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulWho hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesNow Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
Genesis
LawAnd he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel.
Deuteronomy
LawIf this man were not of God, he could do nothing.
John
Gospels / JohnThis twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
Numbers
Law / MosesFor he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen said Absalom, If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon go with us. And the king said unto him, Why should he go with thee?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAccording to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
Matthew
GospelsAnd Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.