Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
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And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel's father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and to morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.
Judges
HistoryWhen my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsRise up, let us go; lo, he that betrayeth me is at hand.
Mark
Gospels / MarkZion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments, O LORD.
Psalms
PoetryI have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersPeradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
Genesis
Law / MosesAll that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.
Luke
Gospels / LukeHe sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me:
Numbers
LawAnd when he returned, he found them asleep again, (for their eyes were heavy,) neither wist they what to answer him.
Mark
Gospels / MarkI made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:
Ecclesiastes
WisdomIf God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
Job
Wisdom / JobThese were they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
Numbers
Law / MosesSell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
Luke
GospelsHe taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
Proverbs
WisdomThus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal: and Merib-baal begat Micah.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThey shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
Psalms
PoetryAnd it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraHe hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsBehold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.