So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
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Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
Revelation
ApocalypticOf a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd they said, It is false; tell us now. And he said, Thus and thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThat I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesAnd your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
Leviticus
Law / MosesMany will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Matthew
GospelsAnd Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death: but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThey are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesThou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again.
1 Kings
HistoryIf a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.
Deuteronomy
LawNow on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites;
Ezra
History / EzraThen I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsSpeak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to the residue of the people, saying,
Haggai
Minor Prophets / HaggaiAnd the separate cities for the children of Ephraim were among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:
Numbers
Law / MosesFor the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.