He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
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And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth.
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahA drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSo then death worketh in us, but life in you.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIs not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThe children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
Nehemiah
HistoryNow Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do ye enquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me?
John
Gospels / JohnBut Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea,
Mark
GospelsWhom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterBut the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAs the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
Genesis
LawWhile he thus spake, there came a cloud, and overshadowed them: and they feared as they entered into the cloud.
Luke
Gospels / LukeTo be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Titus
Pauline EpistlesBut I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.
Psalms
PoetryI said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThen began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
Job
WisdomAnd, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.
Acts
HistoryAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,