Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
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Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day.
Deuteronomy
LawSon of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
Genesis
Law / MosesI also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsPray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelA wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
Proverbs
WisdomWhen the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAmong these were the divisions of the porters, even among the chief men, having wards one against another, to minister in the house of the LORD.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThe man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
2 Samuel
HistoryFor the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.
Luke
GospelsFor ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownBut I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved.
John
Gospels / JohnSon of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.
Esther
HistoryAnd he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Leviticus
LawAnd he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAn heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
Proverbs
WisdomMeditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.