I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
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Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words.
Job
Wisdom / JobAll 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.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the children of Israel enquired of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
Judges
History / SamuelAnd an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielFor the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.
Obadiah
Minor Prophets / ObadiahAnd Rehoboam took him Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David to wife, and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;
2 Chronicles
HistoryBut thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
Luke
GospelsAll nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.
Genesis
LawThen Pilate entered into the judgment hall again, and called Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews?
John
GospelsHe that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Proverbs
WisdomWhereas thou camest but yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us? seeing I go whither I may, return thou, and take back thy brethren: mercy and truth be with thee.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFor the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
Ezra
HistoryThen shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the damsel ran, and told them of her mother's house these things.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas:
Luke
Gospels / LukeIn those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
Genesis
LawHear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.