The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
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And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
Numbers
LawBut it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSo Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Genesis
LawMy strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
Psalms
PoetryThe womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
Job
Wisdom / JobBut ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
John
GospelsAnd the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulCast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi-shua, Saul's sons.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAt thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
Psalms
PoetryAnd if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
Mark
GospelsOnyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.
Exodus
LawNeither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer unto the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like to the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
Exodus
Law / MosesNow we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThat thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
Deuteronomy
LawI acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees;