Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
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For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.
Judges
History / SamuelThen laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
Acts
History / LukeThat thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAhimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnAnd Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Genesis
Law / MosesMoreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
Job
Wisdom / JobMany days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:
Acts
HistoryAnd for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Numbers
Law / MosesHe that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnOut of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBlessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersRemember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
Psalms
PoetryAnd even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBecause that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
Psalms
PoetryAnd saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
1 Kings
HistoryThe word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.