Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
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And 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 ProphetsAnd the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising;
Leviticus
Law / MosesI will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.
John
GospelsThe crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThese are they that went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThen Pilate said unto them, Why, what evil hath he done? And they cried out the more exceedingly, Crucify him.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.
Genesis
LawThe sixteenth to Hananiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraHe answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him?
John
GospelsThere shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
Job
WisdomSo Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night.
Joshua
HistoryWhere their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Mark
GospelsAnd David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.
2 Samuel
HistoryIs not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
Psalms
PoetryWhen thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHe taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
Job
WisdomJesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek ye?
John
GospelsAnd it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.