For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.
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The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
Judges
History / SamuelIf thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?
Obadiah
Minor Prophets / ObadiahAnd the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
Genesis
LawAnd thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother for glory and for beauty.
Exodus
LawMoreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.
Matthew
GospelsAnd God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
Genesis
Law / MosesGird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
Psalms
PoetryAnd all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahAnd he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.
2 Samuel
HistoryBeware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;
Acts
History / LukeWherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
Psalms
PoetryFor I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFor in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
James
General EpistlesIn all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsNow this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated of David's soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanNow therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;