Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
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But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
Genesis
LawBut the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHe that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them.
Joshua
HistoryAnd they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of Gilead, and they spake with them, saying,
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd the captains over the hundreds did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd it was the third hour, and they crucified him.
Mark
Gospels / MarkHow great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielVerily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water:
Numbers
LawThe archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
Genesis
LawThey that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counsellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he offered sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBut the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
Deuteronomy
LawThen Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
Numbers
Law / MosesLet them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
Psalms
PoetryIf the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulTherefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,
Genesis
LawAnd when Shaul was dead, Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.