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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And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.
Judges
History / SamuelTherefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosThat they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men that were with him unto Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
1 Samuel
HistoryHe poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
Job
WisdomAnd Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.
Deuteronomy
LawAs concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThis spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, Follow me.
John
Gospels / JohnSo that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
Luke
Gospels / LukeHow shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahDo ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches.
Acts
HistoryAnd all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the people and princes of Gilead said one to another, What man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
Judges
History / SamuelBehold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesIs his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Ashan with her suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with her suburbs:
1 Chronicles
HistoryTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe two and twentieth to Giddalti, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: