I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
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And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
Psalms
PoetryFor this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
Mark
GospelsHe will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
Job
WisdomThe tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
Job
WisdomAfter these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias.
John
Gospels / JohnBut in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
Numbers
Law / MosesBut when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBehold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsI have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSo it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also unto the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.
Esther
HistoryWhy was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.
Mark
Gospels / MarkLest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulNow Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
John
GospelsThen the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsI gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahOpen thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsThe sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards:
Exodus
LawWhich had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;