My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
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And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband.
Ruth
HistoryHe hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Genesis
LawIn those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto the LORD: and he spake unto him, and he gave him a sign.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBe ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelAnd the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine.
Numbers
LawShe is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
Proverbs
WisdomIf thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
Job
Wisdom / JobThou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielPurge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersJesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided.
Acts
HistoryBut he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.
Judges
History / SamuelI will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor, as the LORD liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people that answered him.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThen came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.
Matthew
GospelsAlso he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people.
Esther
History / MordecaiI beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them before me, shall I be your head?
Judges
HistoryAnd he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; take him, and lead him away safely.