They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
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And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought you out from the land of Egypt:
Exodus
Law / MosesFor they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Exodus
LawThey that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
Psalms
PoetryDoth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
Job
Wisdom / JobMoreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiFor ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThat there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer:
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahLooking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews
General EpistlesThey are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
Job
WisdomAnd a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.
Numbers
LawThere shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHe is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.
Luke
GospelsNevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Acts
History / LukeA feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then did ye not believe him?
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
John
GospelsWhy, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?