And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,
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I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth.
Exodus
LawWho hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
Job
Wisdom / JobThey reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
Job
Wisdom / JobLet us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,
2 Chronicles
HistoryThen Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king's son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.
1 Samuel
HistoryJudah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahWhere is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Moza begat Binea; and Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.
Exodus
Law / MosesIt is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosIn whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBehold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
Job
Wisdom / JobMake a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.
Psalms
PoetrySo shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Proverbs
WisdomI will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.