And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
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But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
Luke
Gospels / LukeOh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
Job
WisdomThey are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis
LawAnd thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office.
Exodus
LawAnd three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnFor he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.
Mark
Gospels / MarkFor if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd Hazar-shual, and Balah, and Azem,
Joshua
HistoryTherefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.
Exodus
Law / MosesTake the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWe will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be our's.
Numbers
LawAnd what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThen they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.
1 Chronicles
HistoryWherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
Genesis
Law / MosesAll things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomI am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.