Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
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And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because he was the firstborn.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThese things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.
John
Gospels / JohnOf Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family of the Erites:
Numbers
Law / MosesThus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.
Proverbs
WisdomTake therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Matthew
GospelsFor the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAll these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee.
2 Samuel
HistoryHe holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBlessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThey are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
Genesis
LawThey were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThe thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThen shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
Acts
History / LukeHelp, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
Psalms
PoetryFor he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.