Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHis sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
Job
WisdomAnd every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
Matthew
GospelsThou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahIn the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBless ye God in the congregations, even the Lord, from the fountain of Israel.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.
Acts
History / LukeAnd gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
Genesis
Law / MosesNeither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.
Judges
History / SamuelFor he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that it should be published according to the language of every people.
Esther
History / MordecaiThese were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielNicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,)
John
Gospels / JohnAnd they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
2 Samuel
HistoryTo turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
Matthew
GospelsAnd he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.