He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
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Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumDepart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again.
Judges
HistoryTherefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahSo I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.
John
GospelsAnd Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace.
2 Samuel
HistoryJeremiah the tenth, Machbanai the eleventh.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBecause the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesIn all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
1 John
General EpistlesThus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD'S house should be built.
Haggai
Minor Prophets / HaggaiAnd next unto them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem.
Nehemiah
History(But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:)
1 Kings
History / JeremiahTherefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd now, LORD, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:
1 Chronicles
HistoryWho died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesWhy art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTrouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
Psalms
PoetryI am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it was the third hour, and they crucified him.
Mark
GospelsBut thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.