Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
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And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,
Deuteronomy
LawThen Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself:
Acts
HistoryAnd it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
Genesis
LawAsk thy young men, and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David.
1 Samuel
HistoryThat which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd there they abode long time with the disciples.
Acts
History / LukeYe know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWhosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnAnd forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
Psalms
PoetryThe Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.
Matthew
GospelsAnd if it spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
Esther
HistoryThere is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThen Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSo there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
Joshua
HistoryWhy then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
Daniel
Major ProphetsOh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Job
Wisdom / JobIn those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel.
Judges
HistoryIs it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahWherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.