We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
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And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD God.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.
Luke
GospelsO LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIn the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
Psalms
PoetryThe LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,
Genesis
LawAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him;
Numbers
LawWhence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
Numbers
Law / MosesAlso he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people.
Esther
HistoryThou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHe made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.
Leviticus
Law / MosesSo Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis
Law / MosesThese were the sons of Caleb the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah; Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBehold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSave that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
Acts
History / LukeAnd these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber, and lay there.
2 Kings
HistoryFor the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.