He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
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And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAfter that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesSo am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
Job
WisdomBehold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd when Bela was dead, Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsI have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewOh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Job
WisdomAnd Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,
Matthew
GospelsBut he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Proverbs
WisdomThou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.
Luke
GospelsAnd Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
Joshua
History / JoshuaO foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThey slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
Psalms
PoetryIn the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,