Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
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But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.
John
Gospels / JohnTheir heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
Psalms
PoetryAnd David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWe have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahO that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
Matthew
GospelsAnd there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
Genesis
Law / MosesHe hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to the war, and came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the LORD.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThe words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomNow a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.
1 Samuel
HistoryI will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSo they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king, thou knowest it not:
1 Kings
HistoryAnd if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIn the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:
1 Kings
HistoryThen said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this?
Ruth
History / SamuelGod setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
Psalms
PoetryThen she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.