Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.
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Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.
Judges
HistoryTherefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahGo forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesThat thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
Job
WisdomNeither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.
Psalms
PoetryLift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became David's servants. Thus the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
1 Chronicles
HistoryIt shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielNow in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
1 Kings
HistoryThou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
Job
WisdomAnd it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelTherefore 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 Prophets / AmosTherefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsMoreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
2 Chronicles
HistoryBe astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
Matthew
GospelsAnd saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
Proverbs
WisdomFor he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.