They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
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The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIn thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThey gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
Hebrews
General EpistlesSurely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;
2 Kings
History / JeremiahNeither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,
Acts
HistoryO LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahLet seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give them.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsBut, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsA man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesAlas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim-hodshi; and they came to Dan-jaan, and about to Zidon,
2 Samuel
HistoryNow no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownThe conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAll the cities were ten with their suburbs for the families of the children of Kohath that remained.
Joshua
HistoryThen ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
Ezra
History / EzraFor my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so brought they out horses for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their means.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.