Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.
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And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
Exodus
LawAnd shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBecause he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWithdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
Job
Wisdom / JobI will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTo turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
Lamentations
Major ProphetsThen came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
Leviticus
LawTherefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
1 Kings
HistoryThere shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
Genesis
Law / MosesTo me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.
Luke
GospelsAnd the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThe eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsOr else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD.
Judges
History / SamuelYea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.
Daniel
Major ProphetsWhen Jesus heard of it, he departed thence by ship into a desert place apart: and when the people had heard thereof, they followed him on foot out of the cities.