The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
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Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
Job
Wisdom / JobAs a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD departed out of his sight.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called unto me. And I answered, Here am I.
2 Samuel
HistoryThey said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.
Numbers
LawAnd a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.
Numbers
LawAnd I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWhoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
Matthew
GospelsFor ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahGo ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsNow these are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt offering unto the LORD: it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.