My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
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For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
Acts
HistoryAt that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.
Joshua
HistoryAnd, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.
Acts
HistoryThis thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesYet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.
Exodus
LawMoreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel before the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
Exodus
LawFor this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
1 Peter
General EpistlesThe flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,
Leviticus
LawThe vessels also that are given thee for the service of the house of thy God, those deliver thou before the God of Jerusalem.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the LORD?
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that killeth him.
1 Samuel
HistoryFifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
Job
WisdomBless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.