Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
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And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
Amos
Minor ProphetsNow when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram,
Numbers
Law / MosesShall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just?
Job
Wisdom / JobIn the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
Leviticus
LawThat is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewOut of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master; let them return therefore every man to his house in peace.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraSo all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.
Numbers
Law / MosesThen Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
John
GospelsIf the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
Job
Wisdom / JobThou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Psalms
PoetryLet your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesAnd I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahOil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,
Exodus
LawAnd the priest shall burn the memorial of it, part of the beaten corn thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThen shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath.
Genesis
Law / MosesWhoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
Proverbs
WisdomHere is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / John(For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)