And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
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And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
Job
Wisdom / JobThen the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.
Acts
HistoryAnd they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThen Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:
2 Kings
HistoryAnd he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd her mother in law said unto her, Where hast thou gleaned to day? and where wroughtest thou? blessed be he that did take knowledge of thee. And she shewed her mother in law with whom she had wrought, and said, The man's name with whom I wrought to day is Boaz.
Ruth
History / SamuelSo David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat meat.
1 Samuel
HistoryBut this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsNo servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Luke
GospelsTheir children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahUpon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and it shall be holy unto you.
Exodus
Law / MosesGive glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWatch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the LORD.
Ezra
HistoryBe it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
Acts
HistoryFor through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsYe Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahAnd we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThen said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBehold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to say.
Job
WisdomFor the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd then the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.