Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
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And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
Genesis
Law / MosesGive wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning.
Acts
History / LukeAlso in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.
Joshua
History / JoshuaWho whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
Psalms
PoetryAnd the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
Judges
HistoryBut woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
Mark
Gospels / MarkI tell thee, thou shalt not depart thence, till thou hast paid the very last mite.
Luke
Gospels / LukeSo David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
2 Samuel
HistoryHear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
Psalms
PoetryLikewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesSuffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonWe are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
2 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesAnd all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel also was had in abomination with the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor because ye did it not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.
Judges
History / SamuelOr ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomFor a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
Titus
Pauline EpistlesAnd the sons of Dan; Hushim.
Genesis
Law / MosesWho are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWhich in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me: