How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:
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Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonForasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation.
Daniel
Major ProphetsLest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
Job
WisdomThen came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek:
Acts
HistoryShe sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
Psalms
PoetryThou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahWherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulI will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
Psalms
PoetryTo wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Revelation
ApocalypticBut when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
Matthew
GospelsThen Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves?
Luke
Gospels / LukeAt that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraWoe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he said unto him that was over the vestry, Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought them forth vestments.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred them, and said, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter.
Acts
History / LukeMarcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my fellowlabourers.
Philemon
Pauline Epistles / PaulI will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahWherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the north side; and the border went about eastward unto Taanath-shiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah;
Joshua
HistoryThus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.