For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
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This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
1 Samuel
HistoryWickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThere shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsThe children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub,
Ezra
HistoryAnd after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,
Nehemiah
HistoryIn that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
Luke
GospelsAnd ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelAnd he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsAgain, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
Numbers
Law / MosesThen came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.
Acts
History / LukeThat I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.
Nehemiah
HistoryBeside their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even unto every one that entereth into the house of the LORD, his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses;
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd when Samlah was dead, Shaul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
Genesis
LawWhat and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)
Acts
History / LukeWherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
Ezra
HistoryBut the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.