The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
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Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsArtaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace, and at such a time.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Matthew
GospelsHe bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again.
1 Kings
HistorySurely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
Job
WisdomAnd Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.
Joshua
HistoryAnd all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that was in Shechem.
Judges
HistoryFor God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnMarvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
Psalms
PoetryNow in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail:
Leviticus
Law / MosesThen said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew
GospelsThus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsOne post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIf a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;
Leviticus
LawBut ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
Jude
General Epistles / JudeAnd he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.
Daniel
Major ProphetsSaying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
1 Chronicles
HistoryWhich forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.