Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
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And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTherefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanTell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
Joel
Minor ProphetsAnd I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsGo ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.
2 Kings
HistoryThen answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
John
Gospels / JohnFor I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
John
Gospels / JohnSihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
Joshua
HistoryBut Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.
Acts
HistoryBut he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThe entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBut when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;
Judges
HistoryJudas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons.
John
Gospels / JohnSo the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewLay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonRiches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.