And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
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And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahBehold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThey answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am he. And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them.
John
GospelsThy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonLet thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.
Nehemiah
HistoryAll the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonO that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThat they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
John
GospelsAnd I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielI am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhen a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
Job
WisdomAnd he made the vessels which were upon the table, his dishes, and his spoons, and his bowls, and his covers to cover withal, of pure gold.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesCome down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen 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 / LukeAnd I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielForasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
1 Peter
General EpistlesAnd when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his doctrine.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewLet the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
Psalms
PoetryShe standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.
Proverbs
WisdomHe had also seven sons and three daughters.