When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
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Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
Judges
HistoryIt is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.
2 Kings
HistoryFor Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.
Acts
HistoryThen the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsAnd the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.
1 Kings
HistoryI spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahPure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
James
General EpistlesLet seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give them.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBy faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.
Esther
HistoryAnd he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Exodus
Law / MosesWhere their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Mark
GospelsSon of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHe that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
Hebrews
General EpistlesA widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.
Leviticus
LawAnd he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
Acts
History / LukeIf a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Jehoiada was the leader of the Aaronites, and with him were three thousand and seven hundred;