They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
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Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
Haggai
Minor ProphetsAnd it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.
1 Samuel
HistoryFor the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFrom the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring hither the ark of God. For the ark of God was at that time with the children of Israel.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd David sent messengers unto the men of Jabesh-gilead, and said unto them, Blessed be ye of the LORD, that ye have shewed this kindness unto your lord, even unto Saul, and have buried him.
2 Samuel
HistoryThen he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages:
Joshua
History / JoshuaFor who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWho is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
Job
WisdomO God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Humtah, and Kirjath-arba, which is Hebron, and Zior; nine cities with their villages:
Joshua
History / JoshuaThey drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
Job
WisdomYe shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
2 Samuel
HistoryYe ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
James
General Epistles / JamesDoth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
Proverbs
WisdomAlso he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
Genesis
LawAnd when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:
Exodus
LawAnd if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWoe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!