He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.
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Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumAnd this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.
Numbers
Law / MosesIf thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
Job
WisdomAnd her mother in law said unto her, Where hast thou gleaned to day? and where wroughtest thou? blessed be he that did take knowledge of thee. And she shewed her mother in law with whom she had wrought, and said, The man's name with whom I wrought to day is Boaz.
Ruth
History / SamuelRedeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.
Psalms
PoetryThus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
Genesis
Law / MosesIf I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
Job
WisdomAnd, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsBut he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
Matthew
GospelsAnd all that dwelt at Lydda and Saron saw him, and turned to the Lord.
Acts
HistoryBut when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:
Luke
GospelsThen spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:
Acts
History / LukeMoreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThen Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and came to Beth-lehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably?
1 Samuel
HistoryTo make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAs he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:
Leviticus
LawFlee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesNow therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd when it was told me how that the Jews laid wait for the man, I sent straightway to thee, and gave commandment to his accusers also to say before thee what they had against him. Farewell.