Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
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So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
Luke
GospelsNow this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel.
Ezra
HistoryA poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour: and he made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant jewels;
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
Psalms
PoetryPray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
Psalms
PoetryThe sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Psalms
PoetryHe shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWho said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
Psalms
PoetryHast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,
Job
WisdomAnd at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils.
Mark
GospelsRemove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHe sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
Joshua
HistoryBehold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?
Job
Wisdom / JobThen he said, I have sinned: yet honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God.
1 Samuel
HistoryNow ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesIs it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?
Numbers
LawWhat shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me?
Psalms
PoetryThough thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.