Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
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I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled every one to his tent.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
Exodus
Law / MosesHe hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him.
Matthew
GospelsAnd he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBut when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great possessions.
Mark
GospelsThe nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahWhen Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a miracle for you: then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent.
Exodus
LawFor they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Proverbs
WisdomWho can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab,
Ruth
HistoryLikewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day unto all the king's princes, which have heard of the deed of the queen. Thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath.
Esther
History / Mordecai(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
John
GospelsAnd, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahIn weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
Job
Wisdom / JobSave only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.
2 Samuel
HistoryThe labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.