For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.
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They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd they removed from Haradah, and pitched in Makheloth.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBecause the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsA brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsAnd as he talked with him, he went in, and found many that were come together.
Acts
HistoryThe oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be of five and twenty thousand in length, and of ten thousand in breadth.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsRemove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.
Psalms
PoetryBut Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:
Acts
HistoryHe turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasau,
Ezra
History / EzraNow the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.
Exodus
LawAnd this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
Matthew
GospelsThey take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsAnd said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither: for whereas we have offended against the LORD already, ye intend to add more to our sins and to our trespass: for our trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.
2 Chronicles
HistoryI sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.