Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
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And Absalom her brother said unto her, Hath Amnon thy brother been with thee? but hold now thy peace, my sister: he is thy brother; regard not this thing. So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom's house.
2 Samuel
HistoryO worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.
Psalms
PoetryFear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Pilate answered and said again unto them, What will ye then that I shall do unto him whom ye call the King of the Jews?
Mark
Gospels / MarkI made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
Job
WisdomHe hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSurely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted any food.
1 Samuel
HistoryThou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.
2 Samuel
HistoryFor this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when they forgat the LORD their God, he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.
1 Samuel
HistoryOnly unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbad us.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd these were they which went up also from Tel-melah, Tel-haresha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shew their father's house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahBut this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
Acts
History / LukeWhen ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewTheir horses, seven hundred thirty and six: their mules, two hundred forty and five:
Nehemiah
HistoryThen the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielI thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
Joshua
History / JoshuaFor God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.