Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
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Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:
Mark
GospelsWe are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsNeither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.
Exodus
LawAnd here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name.
Acts
HistoryAnd straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.
Mark
GospelsThere is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonFor innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen said Jonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I will even do it for thee.
1 Samuel
HistorySanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,
Joel
Minor ProphetsTherefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.
Micah
Minor ProphetsThen it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD.
Numbers
LawIf the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
John
GospelsNow therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the LORD, and in the audience of our God, keep and seek for all the commandments of the LORD your God: that ye may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance for your children after you for ever.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king's son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner.
Luke
GospelsThey shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.
Numbers
LawAnd the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.