And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
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The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
Luke
GospelsAnd in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.
Genesis
LawWhat advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.
Numbers
LawMy people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.
Ruth
HistoryThou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened it not.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahSurely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
Job
WisdomThy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonWho is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
Job
WisdomBe thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.
Exodus
LawJustice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?
1 Samuel
HistoryBe ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
Luke
Gospels / LukePraise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsHowbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
Matthew
GospelsBut I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.