Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
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For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersEven as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahPrinces also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
Numbers
LawWhich think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
Leviticus
LawAnd that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire.
Leviticus
LawFor the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAs the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd they told to Mordecai Esther's words.
Esther
History / MordecaiNow on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites;
Ezra
HistoryOne kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd while he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near unto Jesus to kiss him.
Luke
GospelsAnd the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsNevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
Nehemiah
HistoryBut the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
James
General Epistles / JamesO GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.