They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
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For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraHer gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahShall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?
Numbers
LawWherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.
Genesis
Law / MosesWhich by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersEnter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
Matthew
GospelsDo all things without murmurings and disputings:
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils:
Mark
GospelsAnd it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
Psalms
PoetryBehold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the border of Chisloth-tabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth up to Japhia,
Joshua
History / JoshuaIf the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.
Exodus
LawAnd he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
Acts
History / LukeAnd saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
2 Peter
General EpistlesThen said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnHe spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.
Luke
Gospels / LukeSharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.
Job
WisdomTherefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.
1 Samuel
HistoryFor the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses,
Numbers
LawA sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.