Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
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And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.
Ezra
History / EzraKnowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
Job
WisdomCursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsDoth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
Acts
History / LukeNow Benjamin begat Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThe shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
Job
Wisdom / JobWoe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWhich also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
Acts
HistoryAnd afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraWhen the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,
John
GospelsAnd it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it:
Judges
History / SamuelI know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnSo do God to Abner, and more also, except, as the LORD hath sworn to David, even so I do to him;
2 Samuel
HistoryHowl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
Psalms
PoetryEven those that were numbered of them, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers, were two thousand and six hundred and thirty.
Numbers
Law / MosesIf thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents.