For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
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Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahTheir tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
Job
WisdomAnd Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the land.
2 Kings
HistoryA several tenth deal unto one lamb, throughout the seven lambs;
Numbers
Law / MosesFor a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Luke
GospelsZadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraSo these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Beth-shemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us: it was a chance that happened to us.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
Genesis
LawAnd I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahIn the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.
Genesis
Law / MosesWherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesNow the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?
2 Chronicles
HistoryBut the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king's garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd they departed from Punon, and pitched in Oboth.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd, behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias:
Luke
GospelsThen stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.
Psalms
PoetryIt stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,