She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
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Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.
Matthew
GospelsAnd he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.
Mark
Gospels / MarkMake haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonThey come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsNow Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.
Job
Wisdom / JobShe dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.
Job
Wisdom / JobWoe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
Psalms
PoetryHave mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself:
Acts
History / LukeFor, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsDay unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
Psalms
PoetryIt is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
John
GospelsBehold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahHow long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
Job
WisdomThen was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThe sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.
Ezra
History / EzraArise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell alone.