Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
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Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
Job
Wisdom / JobBut after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered:
Ezra
History / EzraAnd indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.
Obadiah
Minor ProphetsTherefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen Saul went up from following the Philistines: and the Philistines went to their own place.
1 Samuel
HistoryWhere their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Mark
GospelsAnd if any one of the common people sin through ignorance, while he doeth somewhat against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and be guilty;
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd we sailed thence, and came the next day over against Chios; and the next day we arrived at Samos, and tarried at Trogyllium; and the next day we came to Miletus.
Acts
HistoryThe tabernacle of the congregation, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seat that is thereupon, and all the furniture of the tabernacle,
Exodus
LawNow, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
Mark
Gospels / MarkIn him was life; and the life was the light of men.
John
GospelsAnd Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:
1 Samuel
HistoryKing Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.
Acts
History / LukeThe daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.
Acts
HistoryAnd when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBut I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.