He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.
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And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWhere is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
Job
WisdomAnd the sons of Jether; Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he spake that saying openly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
Genesis
LawAnd the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;
Judges
HistoryBut I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Matthew
GospelsTo do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Proverbs
WisdomGod is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.
Matthew
GospelsThe voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielNow when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem.
Acts
History / LukeAnd he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel.
Genesis
LawAnd this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulTurn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.
Solomon's Song
PoetrySet thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHis breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
Psalms
PoetryCircumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesThat the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,