The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
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Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
Exodus
LawAnd if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
Numbers
LawTake heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.
John
GospelsAnd Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all wrought jewels.
Numbers
LawAnd it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him.
Acts
History / LukeFolly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomHe that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
Job
WisdomAnd he said unto them, What advice give ye that we may return answer to this people, which have spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat the yoke that thy father did put upon us?
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBut unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.
1 Samuel
HistorySolomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
Solomon's Song
PoetryNeither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.
Psalms
PoetryHave not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the pattern of all that he had by the spirit, of the courts of the house of the LORD, and of all the chambers round about, of the treasuries of the house of God, and of the treasuries of the dedicated things:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahO LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewLift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?