Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.
John
Gospels / JohnSon of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsA fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonFor one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulNow in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.
Matthew
GospelsThen goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBefore your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
Psalms
PoetryI am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.
Solomon's Song
PoetryFor the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesNeither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThere is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomHe went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the LORD.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahWhen he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:
Job
Wisdom / JobFor I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Acts
HistoryBlessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThat our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
Judges
History / SamuelWithdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
Job
Wisdom / JobTake him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
Mark
GospelsBut if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomFor he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.