The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
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And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraTherefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahMy soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.
Psalms
PoetrySo God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
Judges
History / SamuelYe that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulServants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulHe sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
Job
Wisdom / JobBy faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.
Hebrews
General EpistlesIf ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
James
General Epistles / JamesThe LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
Deuteronomy
LawBut a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
Hebrews
General EpistlesThey have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' sope:
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiTherefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosThus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielYea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.