8,758 verses contain “Wit” (in the KJV: 6,860, in the BSB: 5,613) — showing 7,601–7,700
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Mightest not thou be angry with us to destroy us, till thou hadst left us neither root, seed, nor name?
Let us make an oath to the Lord, that we will put away all our wives, which we have taken of the heathen, with their children,
And that whosoever met not there within two or three days according as the elders that bare rule appointed, their cattle should be seized to the use of the temple, and himself cast out from them that were of the captivity.
Then cried the whole multitude, and said with a loud voice, Like as thou hast spoken, so will we do.
But forasmuch as the people are many, and it is foul weather, so that we cannot stand without, and this is not a work of a day or two, seeing our sin in these things is spread far:
And with them the rulers and judges of every place, till we turn away the wrath of the Lord from us for this matter.
All these had taken strange wives, and they put them away with their children.
Many kings have I destroyed for their sakes; Pharaoh with his servants and all his power have I smitten down.
Whensoever ye shall call upon me, I will not hear you: for ye have defiled your hands with blood, and your feet are swift to commit manslaughter.
As for me, O father, I call upon thee for a witness over the mother of these children, which would not keep my covenant,
Take heaven and earth to witness; for I have broken the evil in pieces, and created the good: for I live, saith the Lord.
For thy help will I send my servants Esau and Jeremy, after whose counsel I have sanctified and prepared for thee twelve trees laden with divers fruits,
Keep the old and young within thy walls.
Be joyful, O thou mother, with thy children; for I will deliver thee, saith the Lord.
And gavest a body unto Adam without soul, which was the workmanship of thine hands, and didst breathe into him the breath of life, and he was made living before thee.
Nevertheless one of them thou leftest, namely, Noah with his household, of whom came all righteous men.
And madest an everlasting covenant with him, promising him that thou wouldest never forsake his seed.
He said moreover unto me, Thine own things, and such as are grown up with thee, canst thou not know;
If therefore that which is sown be not turned upside down, and if the place where the evil is sown pass not away, then cannot it come that is sown with good.
And when the ears shall be cut down, which are without number, how great a floor shall they fill?
So he answered me, and said, Go thy way to a woman with child, and ask of her when she hath fulfilled her nine months, if her womb may keep the birth any longer within her.
Then said he unto me, Consider with thyself; as the rain is more than the drops, and as the fire is greater than the smoke; but the drops and the smoke remain behind: so the quantity which is past did more exceed.
And salt waters shall be found in the sweet, and all friends shall destroy one another; then shall wit hide itself, and understanding withdraw itself into his secret chamber,
So the angel that was come to talk with me held me, comforted me, and set me up upon my feet.
And my soul recovered the spirit of understanding, and I began to talk with the most High again,
And I said, O Lord that bearest rule, who may know these things, but he that hath not his dwelling with men?
And will begin to make inquisition of them, what they be that have hurt unjustly with their unrighteousness, and when the affliction of Sion shall be fulfilled;
And the children of a year old shall speak with their voices, the women with child shall bring forth untimely children of three or four months old, and they shall live, and be raised up.
At that time shall friends fight one against another like enemies, and the earth shall stand in fear with those that dwell therein, the springs of the fountains shall stand still, and in three hours they shall not run.
As for faith, it shall flourish, corruption shall be overcome, and the truth, which hath been so long without fruit, shall be declared.
And when he talked with me, behold, I looked by little and little upon him before whom I stood.
And in the eighth night was my heart vexed within me again, and I began to speak before the most High.
If the world now be made for our sakes, why do we not possess an inheritance with the world? how long shall this endure?
For my son Jesus shall be revealed with those that be with him, and they that remain shall rejoice within four hundred years.
And being judge, if he should not forgive them that are cured with his word, and put out the multitude of contentions,
Thou broughtest it up with thy righteousness, and nurturedst it in thy law, and reformedst it with thy judgment.
If therefore thou shalt destroy him which with so great labour was fashioned, it is an easy thing to be ordained by thy commandment, that the thing which was made might be preserved.
Whose throne is inestimable; whose glory may not be comprehended; before whom the hosts of angels stand with trembling,
Whose look drieth up the depths, and indignation maketh the mountains to melt away; which the truth witnesseth:
For the just, which have many good works laid up with thee, shall out of their own deeds receive reward.
Even so perisheth man also, which is formed with thy hands, and is called thine own image, because thou art like unto him, for whose sake thou hast made all things, and likened him unto the husbandman’s seed.
Shall be preserved from the said perils, and shall see my salvation in my land, and within my borders: for I have sanctified them for me from the beginning.
Let the multitude perish then, which was born in vain; and let my grape be kept, and my plant; for with great labour have I made it perfect.
And pray unto the Highest continually, then will I come and talk with thee.
After seven days I sat upon the grass, and my heart was vexed within me, like as before:
That thing also which was sown, or cast therein, or received, doth perish, and remaineth not with us: but with us it hath not happened so.
But if thou sayest unto me, My lamentation is not like the earth’s, because I have lost the fruit of my womb, which I brought forth with pains, and bare with sorrows;
Then say I unto thee, Like as thou hast brought forth with labour; even so the earth also hath given her fruit, namely, man, ever since the beginning unto him that made her.
And I looked, and, behold, the woman appeared unto me no more, but there was a city builded, and a large place shewed itself from the foundations: then was I afraid, and cried with a loud voice, and said,
And whereas she told thee that she nourished him with labour: that was the dwelling in Jerusalem.
For thou art blessed above many other, and art called with the Highest; and so are but few.
But her heads were at rest: the head in the midst was greater than the other, yet rested it with the residue.
So went it with all the residue one after another, as that every one reigned, and then appeared no more.
Then I beheld, and, lo, in process of time the feathers that followed stood up upon the right side, that they might rule also; and some of them ruled, but within a while they appeared no more:
And then I saw that the two other heads were joined with it.
And, behold, the head was turned with them that were with it, and did eat up the two feathers under the wing that would have reigned.
But this head put the whole earth in fear, and bare rule in it over all those that dwelt upon the earth with much oppression; and it had the governance of the world more than all the wings that had been.
Hear thou, I will talk with thee, and the Highest shall say unto thee,
And the fourth came, and overcame all the beasts that were past, and had power over the world with great fearfulness, and over the whole compass of the earth with much wicked oppression; and so long time dwelt he upon the earth with deceit.
For the earth hast thou not judged with truth.
And I said, Lord that bearest rule, if I have found grace before thy sight, and if I am justified with thee before many others, and if my prayer indeed be come up before thy face;
And of those that dwell therein, with much oppression, above all those that were before them: therefore are they called the heads of the eagle.
And whereas thou sawest that the great head appeared no more, it signifieth that one of them shall die upon his bed, and yet with pain.
For the two that remain shall be slain with the sword.
For the rest of my people shall he deliver with mercy, those that have been pressed upon my borders, and he shall make them joyful until the coming of the day of judgment, whereof I have spoken unto thee from the beginning.
But wait thou here thyself yet seven days more, that it may be shewed thee, whatsoever it pleaseth the Highest to declare unto thee. And with that he went his way.
For we are not better than they that died there. And they wept with a loud voice. Then answered I them, and said,
And they were all mixed together; the blast of fire, the flaming breath, and the great tempest; and fell with violence upon the multitude which was prepared to fight, and burned them up every one, so that upon a sudden of an innumerable multitude nothing was to be perceived, but only dust and smell of smoke: when I saw this I was afraid.
The Highest shall stay the springs of the stream again, that they may go through: therefore sawest thou the multitude with peace.
But those that be left behind of thy people are they that are found within my borders.
And he said unto me, Like as thou canst neither seek out nor know the things that are in the deep of the sea: even so can no man upon earth see my Son, or those that be with him, but in the day time.