And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
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I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsWhen I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukSo Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Ben-hadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
2 Kings
HistoryWhen Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;
John
Gospels / JohnWhom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWatch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
Genesis
Law / MosesWoe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Matthew
GospelsWheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and Ish-bosheth said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father's concubine?
2 Samuel
HistoryAwake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
Judges
History / SamuelHe spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.
John
Gospels / JohnShe also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning.
Acts
History / LukeThen three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.
Judges
History / SamuelKnowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulNeither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.
Leviticus
LawAnd they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.