And he said unto them, Can ye make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?
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The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were, Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
Deuteronomy
LawThe grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesSaying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
Luke
GospelsMy tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSon of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHappy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
Psalms
PoetryThus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.
Genesis
Law / MosesWe lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWere it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I am a Levite of Beth-lehem-judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place.
Judges
HistoryNow hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraNevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulNow go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahKnowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
2 Peter
General EpistlesAnd the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines;
2 Samuel
HistoryBut it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomBut if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows are beyond thee; go thy way: for the LORD hath sent thee away.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBut the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
Mark
GospelsAnd thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.