And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
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For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
Psalms
PoetryFor thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsMy skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Job
Wisdom / JobThou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God:
2 Chronicles
HistoryDeliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;
Numbers
Law / MosesFair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.
Job
WisdomThe poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
Acts
HistoryThe sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsIf I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulTheir throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewIf it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.
Esther
History / MordecaiGrace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.
Genesis
Law / MosesWhich were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
Genesis
Law / MosesHe putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, Ye be righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him: but who slew all these?
2 Kings
HistoryThey have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.