And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
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And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.
Genesis
LawHer filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
Exodus
LawFor their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonSo that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.
Job
WisdomAnd I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnFor whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.
Mark
GospelsAlas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor he that is dead is freed from sin.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith unto me, that will I speak.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.
3 John
General EpistlesWho in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, unto Hebron; and they fought against it:
Joshua
HistoryAs it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesFrom thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation,
Numbers
LawThe people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man?
John
GospelsAnd he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Exodus
LawKnow for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.