O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
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I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.
Judges
HistoryNow the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewTherefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name.
2 Samuel
HistoryCause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.
Psalms
PoetryFor if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.
Numbers
LawFor my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThey cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them: for to morrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.
Joshua
HistoryAnd Johanan begat Azariah, (he it is that executed the priest's office in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem:)
1 Chronicles
History / EzraLet it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.
2 Kings
HistoryI am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her suburbs, Gibbethon with her suburbs,
Joshua
HistoryAt the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
Deuteronomy
LawOf Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of Azriel:
1 Chronicles
HistoryWoe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.
Joshua
HistoryHitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
John
GospelsAnd they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.