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 I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:
Joshua
HistoryGreat men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.
Job
WisdomIt is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahLength of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBehold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahMy beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonYe did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesSo then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
Exodus
Law / MosesMine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?
Psalms
PoetryAll ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHowbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.
John
GospelsLet love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
Numbers
LawAnd Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez: and Haran begat Gazez.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.
Mark
Gospels / MarkYe shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsHeshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon,
Joshua
History / JoshuaNow in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.
John
Gospels / JohnErastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick.