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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I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.
Deuteronomy
LawBut Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewLikewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsA scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThese be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd thirty and six thousand beeves,
Numbers
Law / MosesFrom thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Numbers
LawFor he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.
Joshua
History / JoshuaBut thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Micah
Minor ProphetsHow fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonThou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
Psalms
PoetryThe days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto the LORD: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth.
Exodus
LawAnd how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
Acts
History / LukeI also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
Job
WisdomMercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
Jude
General EpistlesBlessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
Deuteronomy
LawGod standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.
Exodus
LawYe know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than all that were before him.
1 Kings
HistorySo Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.