Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
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They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBut thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAs a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
Job
WisdomThat the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
Judges
History / SamuelIf his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
Job
Wisdom / JobTherefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
Job
WisdomThen said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielTo the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
Genesis
LawThis shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahAnd Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.
Judges
HistoryTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephathiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.
Exodus
LawAnd before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewRehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:
Ezra
HistoryYea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBehold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Matthew
GospelsBut as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.