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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For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.
Exodus
LawMy son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBecause of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahLet them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:
Genesis
LawAnd Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names:
Numbers
LawAnd moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonWhen the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, upon the border of it, which was on the side of the ephod inward.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
Leviticus
LawAnd he enquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
1 Samuel
HistoryThen Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
John
GospelsI will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.
Exodus
LawNeither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHowbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's:
Ruth
HistoryThe song of songs, which is Solomon's.
Solomon's Song
PoetryTherefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Job
WisdomThere is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.