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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Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
1 Samuel
HistoryThere was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all other they took in battle.
Joshua
History / JoshuaFor thus saith the LORD unto the king's house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHis offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
Numbers
LawAnd he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
Genesis
LawBut withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.
Philemon
Pauline Epistles / PaulHear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
Psalms
PoetryYe shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
Deuteronomy
LawBut the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of one day or two: for we are many that have transgressed in this thing.
Ezra
History / EzraMalchijah the son of Harim, and Hashub the son of Pahath-moab, repaired the other piece, and the tower of the furnaces.
Nehemiah
HistoryThey cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished.
2 Samuel
HistoryFor all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelTo the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
Luke
GospelsWe will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.
Numbers
LawBut that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulForget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and one.
Nehemiah
HistoryIt is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonSing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.