And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
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Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
John
GospelsAccording to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanIt pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;
Daniel
Major ProphetsBut we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.
Exodus
LawYour iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs thereof round about it.
1 Chronicles
HistoryYet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsTheir fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
Psalms
PoetryThey bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahUnto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
2 Kings
HistoryBut God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
Psalms
PoetryAnd if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd he took the fat, and the rump, and all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right shoulder:
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesEvery man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.