For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
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And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd when Jesus was passed over again by ship unto the other side, much people gathered unto him: and he was nigh unto the sea.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThey are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
Luke
GospelsThe new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kir-haraseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahMy days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWherefore Nathan spake unto Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign, and David our lord knoweth it not?
1 Kings
HistoryAs for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as seemeth good and meet unto you.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAs he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh, Adnah, and Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and Zilthai, captains of the thousands that were of Manasseh.
1 Chronicles
HistoryHe brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city, over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, over against the portions for the prince: and it shall be the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsYet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWhen I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
Psalms
PoetryHeshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities in all.
Joshua
HistoryThus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.
Mark
GospelsTill we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight.
John
GospelsAll these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.
Genesis
LawDeal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.
Genesis
LawBut the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.