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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A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
Luke
GospelsAnd they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
Luke
GospelsAnd there was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was Ziba. And when they had called him unto David, the king said unto him, Art thou Ziba? And he said, Thy servant is he.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd their brethren, which were in their villages, were to come after seven days from time to time with them.
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWhich executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
Psalms
PoetrySeparate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
Numbers
LawAnd twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.
1 Kings
HistoryFor he that is dead is freed from sin.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.
Genesis
Law / MosesI will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahFor it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Joshua
History / JoshuaI said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;
Solomon's Song
PoetryNow the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings
HistoryFor the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
Leviticus
LawHis archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
Job
WisdomAnd needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.
John
Gospels / JohnThe king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;