Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
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Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
Psalms
PoetryThe men of Michmas, an hundred twenty and two.
Ezra
HistorySo they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.
John
Gospels / JohnMy flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsShall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
Job
WisdomFor your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Genesis
LawAnd Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Matthew
GospelsHear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the hanging of the door to the tabernacle.
Exodus
LawSo they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahNow the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carry away.
2 Kings
HistoryThe whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour were two thousand and six hundred.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done this?
Acts
HistoryAnd all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore; it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his bald forehead.
Leviticus
LawAnd thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness.
Numbers
LawFor the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsHear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.
1 Kings
HistoryThou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.