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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Then Amaziah separated them, to wit, the army that was come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in great anger.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraTake a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Number all the firstborn of the males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.
Numbers
Law / MosesThe king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.
Daniel
Major ProphetsThus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraSo he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.
Daniel
Major ProphetsO God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
Psalms
PoetryThey made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
Psalms
PoetryThat the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, I am the LORD: speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto thee.
Exodus
LawFrom thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation:
Numbers
LawThen came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?
1 Samuel
HistoryThe sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThen they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
Luke
Gospels / LukeIn thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAll things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
Hebrews
General EpistlesThey have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryTrust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.