How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
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He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
Proverbs
WisdomThen they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThen they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
Psalms
PoetryLo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
Job
Wisdom / JobBut if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host:
Judges
HistoryAnd when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewI likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
Nehemiah
HistoryOf Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites.
Numbers
LawAnd they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us:
Genesis
LawFor a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Luke
GospelsBehold, your house is left unto you desolate.
Matthew
GospelsO LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.
Acts
HistoryThough they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosHis foundation is in the holy mountains.
Psalms
PoetryRemember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanIf thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Beth-lehem his city: for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAs the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
John
GospelsAnd the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahSay unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.