Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
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That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Titus
Pauline EpistlesOf a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahTherefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
Acts
HistoryI will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him.
2 Chronicles
HistoryWhosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonSing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.
Numbers
LawWhat is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
Psalms
PoetryAnd at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
Nehemiah
HistoryHath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielI waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
Psalms
PoetryBut when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.
Mark
GospelsAnd it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king's guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon:
Daniel
Major ProphetsFor they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.