Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
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Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Jude
General EpistlesThe children of Azmaveth, forty and two.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAs soon as she heard that, she arose quickly, and came unto him.
John
GospelsFor the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
Numbers
Law / MosesThus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThou shalt have none other gods before me.
Deuteronomy
LawSo Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
1 Kings
HistoryBlessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.
Psalms
PoetrySo stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me:
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThe sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThis is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.
Joshua
HistoryThe thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that were within.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.
Judges
History / SamuelTherefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBecause of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water.