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 said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
Amos
Minor ProphetsFor strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryIf then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAgain in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
Matthew
GospelsSing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Exodus
LawAnd Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBalaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.
Joshua
History / JoshuaWherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
1 John
General Epistles / JohnAnd he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.
1 Kings
HistoryJesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThat he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahFor he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd out of the tribe of Naphtali; Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, and Hammon with her suburbs, and Kirjathaim with her suburbs.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThe children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThen Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God is with thee.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:
Numbers
LawFor I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.