The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
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The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.
Psalms
PoetryAnd if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.
Leviticus
Law / MosesLament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Joel
Minor ProphetsAnd Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.
Exodus
LawAnd if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable; it shall not be accepted.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
Psalms
PoetryI drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head,
Mark
Gospels / MarkYe shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
Leviticus
Law / MosesSo now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?
Judges
History / SamuelNow Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
Genesis
Law / MosesWhich devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.
Mark
GospelsThen she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said,
Judges
HistoryAnd on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers
Law / MosesIn the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahO my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
Daniel
Major ProphetsHe heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThey shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.