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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A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesHe poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
Psalms
PoetryBut now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it;
Judges
HistoryWith clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.
Job
Wisdom / JobJerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.
Joshua
HistoryAnd when they came to Jesus, they besought him instantly, saying, That he was worthy for whom he should do this:
Luke
GospelsBeware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;
Acts
HistoryAnd the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son.
Genesis
Law / MosesTherefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.
1 Kings
HistoryThere were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers' skins.
Exodus
LawIn those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him.
Exodus
Law / MosesThus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.
Luke
GospelsFor nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the children of Israel gave to the Levites these cities with their suburbs.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.