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And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.
Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes.
Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Beth-lehem in the beginning of barley harvest.
And Rephah was his son, also Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,
Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that is in the house of the LORD: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me.
And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?
And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.
Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
