They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
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Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at the entering in of the gate until the morning.
2 Kings
HistorySay ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaHowbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.
Acts
HistoryIf ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
Hebrews
General EpistlesThe rings, and nose jewels,
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAlso he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
Genesis
Law / MosesFear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.
John
GospelsBut Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
Luke
Gospels / LukeHow he sware unto the LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
Luke
GospelsAnd I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAsaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-edom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals;
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAt the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Proverbs
WisdomHe sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
Psalms
PoetryTheir drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsDiscretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonTo the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsPhilip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.
John
GospelsAs for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.