Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
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And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThe portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHe that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd Hushai said unto Absalom, Nay; but whom the LORD, and this people, and all the men of Israel, choose, his will I be, and with him will I abide.
2 Samuel
HistoryIn those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said unto him, Nay: for the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.
2 Kings
HistoryLet us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahHow fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
Solomon's Song
PoetryNow therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThen took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsDestruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
Job
Wisdom / JobThis is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
Job
WisdomAnd for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.
Numbers
LawThen the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul, and brought him by night to Antipatris.
Acts
History / LukeBut that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Acts
History / LukeWhy did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
Job
WisdomThus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
Micah
Minor ProphetsAnd they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge was upon them, and the opening thereof every morning pertained to them.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king his father.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the people and princes of Gilead said one to another, What man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
Judges
History / SamuelWoe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.