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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That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielBut murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.
Psalms
PoetryBut he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation:
Mark
GospelsHowbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.
2 Kings
HistoryFrom henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownThe righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.
Proverbs
WisdomThrough the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,
Luke
GospelsAnd Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.
Judges
HistoryThe LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd 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
HistoryAnd if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, ye shall offer it at your own will.
Leviticus
Law / MosesHe taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
Numbers
Law / MosesI speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesSo Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesYe see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
James
General Epistles / JamesThen said the king to Ziba, Behold, thine are all that pertained unto Mephibosheth. And Ziba said, I humbly beseech thee that I may find grace in thy sight, my lord, O king.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBehold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.
Genesis
LawAnd they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then believed ye him not?
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.