Isaiah 22:12
And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief:
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Isaiah 22:12
And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief:
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Isaiah 22:13
But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.
Isaiah 22:14
And the Lord of armies said to me secretly, Truly, this sin will not be taken from you till your death, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.
Amos 6:3
You who put far away the evil day, causing the rule of the violent to come near;
Amos 6:4
Who are resting on beds of ivory, stretched out on soft seats, feasting on lambs from the flock and young oxen from the cattle-house;
Amos 6:5
Making foolish songs to the sound of corded instruments, and designing for themselves instruments of music, like David;
Amos 6:6
Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph.
Amos 6:7
So now they will go away prisoners with the first of those who are made prisoners, and the loud cry of those who were stretched out will come to an end.
Deuteronomy 29:20
The Lord will have no mercy on him, but the wrath of the Lord will be burning against that man, and all the curses recorded in this book will be waiting for him, and the Lord will take away his name completely from the earth.
Esther 3:15
The runners went out quickly by the king's order, and a public statement was made in Shushan: and the king and Haman took wine together: but the town of Shushan was troubled.
Isaiah 3:16
Again, the Lord has said, Because the daughters of Zion are full of pride, and go with outstretched necks and wandering eyes, with their foot-chains sounding when they go:
Isaiah 5:12
And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord, and they are not interested in what his hands are doing.
Hosea 9:1
Have no joy, O Israel, and do not be glad like the nations; for you have been untrue to your God; your desire has been for the loose woman's reward on every grain-floor.
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Isaiah 15:2
The daughter of Dibon has gone up to the high places, weeping: Moab is sounding her cry of sorrow over Nebo, and over Medeba: everywhere the hair of the head and of the face is cut off.
Micah 1:16
Let your head be uncovered and your hair cut off in sorrow for the children of your delight: let the hair be pulled from your head like an eagle's; for they have been taken away from you as prisoners.
Ezekiel 7:18
And they will put haircloth round them, and deep fear will be covering them; and shame will be on all faces, and the hair gone from all their heads.
Jeremiah 7:29
Let your hair be cut off, O Jerusalem, and let it go, and let a song of grief go up on the open hilltops; for the Lord is turned away from the generation of his wrath and has given them up.
Jeremiah 16:6
Death will overtake great as well as small in the land: their bodies will not be put in a resting-place, and no one will be weeping for them or wounding themselves or cutting off their hair for them:
Jeremiah 41:5
Some people came from Shechem, from Shiloh and Samaria, eighty men, with the hair of their faces cut off and their clothing out of order, and with cuts on their bodies, and in their hands meal offerings and perfumes which they were taking to the house of the Lord.
Leviticus 21:5
They are not to have their hair cut off for the dead, or the hair on their chins cut short, or make cuts in their flesh.
Jeremiah 48:37
For everywhere the hair of the head and the hair of the face is cut off: on every hand there are wounds, and haircloth on every body.
Deuteronomy 14:1
You are the children of the Lord your God: you are not to make cuts on your bodies or take off the hair on your brows in honour of the dead;
Jeremiah 47:5
The hair is cut off from the head of Gaza; Ashkelon has come to nothing; the last of the Anakim are deeply wounding themselves.
Leviticus 19:27
The ends of the hair round your face and on your chin may not be cut off.
Leviticus 19:28
You may not make cuts in your flesh in respect for the dead, or have marks printed on your bodies: I am the Lord.
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Amos 8:10
Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.
Isaiah 3:24
And in the place of sweet spices will be an evil smell, and for a fair band a thick cord; for a well-dressed head there will be the cutting-off of the hair, and for a beautiful robe there will be the clothing of sorrow; the mark of the prisoner in place of the ornaments of the free.
Joel 1:13
Put haircloth round you and give yourselves to sorrow, you priests; give cries of grief, you servants of the altar: come in, and, clothed in haircloth, let the night go past, you servants of my God: for the meal offering and the drink offering have been kept back from the house of your God.
Jeremiah 6:26
O daughter of my people, put on haircloth, rolling yourself in the dust: give yourself to sorrow, as for an only son, with most bitter cries of grief; for he who makes waste will come on us suddenly.
Joel 1:8
Make sounds of grief like a virgin dressed in haircloth for the husband of her early years.
Isaiah 15:3
In their streets they are covering themselves with haircloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their public places, there is crying and bitter weeping.
Revelation 11:3
And I will give orders to my two witnesses, and they will be prophets for a thousand, two hundred and sixty days, clothed with haircloth.
Isaiah 20:2
At that time the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and take off your robe, and your shoes from your feet; and he did so, walking unclothed and without shoes on his feet.
Isaiah 32:11
Be shaking with fear, you women who are living in comfort; be troubled, you who have no fear of danger: take off your robes and put on clothing of grief.
Isaiah 37:1
And on hearing it Hezekiah took off his robe and put on haircloth and went into the house of the Lord.
Jeremiah 49:3
Make sounds of grief, O Heshbon, for Ai is wasted; give loud cries, O daughters of Rabbah, and put haircloth round you: give yourselves to weeping, running here and there and wounding yourselves; for Milcom will be taken prisoner together with his rulers and his priests.
Ezekiel 7:16
And those of them who get away safely will go and be in the secret places like the doves of the valleys, all of them will come to death, every one in his sin.
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Job 1:20
Then Job got up, and after parting his clothing and cutting off his hair, he went down on his face to the earth, and gave worship, and said,
Ezra 9:3
And hearing this, with signs of grief and pulling out the hair of my head and my chin, I took my seat on the earth deeply troubled.
Ezra 9:4
Then everyone who went in fear of the words of the God of Israel, because of the sin of those who had come back, came together to me; and I kept where I was, overcome with grief, till the evening offering.
1 Kings 21:27
Hearing these words, Ahab, in great grief, put haircloth on his flesh and went without food, sleeping in haircloth, and going about quietly.
Esther 4:1
Now when Mordecai saw what was done, pulling off his robe, he put on haircloth, with dust on his head, and went out into the middle of the town, crying out with a loud and bitter cry.
Esther 4:2
And he came even before the king's doorway; for no one might come inside the king's door clothed in haircloth.
Esther 4:3
And in every part of the kingdom, wherever the king's word and his order came, there was great sorrow among the Jews, and weeping and crying and going without food; and numbers of them were stretched on the earth covered with dust and haircloth.
Job 16:15
I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.
Genesis 37:34
Then Jacob, giving signs of grief, put on haircloth, and went on weeping for his son day after day.
2 Kings 19:1
And on hearing it, King Hezekiah took off his robe, and put on haircloth, and went into the house of the Lord.
Ezra 10:6
Then Ezra got up from before the house of God and went into the room of Jehohanan, the son of Eliashib; but when he came there, he took no food or drink, for he was sorrowing for the sin of those who had come back.
Psalms 69:11
When I put on the clothing of grief, they said evil of me.
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James 4:8
Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.
James 4:9
Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.
James 4:10
Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.
Ecclesiastes 3:4
A time for weeping and a time for laughing; a time for sorrow and a time for dancing;
Luke 6:25
Unhappy are you who are full of food now: for you will be in need. Unhappy are you who are laughing now: for you will be crying in sorrow.
Luke 13:3
I say to you, It is not so: but if your hearts are not changed, you will all come to the same end.
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Joel 2:12
But even now, says the Lord, come back to me with all your heart, keeping from food, with weeping and with sorrow:
Joel 2:13
Let your hearts be broken, and not your clothing, and come back to the Lord your God: for he is full of grace and pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, ready to be turned from his purpose of punishment.
Jonah 3:5
And the people of Nineveh had belief in God; and a time was fixed for going without food, and they put on haircloth, from the greatest to the least.
Jonah 3:6
And the word came to the king of Nineveh, and he got up from his seat of authority, and took off his robe, and covering himself with haircloth, took his seat in the dust.
Jonah 3:7
And he had it given out in Nineveh, By the order of the king and his great men, no man or beast, herd or flock, is to have a taste of anything; let them have no food or water:
Jonah 3:8
And let man and beast be covered with haircloth, and let them make strong prayers to God: and let everyone be turned from his evil way and the violent acts of their hands.
Joel 2:17
Let the priests, the servants of the Lord, be weeping between the covered way and the altar, and let them say, Have mercy on your people, O Lord, do not give up your heritage to shame, so that the nations become their rulers: why let them say among the peoples, Where is their God?
Leviticus 23:29
For any person, whoever he may be, who takes his pleasure on that day will be cut off from his people.
Psalms 35:13
But as for me, when they were ill I put on the clothing of sorrow: I went without food and was sad, and my prayer came back again to my heart.
Isaiah 58:3
They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;
Isaiah 58:5
Have I given orders for such a day as this? a day for keeping yourselves from pleasure? is it only a question of the bent head, of putting on haircloth, and being seated in the dust? is this what seems to you a holy day, well-pleasing to the Lord?
Daniel 9:3
And turning my face to the Lord God, I gave myself up to prayer, requesting his grace, going without food, in haircloth and dust.
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Jeremiah 4:8
For this put on haircloth, with weeping and loud crying: for the burning wrath of the Lord is not turned back from us.
James 5:1
Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.
Zechariah 12:10
And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son.
2 Samuel 15:30
And David went up the slopes of the Mount of Olives weeping all the way, with his head covered and no shoes on his feet: and all the people who were with him, covering their heads, went up weeping.
Jeremiah 9:10
Give yourselves to weeping, crying out in sorrow for the mountains; and for the fields of the waste land send up a song of grief, because they are burned up, so that no one goes through; there is no sound of cattle; the bird of the heavens and the beast are in flight and are gone.
Jeremiah 25:34
Give cries of grief, you keepers of sheep; give cries for help, rolling yourselves in the dust, you chiefs of the flock: for the days of your destruction have fully come, and I will send you in all directions, and your fall will be like that of the males of the flock.
Joel 1:11
The farmers are shamed, the workers in the vine-gardens give cries of grief, for the wheat and the barley; for the produce of the fields has come to destruction.
Micah 1:8
For this I will be full of sorrow and give cries of grief; I will go uncovered and unclothed: I will give cries of grief like the jackals and will be in sorrow like the ostriches.
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Ezekiel 21:10
It has been made sharp to give death; it is polished so that it may be like a thunder-flame: ...
Isaiah 22:1
The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your people gone up to the house-tops?
Psalms 137:4
How may we give the Lord's song in a strange land?
Isaiah 24:7
The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief.
Isaiah 24:8
The pleasing sound of all instruments of music has come to an end, and the voices of those who are glad.
Isaiah 24:9
There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it.
Isaiah 32:13
And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.
Jeremiah 16:8
And you are not to go into the house of feasting, or be seated with them to take food or drink.
Lamentations 5:15
The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.
Amos 8:3
And the songs of the king's house will be cries of pain in that day, says the Lord God: great will be the number of the dead bodies, and everywhere they will put them out without a word.
Luke 16:19
Now there was a certain man of great wealth, who was dressed in fair clothing of purple and delicate linen, and was shining and glad every day.
Luke 21:34
But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:
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Joel 1:14
Let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting, let the old men, even all the people of the land, come together to the house of the Lord your God, crying out to the Lord.
Joel 1:15
Sorrow for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Ruler of all it will come.
Joel 2:14
May it not be that he will again let his purpose be changed and let a blessing come after him, even a meal offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God?
Joel 2:15
Let a horn be sounded in Zion, let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting:
Joel 2:16
Get the people together, make the mass of the people holy, send for the old men, get together the children and babies at the breast: let the newly married man come out of his room and the bride from her tent.
2 Chronicles 20:3
Then Jehoshaphat, in his fear, went to the Lord for directions, and gave orders all through Judah for the people to go without food.
Nehemiah 9:1
Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel came together, taking no food and putting haircloth and dust on their bodies.
Nehemiah 9:2
And the seed of Israel made themselves separate from all the men of other nations, publicly requesting forgiveness for their sins and the wrongdoing of their fathers.
Esther 4:16
Go, get together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and go without food for me, taking no food or drink night or day for three days: and I and my women will do the same; and so I will go in to the king, which is against the law: and if death is to be my fate, then let it come.
Zechariah 7:3
And to say to the priests of the house of the Lord of armies and to the prophets, Am I to go on weeping in the fifth month, separating myself as I have done in past years?
Judges 20:26
Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up to Beth-el, weeping and waiting there before the Lord, going without food all day till evening, and offering burned offerings and peace-offerings before the Lord.
Zechariah 7:5
Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do it because of me?
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Isaiah 21:4
My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me.
Isaiah 21:5
They make ready the table, they put down the covers, they take food and drink. Up! you captains; put oil on your breastplates.
Nahum 1:10
For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.
Daniel 5:1
Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, drinking wine before the thousand.
Daniel 5:2
Belshazzar, while he was overcome with wine, gave orders for them to put before him the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar, his father, had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem; so that the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, might take their drink from them.
Daniel 5:3
Then they took in the gold and silver vessels which had been in the Temple of the house of God at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, took wine from them.
Daniel 5:4
They took their wine and gave praise to the gods of gold and silver, of brass and iron and wood and stone.
1 Samuel 25:36
And Abigail went back to Nabal; and he was feasting in his house like a king; and Nabal's heart was full of joy, for he had taken much wine; so she said nothing to him till dawn came.
Isaiah 47:8
So now take note of this, you who are given up to pleasure, living without fear of evil, saying in your heart, I am, and there is no one like me; I will never be a widow, or have my children taken from me.
Jeremiah 51:39
When they are heated, I will make a feast for them, and overcome them with wine, so that they may become unconscious, sleeping an eternal sleep without awaking, says the Lord.
Daniel 5:30
That very night Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldaeans, was put to death.
Revelation 18:7
As she gave glory to herself, and became more evil in her ways, in the same measure give her pain and weeping: for she says in her heart, I am seated here a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see sorrow.
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Isaiah 22:8
He took away the cover of Judah; and in that day you were looking with care at the store of arms in the house of the woods.
Isaiah 22:9
And you saw all the broken places in the wall of the town of David: and you got together the waters of the lower pool.
Isaiah 22:10
And you had the houses of Jerusalem numbered, pulling down the houses to make the wall stronger.
Isaiah 22:11
And you made a place between the two walls for storing the waters of the old pool: but you gave no thought to him who had done this, and were not looking to him by whom it had been purposed long before.
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Isaiah 28:21
For the Lord will come up as on Mount Perazim, he will be moved to wrath as in the valley of Gibeon; so that he may do his work--strange is his work; and give effect to his act--unnatural is his act.
Isaiah 28:22
And now, take care that you do not make sport of him, or your bands will be made strong; for I have had word from the Lord, the Lord of armies, of an end, of a complete end, which is to come on all the land.
Jeremiah 17:15
See, they say to me, Where is the word of the Lord? let it come now.
Jeremiah 5:12
They would have nothing to do with the Lord, saying, He will do nothing, and no evil will come to us; we will not see the sword or be short of food:
Jeremiah 8:11
And they have made little of the wounds of the daughter of Zion, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
Ezekiel 12:21
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Amos 5:18
Sorrow to you who are looking for the day of the Lord! what is the day of the Lord to you? it is dark and not light.
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Luke 17:26
And as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the day of the Son of man.
Luke 17:27
They were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day of the overflowing of the waters, when Noah went into the ark, and they all came to destruction.
Luke 17:28
In the same way, in the days of Lot; they were feasting and trading, they were planting and building;
Luke 17:29
But on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, fire came down from heaven and destruction came on them all.
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Nehemiah 8:9
And Nehemiah, who was the Tirshatha, and Ezra, the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were the teachers of the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to the Lord your God; let there be no sorrow or weeping; for all the people were weeping on hearing the words of the law.
Nehemiah 8:10
Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is your strong place.
Nehemiah 8:11
So the Levites made all the people quiet, saying, Be quiet, for the day is holy; and do not give way to grief.
2 Chronicles 16:9
For the eyes of the Lord go this way and that, through all the earth, letting it be seen that he is the strong support of those whose hearts are true to him. In this you have done foolishly, for from now you will have wars.
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Isaiah 22:2
You, who are full of loud voices, a town of outcries, given up to joy; your dead men have not been put to the sword, or come to their death in war.
Micah 6:9
The voice of the Lord is crying out to the town: Give ear, you tribes and the meeting of the town.
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Jeremiah 9:17
This is what the Lord of armies has said: Take thought and send for the weeping women, so that they may come; and send for the wise women, so that they may come:
Jeremiah 9:18
Let them quickly make cries of sorrow for us, so that drops may be flowing from our eyes till they are streaming with water.
Jeremiah 9:19
For a sound of weeping goes up from Zion, a cry, How has destruction come on us? we are overcome with shame because we have gone away from our land; he has sent us out from our house.
Jeremiah 9:20
But even now, give ear to the word of the Lord, O you women; let your ears be open to the word of his mouth, training your daughters to give cries of sorrow, everyone teaching her neighbour a song of grief.
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Acts 13:2
And while they were doing the Lord's work, and going without food, the Holy Spirit said, Let Barnabas and Saul be given to me for the special work for which they have been marked out by me.
Acts 13:3
Then, after prayer and going without food they put their hands on them, and sent them away.
Matthew 9:15
And Jesus said to them, Will the friends of the newly-married man be sad as long as he is with them? But the days will come when he will be taken away from them, and then will they go without food.
Acts 14:23
And when they had made selection of some to be rulers in every church, and had given themselves to prayer and kept themselves from food, they put them into the care of the Lord in whom they had faith.
1 Corinthians 7:5
Do not keep back from one another what is right, but only for a short time, and by agreement, so that you may give yourselves to prayer, and come together again; so that Satan may not get the better of you through your loss of self-control.
2 Corinthians 11:27
In hard work and weariness, in frequent watchings, going without food and drink, cold and in need of clothing.
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Proverbs 14:13
Even while laughing the heart may be sad; and after joy comes sorrow.
Ecclesiastes 2:2
Of laughing I said, It is foolish; and of joy--What use is it?
Ecclesiastes 7:2
It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.
Ecclesiastes 7:3
Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better.
Ecclesiastes 7:4
The hearts of the wise are in the house of weeping; but the hearts of the foolish are in the house of joy.
Ecclesiastes 7:6
Like the cracking of thorns under a pot, so is the laugh of a foolish man; and this again is to no purpose.
1 Peter 4:3
Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;
1 Peter 4:4
And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you:
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Jeremiah 2:16
Even the children of Noph and Tahpanhes have put shame on you.
Ezekiel 27:31
And they will have the hair of their heads cut off because of you, and will put haircloth on their bodies, weeping for you with bitter grief in their souls, even with bitter sorrow.
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Zephaniah 2:15
This is the town which was full of joy, living without fear of danger, saying in her heart, I am, and there is no other: how has she been made waste, a place for beasts to take their rest in! everyone who goes by her will make hisses, waving his hand.
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