Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting. No entertainment was brought before him, and sleep fled from him.
In the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams that troubled his spirit, and sleep escaped him.
That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him.
David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted and went into his house and spent the night lying in sackcloth on the grou
You have kept my eyes from closing; I am too troubled to speak.
Then Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson, went down to meet the king. He had not cared for his feet or trimmed his mustache or
singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.
And the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will never ring out in you again. Nor will any
This time Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, in accordance with the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly grea
The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent.
and I accumulated for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces. I gathered to myself male and fema
You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the st
When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth and walked arou
There on the willows we hung our harps,