It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.
So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.
Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
he said to them, “Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your chi
For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, dr
Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly th
Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wi
On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.
Who can count the dust of Jacob or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous; let my end be
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Some time later Joseph was told, “Your father is ill.” So he set out with his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
Come together and listen, O sons of Jacob; listen to your father Israel.
Job’s sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink wi
You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.
You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome.
When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge? Then he will surely re
What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.
If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse
On Herod’s birthday, however, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod