1 Samuel 10:4

These two things have happened to you— who will grieve with you?— desolation and destruction, and famine and the sword. How can I comfort you?

It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?”

Afterward,” says Yahweh, “I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, his servants, and the people, even those who are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life. He will strike them with the edge of the sword. He will not spare them, have pity, or have mercy.” ’

He asked them of their welfare, and said, “Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?”

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

He said to him, “Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again.” So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent.

They went over there and came to the house of the young Levite man, even to the house of Micah, and asked him how he was doing.

It came to pass that as soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might greet him.

David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers.

David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, “Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name.

Please run now to meet her, and ask her, ‘Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with your child?’ ” She answered, “It is well.”

“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.

I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together,” says Yahweh: “I will not pity, spare, or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.” ’ ”

For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Who will mourn you? Who will come to ask of your welfare?

For Yahweh says, “Don’t enter into the house of mourning. Don’t go to lament. Don’t bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people,” says Yahweh, “even loving kindness and tender mercies.

If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. They came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus, the king’s personal aide, their friend, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king’s country for food.

When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the assembly, and went down to Antioch.

When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais. We greeted the brothers and stayed with them one day.

As we stayed there some days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

When we had come to Jerusalem, the brothers received us gladly.

When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.

Now when some days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and greeted Festus.

Touching at Syracuse, we stayed there three days.

Greet all of your leaders and all the saints. The Italians greet you.