2 Samuel 19:4

Mordecai came back to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.

King David longed to go out to Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.

David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot. All the people who were with him each covered his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.

The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate, and wept. As he went, he said, “My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!”

Don’t listen to Hezekiah.’ For the king of Assyria says, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone of you eat from his own vine, and everyone from his own fig tree, and everyone drink water from his own cistern;

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.

The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle.

When David was a little past the top, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred summer fruits, and a container of wine.

Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?

Sigh, but not aloud. Make no mourning for the dead. Bind your headdress on you, and put your sandals on your feet. Don’t cover your lips, and don’t eat mourner’s bread.”

Your turbans will be on your heads, and your sandals on your feet. You won’t mourn or weep; but you will pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.

So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

Don’t despise prophecies.

These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son.

Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life;

and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by Yahweh’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

He didn’t lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.

Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.”

“ ‘He who is the high priest among his brothers, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and who is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose, or tear his clothes.

When he saw her, he tore his clothes, and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are one of those who trouble me; for I have opened my mouth to Yahweh, and I can’t go back.”

and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;

They buried Abner in Hebron; and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at Abner’s grave; and all the people wept.

Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken Uriah the Hittite’s wife to be your wife.’

As soon as he had finished speaking, behold, the king’s sons came, and lifted up their voice, and wept. The king also and all his servants wept bitterly.

Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom.

When David had come to the top, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his tunic torn, and earth on his head.

Joab said to him, “You must not be the bearer of news today, but you must carry news another day. But today you must carry no news, because the king’s son is dead.”

Joab was told, “Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom.”

The victory that day was turned into mourning among all the people; for the people heard it said that day, “The king grieves for his son.”

Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.

Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.

After a while, the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.

So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.

and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.

the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith;

Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, “Who is he, and where is he who dared presume in his heart to do so?”

Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he even assault the queen in front of me in the house?” As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.

and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you.”

They were distressed because they were confident. They came there, and were confounded.

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.

God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground,

Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man’s justice comes from Yahweh.

Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

My heart cries out for Moab! Her nobles flee to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for they go up by the ascent of Luhith with weeping; for on the way to Horonaim, they raise up a cry of destruction.

Behold, Yahweh will overcome you and hurl you away violently. Yes, he will grasp you firmly.

Their nobles send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.

Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed. They cover their heads.

But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.

Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will send to him those who pour off, and they will pour him off; and they will empty his vessels, and break their containers in pieces.

In their sight you shall bear it on your shoulder, and carry it out in the dark. You shall cover your face, so that you don’t see the land, for I have set you for a sign to the house of Israel.”

“ ‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.’

Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

When they came near to Jerusalem, to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,

All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, “Don’t weep. She isn’t dead, but sleeping.”

When he came near to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the mountain that is called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples,

When he came near, he saw the city and wept over it,

He came out and went, as his custom was, to the Mount of Olives. His disciples also followed him.

They all wept freely, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,

Paul said, “I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me today, might become such as I am, except for these bonds.”

For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh

Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.