Proverbs 31:21

He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. They drank, and were merry with him.

The king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” He departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of clothing.

For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

“Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.

But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are gorgeously dressed, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts.

He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.

“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.

He gave each one of them changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.

‘Have they not found, have they not divided the plunder? A lady, two ladies to every man; to Sisera a plunder of dyed garments, a plunder of dyed garments embroidered, of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the plunder?’

Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can tell me the answer within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;

Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck thirty men of them. He took their plunder, then gave the changes of clothing to those who declared the riddle. His anger burned, and he went up to his father’s house.

but to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.

But he refused, and said, “I will not eat.” But his servants, together with the woman, constrained him; and he listened to their voice. So he arose from the earth and sat on the bed.

You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you delicately in scarlet, who put ornaments of gold on your clothing.

But Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to your master and to you, to speak these words? Hasn’t he sent me to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own urine with you?”

They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.

So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.

For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth.

“Kings of armies flee! They flee!” She who waits at home divides the plunder,

As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

As one who takes away a garment in cold weather, or vinegar on soda, so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.

Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice! You careless daughters, give ear to my speech!

Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

“Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground. They keep silence. They have cast up dust on their heads. They have clothed themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.

Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting. No musical instruments were brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.

So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.

For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury.”