Quotes About Lamentations

Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.

Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound.

There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.

The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.

HIS COMPASSIONS FAIL NOT. THEY ARE NEW EVERY MORNING. LAMENTATIONS 3:22-23 NKJV

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

Dans le calme du jardin, sur une nuit de lune éclairait, vous pourriez être en mesure d'entendre les lamentations durables de narcisses et jonquilles aveugles aveugles - pour le vrai connaisseur de leur beauté, l'élégance et la grâce. Il est de grandes difficultés qu'un aficionado authentique jamais arrive dans le jardin.

Le invitaban a vino, tal vez deseaban oír sus quejas, sus lamentaciones, su odio. Pero no podían oirlo («porque tal vez nada de esto existe. Nada más que soladad o indiferencia, nada más que una corteza de hombre, triste caparazón»).

How Americans restore trust may be an existential question for their country, then, but it's ultimately a practical one: What U.S. society needs to answer it in the coming years aren't lamentations but practical measures, especially among the emerging generations that will define America's future.

The seals that hold back night shall weaken, and in the heart of winter shall winter's heart be born amid the wailing of lamentations and the gnashing of teeth, for winter's heart shall ride a black horse, and the name of it is Death. -from The Karaethon Cycle: The Prophecies of the Dragon

The seals that hold back night shall weaken, and in the heart of winter shall winter's heart be born amid the wailing of lamentations and the gnashing of teeth, for winter's heart shall ride a black horse, and the name of it is Death. —from The Karaethon Cycle: The Prophecies of the Dragon

And if God permits it, it is because the ungodly action is part of God's plan for him. No one can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it (see Lamentations 3:37).

Lamentations 3:33). God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which will help us grow.

As Lamentations 3:33 states, "For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to the children of men.

Because of the LORD'S great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. LAMENTATIONS 3:22 – 23

And mother-like, Mrs. Jo forgot the threatened chastisement in tender lamentations over the happy scapegrace…

The belfry of St Cloud slowly emitted ten strokes from its broad sonorous jaws. There was something melancholy in that voice of bronze, which thus breathed its lamentations in the night. But each of those sounds, which told the hour he sighed for, vibrated harmoniously in the heart of the young man.

Las lamentaciones y los gemidos, los suspiros y las lágrimas son apaciguadas entre tanto por esta horrible palpitación de mi corazón; ¡ah, esta horrible palpitación!

The man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment ... is the only man for whom affliction is something devastating. At the same time he is the only man who has not deserved the punishment. But, after all, for him it is no punishment; it is God holding his hand and pressing rather hard. For, if he remains constant, what he will discover buried deep under the sound of his own lamentations is the pearl of the silence of God.

Lamentations 2:19 states, "Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord.

Nothing is better proof of how far humanity has regressed than the impossibility of finding a single nation, a single tribe, among whom birth still provokes mourning and lamentations.

Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, "The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him." The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD. LAMENTATIONS 3 : 22 – 26

Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it may be blasphemy to say so, he and his 'Lamentations' are really not worth reading.

Flight simulators give me vertigo. I prefer to throw down with my feet on the ground." She pointed a thumb at herself. "You put me at the controls of a giant battle mech, I will crush my enemies and see them driven before me." I grinned. "What about the lamentations of their women?" "Oh yeah," she said, chuckling. "Their women lamentate all over the place. That goes without saying, doesn't it?