Quotes About Lament

Then Jeremiah lamented over Josiah, and to this day all the choirs of men and women sing laments over Josiah. They established them as a statute for Israel, and indeed they are written in the Book of Laments.

His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.

His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.

For the choirmaster, to be accompanied by flutes. A Psalm of David. Give ear to my words, O LORD; consider my groaning.

His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.

Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.

A prayer of one who is afflicted, when he grows faint and pours out his lament before the LORD. Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry for help come before You.

A Maskil of David, when he was in the cave. A prayer. I cry aloud to the LORD; I lift my voice to the LORD for mercy.

And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.

Therefore my heart laments for Moab like a harp, my inmost being for Kir-heres.

Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your harbor has been destroyed!

Woe to you, O Ariel, the city of Ariel where David camped! Year upon year let your festivals recur.

Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.

May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. May he hear an outcry in the morning and a battle cry at noon,

Go up to Lebanon and cry out; raise your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers have been crushed.

You have said, ëWoe is me because the LORD has added sorrow to my pain! I am worn out with groaning and have found no rest.í”

Mourn for him, all you who surround him, everyone who knows his name; tell how the mighty scepter is shattered—the glorious staff!

Therefore My heart laments like a flute for Moab; it laments like a flute for the men of Kir-heres, because the wealth they acquired has perished.

“The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, the sound of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.

“As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel

Fire has gone out from its main branch and devoured its fruit; on it no strong branch remains fit for a rulerís scepter.í This is a lament and shall be used as a lament.”

Cry out and wail, O son of man, for the sword is wielded against My people; it is against all the princes of Israel! They are tossed to the sword with My people; therefore strike your thigh.

Then they will lament for you, saying, “How you have perished, O city of renown inhabited by seafaring men—she who was powerful on the sea, along with her people, who imposed terror on all peoples!