Quotes About Lamentation

My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief, and your eyes no rest.

He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.

You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.

Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.

My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.

When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.

Put a veil of anguish over their hearts; may Your curse be upon them!

Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!

The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

which He unrolled before me. And written on the front and back of it were words of lamentation, mourning, and woe.

The survivors will escape and live in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley, each for his own iniquity.

Then He brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the LORD, and I saw women sitting there, weeping for Tammuz.

So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the music of your lyres will no longer be heard.

They will raise their voices for you and cry out bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in ashes.

They will shave their heads for you and wrap themselves in sackcloth. They will weep over you with anguish of soul and bitter mourning.

“Son of man, prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Wail, ëAlas for that day!í

This is what the Lord GOD says: ëOn the day it was brought down to Sheol, I caused mourning. I covered the deep because of it; I held back its rivers; its abundant waters were restrained. I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it.

“Son of man, wail for the multitudes of Egypt, and consign her and the daughters of the mighty nations to the depths of the earth with those who descend to the Pit:

Give them, O LORD—what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.

Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you: