Quotes About Lamentation

Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ëAlas! Alas!í in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.

“In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.

Do not tell it in Gath; do not weep at all. Roll in the dust in Beth-leaphrah.

In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ëWe are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has allotted our fields to traitors.í”

It is decreed that the city be exiled and carried away; her maidservants moan like doves, and beat upon their breasts.

On that day,” declares the LORD, “a cry will go up from the Fish Gate, a wail from the Second District, and a loud crashing from the hills.

Wail, O dwellers of the Hollow, for all your merchants will be silenced; all who weigh out silver will be cut off.

Then the kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her will weep and wail at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her.

And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, because there is no one left to buy their cargo—

and cry out at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her. “What city was ever like this great city?” they will exclaim.