Jeremiah 6:26
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26 O daughter of my people, (A)put on sackcloth,
and (B)roll in ashes;
(C)make mourning as for an only son,
most bitter lamentation,
for suddenly the destroyer
will come upon us.
Zechariah 12:10
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Him Whom They Have Pierced
10 “And (A)I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and (B)pleas for mercy, so that, (C)when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, (D)they shall mourn for him, (E)as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.
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Jeremiah 4:8
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8 For this (A)put on sackcloth,
lament and wail,
for (B)the fierce anger of the Lord
has not turned back from us.”
James 5:1
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Warning to the Rich
5 Come now, (A)you rich, weep and howl for the (B)miseries that are coming upon you.
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James 4:9
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9 (A)Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
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Luke 7:12
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12 As he drew near to the gate of the town, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, (A)the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and a considerable crowd from the town was with her.
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Micah 1:8-10
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Amos 8:10
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10 (A)I will turn your feasts into mourning
and all your songs into lamentation;
(B)I will bring sackcloth on every waist
(C)and baldness on every head;
(D)I will make it like the mourning for an only son
and the end of it like a bitter day.
Ezekiel 27:30-31
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30 (A)and shout aloud over you
and cry out bitterly.
(B)They cast dust on their heads
(C)and wallow in ashes;
31 they (D)make themselves bald for you
and put sackcloth on their waist,
and they weep over you in bitterness of soul,
with bitter mourning.
Ezekiel 7:16-18
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16 (A)And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like (B)doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity. 17 (C)All hands are feeble, and all knees turn to water. 18 (D)They put on sackcloth, and (E)horror covers them. Shame is on all faces, and (F)baldness on all their heads.
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Lamentations 4:10
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10 (A)The hands of (B)compassionate women
(C)have boiled their own children;
(D)they became their food
during the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 4:6
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6 (A)For the chastisement[a] of the daughter of my people has been greater
than the punishment[b] of Sodom,
(B)which was overthrown in a moment,
and no hands were wrung for her.[c]
Footnotes
- Lamentations 4:6 Or iniquity
- Lamentations 4:6 Or sin
- Lamentations 4:6 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Lamentations 4:3
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3 Even jackals offer the breast;
they nurse their young;
but the daughter of my people has become cruel,
like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Lamentations 3:48
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48 (A)my eyes flow with rivers of tears
because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 1:16
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16 “For these things (A)I weep;
my eyes flow with tears;
for (B)a comforter is far from me,
one to (C)revive my spirit;
my children are desolate,
for the enemy has prevailed.”
Lamentations 1:2
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2 (A)She weeps bitterly in the night,
with tears on her cheeks;
(B)among all her lovers
she has (C)none to comfort her;
(D)all her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
they have become her enemies.
Jeremiah 25:33-34
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33 (A)“And those pierced by the Lord on that day shall extend from one end of the earth to the other. (B)They shall not be lamented, (C)or gathered, or buried; (D)they shall be dung on the surface of the ground.
34 (E)“Wail, (F)you shepherds, and cry out,
(G)and roll in ashes, you lords of the flock,
for the days of your slaughter and dispersion have come,
and you shall fall like a choice vessel.
Jeremiah 15:8
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8 I have made their widows more in number
than (A)the sand of the seas;
I have brought against the mothers of young men
a destroyer at noonday;
I have made anguish and terror
fall upon them suddenly.
Jeremiah 14:17
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17 “You shall say to them this word:
(A)‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day,
and let them not cease,
for the virgin (B)daughter of my people is shattered with a great wound,
(C)with a very grievous blow.
Jeremiah 13:17
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17 But if you will not listen,
(A)my soul will weep in secret for your pride;
my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears,
because the Lord's flock has been taken captive.
Jeremiah 12:12
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12 Upon all the bare heights in the desert
destroyers have come,
for the sword of the Lord devours
from one end of the land to the other;
no flesh has peace.
Jeremiah 9:17-22
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17 Thus says the Lord of hosts:
(A)“Consider, and call for the mourning women to come;
send for the skillful women to come;
18 let them make haste (B)and raise a wailing over us,
(C)that our eyes may run down with tears
and our eyelids flow with water.
19 For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion:
(D)‘How we are ruined!
We are utterly shamed,
because we have left the land,
because they have cast down our dwellings.’”
20 Hear, O women, the word of the Lord,
and let your ear receive the word of his mouth;
teach to your daughters a lament,
and each to her neighbor a dirge.
21 For death has come up into our windows;
it has entered our palaces,
(E)cutting off the children from the streets
and the young men from the squares.
22 Speak: “Thus declares the Lord,
(F)‘The dead bodies of men shall fall
like dung upon the open field,
(G)like sheaves after the reaper,
and none shall gather them.’”
Jeremiah 9:10
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10 “I will take up weeping and wailing for the mountains,
and a lamentation for (A)the pastures of the wilderness,
(B)because they are laid waste so that no one passes through,
and the lowing of cattle is not heard;
(C)both the birds of the air and the beasts
have fled and are gone.
Jeremiah 8:21-9:1
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21 For the wound of (A)the daughter of my people is my heart wounded;
(B)I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me.
22 Is there no (C)balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why then has the health of the daughter of my people
not been restored?
9 [a] (D)Oh that my head were waters,
and my eyes a fountain of tears,
that I might weep day and night
for the slain of (E)the daughter of my people!
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 9:1 Ch 8:23 in Hebrew
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