Quotes about Lamentation
See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is death.
— Lamentations 1:20
“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”
— Amos 5:2
They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.
— Hosea 7:14
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.
— Jeremiah 9:17
which He unrolled before me. And written on the front and back of it were words of lamentation, mourning, and woe.
— Ezekiel 2:10
Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:
— Amos 5:1
They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it.
— Isaiah 24:9
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 ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.
— Amos 5:16
The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
— Isaiah 24:7
I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert. All its cities were torn down before the LORD, before His fierce anger.
— Jeremiah 4:26
Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.
— Isaiah 15:2
Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes—joy and gladness from the house of our God?
— Joel 1:16