Quotes about Lamentation

For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’”

They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.

“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.

“Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned, nor will anyone cut himself or shave his head for them.

For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.

For I have set My face against this city to bring disaster and not good, declares the LORD. It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, who will destroy it with fire.’

Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.

This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”

This is what the LORD says: “See how the waters are rising from the north and becoming an overflowing torrent. They will overflow the land and its fullness, the cities and their inhabitants. The people will cry out, and all who dwell in the land will wail

A voice cries out from Horonaim: ‘Devastation and great destruction!’

For every head is shaved and every beard is clipped; on every hand is a gash, and around every waist is sackcloth.

Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD.