Quotes about Lamentation
Give them, O LORD—what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!
- Hosea 9:14
The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.
- Joel 1:10
Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes—joy and gladness from the house of our God?
- Joel 1:16
Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:
- Amos 5:1
“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”
- Amos 5:2
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
There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.
- Amos 5:17
Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.
- Amos 5:18
“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!”
- Amos 8:3
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.
- Amos 8:10
In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ‘We 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.’”
- Micah 2:4
You drive the women of My people from their pleasant homes. You take away My blessing from their children forever.
- Micah 2:9