Quotes about Lamentation

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.

On that day the wailing in Jerusalem will be as great as the wailing of Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.

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.

There is one voice we never hear. God does not speak in the whole book of Lamentations.11 Heaven is silent. Which does not necessarily mean that heaven is deaf or blind. We shall consider later what Kathleen O'Connor calls 'the power of the missing voice'.

Whatever fate befalls you, do not give way to great rejoicings or great lamentation; partly because all things are full of change, and your fortune may turn at any moment; partly because men are so apt to be deceived in their judgment as to what is good or bad for them.

Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes.

Woe to them that are at ease in Zion.

Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

There was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.