Quotes about Lament
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
— Psalm 137:1
There on the willows we hung our harps,
— Psalm 137:2
And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.
— Isaiah 3:26
Even the cypresses and cedars of Lebanon exult over you: “Since you have been laid low, no woodcutter comes against us.”
— Isaiah 14:8
In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.
— Isaiah 15:3
My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.
— Isaiah 15:5
So I weep with Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears. Triumphant shouts have fallen silent over your summer fruit and your harvest.
— Isaiah 16:9
Therefore my heart laments for Moab like a harp, my inmost being for Kir-heres.
— Isaiah 16:11
Then the fishermen will mourn, all who cast a hook into the Nile will lament, and those who spread nets on the waters will pine away.
— Isaiah 19:8
Then the fishermen will mourn, all who cast a hook into the Nile will lament, and those who spread nets on the waters will pine away.
— Isaiah 19:8
Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your harbor has been destroyed!
— Isaiah 23:14
The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.
— Isaiah 24:4