Lamentation (Bible Verses)

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Psalms 137:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

Psalms 137:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

Psalms 69:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.

Psalms 55:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.

Job 2:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

Jeremiah 14:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.

Ezekiel 19:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

Joel 1:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Isaiah 24:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

Jeremiah 14:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.

Jeremiah 49:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.

Ezekiel 27:30 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

Amos 5:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.

2 Samuel 1:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
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(Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)

Jeremiah 16:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.

Psalms 137:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

Jeremiah 9:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

Joel 1:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.

Isaiah 15:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.

Isaiah 24:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.

Jeremiah 14:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

Lamentations 1:21 KJV Bible Verse Image
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They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.

Amos 5:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.

2 Samuel 1:20 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.

Isaiah 15:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.

Jeremiah 9:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

Jeremiah 9:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.

Jeremiah 48:36 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the riches that he hath gotten are perished.

Joel 1:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.

2 Samuel 1:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:

Psalms 109:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

Lamentations 2:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

Isaiah 16:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.

Jeremiah 48:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.

2 Samuel 1:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell me. And he answered, That the people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.

Lamentations 3:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

Jeremiah 8:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?

Habakkuk 1:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.

Psalms 79:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

Ezekiel 19:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

Ezekiel 27:32 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?

Ezekiel 19:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

Zechariah 11:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.

Isaiah 19:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

Micah 1:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.

Jeremiah 9:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:

Isaiah 15:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.

Ezekiel 32:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

Isaiah 16:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.

Ezekiel 19:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

Psalms 137:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

Jeremiah 47:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;

Isaiah 15:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.

Ezekiel 27:35 KJV Bible Verse Image
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All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.

Isaiah 15:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim.

Ezekiel 19:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.

Jeremiah 48:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.

2 Samuel 1:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And David said unto him, From whence comest thou? And he said unto him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.

Isaiah 32:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

Ezekiel 19:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

2 Samuel 1:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.

Psalms 137:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land?

2 Samuel 1:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay me: for anguish is come upon me, because my life is yet whole in me.

Ezekiel 32:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 27:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

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