Thematic Bible
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Lamentations » Examples of » For the miseries of israel
O daughter of my people, gird on sackcloth, and roll thyself in ashes: make to thee the mourning of an only begotten, a wailing of bitterness; for he laying waste shall suddenly come upon us.
Shave thy consecration and cast away, and lift up a lamentation upon the lips; for Jehovah rejected and cast out the generation of his wrath.
For this, be ye girded with sackcloth, lament and wail: for the heat of the anger of Jehovah turned not back from us.
Wail as the virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Hear ye this word which I lift up to you, a lamentation, O house of Israel.
In that day a parable shall be lifted up against you, and a wailing of a wailing was wailed, saying, Being laid waste, we shall be laid waste: he will exchange a portion of my people: how he will remove to me; for turning away, he will divide our fields.