'Wail' in the Bible
And Jerusalem’s gates will lament (cry out in grief) and mourn [as those who wail for the dead];And she, being ruined and desolate, will sit upon the ground.
Wail! For the day of the Lord is near.It will come like destruction from the Almighty.
Wail, you gates! Cry out, city!Tremble with fear, all Philistia!For a cloud of dust is coming from the north,and there is no one missing from the invader’s ranks.
In their streets they wear sackcloth; on their roofs and in their town squares all of them wail, they fall down weeping.
For the cry of distress has gone around the territory of Moab,Its wail goes as far as Eglaim and its wailing even to Beer-elim.
Therefore let Moab wail;let every one of them wail for Moab.Mourn, you who are completely devastated,for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth.
An oracle against Tyre:Wail, ships of Tarshish,for your haven has been destroyed.Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.
Cross over to Tarshish;wail, inhabitants of the coastland!
Wail, ships of Tarshish,because your fortress is destroyed!
So now what have I here”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“that My people are taken away for nothing?Its rulers wail”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“and My name is continually blasphemed all day long.
“Behold, My servants will shout joyfully with a glad heart,But you will cry out with a heavy heart,And you will wail with a broken spirit.
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- Howl (35 instances)
- Lament (75 instances)
- Plaint (5 instances)
- Roar (65 instances)
- Wail (50 instances)
- Whimper (1 instance)