Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.

The lord

General references

Bible References

The lord

Amos 5:27
So I will send you into exile beyond Damascus.” Yahweh, the God of Hosts, is His name. He has spoken.
Amos 3:13
Listen and testify against the house of Jacob—
this is the declaration of the Lord God,
the God of Hosts.

Wailing

Amos 8:10
I will turn your feasts into mourning
and all your songs into lamentation;
I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth
and every head to be shaved.
I will make that grief
like mourning for an only son
and its outcome like a bitter day.
Isaiah 15:2
Dibon went up to its temple
to weep at its high places.
Moab wails on Nebo and at Medeba.
Every head is shaved;
every beard is cut off.
Isaiah 22:12
On that day the Lord God of Hosts
called for weeping, for wailing, for shaven heads,
and for the wearing of sackcloth.
Jeremiah 4:31
I hear a cry like a woman in labor,
a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child.
The cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath,
stretching out her hands:
Woe is me, for my life is weary
because of the murderers!
Jeremiah 9:10
I will raise weeping and a lament
over the mountains,
a dirge over the wilderness grazing land,
for they have been so scorched
that no one passes through.
The sound of cattle is no longer heard.
From the birds of the sky to the animals,
everything has fled—they have gone away.
Joel 1:8
Grieve like a young woman dressed in sackcloth,
mourning for the husband of her youth.
Micah 1:8
Because of this I will lament and wail;
I will walk barefoot and naked.
I will howl like the jackals
and mourn like ostriches.
Micah 2:4
In that day one will take up a taunt against you,
and lament mournfully, saying,
“We are totally ruined!
He measures out the allotted land of my people.
How He removes it from me!
He allots our fields to traitors.”
Revelation 18:10
They will stand far off in fear of her torment, saying:

Woe, woe, the great city,
Babylon, the mighty city!
For in a single hour
your judgment has come.

Such

Jeremiah 9:17
This is what the Lord of Hosts says:

Consider, and summon the women who mourn;
send for the skillful women.

General references

Ezekiel 27:2
“Now, son of man, lament for Tyre.

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