Isaiah 32:12
Beat your breasts [in mourning] for the beautiful fields, for the fruitful vine,
Deuteronomy 8:7-8
For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;
Deuteronomy 11:11-12
But the land into which you are about to cross to possess, a land of hills and valleys, drinks water from the rain of heaven,
Lamentations 2:11
My eyes fail because of tears [mourns Jeremiah],
My spirit is deeply disturbed;
My heart is poured out on the earth [in grief]
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people [Jerusalem],
When little ones and infants faint
In the streets of the city.
Lamentations 4:3-4
Even the jackals offer the breast,
They nurse their young;
But the daughter of my people has become cruel
Like ostriches in the wilderness [that desert their young].
Ezekiel 20:6
on that day I swore to them to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had selected for them, [plentiful and]
Ezekiel 20:15
I also swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, [a land of plenty]
Nahum 2:7
It is decreed:
Nineveh is stripped, and she is carried away,
And her handmaids are moaning like the sound of doves,
Beating on their breasts [in sorrow].
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Pleasant fields
General references
Bible References
Lament
My eyes fail because of tears [mourns Jeremiah],
My spirit is deeply disturbed;
My heart is poured out on the earth [in grief]
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people [Jerusalem],
When little ones and infants faint
In the streets of the city.
Even the jackals offer the breast,
They nurse their young;
But the daughter of my people has become cruel
Like ostriches in the wilderness [that desert their young].
Pleasant fields
General references
The new wine mourns,
The vine decays;
All the merry-hearted sigh and groan.