Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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:
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2 Chronicles 35:25
Jeremiah composed laments for Josiah which all the male and female singers use to mourn Josiah to this very day. It has become customary in Israel to sing these; they are recorded in the Book of Laments.
Job 3:8
Let those who curse the day curse it -- those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.
Ecclesiastes 12:5
and they are afraid of heights and the dangers in the street; the almond blossoms grow white, and the grasshopper drags itself along, and the caper berry shrivels up -- because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about in the streets --
Amos 5:16
Because of Israel's sins this is what the Lord, the God who commands armies, the sovereign One, says: "In all the squares there will be wailing, in all the streets they will mourn the dead. They will tell the field workers to lament and the professional mourners to wail.
Matthew 9:23
When Jesus entered the ruler's house and saw the flute players and the disorderly crowd,
Mark 5:38
They came to the house of the synagogue ruler where he saw noisy confusion and people weeping and wailing loudly.
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Ezekiel 27:2
"You, son of man, sing a lament for Tyre.
Ezekiel 32:16
This is a lament; they will chant it. The daughters of the nations will chant it. They will chant it over Egypt and over all her hordes, declares the sovereign Lord."