Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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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
Then Jeremiah chanted a lament for Josiah. All the male and female singers speak about Josiah in their lamentations (dirges) to this day. They made them an ordinance in Israel. They are also written in the Lamentations.
Job 3:8
May those who curse days curse that day, those who are ready to lift up Leviathan (Babylonian symbol of sadness and mourning).
Ecclesiastes 12:5
Also when they will be afraid of what is high, and fears will be in the way, and the almond tree will flourish, and the grasshopper will be a burden, and the caper berry breaks and desire fails, man goes to his long lasting home and the mourners go about the streets.
Amos 5:16
Listen to Jehovah the God of Hosts, the Almighty: Wailing will be in all the broad ways. They will say in all the streets, Alas! Alas! They will call the farmer to mourning, and the professional mourner to lamentation and crying.
Matthew 9:23
Jesus went into the official's house and saw flute players and the crowd making a lot of noise.
Mark 5:38
The house of the ruler of the synagogue was filled with commotion. Many were weeping and wailing.
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Ezekiel 27:2
You, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre.
Ezekiel 32:16
This is a funeral song. The people from the nations will sing this song. They will sing it as they mourn for Egypt and its many people, declares the Lord Jehovah.