Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
Who are ready
Their mourning
Bible References
Who are ready
2 Chronicles 35:25
Jeremiah chanted a dirge over Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women still speak of Josiah in their dirges to this very day. They established them as a statute for Israel, and indeed they are written in the Dirges.
Jeremiah 9:17
This is what the Lord of Hosts says:
Consider, and summon the women who mourn;
send for the skillful women.
send for the skillful women.
Amos 5:16
Therefore Yahweh, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says:
There will be wailing in all the public squares;
they will cry out in anguish in all the streets.
The farmer will be called on to mourn,
and professional mourners to wail.
they will cry out in anguish
The farmer will be called on to mourn,
and professional mourners
Matthew 11:17 We played the flute for you,
but you didn’t dance;
we sang a lament,
but you didn’t mourn!
Mark 5:38
They came to the leader’s house, and He saw a commotion—people weeping and wailing loudly.
Their mourning
Job 41:1 Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook
or tie his tongue down with a rope?
or tie his tongue down with a rope?