Matthew 2:18
“A voice was heard in
Weeping and great mourning,
She refused to be comforted,
Because they were no more.”
Jeremiah 31:15
Thus says the Lord,
“A
Lamentation (songs of mourning) and bitter weeping.
Rachel (Israel) is weeping for her children;
She refuses to be comforted for her children,
Because they are gone.”
Genesis 42:36
Jacob their father said to them, “You have bereaved me [by causing the loss] of my children. Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and you would take Benjamin [from me]. All these things are [working] against me.”
Genesis 35:16-20
Then they journeyed from Bethel; and when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath (Bethlehem), Rachel began to give birth and had difficulty and suffered severely.
Genesis 37:30
He rejoined his brothers and said, “The boy is not there; as for me, where shall I go [to hide from my father]?”
Genesis 37:33-35
He recognized it and said, “It is my son’s tunic. A wild animal has devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces!”
Job 14:10
“But [the brave, strong] man must die and lie face down;
Man breathes his last, and where is he?
Jeremiah 4:31
For I heard a cry like a woman in labor,
The anguish as of one giving birth to her first child,
The cry of the Daughter of Zion (Jerusalem), who gasps for breath,
Who stretches out her hands, saying,
“Woe is me [my judgment comes]! I faint [in fear] before the murderers.”
Jeremiah 9:17-21
Thus says the Lord of hosts,
Send for the wailing women to come.
Ezekiel 2:10
And He spread it before me, and it was written on the front and on the back, and written on it were [words of] lamentation (funeral songs) and mourning and woe.
Revelation 8:13
Then I looked, and I heard a solitary eagle flying in
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Lamentation
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Lamentation
For I heard a cry like a woman in labor,
The anguish as of one giving birth to her first child,
The cry of the Daughter of Zion (Jerusalem), who gasps for breath,
Who stretches out her hands, saying,
“Woe is me [my judgment comes]! I faint [in fear] before the murderers.”
Send for the wailing women to come.
Would
“But [the brave, strong] man must die and lie face down;
Man breathes his last, and where is he?