Micah 2:4
In that day shall they take up a proverb concerning you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We are utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! He hath distributed our fields to the rebellious.
Habakkuk 2:6
Shall not all these take up a proverb about him, and a taunting riddle against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that loadeth himself with pledges!
Numbers 23:7
And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, from the mountains of the east: Come, curse me Jacob, and come, denounce Israel!
Isaiah 6:11
And I said, Lord, how long? And he said, Until the cities be wasted, without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land become an utter desolation,
Isaiah 24:3
The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled; for Jehovah hath spoken this word.
Jeremiah 9:10
For the mountains will I take up weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness, a lamentation; for they are burnt up, so that none passeth through them; and the voice of the cattle is not heard. Both the fowl of the heavens and the beasts are fled; they are gone.
Jeremiah 9:17-21
Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come, and send for the skilful women, that they may come;
Micah 1:15
I will yet bring unto thee an heir, O inhabitress of Mareshah; the glory of Israel shall come even unto Adullam.
Numbers 23:18
Then he took up his parable and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear! hearken unto me, son of Zippor!
Numbers 24:3
And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor saith, and the man of opened eye saith,
Numbers 24:15
And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor saith, and the man of opened eye saith,
Deuteronomy 28:29
and thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways; and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled continually, and there shall be none to save.
2 Samuel 1:17
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son;
2 Kings 17:23-24
until Jehovah had removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said through all his servants the prophets; and Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria, unto this day.
2 Chronicles 35:25
And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah; and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance for Israel. And behold, they are written in the lamentations.
2 Chronicles 36:20-21
And them that had escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon; and they became servants to him and his sons, until the reign of the kingdom of Persia;
Job 27:1
And Job continued his parable and said,
Isaiah 14:4
that thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased, the exactress of gold ceased!
Isaiah 63:17-18
Why, O Jehovah, hast thou made us to err from thy ways, hast hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
Jeremiah 4:13
Behold, he cometh up as clouds, and his chariots are as a whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are destroyed.
Jeremiah 14:18
If I go forth into the field, behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, behold them that pine away with famine! For both prophet and priest shall go about into a land that they know not.
Jeremiah 25:9-11
behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and I will send to Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual wastes.
Lamentations 1:1-5
How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people! She that was great among the nations is become as a widow; the princess among the provinces is become tributary!
Ezekiel 2:10
And he spread it out before me; and it was written within and without; and there were written in it lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
Ezekiel 16:44
Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall speak in a proverb against thee, saying, As the mother, so is her daughter!
Joel 1:8
Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Joel 1:13
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests; howl, ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the oblation and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God.
Amos 5:1
Hear this word, a lamentation, which I take up against you, O house of Israel.
Amos 5:17
And in all vineyards shall be wailing; for I will pass through the midst of thee, saith Jehovah.
Micah 2:10
Arise ye, and depart; for this is not the resting-place, because of defilement that bringeth destruction, even a grievous destruction.
Zephaniah 1:2
I will utterly take away everything from off the face of the ground, saith Jehovah:
Mark 12:12
And they sought to lay hold of him, and they feared the crowd; for they knew that he had spoken the parable of them. And they left him and went away.