Micah 2:4
In that time shall one take up a saying against you and lament with a doleful lamentation and say, We have been utterly destroyed; he has changed the portion of my people; how has he taken our fields! He has given and divided our fields unto others.
Habakkuk 2:6
Shall not all these take up a parable against him and a taunting enigma against him and say, Woe to him that multiplied that which was not his! And for how long would he pile thick clay upon himself?
Numbers 23:7
And he took up his parable and said, Balak, the king of Moab, has brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob and come, denounce Israel.
Isaiah 6:11
And I said, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities are wasted without inhabitant and not a man in the houses, and the land is turned into desert,
Isaiah 24:3
The land shall be utterly emptied and utterly spoiled: for the LORD has spoken this word.
Jeremiah 9:10
Upon the mountains I will lift up weeping and wailing and lamentation upon the habitations of the wilderness because they are burned up, so that no one can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and even the beasts of the earth are fled; they are gone.
Jeremiah 9:17-21
Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said, Consider ye and call for the mourning women that they may come and send for cunning women that they may come,
Micah 1:15
Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah; the glory of Israel shall come unto Adullam.
Numbers 23:18
Then he took up his parable and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:
Numbers 24:3
Then he took up his parable and said, Balaam, the son of Beor, has said and the man whose eyes are open has said,
Numbers 24:15
And he took up his parable and said, Balaam, the son of Beor, has said, the man whose eyes are open has said,
Deuteronomy 28:29
And thou shalt grope at noonday as the blind grope in the darkness, and thou shalt not be prospered in thy ways; and thou shalt only be oppressed and spoiled all the days, and there shall be no one to save thee.
2 Samuel 1:17
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son.
2 Kings 17:23-24
until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his slaves the prophets. So was Israel 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 the singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day and made them an ordinance in Israel, which are written in the lamentations.
2 Chronicles 36:20-21
And those that escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon; where they were slaves to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia,
Job 27:1
Moreover, Job continued his parable and said,
Isaiah 14:4
that thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon and say, How has the oppressor ceased! The city that covets gold has ceased!
Isaiah 63:17-18
O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways? Hast thou hardened our heart to thy fear? Return for thy slaves, for the tribes of thine inheritance.
Jeremiah 4:13
Behold, he shall come up as a cloud, and his chariots as a whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us, for we are given over to be spoiled!
Jeremiah 14:18
If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold those that are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the priest walked around in circles in the land, and they did not know it.
Jeremiah 25:9-11
behold, I will send and take all the families of the north wind, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my slave, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about and will utterly destroy them and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Lamentations 1:1-5
Aleph How does the city sit solitary, that was full of people! The great one among the nations is become as a widow; the princess of provinces is become tributary.
Ezekiel 2:10
and he spread it before me; and it was written within and without; and there was written therein lamentations and mourning and woes.
Ezekiel 16:44
Behold, every one that makes proverbs shall make this proverb regarding thee, saying: As is the mother so is her daughter.
Joel 1:8
Lament like a young woman girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Joel 1:13
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the present and the drink offering is taken away from the house of your God.
Amos 5:1
Hear ye this word, because I raise up a lamentation upon you, O house of Israel.
Amos 5:17
And in all vineyards shall be wailing, for I will pass through the midst of thee, said the LORD.
Micah 2:10
Arise and depart, for this is not your rest because it is polluted; it has become corrupted and with a great corruption.
Zephaniah 1:2
I will utterly destroy all things from off the face of the earth, saith the LORD.
Mark 12:12
And they sought to lay hold on him but feared the multitude, for they understood that he had spoken the parable against them, and leaving him, they went away.