Micah 2:4
In that day they shall take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation. [And] say, We are utterly ruined. He changes the portion of my people. How he removes [it] from me! He divides our fields to the rebelliou
Habakkuk 2:6
Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him who increases that which is not his (how long?) and who loads himself with pledges!
Numbers 23:7
And he took up his parable, and said, From Aram Balak has brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, defy Israel.
Isaiah 6:11
Then I said, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste,
Isaiah 24:3
The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste, for LORD has spoken this word.
Jeremiah 9:10
For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through, nor can men hear the voice of the cattle. Both the birds of the
Jeremiah 9:17-21
Thus says LORD of hosts, Consider ye, 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 to thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah, him who shall possess thee. The glory of Israel shall come even to Adullam.
Numbers 23:18
And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear. Hearken to me, thou son of Zippor.
Numbers 24:3
And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor says, and the man whose eye was closed says,
Numbers 24:15
And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor says, and the man whose eye was closed says,
Deuteronomy 28:29
and thou shall grope at noonday, as the blind man gropes in darkness. And thou shall not prosper in thy ways. And thou shall only be oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none 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 LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he spoke by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria to 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 in Israel, and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
2 Chronicles 36:20-21
And those who had escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon, and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia,
Job 27:1
And Job again took up his parable, and said,
Isaiah 14:4
that thou shall take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased, the golden city ceased!
Isaiah 63:17-18
O LORD, why do thou make us to err from thy ways, and harden our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
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 who are sick with famine! For both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.
Jeremiah 25:9-11
behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all these nations roun
Ezekiel 2:10
And he spread it before me, and it was written inside and outside. And there were written in it lamentations and mourning and woe.
Ezekiel 16:44
Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use [this] proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
Joel 1:8
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Joel 1:13
Gird yourselves [with sackcloth], and lament, ye priests. Wail, ye ministers of the altar. Come, lay all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God. For the meal-offering and the drink-offering are withheld from the house of your G
Amos 5:1
Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
Amos 5:17
And in all vineyards shall be wailing, for I will pass through the midst of thee, says LORD.
Micah 2:10
Arise ye, and depart, for this is not your resting-place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction.
Zephaniah 1:2
I will utterly consume all things from off the face of the ground, says LORD.
Mark 12:12
And they sought to seize him. And they feared the multitude, for they knew that he spoke the parable against them. And having left him, they went away.