Micah 2:4
In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you and moan bitterly, and say, "We are utterly ruined; he changes the portion of my people; how he removes it from me! To an apostate he allots our fields."
Habakkuk 2:6
Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say, "Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own-- for how long?-- and loads himself with pledges!"
Numbers 23:7
And Balaam took up his discourse and said, "From Aram Balak has brought me, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains: 'Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, denounce Israel!'
Isaiah 6:11
Then I said, "How long, O Lord?" And he said: "Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is a desolate waste,
Isaiah 24:3
The earth shall be utterly empty and utterly plundered; for the LORD has spoken this word.
Jeremiah 9:10
"I will take up weeping and wailing for the mountains, and a lamentation for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are laid waste so that no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard; both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled and are gone.
Jeremiah 9:17-21
Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Consider, and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skillful women to come;
Micah 1:15
I will again bring a conqueror to you, inhabitants of Mareshah; the glory of Israel shall come to Adullam.
Numbers 23:18
And Balaam took up his discourse and said, "Rise, Balak, and hear; give ear to me, O son of Zippor:
Numbers 24:3
and he took up his discourse and said, "The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is opened,
Numbers 24:15
And he took up his discourse and said, "The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is opened,
Deuteronomy 28:29
and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you.
2 Samuel 1:17
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and Jonathan his son,
2 Kings 17:23-24
until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.
2 Chronicles 35:25
Jeremiah also uttered a lament for Josiah; and all the singing men and singing women have spoken of Josiah in their laments to this day. They made these a rule in Israel; behold, they are written in the Laments.
2 Chronicles 36:20-21
He took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia,
Job 27:1
And Job again took up his discourse, and said:
Isaiah 14:4
you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: "How the oppressor has ceased, the insolent fury ceased!
Isaiah 63:17-18
O LORD, why do you make us wander from your ways and harden our heart, so that we fear you not? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.
Jeremiah 4:13
Behold, he comes up like clouds; his chariots like the whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles-- woe to us, for we are ruined!
Jeremiah 14:18
If I go out into the field, behold, those pierced by the sword! And if I enter the city, behold, the diseases of famine! For both prophet and priest ply their trade through the land and have no knowledge.'"
Jeremiah 25:9-11
behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
Lamentations 1:1-5
How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow has she become, she who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave.
Ezekiel 2:10
And he spread it before me. And it had writing on the front and on the back, and there were written on it words of lamentation and mourning and woe.
Ezekiel 16:44
"Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you: 'Like mother, like daughter.'
Joel 1:8
Lament like a virginwearing sackcloth for the bridegroom of her youth.
Joel 1:13
Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! Because grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.
Amos 5:1
Hear this word that I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel:
Amos 5:17
and in all vineyards there shall be wailing, for I will pass through your midst," says the LORD.
Micah 2:10
Arise and go, for this is no place to rest, because of uncleanness that destroys with a grievous destruction.
Zephaniah 1:2
"I will utterly sweep away everything from the face of the earth," declares the LORD.
Mark 12:12
And they were seeking to arrest him but feared the people, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them. So they left him and went away.