Micah 2:4
In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We are utterly ruined: he has changed the portion of my people: how he has removed it from me! turning away he has divided our fields.
Habakkuk 2:6
Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increases that which is not his! how long? and to him that loads himself with many pledges!
Numbers 23:7
And he took up his oracle, and said, Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse for me Jacob, and come, denounce Israel.
Isaiah 6:11
Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities are wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land is utterly desolate,
Isaiah 24:3
The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly plundered: for the LORD has spoken this word.
Jeremiah 9:10
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beasts are fled; they are gone.
Jeremiah 9:17-21
Thus says the LORD of hosts, Consider you, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for skillful women, that they may come:
Micah 1:15
Yet will I bring an heir unto you, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam, the glory of Israel.
Numbers 23:18
And he took up his oracle, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, you son of Zippor:
Numbers 24:3
And he took up his oracle, 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 oracle, and said, Balaam the son of Beor has said, and the man whose eyes are open has said:
Deuteronomy 28:29
And you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and plundered continually, and no man shall save you.
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 servants 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: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
2 Chronicles 36:20-21
And those that had escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia:
Job 27:1
Moreover Job continued his discourse, and said,
Isaiah 14:4
That you shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
Isaiah 63:17-18
O LORD, why have you made us to err from your ways, and hardened our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance.
Jeremiah 4:13
Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are ruined.
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 them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest 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, says the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, 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
How does the city sit lovely, that was full of people! how has she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how has she become a slave!
Ezekiel 2:10
And he spread it before me; and it was written inside and outside: and there was written in it lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
Ezekiel 16:44
Behold, every one that uses proverbs shall use this proverb against you, 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, and lament, you priests: wail, you ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God: for the grain offering and the drink offering is withheld from the house of your God.
Amos 5:1
Hear you this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
Amos 5:17
And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through you, says the LORD.
Micah 2:10
Arise, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is defiled, it shall destroy you, even with utter destruction.
Zephaniah 1:2
I will utterly consume all things from off the land, says the LORD.
Mark 12:12
And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.