Micah 2:4
In that day one shall take up a parable against you and mourn a mourning of mournings, saying, We shall be completely laid waste. He has exchanged the share of my people. How He has removed it from me! To the apostate He has divided our fields.
Habakkuk 2:6
Shall not all these lift up a parable against him, and a mocking riddle to him, and say, Woe to him who increases what is not his! Until when, then, shall he load the pledges on 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 Jacob for me, and come, defy Israel.
Isaiah 6:11
Then I said, Lord, how long? And He answered, Until the cities are wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land laid waste, a desolation,
Isaiah 24:3
The land shall be completely emptied, and utterly stripped; for Jehovah has spoken this Word.
Jeremiah 9:10
I will take up a weeping and a wailing for the mountains, and a mourning for the pastures of the wilderness; because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; nor can men hear the voice of the cattle. Both the birds of the heavens and the beast have fled; they are gone.
Jeremiah 9:17-21
So says Jehovah of Hosts, Think carefully, and call for the wailers, that they may come. And send for the wise women, that they may come;
Micah 1:15
Yet I will bring an heir to you, O dweller of Mareshah. The glory of Israel shall come to Adullam.
Numbers 23:18
And he took up his parable and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear. Listen to me, son of Zippor.
Numbers 24:3
And 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, 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 always be pressed down and spoiled forever, and no man shall save you.
2 Samuel 1:17
And David chanted this death dirge over Saul and over his son Jonathan.
2 Kings 17:23-24
until Jehovah turned away Israel from His face, as He had said by all His servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria until this day.
2 Chronicles 35:25
And Jeremiah mourned for Josiah. And all the singing men and the singing women have spoken of Josiah in their lamentations until this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel. And behold, they are written in the Lamentations.
2 Chronicles 36:20-21
And the ones who had escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon, where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia,
Job 27:1
And Job continued the lifting up of His speech, and said,
Isaiah 14:4
you shall take up this song against the king of Babylon and say, How the exacter, the gold gatherer has ceased!
Isaiah 63:17-18
O Jehovah, why have You made us wander from Your ways. You harden our heart from Your fear? For Your servants' sake, return the tribes of Your inheritance.
Jeremiah 4:13
Behold, he shall come up like clouds, and his chariots like a tempest. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are plundered!
Jeremiah 14:18
If I go out into the field, then I see those killed with the sword! And if I enter into the city, then, behold, sicknesses of famine! Yes, both the prophet and the priest have gone up into a land that they do not know.
Jeremiah 25:9-11
behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says Jehovah, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant; and will bring them against this land, and against its people, and against all these nations all around. And I will completely destroy them, and make them a waste, and a hissing, and everlasting ruins.
Lamentations 1:1-5
How alone sits the city that was full of people! She has become like a widow, once great among the nations, a noblewoman among the nations, but now has become a tribute-payer.
Ezekiel 2:10
And He spread it before me; and it was written on the face and the back. And written on it were weepings, and mourning, and woe.
Ezekiel 16:44
Behold, all who use proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, As the mother, so is her daughter.
Joel 1:8
Weep like a virgin clothed with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Joel 1:13
Gird up and lament, priests; howl, ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, ministers of my God. For the food offering and the drink offering are held back from the house of your God.
Amos 5:1
Hear this Word which I take up against you, a dirge, O house of Israel.
Amos 5:17
And there shall be wailing in all vineyards; for I will pass through you, says Jehovah.
Micah 2:10
Arise and depart! For this is not your rest, because of destroying uncleanness, even a grievous destruction.
Zephaniah 1:2
I will completely snatch away all from on the face of the ground, says Jehovah.
Mark 12:12
And they sought to seize him, but feared the crowd. For they knew that He spoke the parable against them. And leaving Him, they went away.