It happened, when the angel of Yahweh spoke these words to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. The land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.

When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said to them, "Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.

He lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; and the old man said, "Where are you going? Where did you come from?"

The people came to Bethel, and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept severely.