Thematic Bible
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Lamentations » Examples of » For the miseries of israel
O my people put on sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn as for an only son, a lamentation most bitter. For suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
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Cut off your hair and cast it away. Take up a cry of sorrow and grief on the bare heights. Jehovah has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.'
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Dress in sackcloth, beat your breasts (mourn), and cry because Jehovah's burning anger has not turned back from us.
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Take up a song of grief concerning the princes of Israel.
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Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
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Hear this word that I take up for a cry of sorrow (lamentation) (dirge) over you, O house of Israel.
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In that day they will taunt you and speak mournfully with sorrow and much grief: 'We are utterly ruined! He exchanged the portion of my people and removed it from me. He divided our fields and gave them to the apostate.'
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