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And they come unto the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they lament there, a lamentation great and very grievous; and he maketh for his father a mourning seven days,

Verse ConceptsFuneralsBereavement, Experience OfLamentingSevenWeeksSeven DaysBeyond JordanMourning The Death Of Others

And she said to her father, "Let this thing be done for me: grant me two months so that I may go wander on the mountains and lament over my virginity, I and my companions.

Verse ConceptsSympathyWeepingLeave Us Alonevirginity

And he will say, Go. And he will send her away two months: and she will go and her friends, and she will lament over her virginity upon the mountains.

Verse Conceptsvirginity

That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

Verse ConceptsLamentingFour Or Five Days

And the sons of Israel will lament for Benjamin their brother, and they will say, There was cut off this day one tribe from Israel.

Verse ConceptsUnhappinessBereavementNo One To Be Found

And it will be from the day the ark dwelt in the City of Forests, and the days will be multiplied; and they will be twenty years: and all the house of Israel will lament after Jehovah.

Verse Concepts20 To 30 YearsStaying A Long Time

And Samuel will die; and all Israel will assemble together and lament for him, and bury him in his house in Ramah. And David will rise and go down to the desert of Paran.

Verse ConceptsCemeteryMournersMourning The Death Of Others

And Samuel died, and all Israel will lament for him; and they will bury him in Ramah, and in his city. And Saul took away the necromancers and the wizards from the land.

Verse ConceptsBanishmentProphets, Lives OfSpiritismFortunetellingSpiritism AvoidedMourning The Death Of OthersOccultismwitchespsychics

and he told them to teach the sons of Judah, the song of the bow. Behold, it is written in the Book of Jashar:

Verse ConceptsWriting SongsHistorical BooksTeaching The Way Of God

And David said unto Joab, and unto all the people who were with him, - Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and lament aloud before Abner. And, King David himself, was following the bier.

Verse ConceptsGesturesClothingClothSackcloth And AshesPreparation For Burial

The king sang a lament for Abner and said, "Should Abner have died the death of a fool?

Verse ConceptsCounted As Fools

And the messenger will stretch forth his hand to destroy Jerusalem, and Jehovah will lament for the evil, and he will say to the messenger destroying among the people, Much now: let go thy hand. And the messenger of Jehovah was near the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

Verse ConceptsRegretUnhappinessAngels, Ot AppearancesDestruction Of JerusalemGod Changing His MindMore Than EnoughAngels Activities Among Unbelievers

And he took up the body of the man of God and put it upon the ass and brought it again, and came to the city of the old prophet to lament him, and to bury him.

Verse ConceptsCorpses Of Other People

Then shall all Israel lament for him, and bury him, for, this one, pertaining to Jeroboam, shall reach a burying-place, - because there hath been found in him something good toward Yahweh, God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

Verse ConceptsNo BurialsOnly One PersonMourning The Death Of Others

Then Jeremiah sung a lament (funeral song) for Josiah, and all the male and female singers have spoken about Josiah in their laments to this day. They made the songs an ordinance in Israel; behold, they are written in the Lamentations.

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Expression OfLamentingSongsTraditionsWritingBooksMournersanniversary

to establish these days of Purim at their appointed times, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had imposed, and just as they had imposed on themselves and their offspring regulations of the fast and their lament.

Verse ConceptsHow To Fast

For the music director; a psalm of David. Listen to me, O God, as I offer my lament! Protect my life from the enemy's terrifying attacks.

Verse ConceptsComplaintsHear Prayer!Pay Attention O God!Mental AbuseProtection From EnemiesEnemy Attacks

His priests fell by the sword,
but the widows could not lament.

Verse ConceptsKilling PriestsDeposed PriestsNot Mourning

The prayer of an oppressed man, as he grows faint and pours out his lament before the Lord. O Lord, hear my prayer! Pay attention to my cry for help!

Verse ConceptsPsalms As PrayersHear Prayer!Pay Attention O God!ComplaintsBeing Overwhelmed

I pour out my lament before him; I tell him about my troubles.

Verse ConceptsComplaintsResentment, Against GodPouring

Our cattle will be well fed.
There will be no breach in the walls,
no going into captivity,
and no cry of lament in our public squares.

Verse ConceptsBattering ramsCitizenshipAnimal ReproductionOutcryComplaints

At the end of your life, you will lament
when your physical body has been consumed,

Verse ConceptsBodyPainDamage To The BodyPeople Endedmuscles

They went up to the temple, the people of Dibon went up to the high places to lament. Because of what happened to Nebo and Medeba, Moab wails. Every head is shaved bare, every beard is trimmed off.

Verse ConceptsBaldness, Figurative UseBaldnessBeardsHeadsHigh PlacesKnives

My heart cries out because of Moab's plight, and for the fugitives stretched out as far as Zoar and Eglath Shelishiyah. For they weep as they make their way up the ascent of Luhith; they loudly lament their demise on the road to Horonaim.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesLamentingRoadsPeoples Who Fled

Therefore, let Moab not wail, let everyone wail for Moab. Lament and grieve deeply for the ruined remains of Kir-hareseth.

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Expression OfLamentingDried Fruit

The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

Verse ConceptsFishesLamentingNetsOccupationsFishermen

Lament, you residents of the coast, you merchants of Sidon who travel over the sea, whose agents sail over

Verse ConceptsStillnessCommerceSea TravelCurbing SpeechCrossing To The Other Side

They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

Verse Conceptsbreastsfruitfulness

Twain, are the things befalling thee, Who will lament for thee? Wasting and destruction and f famine and sword By whom shall I comfort thee?

Verse ConceptsFamine, Examples OfKilling Israelites

They lament, 'Why don't you notice when we fast? Why don't you pay attention when we humble ourselves?' Look, at the same time you fast, you satisfy your selfish desires, you oppress your workers.

Verse ConceptsFasting, Of HypocritesMastersOppression, Nature OfHow To FastPointless FastingHumbling OneselfFastingFasting And PrayerAbuse

My servants will shout for joy from a glad heart,
but you will cry out from an anguished heart,
and you will lament out of a broken spirit.

Verse ConceptsAgony, In HeartPromised JoyOthers MourningA Broken Heart

For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.

Verse ConceptsClothLamentingHaircloth

My dear people, dress yourselves in sackcloth
and roll in the dust.
Mourn as you would for an only son,
a bitter lament,
for suddenly the destroyer will come on us.

Verse ConceptsAshesLamentingSuddenlyThose Who DestroyAshes Of HumiliationOthers Mourning

Shear your hair and throw [it] away, and lift up a lament on the barren heights, for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.'

Verse ConceptsGenerationsHairsLamentingMourningRejection Of God, Results OfSongsBarbersAnger Of God, ConsequencesCutting HairAccompaniments Of Mourning


“I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains,
And a [funeral] dirge for the pastures of the wilderness,
Because they are burned up and desolated so that no one passes through [them];
Nor can anyone hear the lowing of cattle.
Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they are gone.

Verse ConceptsAnimals, religious role ofLamentingSongsWailingLand Becoming EmptyI Mourn Catastrophe

Let them come quickly to raise a lament over us
so that our eyes may overflow with tears,
our eyelids soaked with weeping.

Verse ConceptsShedding


Now hear the word of the Lord, O you women,
And let your ear hear the word of His mouth;
Teach your daughters a song of mourning,
And each one [teach] her neighbor a dirge.

Verse ConceptsPeople TeachingWomen WorkingBeing A Woman Of Godwomanhood

"Judah mourns, and her gates languish, they are in mourning on the ground, and the cry of lament of Jerusalem goes up.

Verse ConceptsSorrow

For who shall have pity upon thee O Jerusalem? And who shall lament for thee? And who shall turn aside, to ask for thy welfare?

Verse ConceptsJerusalem, Significance OfPeople Without MercyFathers Loving Carepotential

For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.

Verse ConceptsDo Not MournGod Without MercyNo PeacePeace And ComfortFamily DeathProtecting Your FamilyRemoving People From Your LifeLoss Of A Loved Oneempathygrievingpitygraciousness

Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:

Verse ConceptsThe DeadBaldnessHairsKnivesUnburied BodiesNo BurialsGreat And SmallGashing BodiesNot Mourning

Do not ye lament for him that is dead Neither bemoan ye, him, But weep ye - weep on - for him that is going away, For he shall not return any more Nor see the land of his birth.

Verse ConceptsSorrowNo return from exileDo Not MournExile In Prospectlosing a loved oneDeath Of A MotherLoss Of A Loved OneLosing Someoneanniversary

Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!

Verse ConceptsNot Mourning

Putting to death, did Hezekiah king of Judah put him to death, and all Judah? Did he not fear Jehovah, and wait for the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah will lament for the evil which he spake against them? And we are doing great evil against our souls.

Verse ConceptsGod Changing His MindSeeking The Favour Of God

But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD.

Verse ConceptsFuneralsCremationCeremoniesDeath Of The WickedMourning The Death Of Others

[The] nations have heard your shame, and your cry of lament fills the earth. For warrior has stumbled against warrior, together they have fallen, the two of them.

Verse ConceptsWarriorsDisorganizationPeople StumblingShame Has Come

Lament ye for him - All that are round about him, and All that know his name, - Say, How is broken - The staff of strength! The rod of beauty!

Verse ConceptsSceptreSorrowDeposing

Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.

Verse ConceptsAi, The CitySackcloth And AshesAfflictions Of The WickedExiled Foreigners

The Lord has become like an enemy he has devoured Israel. He has devoured all of her palaces, destroying her fortresses. He filled cherished Judah with mourning and lament.

Verse ConceptsLamentingSongsGrowth Of EvilSwallowingGod As EnemyHouses Under Attack

The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.

Verse ConceptsPlumb LineWallsGod DestroyingDestruction Of Jerusalem's WallMourning Due To Catastrophe

"The day has arrived. Don't let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller lament, because wrath is coming to attack the entire multitude. The seller won't regain what he has sold while the crowd remains alive, because the vision concerning the entire multitude won't be annulled. No person will be able to survive because of the sin in his life.

Verse ConceptsVisions From GodPeople not returning

"And you, raise a lament about the leaders of Israel,

Verse ConceptsSongsLamenting

And [so] fire has gone out from the stem of its branches; its fruit it has consumed, and [there] was not in it {a strong branch}, a scepter for ruling.'" This [is] a lament, and {it will be used as a lament}.

Verse ConceptsSceptreBurning Plants

I Jehovah spake: it came, and I did; I will not let go loose, and I will not spare, and. I will not lament; according to thy ways and according to thy works they judged thee, says the Lord Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsActionsMan's WaysHesitationMind, Of GodGod Without MercyRepaid For Deeds

“Son of man, I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you with a fatal blow. But you must not lament or weep or let your tears flow.

Verse ConceptsGod Appointed AfflictionsNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon HappenDo Not MournAll Life Is Dependent On GodRemoving People From Your Lifeheartbroken

Your turbans will remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not lament or weep but will waste away because of your sins and will groan to one another.

Verse ConceptsShoesClothing OneselfHeadgearNot Mourning

And they will raise a lament over you, and they will say to you, 'How you have been lost [who was] inhabited from [the] seas; the city that was praised, that was strong. It [is] [located] on the sea, and its inhabitants imposed their terror {on all of its inhabitants}.

Verse ConceptsMarinersFearing Other People

"And you, son of man, raise a lament against Tyre.

Verse ConceptsBaldness, Figurative UseSongs

and they will lament over you with their voice, and they will cry out bitterly, and they will throw dust on their heads, [and] they will roll in the dust.

Verse ConceptsSorrowSprinklingVoicesDust On The HeadAshes Of Humiliation

And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?

Verse ConceptsWailingUnique Nations

"Son of man, raise a lament over the king of Tyre, and you must say to him, 'thus says the Lord Yahweh: "You were a perfect model of an example, full of wisdom and perfect of beauty.

Verse ConceptsSongsPeople Made PerfectThe Beauty Of Nature

"'This is what the sovereign Lord says: On the day it went down to Sheol I caused observers to lament. I covered it with the deep and held back its rivers; its plentiful water was restrained. I clothed Lebanon in black for it, and all the trees of the field wilted because of it.

Verse ConceptsMourning DeathHarming TreesThe Fact Of Death

"Son of man, raise a lament over Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and you must say to him, '[With] a fierce, strong lion among nations you compared yourself, and you [are] like the sea monster in the seas, and you thrash about in your rivers, and you make water turbid with your feet, and you make your rivers muddy.

Verse ConceptsWhalesCosmic CreaturesLike Creatures

This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

Verse ConceptsSongsChantingSad MusicMourning Due To Catastrophe

The inhabitants of Samaria will lament over the calf idol of Beth Aven. Its people will mourn over it; its idolatrous priests will wail over it, because its splendor will be taken from them into exile.

Verse ConceptsCalvesPriests, Institution In Ot TimesGolden CalvesFear Of Other ThingsMourning In RegretNature Of IdolatryLosing Honour

Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.

Verse ConceptsGesturesClothSackcloth And AshesAll Night PrayersClothing OneselfMaking Cereal Offerings And Libations

Hear this word that I [am] going to intone over you [as] a lament, O house of Israel!

Verse ConceptsSongsLamenting

Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of the Heavenly Armies, the Lord, says: "There will be dirges in all of the streets; and in all of the highways they will cry out in anguish. They will call the farmer to mourning and those who lament to grieve.

Verse ConceptsGesturesFarmersMourningRoadsMournersWailingCity SquaresGod As A WarriorHighways

And I will turn your feasts into mourning and all of your songs into lament, and I will put sackcloth on all loins and baldness on every head. And I will make it like the mourning for an only child, and its end like a bitter day.

Verse ConceptsBaldness, Figurative UseBaldnessHairsHeadsMourningSorrowWeepingThe Only ChildNo MusicMourning DeathOnly Child Of PeopleFestivals DisregardedMourning Due To CatastropheBitterness

Who shall know God will turn back and lament, and turning back from the burning of his anger and we shall not perish?

Verse ConceptsNot DyingGod Changing His MindDeath AvertedLet Not God Be AngryAnger And Forgivenessjonah

For this will I lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.

Verse ConceptsBarefeetNakednessSandalsSorrowBirds, Types Of BirdsNaked In ShameOstrichesTragedy

In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.

Verse ConceptsSongsLamentingSad MusicPeople Changing Their Mindstraitors

Everyone who sees you will turn away from you in disgust; they will say, 'Nineveh has been devastated! Who will lament for her?' There will be no one to comfort you!"

Verse ConceptsRuinsArchaeologyComfortless LivesHuman ComfortLeaving People Alone

So they reached the president's house, where he saw a tumult of people wailing and making shrill lament;

Verse ConceptsLamentingWeepingExcitementWailing

They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another, who say, 'We played the flute for you and you did not dance; we sang a lament and you did not weep.'

Verse ConceptsdanceFlutesAmusementsLeisure, And PastimesMarketsMarketplacesMusic To CelebrateLike ChildrenNot Mourning

but Paul went downstairs, threw himself upon him, and embraced him. "Do not lament," he said, "the life is still in him."

Verse ConceptsEmbracingDo Not Be AnxiousLiving OnOvercoming Hard Times

and lest when I come to you again, my God should bow me down, and I should lament over many who have sinned before, and have not repented of the impurities, and whoredom, and lasciviousness which they have committed.

Verse ConceptsLicentiousnessAdultery, Results OfDisappointments, Examples OfHumilitySanctification, Means And ResultsSelf IndulgenceSexual Sin, Nature OfLasciviousnessInsensibilityAvoid ImmoralitySexual Immorality

Come [quickly] now, you rich [who lack true faith and hoard and misuse your resources], weep and howl over the miseries [the woes, the judgments] that are coming upon you.

Verse ConceptsKingdom Of God, Entry IntoWeepingWorldly Pleasures, Leads ToMiseryBarking And HowlingSatisfied With RichesThe Ungodly Suffering

And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,

Verse ConceptsSmokeBurning CitiesThey Committed Immorality

And the merchants of the earth weep aloud and lament over her, because now there is no sale for their cargoes--

Verse ConceptsBabylonMerchandise