19 occurrences in 8 translations

'Lamenting' in the Bible

discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, and stay in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may have sexual relations with her and become her husband and she your wife.

Verse ConceptsMonthOne MonthMourning DeathDistinctive Clothing

"Back at home, out the window Sisera's mother peered, lamenting through the lattice. "Why is his chariot delayed in returning? "Why do the hoof beats of his chariots wait?'

Verse ConceptsLove, And The WorldLooking Through WindowsPeople Who Delayed

In every province where the order of the king and his edict reached, among the Jewish people there was great mourning, fasting, weeping, and lamenting, and many lay down on sackcloth and ashes.

Verse ConceptsProvincesAshesWailingPeople Mourning Catastrophe

to establish these days of Purim [to be observed] at their appointed times, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established for them, and as they had established for themselves and for their descendants with instructions regarding their times of fasting and their lamentations (expressions of needing help).

Verse ConceptsHow To Fast

“But his body [lamenting its decay] grieves in pain over it,And his soul mourns over [the loss of] himself.”

Verse ConceptsBodySelfishnessActing AloneMourning In Regret

I {behaved} as [though he were] a friend [or] as a brother to me. As one lamenting a mother, I was bowed down [in] mourning.

Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingBereavement, Expression OfBowingHeadsAttitude Towards Your MotherMourning DeathDeath Of A Mothergrieving

Attend to me and answer me. I am restless in my lamenting and I groan,

Verse ConceptsComplaintsComplainingThoughtsBeing Overwhelmeddistractionsventing

Hear my voice, O God, in my lamenting. Preserve my life from [the] fear of [the] enemy.

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

I will bring distress to Ariel,And she will be a city of lamenting and mourning;And she will be like an Ariel to me.

Verse ConceptsMourning Due To CatastropheNatural Disasters

For breasts they are lamenting, For fields of desire, for the fruitful vine.

Verse Conceptsbreastsfruitfulness

And Yahweh said to him, "Go through in the midst of the city, in the midst of Jerusalem, and you must place a mark on the foreheads of the men {who are groaning and lamenting} about all of the detestable things {that are being done} in the midst of her."

Verse ConceptsForeheadsSealsSorrowUnhappinessMarks On PeopleRepenting Of AbominationsStress And Hard Times

It is a lamentation, and thus they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall say it in lamenting; they shall say it in lamenting over Egypt and over all her multitude, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsSongsChantingSad MusicMourning Due To Catastrophe

Depart in shameful nakedness,you residents of Shaphir;the residents of Zaanan will not come out.Beth-ezel is lamenting;its support is taken from you.

Verse ConceptsNaked In ShameGoing Outside

"When this happens, someone will compose a proverb about you, lamenting sorrowfully, "We are completely ruined! He has given my people's heritage to others. How he has removed it from me, dividing up our fields!'

Verse ConceptsSongsLamentingSad MusicPeople Changing Their Mindstraitors

It is decreed:Nineveh is stripped, and she is carried away,And her handmaids are moaning like the sound of doves,Beating on their breasts [in sorrow].

Verse ConceptsdovesPeople Stripping PeopleBeating OneselfBird SoundsPeople Carrying Live People

And all were weeping and lamenting her. But he said, Do not weep, for she has not died, but sleeps.

Verse ConceptsLamentingMourningSorrowDo Not MournMourning The Death Of Others

A large crowd of people followed Him, including women who were mourning and lamenting Him.

Verse ConceptsLamentingLargenessTearsCrowds Around JesusMourning The Death Of Christ

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