'Moan' in the Bible
Why are you in despair, O my soul?And why have you become restless and disturbed within me?Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall again praise HimFor the help of His presence.
Why are you in despair, O my soul?Why have you become restless and disquieted within me?Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him,The help of my countenance and my God.
Why are you in despair, O my soul?And why are you restless and disturbed within me?Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall again praise Him,The help of my [sad] countenance and my God.
Pay attention to me and answer me. I moan and groan in my thoughts,
Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray and moan aloud; and he will hear my voice.
Therefore Moab will wail; everyone of Moab will wail.You will moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-haresethAs those who are utterly stricken.
Therefore I moan like the sound of a lyre for Moab,as does my innermost being for Kir-heres.
I chirp like a swallow or a crane;I moan like a dove.My eyes grow weak looking upward.Lord, I am oppressed; support me.
I have been silent for a long time; I have kept silent; I have restrained myself like one giving birth; I will moan, pant, and gasp together.
We all growl like bearsand moan like doves.We hope for justice, but there is none;for salvation, but it is far from us.
Therefore, I will wail over Moab.I will cry out for Moab, all of it;he will moan for the men of Kir-heres.
Their survivors will escape to the mountains and become like doves of the valleys; all of them will moan -- each one for his iniquity.
The Lord said to him, "Go through the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of the people who moan and groan over all the abominations practiced in it."
Cry out and moan, son of man, for it is wielded against my people; against all the princes of Israel. They are delivered up to the sword, along with my people. Therefore, strike your thigh.
and your turbans shall be upon your heads, and your sandals upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall waste away in your iniquities and moan one toward another.
For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, and moan like the daughters of owls.
Beauty is stripped,she is carried away;her ladies-in-waiting moanlike the sound of doves,and beat their breasts.
Now listen, you rich people! Cry and moan over the miseries that are overtaking you.