'Moaning' in the Bible
I am numb and greatly bruised [deadly cold and completely worn out];I groan because of the disquiet and moaning of my heart.
Rebelling against and denying the Lord,Turning away from [following] our God,Speaking oppression and revolt,Conceiving and muttering from the heart lying words.
“I have surely heard Ephraim (Israel) moaning and grieving,‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised,Like a bull unaccustomed to the yoke or an untrained calf;Bring me back that I may be restored,For You are the Lord my God.
The Lord has become like an enemy;He has swallowed up Israel.He has swallowed up all its palaces;He has destroyed its strongholdsAnd multiplied in the Daughter of JudahMourning and lamentation (expressions of grief).
Even when their survivors escape, they will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each over his [punishment for] sin.
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].