3 occurrences

'Wailing' in the Bible

In their streets they have girded themselves with sackcloth;On their housetops and in their squaresEveryone is wailing, dissolved in tears.

Verse ConceptsProstrationRoofSackcloth And AshesSorrowRooftop

For the cry of distress has gone around the territory of Moab,Its wail goes as far as Eglaim and its wailing even to Beer-elim.

Therefore in that day the Lord God of hosts called you to weeping, to wailing,To shaving the head and to wearing sackcloth.

Verse ConceptsGesturesBaldness, UnnaturalBaldnessHairsMourning

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