Quotes about Wailing

During the night Pharaoh got up—he and all his officials and all the Egyptians—and there was loud wailing in Egypt; for there was no house without someone dead.

For their outcry echoes to the border of Moab. Their wailing reaches Eglaim; it is heard in Beer-elim.

So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.”

I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.

For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’”

“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.

Hear the cry of the shepherds, the wailing of the leaders of the flock, for the LORD is destroying their pasture.

There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.

“In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”

Listen to the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is in ruins. Listen to the roaring of the young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed.

On that day the wailing in Jerusalem will be as great as the wailing of Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.