1 Samuel 7:2
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2 From the day that the ark was lodged at Kiriath-jearim, a long time passed, some twenty years, and all the house of Israel lamented after the Lord.
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2 Corinthians 7:10-11
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10 For (A)godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas (B)worldly grief produces death. 11 For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, (C)what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.
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Matthew 5:4
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4 “Blessed are (A)those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
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Zechariah 12:10-11
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Him Whom They Have Pierced
10 “And (A)I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and (B)pleas for mercy, so that, (C)when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, (D)they shall mourn for him, (E)as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn. 11 (F)On that day (G)the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great (H)as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
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Jeremiah 31:9
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Jeremiah 3:22-25
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22 (A)“Return, O faithless sons;
(B)I will heal your faithlessness.”
“Behold, we come to you,
for you are the Lord our God.
23 Truly (C)the hills are a delusion,
the orgies[a] on the mountains.
(D)Truly in the Lord our God
is the salvation of Israel.
24 “But from our youth the shameful thing has devoured all for which our fathers labored, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. 25 (E)Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us. For (F)we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”
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- Jeremiah 3:23 Hebrew commotion
Jeremiah 3:13
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13 (A)Only acknowledge your guilt,
that you rebelled against the Lord your God
and scattered your favors among foreigners under (B)every green tree,
and that you have not obeyed my voice,
declares the Lord.
Judges 2:4
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4 As soon as the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the people of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept.
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