The Day of the Lord

16 Therefore the Lord God of hosts, the Lord, says this:

There shall be wailing in all streets,
And they shall say in all the highways,
‘Alas! Alas!’
They shall call the farmer to mourning,
(A)And skillful lamenters to wailing.

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11 (A)Be ashamed, you farmers,
Wail, you vinedressers,
For the wheat and the barley;
Because the harvest of the field has perished.

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The People Mourn in Judgment

17 Thus says the Lord of hosts:

“Consider and call for (A)the mourning women,
That they may come;
And send for skillful wailing women,
That they may come.
18 Let them make haste
And take up a wailing for us,
That (B)our eyes may run with tears,
And our eyelids gush with water.
19 For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion:
‘How we are plundered!
We are greatly ashamed,
Because we have forsaken the land,
Because we have been cast out of (C)our dwellings.’ ”

20 Yet hear the word of the Lord, O women,
And let your ear receive the word of His mouth;
Teach your daughters wailing,
And everyone her neighbor a lamentation.

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10 I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains,
And (A)for the [a]dwelling places of the wilderness a lamentation,
Because they are burned up,
So that no one can pass through;
Nor can men hear the voice of the cattle.
(B)Both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled;
They are gone.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:10 Or pastures

19 (A)“They threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and wailing, and saying, ‘Alas, alas, that great city, in which all who had ships on the sea became rich by her wealth! (B)For in one hour she [a]is made desolate.’

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 18:19 have been laid waste

15 The merchants of these things, who became rich by her, will stand at a distance for fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, 16 and saying, ‘Alas, alas, (A)that great city (B)that was clothed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls!

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10 standing at a distance for fear of her torment, saying, (A)‘Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! (B)For in one hour your judgment has come.’

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In that day one shall take up a proverb against you,
And (A)lament with a bitter lamentation, saying:
‘We are utterly destroyed!
He has changed the [a]heritage of my people;
How He has removed it from me!
To [b]a turncoat He has divided our fields.’ ”

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 2:4 Lit. portion
  2. Micah 2:4 Lit. one turning back, an apostate

Mourning for Israel and Judah

Therefore I will wail and howl,
I will go stripped and naked;
(A)I will make a wailing like the jackals
And a mourning like the ostriches,

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10 I will turn your feasts into (A)mourning,
(B)And all your songs into lamentation;
(C)I will bring sackcloth on every waist,
And baldness on every head;
I will make it like mourning for an only son,
And its end like a bitter day.

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27 Therefore I will send you into captivity (A)beyond Damascus,”
Says the Lord, (B)whose name is the God of hosts.

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13 Hear and testify against the house of Jacob,”
Says the Lord God, the God of hosts,

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14 (A)Consecrate a fast,
Call (B)a sacred assembly;
Gather the elders
And (C)all the inhabitants of the land
Into the house of the Lord your God,
And cry out to the Lord.

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(A)Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth
For (B)the husband of her youth.

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31 “For I have heard a voice as of a woman in [a]labor,
The anguish as of her who brings forth her first child,
The voice of the daughter of Zion bewailing herself;
She (A)spreads her hands, saying,
‘Woe is me now, for my soul is [b]weary
Because of murderers!’

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 4:31 childbirth
  2. Jeremiah 4:31 faint

12 And in that day the Lord God of hosts
(A)Called for weeping and for mourning,
(B)For baldness and for girding with sackcloth.

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For the cry has gone all around the borders of Moab,
Its wailing to Eglaim
And its wailing to Beer Elim.

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He has gone up to the [a]temple and Dibon,
To the high places to weep.
Moab will wail over Nebo and over Medeba;
(A)On all their heads will be baldness,
And every beard cut off.
In their streets they will clothe themselves with sackcloth;
On the tops of their houses
And in their streets
Everyone will wail, (B)weeping bitterly.
Heshbon and Elealeh will cry out,
Their voice shall be heard as far as (C)Jahaz;
Therefore the [b]armed soldiers of Moab will cry out;
His life will be burdensome to him.

“My(D) heart will cry out for Moab;
His fugitives shall flee to Zoar,
Like [c]a three-year-old heifer.
For (E)by the Ascent of Luhith
They will go up with weeping;
For in the way of Horonaim
They will raise up a cry of destruction,

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 15:2 Heb. bayith, lit. house
  2. Isaiah 15:4 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX, Syr. loins
  3. Isaiah 15:5 Or The Third Eglath, an unknown city, Jer. 48:34

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