Micah 1:8
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8 (A)For this I will lament and wail;
I will go (B)stripped and naked;
I will make lamentation (C)like the jackals,
and mourning (D)like the ostriches.
Isaiah 22:4
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4 Therefore I said:
“Look away from me;
(A)let me weep bitter tears;
do not labor to comfort me
concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
Isaiah 20:2-4
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2 at that time the Lord spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loose the sackcloth from your waist and take off your sandals from your feet,” and he did so, walking (A)naked and barefoot.
3 Then the Lord said, “As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years (B)as a sign and a portent against Egypt and Cush,[a] 4 so shall the (C)king of Assyria lead away the Egyptian captives and the Cushite exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, the nakedness of Egypt.
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- Isaiah 20:3 Probably Nubia
Job 30:29
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Jeremiah 48:36-39
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36 Therefore my heart moans for Moab like a flute, and my heart moans like a flute for the men of (A)Kir-hareseth. (B)Therefore the riches they gained have perished.
37 (C)“For every head is shaved and every beard cut off. (D)On all the hands are gashes, and (E)around the waist is sackcloth. 38 On all the housetops of Moab and in the squares there is nothing but lamentation, for I have broken Moab like (F)a vessel for which no one cares, declares the Lord. 39 How it is broken! How they wail! (G)How Moab has turned his back in shame! So Moab (H)has become a derision and a horror to all that are around him.”
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Jeremiah 9:19
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19 For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion:
(A)‘How we are ruined!
We are utterly shamed,
because we have left the land,
because they have cast down our dwellings.’”
Jeremiah 9:10
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10 “I will take up weeping and wailing for the mountains,
and a lamentation for (A)the pastures of the wilderness,
(B)because they are laid waste so that no one passes through,
and the lowing of cattle is not heard;
(C)both the birds of the air and the beasts
have fled and are gone.
Jeremiah 9:1
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9 [a] (A)Oh that my head were waters,
and my eyes a fountain of tears,
that I might weep day and night
for the slain of (B)the daughter of my people!
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 9:1 Ch 8:23 in Hebrew
Jeremiah 4:19
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Anguish over Judah's Desolation
19 (A)My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain!
Oh the walls of my heart!
My heart is beating wildly;
I cannot keep silent,
for I hear the sound of the trumpet,
the alarm of war.
Isaiah 21:3
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3 Therefore my loins are filled with anguish;
(A)pangs have seized me,
like the pangs of a woman in labor;
I am bowed down so that I cannot hear;
I am dismayed so that I cannot see.
Isaiah 16:9
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9 Therefore (A)I weep with (B)the weeping of Jazer
for the vine of Sibmah;
I drench you with my tears,
O Heshbon and Elealeh;
for over (C)your summer fruit and your harvest
the shout has ceased.
Isaiah 13:21
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21 But (A)wild animals will lie down there,
and their houses will be full of howling creatures;
there (B)ostriches[a] will dwell,
and there wild goats will dance.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 13:21 Or owls
Psalm 102:6
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Footnotes
- Psalm 102:6 The precise identity of these birds is uncertain
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