Jeremiah 9:19

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Jeremiah 9:17–21 · Berean Standard Bible

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

18 Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.

19 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.’”

20 Now, O women, hear the word of the LORD. Open your ears to the word of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail, and one another to lament.

21 For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.

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Jeremiah 4:31

For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child— the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the murderers!”

Ezekiel 7:16

The survivors will escape and live in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley, each for his own iniquity.

Ezekiel 7:17

Every hand will go limp, and every knee will turn to water.

Ezekiel 7:18

They will put on sackcloth, and terror will overwhelm them. Shame will cover all their faces, and all their heads will be shaved.

Micah 1:8

Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.

Micah 1:9

For her wound is incurable; it has reached even Judah; it has approached the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem itself.

Jeremiah 2:14

Is Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why then has he become prey?

Jeremiah 4:13

Behold, he advances like the clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!

Jeremiah 4:20

Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, for the whole land is laid waste. My tents are destroyed in an instant, my curtains in a moment.

Jeremiah 4:30

And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.

Deuteronomy 28:29

and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.

Lamentations 5:2

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

Micah 2:4

In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ‘We are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has allotted our fields to traitors.’”

Leviticus 18:25

Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.

Leviticus 18:28

So if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it spewed out the nations before you.

Leviticus 20:22

You are therefore to keep all My statutes and ordinances, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.

Lamentations 4:15

“Go away! Unclean!” men shouted at them. “Away, away! Do not touch us!” So they fled and wandered. Among the nations it was said, “They can stay here no longer.”

Micah 2:10

Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction— a grievous destruction!