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Amos 5:16-18
Therefore Yahweh, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: There will be wailing in all the public squares; they will cry out in anguish in all the streets. The farmer will be called on to mourn, and professional mourners to wail.There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass among you. The Lord has spoken.Woe to you who long for the Day of the Lord! What will the Day of the Lord be for you? It will be darkness and not light.
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Isaiah 5:30
On that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. When one looks at the land, there will be darkness and distress; light will be obscured by clouds.
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Jeremiah 46:5
Why have I seen this? They are terrified, they are retreating, their warriors are crushed, they flee headlong, they never look back, terror is on every side! This is the Lord’s declaration.
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Jeremiah 4:15-20
For a voice announces from Dan, proclaiming malice from Mount Ephraim.Warn the nations: Look! Proclaim to Jerusalem: Those who besiege are coming from a distant land; they raise their voices against the cities of Judah.They have her surrounded like those who guard a field, because she has rebelled against Me. This is the Lord’s declaration.Your way of life and your actions have brought this on you. This is your punishment. It is very bitter, because it has reached your heart!My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in agony! Oh, the pain in my heart! My heart pounds; I cannot be silent. For you, my soul, have heard the sound of the ram’s horn— the shout of battle.Disaster after disaster is reported because the whole land is destroyed. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, my tent curtains, in a moment.
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Zephaniah 1:10-11
On that day— this is the Lord’s declaration— there will be an outcry from the Fish Gate, a wailing from the Second District, and a loud crashing from the hills.Wail, you residents of the Hollow, for all the merchants will be silenced; all those loaded with silver will be cut off.
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Jeremiah 9:19
For a sound of lamentation is heard from Zion: How devastated we are. We are greatly ashamed, for we have abandoned the land; our dwellings have been torn down.
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Luke 23:29-30
Look, the days are coming when they will say,‘ The women without children, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed, are fortunate!’Then they will begin to say to the mountains,‘ Fall on us!’ and to the hills,‘ Cover us!’
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Jeremiah 8:19
Listen— the cry of my dear people from a far away land,“ Is the Lord no longer in Zion, her King not within her?” Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?
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Isaiah 59:11
We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.
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Jeremiah 25:36
Hear the sound of the shepherds’ cry, the wail of the leaders of the flock, for the Lord is destroying their pasture.
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Luke 19:41-44
As He approached and saw the city, He wept over it,saying,“ If you knew this day what would bring peace— but now it is hidden from your eyes.For the days will come on you when your enemies will build an embankment against you, surround you, and hem you in on every side.They will crush you and your children within you to the ground, and they will not leave one stone on another in you, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”
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Luke 21:25-26
“ Then there will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and there will be anguish on the earth among nations bewildered by the roaring sea and waves.People will faint from fear and expectation of the things that are coming on the world, because the celestial powers will be shaken.
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Jeremiah 31:15-16
This is what the Lord says: A voice was heard in Ramah, a lament with bitter weeping— Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted for her children because they are no more.This is what the Lord says: Keep your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for the reward for your work will come— this is the Lord’s declaration— and your children will return from the enemy’s land.
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Jeremiah 6:23-25
They grasp bow and javelin. They are cruel and show no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, lined up like men in battle formation against you, Daughter Zion.We have heard about it, and we are discouraged. Distress has seized us— pain like a woman in labor.Don’t go out to the fields; don’t walk on the road. For the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.
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Amos 8:10
I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make that grief like mourning for an only son and its outcome like a bitter day.
