100 Bible Verses About Lament

Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;

And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.

In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.

And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the Lord: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.

But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:

And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken.

And ye returned and wept before the Lord; but the Lord would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.

But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!

For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

And it came to pass about ten days after, that the Lord smote Nabal, that he died.

Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.

A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the Lord their God.

And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.

They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.

The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?

Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the Lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?

and the dead by the plague are four and twenty thousand.

The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.

And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.

And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this!

The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer–elim.

For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?

Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.

So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer–sheba seventy thousand men.

Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.

And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the Lord until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.

They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.

And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.

My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.

And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjath–jearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the Lord.

For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.

They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.

Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?

O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.

And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.

And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?

And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the Lord repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,

And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.

Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.

At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.

She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.

For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!

Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept.

And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.

The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.

Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:

And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.

Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.

Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead.

Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

Yet hear the word of the Lord, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.

For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.

And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer’s neck there in the valley:

For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.

But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.

Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.