Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:
“As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.
Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsake
I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched
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
“Son of man, take up a lament for the king of Tyre and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You were the seal
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your
Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and
Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up ou
“Now you, son of man, take up a lament for Tyre.
“Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: ‘You are like a lion among the nations; you are
Your wealth, wares, and merchandise, your sailors, captains, and shipwrights, your merchants and all the warriors within
In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ‘We are utterly ruined!
Then they will lament for you, saying, “How you have perished, O city of renown inhabited by seafaring men—she who was p
This is the lament they will chant for her; the daughters of the nations will chant it. Over Egypt and all her multitude
Fire has gone out from its main branch and devoured its fruit; on it no strong branch remains fit for a ruler’s scepter.