“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.
For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.
Those who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.
And just as I had called and they would not listen, so when they called I would not listen, says the LORD of Hosts.
But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their
Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to bring upon them a disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry o
Nations writhe in horror before them; every face turns pale.
The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off the
Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air
“At this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you are to anoint him ruler over My people I
The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.
Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above will grow dark. I have spoken, I have planned, and I will not relen
Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled amon
So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.
They caused the cry of the poor to come before Him, and He heard the outcry of the afflicted.
How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals
My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend
For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He look
Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring raiders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me
The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.