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.
Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughte
the LORD had already spoken through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, “Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist and the sandal
I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched
Therefore my body is filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am bewildered to hear, I
Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daug
So I weep with Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears. Triumphant shouts have fallen
Therefore My heart laments like a flute for Moab; it laments like a flute for the men of Kir-heres, because the wealth t
I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the l
But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wi
My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I
I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.