Lexicon :: Strong's G2354 - thrēneō

that four days each year the young women of Israel would commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.

David sang the following lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,

and the king sang a lament for Abner:

Should Abner die as a fool dies?

Jeremiah chanted a dirge over Josiah, and all the male and female singers still speak of Josiah in their dirges today. They established them as a statute for Israel, and indeed they are written in the Dirges.

This is what the LORD of Armies says:

Consider, and summon the women who mourn;

send for the skillful women.

Do not weep for the dead;

do not mourn for him.

Weep bitterly for the one who has gone away,

for he will never return again

and see his native land.

Suddenly Babylon fell and was shattered.

Wail for her;

get balm for her wound —

perhaps she can be healed.

How[fn] she sits alone,

the city once crowded with people!

She who was great among the nations

has become like a widow.

The princess among the provinces

has been put to forced labor.

The time has come; the day has arrived.

Let the buyer not rejoice

and the seller not mourn,

for wrath is on her whole crowd.

Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the LORD’s house, and I saw women sitting there weeping for Tammuz.

“ ‘The daughters of the nations will chant that lament. They will chant it over Egypt and all its hordes. This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.’ ”

“Son of man, wail over the hordes of Egypt and bring Egypt and the daughters of mighty nations down to the underworld,[fn] to be with those who descend to the Pit:

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep;

wail, all you wine drinkers,

because of the sweet wine,

for it has been taken from your mouth.

Grieve like a young woman dressed in sackcloth,

mourning for the husband of her youth.

Be ashamed, you farmers,

wail, you vinedressers,[fn]

over the wheat and the barley,

because the harvest of the field has perished.

Dress in sackcloth and lament, you priests;

wail, you ministers of the altar.

Come and spend the night in sackcloth,

you ministers of my God,

because grain and drink offerings

are withheld from the house of your God.

Because of this I will lament and wail;

I will walk barefoot and naked.

I will howl like the jackals

and mourn like ostriches.[fn]

In that day one will take up a taunt against you

and lament mournfully, saying,

“We are totally ruined!

He measures out the allotted land of my people.

How he removes it from me!

He allots our fields to traitors.”

Wail, you residents of the Hollow,[fn]

for all the merchants[fn] will be silenced;

all those loaded with silver will be cut off.

Listen to the wail of the shepherds,

for their glory is destroyed.

Listen to the roar of young lions,

for the thickets of the Jordan are[fn] destroyed.