Lexicon :: Strong's H7015 - qînâ

Then David sang this dirge (funeral song) over Saul and his son Jonathan,

‘Cut off your hair [your crown, O Jerusalem] and throw it away,

And take up a mournful cry on the barren heights,

For the LORD has rejected and abandoned

The generation of His wrath.’

“I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains,

And a [funeral] dirge for the pastures of the wilderness,

Because they are burned up and desolated so that no one passes through [them];

Nor can anyone hear the lowing of cattle.

Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they are gone.

Now hear the word of the LORD, O you women,

And let your ear hear the word of His mouth;

Teach your daughters a song of mourning,

And each one [teach] her neighbor a dirge.

“As for you, take up a dirge (funeral poem to be sung) for the princes of Israel

‘And the fire [of Zedekiah’s rebellion] has gone out from its branch;

It has consumed the vine’s shoots and fruit,

So that it has in it no [longer a] strong branch

As a scepter to rule.’”

This is a dirge (funeral poem to be sung), and has become a dirge.

‘How you have perished and vanished, O renowned city,

From the seas, O renowned city,

Which was mighty on the sea,

She and her inhabitants,

Who imposed her terror

On all who lived there!

“In their wailing they will take up a dirge (funeral poem to be sung) for you

And sing a dirge for you:

‘Who is like Tyre,

Like her who is silent [destroyed] in the midst of the sea?

“You had the full measure of perfection and the finishing touch [of completeness],

Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

‘You have compared yourself to a young lion among the nations,

But you are like a monster in the seas;

You burst into your rivers

And disturbed and muddied the waters with your feet

And fouled their rivers [the source of their prosperity].’”

“This is the dirge (funeral poem to be sung) and they shall sing it [for her]. The daughters of the nations shall sing it; for Egypt and for all her hordes they shall sing it,” says the Lord GOD.

Hear this word which I take up for you as a funeral song, O house of Israel:

“And I shall turn your festivals and feasts into mourning

And all your songs into dirges (funeral poems to be sung);

And I shall cause sackcloth to be put on everyone’s [fn]loins

And baldness on every head [shaved for mourning].

And I shall make that time like a time of mourning for an only son [who has died],

And the end of it shall be like a bitter day.