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«And my lament / Is cries countless, cries like dead letters sent / To dearest him that lives alas! away.»
«And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel, / That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Jephthah, lament, vowed
«For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: bemoan, bemoaned, bemoaning, lament
«And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea? / When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.»
«And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: lament, mourn
«For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: gird, howl, lament, sackcloth
«Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them: / Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: bald, lament
«Because, death is certain for the one who is born, and birth is certain for the one who dies. Therefore, you should not lament over the inevitable.»
«And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, / Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.»
«Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest»

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