Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: "There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of 'Alas! Alas!' in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail. Cross References 2 Chronicles 35:25 Then Jeremiah lamented over Josiah, and to this day all the choirs of men and women sing laments over Josiah. They established them as a statute for Israel, and indeed they are written in the Book of Laments. Jeremiah 9:10 I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away. Jeremiah 9:17 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them. Jeremiah 9:18 Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water. Jeremiah 30:5 Yes, this is what the LORD says: "A cry of panic is heard--a cry of terror, not of peace. Hosea 4:3 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; even the fish of the sea disappear. Joel 1:11 Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished. Joel 1:15 Alas for the day! For the Day of the LORD is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty. Amos 8:3 "In that day," declares the Lord GOD, "the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!" Treasury of Scripture Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, said thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the farmer to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentation to wailing. the Lord. Amos 5:27 Amos 3:13 Wailing. Amos 8:10 Isaiah 15:2-5,8 Isaiah 22:12 such. Jeremiah 9:17-19 |