Bible Verses About Lamentations

For the leader. Set to "Lily of Testimony."A mikhtam of David for teaching about when he fought with Aram-Naharayim and with Aram-Tzovah, and Yo'av returned and killed 12,000 from Edom in the Salt Valley: God, you rejected us; you crushed us; you were angry; but now revive us.

You made the land shake, split it apart; now repair the rifts, for it is collapsing.

You made your people suffer hard times, had us drink a wine that made us stagger.

"Moreover, raise a lament for the leaders of Isra'el;

say: 'What a mother you had a lioness among lions! She lay down among young lions and reared her cubs.

One of her cubs she singled out: he became a young lion, he learned to seize his prey, he became a man-eater.

The nations sounded an alarm against him; and he was caught in their pit. With hooks they dragged him off to the land of Egypt.

When she saw that she had been thwarted, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made a young lion of him.

He prowled among the lions, grew to be a young lion, learned to seize his prey and became a man-eater.

He raped their widows and destroyed their cities; the land and all in it were appalled at the sound of his roaring.

The nations set a snare for him from the provinces all around, they spread their net over him, and he was caught in their pit.

With hooks they put him in a cage and brought him to the king of Bavel to imprison him in a fortress, so that his roar would be heard no more on the mountains of Isra'el.

"'Your mother was like a strong grapevine planted by the water. It was fruitful and luxuriant because of the abundant water.

It had strong branches to be used as scepters by rulers; besides having thick foliage, it grew taller and taller, until its height was noticed, with its mass of branches.

But it was torn up in fury and flung on the ground. An east wind withered her fruit, her strong branches were broken off; they dried up; and fire consumed the vine.

It has been transplanted to the desert, to a dry, thirsty land.

Fire has gone out from its own branches, burning up its fruit, so that now it has no strong branch to be a ruler's scepter.'" This lamentation became very well known.

"Human being, raise a lament for the king of Tzor, and tell him that Adonai ELOHIM says: 'You put the seal on perfection; you were full of wisdom and perfect in beauty;

you were in 'Eden, the garden of God; covered with all kinds of precious stones - carnelians, topaz, diamonds, beryl, onyx, jasper, sapphires, green feldspar, emeralds; your pendants and jewels were made of gold, prepared the day you were created.

You were a keruv, protecting a large region; I placed you on God's holy mountain. You walked back and forth among stones of fire.

You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you.

"'When your commerce grew, you became filled with violence; and in this way you sinned. Therefore I have thrown you out, defiled, from the mountain of God; I have destroyed you, protecting keruv, from among the stones of fire.

Your heart grew proud because of your beauty, you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. But I have thrown you on the ground; before kings I have made you a spectacle.

By your many crimes in dishonest trading, you have profaned your sanctuaries; therefore I brought forth fire from within you, and it has devoured you; I reduced you into ashes on the ground in the sight of all who can see you.

All who know you among the peoples will be aghast at you. You are an object of terror, and you will cease to exist.'"