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Zechariah 12:10
“ And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
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Jeremiah 6:26
Put on sackcloth, my people, and roll in ashes; mourn with bitter wailing as for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
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Ezekiel 7:18
They will put on sackcloth and be clothed with terror. Every face will be covered with shame, and every head will be shaved.
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Jeremiah 48:37
Every head is shaved and every beard cut off; every hand is slashed and every waist is covered with sackcloth.
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Hosea 2:11
I will stop all her celebrations: her yearly festivals, her New Moons, her Sabbath days— all her appointed festivals.
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Luke 7:12-13
As he approached the town gate, a dead person was being carried out— the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her.When the Lord saw her, his heart went out to her and he said,“ Don’t cry.”
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Isaiah 15:2-3
Dibon goes up to its temple, to its high places to weep; Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba. Every head is shaved and every beard cut off.In the streets they wear sackcloth; on the roofs and in the public squares they all wail, prostrate with weeping.
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Job 20:23
When he has filled his belly, God will vent his burning anger against him and rain down his blows on him.
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Isaiah 22:12-14
The Lord, the Lord Almighty, called you on that day to weep and to wail, to tear out your hair and put on sackcloth.But see, there is joy and revelry, slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine!“ Let us eat and drink,” you say,“ for tomorrow we die!”The Lord Almighty has revealed this in my hearing:“ Till your dying day this sin will not be atoned for,” says the Lord, the Lord Almighty.
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Amos 8:3
“ In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord,“ the songs in the temple will turn to wailing. Many, many bodies— flung everywhere! Silence!”
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Amos 6:4-7
You lie on beds adorned with ivory and lounge on your couches. You dine on choice lambs and fattened calves.You strum away on your harps like David and improvise on musical instruments.You drink wine by the bowlful and use the finest lotions, but you do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph.Therefore you will be among the first to go into exile; your feasting and lounging will end.
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Deuteronomy 16:14
Be joyful at your festival— you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites, the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns.
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Daniel 5:4-6
As they drank the wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone.Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote.His face turned pale and he was so frightened that his legs became weak and his knees were knocking.
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Job 3:5
May gloom and utter darkness claim it once more; may a cloud settle over it; may blackness overwhelm it.
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Isaiah 21:3-4
At this my body is racked with pain, pangs seize me, like those of a woman in labor; I am staggered by what I hear, I am bewildered by what I see.My heart falters, fear makes me tremble; the twilight I longed for has become a horror to me.
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Nahum 1:10
They will be entangled among thorns and drunk from their wine; they will be consumed like dry stubble.
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Ezekiel 27:30-31
They will raise their voice and cry bitterly over you; they will sprinkle dust on their heads and roll in ashes.They will shave their heads because of you and will put on sackcloth. They will weep over you with anguish of soul and with bitter mourning.
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1 Samuel 25 36-1 Samuel 25 38
When Abigail went to Nabal, he was in the house holding a banquet like that of a king. He was in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing at all until daybreak.Then in the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him all these things, and his heart failed him and he became like a stone.About ten days later, the Lord struck Nabal and he died.
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2 Samuel 13 28-2 Samuel 13 31
Absalom ordered his men,“ Listen! When Amnon is in high spirits from drinking wine and I say to you,‘ Strike Amnon down,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I given you this order? Be strong and brave.”So Absalom’s men did to Amnon what Absalom had ordered. Then all the king’s sons got up, mounted their mules and fled.While they were on their way, the report came to David:“ Absalom has struck down all the king’s sons; not one of them is left.”The king stood up, tore his clothes and lay down on the ground; and all his attendants stood by with their clothes torn.
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Amos 5:23
Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.