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Jeremiah 6:26
Daughter of my people, put on sackcloth And roll in ashes; Mourn as for an only son, A most bitter mourning. For suddenly the destroyer Will come against us.
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Psalms 140:5
The proud have hidden a trap for me, and snares; They have spread a net at the wayside; They have set snares for me. Selah
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Zephaniah 1:10-11
And on that day,” declares the Lord,“ There will be the sound of a cry from the Fish Gate, Wailing from the Second Quarter, And a loud crash from the hills.Wail, you inhabitants of the Mortar, Because all the people of Canaan will be destroyed; All who weigh out silver will be eliminated.
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Jeremiah 25:34-36
Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; Wallow in the dust, you masters of the flock; For the days of your slaughter and your dispersions have come, And you will fall like a precious vessel.There will be no sanctuary for the shepherds, Nor escape for the masters of the flock.Hear the sound of the cry of the shepherds, And the wailing of the masters of the flock! For the Lord is destroying their pasture,
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Psalms 56:5-7
All day long they distort my words; All their thoughts are against me for evil.They attack, they lurk, They watch my steps, As they have waited to take my life.Because of their wickedness, will there be an escape for them? In anger make the peoples fall down, God!
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Zephaniah 1:16
A day of trumpet and battle cry Against the fortified cities And the high corner towers.
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Jeremiah 9:20-21
Now hear the word of the Lord, you women, And let your ears receive the word of His mouth; Teach your daughters wailing, And have every woman teach her neighbor a song of mourning.For death has come up through our windows; It has entered our palaces To eliminate the children from the streets, The young men from the public squares.
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Isaiah 10:30
Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Pay attention, Laishah and wretched Anathoth!
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Jeremiah 48:3-5
The sound of an outcry from Horonaim,‘ Devastation and great destruction!’Moab is broken, Her little ones have sounded out a cry of distress.For they will go up by the ascent of Luhith With continual weeping; For at the descent of Horonaim They have heard the anguished cry of destruction.
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Jeremiah 4:31
For I heard a voice cry as of a woman in labor, The anguish as of one giving birth to her first child. The voice of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath, Stretching out her hands, saying,“ Ah, woe to me, for I faint before murderers.”
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Jeremiah 4:19-20
My soul, my soul! I am in anguish! Oh, my heart! My heart is pounding in me; I cannot keep silent, Because, my soul, you have heard The sound of the trumpet, The alarm of war.Disaster upon disaster is proclaimed, For the whole land is devastated; Suddenly my tents are devastated, And my curtains in an instant.
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Psalms 38:12
Those who seek my life lay snares for me; And those who seek to injure me have threatened destruction, And they plot deception all day long.
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Matthew 22:15
Then the Pharisees went and plotted together how they might trap Him in what He said.
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Psalms 64:4-5
To shoot from concealment at the innocent; Suddenly they shoot at him, and do not fear.They make firm for themselves an evil purpose; They talk of setting snares secretly; They say,“ Who can see them?”
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Jeremiah 20:10
For I have heard the whispering of many,“ Terror on every side! Denounce him; let’s denounce him!” All my trusted friends, Watching for my fall, say:“ Perhaps he will be persuaded, so that we may prevail against him And take our revenge on him.”
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Isaiah 22:1-4
The pronouncement concerning the valley of vision: What is the matter with you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?You who were full of noise, You tumultuous town, you jubilant city; Your dead were not killed with the sword, Nor did they die in battle.All your rulers have fled together, And have been captured without the bow; All of you who were found were taken captive together, Though they had fled far away.Therefore I say,“ Look away from me, Let me weep bitterly, Do not try to comfort me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
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Jeremiah 18:20
Should good be repaid with evil? For they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You To speak good in their behalf, So as to turn Your wrath away from them.
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Jeremiah 47:2-3
This is what the Lord says:“ Behold, waters are going to rise from the north And become an overflowing torrent, And overflow the land and everything that is in it, The city and those who live in it; And the people will cry out, And every inhabitant of the land will wail.Because of the noise of the galloping hoofs of his stallions, The roar of his chariots, and the rumbling of his wheels, The fathers have not turned back for their children, Because of the debility of their hands,