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Jeremiah 6:26
Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer will suddenly come on us.
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Psalms 140:5
The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.
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Zephaniah 1:10-11
In that day, says Yahweh, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.Wail, you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the people of Canaan are undone! All those who were loaded with silver are cut off.
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Jeremiah 25:34-36
Wail, you shepherds, and cry. Wallow in dust, you leader of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions have fully come, and you will fall like fine pottery.The shepherds will have no way to flee. The leader of the flock will have no escape.A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and the wailing of the leader of the flock, for Yahweh destroys their pasture.
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Psalms 56:5-7
All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.
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Zephaniah 1:16
a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.
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Jeremiah 9:20-21
Yet hear Yahweh’s word, you women. Let your ear receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters wailing, and everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation.For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.
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Isaiah 10:30
Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth!
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Jeremiah 48:3-5
The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!Moab is destroyed. Her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.For they will go up by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping. For at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.
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Jeremiah 4:31
For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who gives birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying,“ Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers.”
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Jeremiah 4:19-20
My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.Destruction on destruction is decreed, for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, and my curtains gone in a moment.
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Psalms 38:12
They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
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Matthew 22:15
Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.
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Psalms 64:4-5
to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say,“ Who will see them?”
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Jeremiah 20:10
For I have heard the defaming of many,“ Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall.“ Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”
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Isaiah 22:1-4
The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away.Therefore I said,“ Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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Jeremiah 18:20
Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.
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Jeremiah 47:2-3
Yahweh says:“ Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and will become an overflowing stream, and will overflow the land and all that is therein, the city and those who dwell therein. The men will cry, and all the inhabitants of the land will wail.At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers don’t look back to their children for feebleness of hands;