Lament
A formal expression of grief, complaint, or protest directed to God — a major genre in the psalms and prophets. Nearly one-third of the psalms are laments (e.g., Psalms 13, 22, 42, 88). Laments typically include address to God, complaint, confession of trust, petition, and vow of praise. The entire book of Lamentations is a sustained lament over Jerusalem's destruction. Jesus lamented over Jerusalem (Matthew 23:37-38) and quoted Psalm 22's lament on the cross (Matthew 27:46). Lament is not faithlessness but faith's honest cry — bringing raw pain to the God who can heal. Habakkuk's lament (1:2-4) models questioning God while ultimately trusting him (3:17-19).
Verses about Lament
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Kejadian 50:10
And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mou…
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Hakim-Hakim 11:40
That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
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1 Samuel 6:19
And he smote the men of Beth–shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the Lord, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and…
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1 Samuel 7:2
And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjath–jearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented aft…
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1 Samuel 25:1
And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went dow…
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1 Samuel 28:3
Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar sp…
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2 Samuel 1:17
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:
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2 Samuel 3:33
And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?
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2 Tawarikh 35:25
And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an o…
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Mazmur 78:64
Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
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Yesaya 3:26
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
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Yesaya 19:8
The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
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Yesaya 32:12
They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
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Yeremia 4:8
For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned back from us.
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Yeremia 6:26
O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for …
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Yeremia 7:29
Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the Lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation o…
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Yeremia 9:10
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that …
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Yeremia 9:20
Yet hear the word of the Lord, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighb…
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Yeremia 16:4
They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: an…
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Yeremia 16:5
For thus saith the Lord, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people,…