For this reason I ¹  will mourn and wail; I will walk around barefoot ²  and without my outer garments. ³  I will howl ⁴  like a wild dog, ⁵  and screech ⁶  like an owl. ⁷ 

“In that day,” says the Lord, “I will gather the lame, and assemble the outcasts whom I injured. ¹ 

And all the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts. ¹ 

So also you have sorrow ¹  now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you. ² 

Sarah’s demand displeased Abraham greatly because Ishmael was his son. ¹ 

She was very upset ¹  as she prayed to the Lord, and she was weeping uncontrollably. ² 

Then David chanted this lament over Saul and his son Jonathan.

he sets ¹  the lowly ²  on high, that those who mourn ³  are raised ⁴  to safety.

He does not allow ¹  me to recover ²  my breath, for he fills ³  me with bitterness.

Only his flesh has pain for himself, ¹  and he mourns for himself.” ² 

See my pain and suffering! Forgive all my sins! ¹ 

I am dazed ¹  and completely humiliated; ²  all day long I walk around mourning.

I wear sackcloth and they ridicule me. ¹ 

Yes, ¹  my spirit was bitter, ²  and my insides felt sharp pain. ³ 

And at the end of your life ¹  you will groan ²  when your flesh and your body are wasted away. ³ 

The heart knows its own bitterness, ¹  and with its joy no one else ²  can share. ³ 

The one who guards his mouth and his tongue ¹  keeps his life ²  from troubles. ³ 

If ¹  someone pampers his servant from youth, he will be a weakling ²  in the end.

The new wine dries up, the vines shrivel up, all those who like to celebrate ¹  groan.

“And you, sing ¹  a lament for the princes of Israel,