Our hearts no longer have any joy; ¹  our dancing is turned to mourning.

In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three whole weeks. ¹ 

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

On that day the lamentation in Jerusalem will be as great as the lamentation at Hadad-Rimmon ¹  in the plain of Megiddo. ² 

(19:2) Joab was told, “The king is weeping and mourning over Absalom.”

Then you turned my lament into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and covered me with joy. ¹ 

My harp is used for ¹  mourning and my flute for the sound of weeping.

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of merrymaking. ¹ 

The Israelites mourned for Moses in the deserts of Moab for thirty days; then the days of mourning for Moses ended.

they will tear out their hair because of you and put on sackcloth, and they will weep bitterly over you with intense mourning. ¹ 

Grieve, mourn, ¹  and weep. Turn your laughter ²  into mourning and your joy into despair.

He unrolled it before me, and it had writing on the front ¹  and back; ²  written on it were laments, mourning, and woe.

“Yet even now,” the Lord says, “return to me with all your heart – with fasting, weeping, and mourning. Tear your hearts, ¹  not just your garments!”

When the Canaanites who lived in the land saw them mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a very sad occasion ¹  for the Egyptians.” That is why its name was called ²  Abel Mizraim, ³  which is beyond the Jordan.

So Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman. He told her, “Pretend to be in mourning ¹  and put on garments for mourning. Don’t anoint yourself with oil. Instead, act like a woman who has been mourning for the dead for some time. ² 

I will turn your festivals into funerals, ¹  and all your songs into funeral dirges. I will make everyone wear funeral clothes ²  and cause every head to be shaved bald. ³  I will make you mourn as if you had lost your only son; ⁴  when it ends it will indeed have been a bitter day. ⁵ 

She went out and told those who were with him, while they were mourning and weeping.

I will pray ¹  to God, my high ridge: ²  “Why do you ignore ³  me? Why must I walk around mourning ⁴  because my enemies oppress me?”

For you are the God who shelters me. ¹  Why do you reject me? ²  Why must I walk around ³  mourning ⁴  because my enemies oppress me?

At that time the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, called for weeping and mourning, for shaved heads and sackcloth. ¹