Isa 15:2, Jer 30:15-17, 31:9, 18-20, 50:4-5, Eze 7:16, Zec 12:10-14 | ESV | STEP | He has gone up to the temple , and to Dibon , to the high places to weep ; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails . On every head is baldness ; every beard is shorn ;

2 He has gone up to the temple, ^{▼▼Hebrew the house} and to ^bDibon,
to the high places ^{▼▼Or temple, even Dibon to the high places} to weep;
over ^dNebo and over ^eMedeba
Moab ^fwails.
On every head is ^gbaldness;
every beard is shorn;

Jeremiah 30:15-17

15 ^hWhy do you cry out over your hurt?
ⁱYour pain is incurable.
Because your guilt is great,
^jbecause your sins are flagrant,
I have done these things to you.
16 ^kTherefore all who devour you shall be devoured,
and ^lall your foes, every one of them, shall go into captivity;
^mthose who plunder you shall be plundered,
ⁿand all who prey on you I will make a prey.
17 ^oFor I will restore ^phealth to you,
and ^qyour wounds I will heal,

declares the Lord,
because ^rthey have called you an outcast:
^s‘It is Zion, for whom no one cares!’

Jeremiah 31:9

9 ^tWith weeping they shall come,
^uand with pleas for mercy I will lead them back,
I will make them ^vwalk by brooks of water,
^win a straight path in which they shall not stumble,
for ^xI am a father to Israel,
and Ephraim is ^ymy firstborn.

Jeremiah 31:18-20

18 I have heard ^zEphraim grieving,
‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined,
like an untrained calf;
^aabring me back that I may be restored,
for you are the Lord my God.
19 For after ^abI had turned away, I relented,
and after I was instructed, ^acI struck my thigh;
^adI was ashamed, and I was confounded,
because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
20 ^aeIs Ephraim my dear son?
^afIs he my darling child?
For as often as I speak against him,
I do remember him still.
^agTherefore my heart ^{▼▼Hebrew bowels} yearns for him;
I will surely have mercy on him,

declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 50:4-5

4 ^ai“In those days and in that time, declares the Lord, ^ajthe people of Israel and the people of Judah shall come together, ^akweeping as they come, and they ^alshall seek the Lord their God. 5 ^amThey shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, ^ansaying, ‘Come, let us join ourselves to the Lord in an ^aoeverlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.’

Ezekiel 7:16

16 ^apAnd if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like ^aqdoves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity.

Zechariah 12:10-14

Him Whom They Have Pierced

10 “And ^arI will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and ^aspleas for mercy, so that, ^atwhen they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, ^authey shall mourn for him, ^avas one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn. 11 ^awOn that day ^axthe mourning in Jerusalem will be as great ^ayas the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. 12 The land shall mourn, ^azeach family ^{▼▼Or clan; also verses 13, 14} by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of ^bbNathan by itself, and their wives by themselves; 13 the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of ^bcthe Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves; 14 and all the families that are left, each by itself, and their wives by themselves.