Isa 22:12, Jer 9:1, 10, 17-22, 13:17, Lam 1:2, 16, Eze 7:16-18, Zec 12:10 | ESV | STEP | In that day the Lord God of hosts called for weeping and mourning , for baldness and wearing sackcloth ;

1 ^{▼▼Ch 8:23 in Hebrew} ^eOh that my head were waters,
and my eyes a fountain of tears,
that I might weep day and night
for the slain of ^fthe daughter of my people!

Jeremiah 9:10

10 “I will take up weeping and wailing for the mountains,
and a lamentation for ^gthe pastures of the wilderness,
^hbecause they are laid waste so that no one passes through,
and the lowing of cattle is not heard;
ⁱboth the birds of the air and the beasts
have fled and are gone.

Jeremiah 9:17-22

17 Thus says the Lord of hosts:
^j“Consider, and call for the mourning women to come;
send for the skillful women to come;
18 let them make haste ^kand raise a wailing over us,
^lthat our eyes may run down with tears
and our eyelids flow with water.
19 For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion:
^m‘How we are ruined!
We are utterly shamed,
because we have left the land,
because they have cast down our dwellings.’”
20 Hear, O women, the word of the Lord,
and let your ear receive the word of his mouth;
teach to your daughters a lament,
and each to her neighbor a dirge.
21 For death has come up into our windows;
it has entered our palaces,
ⁿcutting off the children from the streets
and the young men from the squares.
22 Speak: “Thus declares the Lord,
^o‘The dead bodies of men shall fall
like dung upon the open field,
^plike sheaves after the reaper,
and none shall gather them.’”

Jeremiah 13:17

17 But if you will not listen,
^qmy soul will weep in secret for your pride;
my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears,
because the Lord’s flock has been taken captive.

Lamentations 1:2

2 ^rShe weeps bitterly in the night,
with tears on her cheeks;
^samong all her lovers
she has ^tnone to comfort her;
^uall her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
they have become her enemies.

Lamentations 1:16

16 “For these things ^vI weep;
my eyes flow with tears;
for ^wa comforter is far from me,
one to ^xrevive my spirit;
my children are desolate,
for the enemy has prevailed.”

Ezekiel 7:16-18

16 ^yAnd if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like ^zdoves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity. 17 ^aaAll hands are feeble, and all knees turn to water. 18 ^abThey put on sackcloth, and ^achorror covers them. Shame is on all faces, and ^adbaldness on all their heads.

Zechariah 12:10

Him Whom They Have Pierced

10 “And ^aeI will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and ^afpleas for mercy, so that, ^agwhen they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, ^ahthey shall mourn for him, ^aias one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.