Job 3:8
8Let those curse it who curse the day,who are ready to rouse up aLeviathan.
Ecclesiastes 12:5
5they are afraid also of what is high, and bterrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, ▼▼Or is a burden
and desire fails, because man is going to his deternal ehome, and the fmourners go about the streets— Jeremiah 9:17-21
17 Thus says the Lord of hosts:g“Consider, and call for the mourning women to come;
send for the skillful women to come;
18let them make haste hand raise a wailing over us,
ithat our eyes may run down with tears
and our eyelids flow with water.
19For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion:
j‘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.
21For death has come up into our windows;
it has entered our palaces,
kcutting off the children from the streets
and the young men from the squares.
Matthew 9:23
23And when Jesus came to the ruler’s house and saw lthe flute players and the crowd making a commotion,
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