Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

Their mourning

Bible References

Who are ready

2 Chronicles 35:25
Then Jeremiah chanted a lament for Josiah. And all the male and female singers speak about Josiah in their lamentations to this day. And they made them an ordinance in Israel; behold, they are also written in the Lamentations.
Jeremiah 9:17
Thus says the Lord of hosts,
“Consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come;
And send for the wailing women, that they may come!
Amos 5:16
Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts, the Lord,
“There is wailing in all the plazas,
And in all the streets they say, ‘Alas! Alas!’
They also call the farmer to mourning
And professional mourners to lamentation.
Matthew 11:17
and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’
Mark 5:38
They *came to the house of the synagogue official; and He *saw a commotion, and people loudly weeping and wailing.

Their mourning

Job 41:1
Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook?
Or press down his tongue with a cord?