Psalm 137:4

Lament During The Babylonian Exile

³ For, there, our captors asked of us words of song, and our plunderers - gladness, - Sing us of the songs of Zion! ⁴ How shall we sing the song of Yahweh, on a foreign soil? ⁵ If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right-hand forget:

To the Lord

Jehovah

Ecclesiastes 3:4

A time to weep, and a time to laugh, - A time to wail, and a time to dance for joy;

Isaiah 22:12

And, when My Lord Yahweh of hosts called in that day, - for weeping, and for lamentation, and for shaving bare and for girding with sackcloth,

Isaiah 49:21

Then shalt thou say in thy heart, - Who hath borne me, these, Seeing, I, have been bereaved and unfruitful, a captive and banished, These, therefore, who hath brought them up? Lo! I, was left, alone, These, where were they.

Lamentations 5:14-15

Elders, from the gates, have ceased. Young men, from their music.

Hosea 9:4

They shall not pour out to Yahweh - wine, neither shall they be pleasing to him, their sacrifices, are as the food of mourning to them, all that eat thereof, shall defile themselves, because, their food for their appetite, entereth not into the house of Yahweh.

Amos 8:3

but palace-songs, shall become howlings, in that day, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, - Many shall be the dead bodies in every place - cast forth - with a hush!