Psalm 137:4

Lament During The Babylonian Exile

³ For they that led us away captive required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness. "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!" ⁴ How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land? ⁵ If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my righthand forget her cunning.

To the Lord

Jehovah

Ecclesiastes 3:4

A time to weep, and a time to laugh; A time to mourn, and a time to dance;

Isaiah 22:12

And at the same time shall the LORD of Hosts call men to weeping, mourning, to baldness and a putting on of sackcloth.

Isaiah 49:21

Then shalt thou think by thyself, "Who hath begotten me these? Seeing I am barren and alone, a captive and an outcast? And who hath nourished them up for me? I am desolate and alone, but from whence come these?"

Lamentations 5:14-15

The elders sit no more under the gates, and the young men use no more the playing of Music.

Hosea 9:4

They pour out no wine for a drink offering unto the LORD, neither give they him their slain offerings: but they be unto them as mourner's meats, wherein all they that eat them are defiled. For the bread that they have such lust unto, shall not come into the house of the LORD.

Amos 8:3

In that day shall the songs of the temple be turned in to sorrow," sayeth the LORD God. "Many dead bodies shall lie in every place, and be cast forth secretly.