Psalm 137:4

Lament During The Babylonian Exile

³ for there our captors ask us to compose songs; those who mock us demand that we be happy, saying: "Sing for us a song about Zion!" ⁴ How can we sing a song to the Lord in a foreign land? ⁵ If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand be crippled!

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

At that time the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, called for weeping and mourning, for shaved heads and sackcloth.

Isaiah 49:21

Then you will think to yourself, 'Who bore these children for me? I was bereaved and barren, dismissed and divorced. Who raised these children? Look, I was left all alone; where did these children come from?'"

Lamentations 5:14-15

The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music.

Hosea 9:4

They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the Lord; they will not please him with their sacrifices. Their sacrifices will be like bread eaten while in mourning; all those who eat them will make themselves ritually unclean. For their bread will be only to satisfy their appetite; it will not come into the temple of the Lord.

Amos 8:3

The women singing in the temple will wail in that day." The sovereign Lord is speaking. "There will be many corpses littered everywhere! Be quiet!"