Micah 1:8

New American Bible - revised edition

For this I will lament and wail, go barefoot and naked; I will utter lamentation like the jackals, mourning like the ostriches,

Cross References

2 Kings 18:13

In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

Job 30:29

I have become a brother to jackals, a companion to ostriches.

Psalm 102:6

From my loud groaning I become just skin and bones.

Isaiah 13:21

But desert demons shall rest there and owls shall fill the houses; There ostriches shall dwell, and satyrs shall dance.

Isaiah 13:22

Wild dogs shall dwell in its castles, and jackals in its luxurious palaces. Its time is near at hand and its days shall not be prolonged.

Isaiah 16:9

Therefore I weep with Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I drench you with my tears, Heshbon and Elealeh; For on your summer fruits and harvests the battle cry has fallen.

Isaiah 21:3

Therefore my loins are filled with anguish, pangs have seized me like those of a woman in labor; I am too bewildered to hear, too dismayed to look.

Isaiah 22:4

That is why I say: Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly; Do not try to comfort me for the ruin of the daughter of my people.

Isaiah 32:11

Tremble, you who are so complacent! Shudder, you who are so confident! Strip yourselves bare, with only a loincloth for cover.

Jeremiah 4:19

My body! my body! how I writhe! The walls of my heart! My heart beats wildly, I cannot be still; For I myself have heard the blast of the horn, the battle cry.

Jeremiah 9:1

Oh, that I had in the wilderness a travelers’ lodging! That I might leave my people and depart from them. They are all adulterers, a band of traitors.

Jeremiah 9:10

I will turn Jerusalem into a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals; The cities of Judah I will make a waste, where no one dwells.

Jeremiah 9:19

Hear, you women, the word of the Lord, let your ears receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters a dirge, and each other a lament:

Ezekiel 32:18

Son of man, wail over the hordes of Egypt— you and the women of mighty nations— Send them down to the underworld, with those who go down into the pit.

Micah 2:4

On that day you shall be mocked, and there will be bitter lament: “Our ruin is complete, our fields are divided among our captors, The fields of my people are measured out, and no one can get them back!”

1 Samuel 19:24

Then he, too, stripped himself of his garments and remained in a prophetic state in the presence of Samuel; all that day and night he lay naked. That is why they say, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”