Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'wailing' occurs 25 times in the standard works.

8 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'wailing' in the standard works and contain 32% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 4 minutes to read the entire list.

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Amos 5:16-17 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 9:18-20 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 27:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 12 0 12
Esth. 1 0 1
Jer. 4 0 4
Ezek. 3 0 3
Amos 3 0 3
Micah 1 0 1
NT 4 0 4
BM 2 0 2
DC 6 0 6
PGP 1 0 1
TOTAL 25 0 25

Esth. 4:3
And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

Jer. 9:10
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.

Jer. 9:18
And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

Jer. 9:19
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.

Jer. 9:20
Yet hear the word of the Lord, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.

Ezek. 7:11
Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them.

Ezek. 27:31
And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.

Ezek. 27:32
And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?

Amos 5:16
Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.

Amos 5:17
And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the Lord.

Micah 1:8
Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.