Nahum 2:7
It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.
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- Isa 38:14 : 14 I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security."
- Isa 59:11 : 11 We roar all like bears, and moan bitterly like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
- Luke 23:27 : 27 A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him.
- Luke 23:48 : 48 All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts.
- Isa 32:12 : 12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
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2 She weeps bitterly in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies.
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4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; all her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
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