2 Chronicles 35:25 Cross References - Thomson

²⁵ And Jeremias composed a song of lamentation for Josias, which all the heads of families, both men and women, sung over him, and which they continue to sing to this day; for they established it for an ordinance to Israel. And behold it is written among the funereal odes.

⁸ But let him curse it who curseth the day; him who is to attack the great sea monster.

⁵ and they will look up to the height and there are terrors in the way. Though the almond tree shall have bloomed and the locust hath been fattened and the caper bush is shed, because the man is gone to his long home, therefore the mourners have made a circuit in the market place.

¹⁷ Thus saith the Lord, Call the mourning women and let them come; send for the well instructed and let them utter a plaintive sound ¹⁸ and take up a mournful lamentation for you: and let your eyes collect tears, and your eye lids gush out water. ¹⁹ [p] Because a sound of wailing is heard in Sion; "Oh how wretched we are! how greatly confounded because we have left our land, and abandoned our habitations:" ²⁰ hear I beseech you, women! a word of God: and let your ears receive the words of his mouth: and teach your daughters a song of Woe; and every woman, her neighbour the mournful dirge. ²¹ For death is gone up through your windows: it is come into your land, to destroy infants at home and young men in the streets:

¹⁰ Weep not for him who is dead, nor utter lamentations for him, weep bitterly for him who is going away; for he shall never return, nor see any more his native country.

²⁰ Ascend Libanus and scream: ascend Basan, and shout. Shout till thy voice reach the sea coast; for all thy lovers are destroyed.

²⁰ In their slaughters is comprehended the breath of our nostrils, our anointed Lord, of whom we said, "Under his shadow we shall live among the nations."

²³ And when Jesus came to the house of the chief and saw the minstrels and the crowd in a bustle,