And it was a custom in Israel for the maidens to lament the daughter of Jephthah for four days in the year.
This beautiful lament is also ascribed to David: David was the singer, and, like the Psalms, other songs also come from him.
The Israelites had reason enough to sorrow and lament for Saul.
David, and may have been added to the lament at a later time.
Livingstone never ceased to lament and deplore that the men who had been sent to him were so utterly unsuitable.
If this our desire is granted, it is probable we shall have no cause to lament our long toil and detention here.
In Gogol, who died in 1852, the Russians had to lament the loss of a keen and vigorous satirist.
I could not butlament that, although the coast of Africa has now been known and frequented by the Europeans for more than two hundred years, yet the negroes still remain entire strangers to the doctrines of our holy religion.
Much as I shall rejoice to see England, I lament our present orders in sackcloth and ashes, so dishonourable to the dignity of England, whose fleets are equal to meet the world in arms.
Lists the chief to the cataract's roar for the mournful lament of the Spirit?
Thou apprisest without reason or justice, and dost lament equally both what things are and what they cease to be.
To you, adulteresses, my sisters, who weep and lament in your domestic prison, fair Christs of love with tarnished brows, Hope!
And you, poor priests, my brothers, who lament beneath your frieze robes and heat your foreheads at the sides of your altars!
When they had heard these sad news, they all began to lament heavily; his wife made a pitiful outcry, beat her face, and tore her hairs.
I know the lady on whose account you lament so bitterly; it is the princess Badoura, daughter of Gaiour king of China.
The Minister had surreptitiously looked at his watch, and a tiresome lady friend had said good-bye in a voice which might have been lower, and with a lament which might have been spared.
The days of glory that you lament are the days of the darkest guilt; and man shudders when he reads what the fair moralisers over the soft and idle Italy sigh to recall!
At this moment," continued he, with constrained calmness, "at this moment he fancies in you that very coldness you lament in him.
And they all knew me again and each one took my hands, and wistful was the lament that sank into their souls, and the roof around rang wondrously.
But now I make a comfortless lament for the boy begotten of Odysseus, even for Telemachus.
Even so he spake, and the women came all in a crowd together, making a terrible lament and shedding big tears.
Then making lament they spake to me winged words: "O fosterling of Zeus, we were none otherwise glad at thy returning, than if we had come to Ithaca, our own country.
So spake he, and in the heart of Telemachus he stirred a yearning to lament his father; and at his father's name he let a tear fall from his eyelids to the ground, and held up his purple mantle with both his hands before his eyes.
Even so I spake, but their heart within them was broken, and they sat them down even where they were, and made lament and tore their hair.
Yea methinks theylament him, even that old Laertes and the constant Penelope and Telemachus, whom he left a child new-born in his house.
All must lament that, soon after this, there was a temporary estrangement between these faithful and loving men.
Be not sorrowful because of my imprisonment and lament not for my difficulties; nay, rather ask God to increase my hardship in His path, for therein lies a wisdom which none are able to comprehend save the near angels.
Convey my greeting and love to his son and say: “Do thou not lament on account of the death of thy father.
When Cuchullin of the thin-leaved sword Heard the lament of Connal, He moved in his arm’s great might To take of the youth account.
Some readers will complain of what they are pleased to call its dull monotony; while others will lament the sacrifice of what they conceive to be matters of importance, in the pursuit of endless variety.
But there is nothing more common, than to see a Fellow (who if he were reduced to it, would not be hired by any Man living) lament that he is troubled with the most worthless Dogs in Nature.
Innocence of Life and great Ability were the distinguishing Parts of his Character; the latter, he had often observed, had led to the Destruction of the former, and used frequently to lament that Great and Good had not the same Signification.
We often lament that we did not marry sooner, but she has no Body to blame for it but her self: You know very well that she would never think of me whilst she had a Tooth in her Head.
When Accident makes us meet at a third Place, we may mutually lament the Misfortune of never finding one another at home, go in the same Party to a Benefit-Play, and smile at each other and put down Glasses as we pass in our Coaches.
Why does my Heart so little obey my Reason as to lament thee, thou excellent Man.
In any case we have rather to recognise the resistance which unimportant cities such as Priene made, than lament the cowardice of the citizens.
Miss Bell came down the steps, putting on her gloves: "Oh, darling, the city and the mountains and the sky wish you to lament your departure.
His lament over Antony, his grief that their stars were irreconcilable, may well be genuine, though we should be surer if it were uttered in soliloquy.
He now tried the same trick which he had played so successfully at Wolgast upon old Ulrich, and at Stargard upon his father; in short, he played the penitent, and began to weep and lament over his errors, and all the misery he had caused her.
So the old mother began to lament over the downfall of the pure Christian doctrine, which his father, Duke Philip, had upheld so bravely.
