CORRECTION: Jeremiah was the weeping prophet, and I meant to say Jude, not Judah. Sorry.
Jesus is calling us to rise up, His precious bride! Now is the time to go forth and proclaim is coming, be of good cheer and teach repentance through the world!
Lamenting is…
Whoever is lamenting is expressing great sorrow or regret and even grief about something or someone as in the loss of a life. This lamenting could be verbally expressed in wailing, weeping, and crying. To lament means that something horrific has likely happened in their life and it moves the person deep within their soul and it is outwardly expressed in such a way that it is demonstrative and can’t be overseen by others. You can see examples of lamenting at funerals.
Amos writes, God “will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day” (Amos 8:10). Isaiah, in writing about the coming judgment on Judah wrote that “her gates shall lament and mourn; empty, she shall sit on the ground” (Isaiah 3:26). Even as far away as Egypt, “The fishermen will mourn and lament, all who cast a hook in the Nile; and they will languish who spread nets on the water” (Isaiah 19:8). And to Jeremiah God says regarding the coming judgment on Judah, “put on sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of the Lord has not turned back from us” (Jer 4:8) and “I will take up weeping and wailing for the mountains, and a lamentation for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are laid waste so that no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard; both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled and are gone” (Jer 9:10). The entire Book of Lamentations, written by Jeremiah, is based upon God’s righteous indignation and judgment and the laments of Jeremiah who is sometimes called “the weeping prophet.” Joel writes “Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! Because grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God” (1:13) and so “Lament like a virgin wearing sackcloth for the bridegroom of her youth” (Joel 1:8). Jesus expressed lament over Jerusalem when He said “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing” (Matt 23:37)! Many followed Jesus as He went to the cross as it says “there followed him a great multitude of the people and of women who were mourning and lamenting for him” (Luke 23:27) but even while Jesus was bearing His cross after His tortuous scourging, He said to the women, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy” (John 16:20) and that joy would come at the resurrection of Christ.

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