Nahum 2:7

7  its mistress1 is stripped;2 she is carried off,

her slave girls lamenting,

moaning tlike doves

and beating their breasts.

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Isaiah 38:14
Like a swallow or a crane I chirp; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my pledge of safety!

Isaiah 59:11
We all growl like bears; we moan and moan like doves; we hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

Ezekiel 7:16
And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity.


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2 View All Leviticus 19:27
ch. 21:5; [Isa. 15:2; Jer. 9:26; 48:37]