ya.lal denotes lamenting in response to ruin, loss, pain, or impending disaster.

The verb consistently marks lament in scenes of devastation or distress: people are summoned to lament over ruined cities, failed harvests, and approaching disaster, while other clauses report lament arising from pain, loss, or shame.

1. Lament in response to calamity and loss · dominant

   Imperative forms summon hearers to lament when destruction is announced: in Isaiah 23:1 the APB renders the address to the ships, "Wail," because Tyre is ruined, and in Joel 1:11 it addresses vinedressers over a perished harvest. Imperfect and other forms report the same response within grief: in Isaiah 15:3 everyone laments in streets and on roofs with weeping, while in Isaiah 65:14 the APB places lament alongside pain of heart and a broken spirit.

   Isaiah 23:1Joel 1:11Isaiah 15:3Isaiah 65:14Jeremiah 25:34Micah 1:8

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB commonly uses "wail" and also places the action beside "cry out," "mourn," and "weep" in accounts of loss and disaster. Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, those English expressions confirm the scene's lamentation without establishing separate meanings.