Ezekiel 7:16

Read: and when (if) they that escape of them shall escape, they shall be upon the mountains.

mourning This refers to the doves: the fugitives shall be on the mountains (seeking refuge) like doves of the valleys, all of which mourn. Isaiah 59:11, We moan all like bears, and mourn sore like doves; Ezekiel 38:14, Like a swallow so did I chatter, I did mourn as a dove. The Arabic poets often refer to the mourning of the dove or ring-dove (Ḳumrî) as being like their own. See the citations of Ahlwardt, Chalef el Aḥmar p. 102 seq. Similarly in the Babylonian Penitential Psalms (Zimmern), Ps. 1:10, Like doves do I mourn; on sighs I feed myself; Psalms 6:4; Psalms 7:10.

for his iniquity Or, in; in the consciousness of it and its consequences.