Difference between Wail and Lament

WAIL vs LAMENT: NOUN

An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like.
Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping.
A cry of sorrow and grief
A mournful poem; a lament for the dead
A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
An expression of grief, suffering, or sadness.
A song expressing grief.
The music for an elegy, or a tune intended to express or excite sorrowful emotion; a mournful air.
A set form of lamentation or mourning; an elegy; a mourning song or ballad.
A feeling or expression of grief; a lamentation.
A song or poem expressing deep grief or mourning.
An expression of grief or sorrow; a sad complaint; a lamentation.

To grieve over; lament; bemoan; bewail.
See wale.
To express sorrow by a mournful inarticulate vocal sound; lament; moan; cry plaintively.

To express sorrow; utter words or sounds of grief; mourn audibly; wail.
To show great sorrow or regret; repine; chafe; grieve.
Synonyms Lament, Mourn, Grieve; sorrow. Lament expresses always, at least figuratively, an external act. Mourn was originally and is still often the same, but does not now suggest anything audible. Grieve suggests more of a consuming effect upon the person sorrowing. See affliction.
To bewail; mourn for; bemoan; deplore.
To afflict; distress.
A mournful poem
A lament for the dead

Breakwall, Barrier, Berm, Fence, Wall, Yawl, Plaint, Pule, Whimper, Ululate, Lamentation, Lament, Roar, Mewl, Howl

Complain, Moan, Coronach, Keen, Plaint, Requiem, Regret, Threnody, Deplore, Elegy, Dirge, Wail, Bewail, Lamentation, Bemoan

Keen, Barrier, Berm, Fence, Wall, Yawl, Plaint, Pule, Whimper, Ululate, Lamentation, Lament, Roar, Mewl, Howl

Cry, Weep, Mourn, Moan, Keen, Plaint, Requiem, Regret, Threnody, Deplore, Elegy, Dirge, Wail, Bewail, Lamentation

To wail the tide, as her mother doth.
We just have to wail and be patient.
She Luvs To Wail And Call Me Daddy.
Wail Sarieh and Marlene are wonderful professional people.
Down the stairs floated a wail of woe.
Why name Apollo with this wail of agony?
Which howl and wail mournfully in the deserts.
Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste!
Wail, Banba, with your wind: and wail, O ocean, with your whirlwind.
The people move on, stoically exclaiming "if we are to wail, we might as well wail at the Kremlin".

Pentecostal Lament: Is there a correspondence between the form of the biblical lament Psalms and early Australian Pentecostal prayer?
This is a valuable example of Christologically oriented lament, but it can strip lament of its function as human complaint toward God.
This is the first book I read on lament and the place of lament for the believer.
One does not move from lament to praise, for even in the lament the element of trust is already present.
In these two psalms we pointed out that lament psalms can move back to lament even after praise.
Kemble VA Lament of Aideen for Oscai Lament of Anastasius.
Southern Baptist, and we need to lament that, lament the pain of victims and grieve with them.
Learning to lament and to hear lament means sitting in the darkness with Job?
Christian lament away from imprecation and toward intercession, although room remains for lament?
This commentator categorised lament psalms as a primary category and individual lament psalms and community lament psalms as sub categories.