Lamentations 1:12-16

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¹²“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?^(A)
    Look around and see.
Is any suffering like my suffering^(B)
    that was inflicted on me,
that the Lord brought on me
    in the day of his fierce anger?^(C)

¹³“From on high he sent fire,
    sent it down into my bones.^(D)
He spread a net^(E) for my feet
    and turned me back.
He made me desolate,^(F)
    faint^(G) all the day long.

¹⁴“My sins have been bound into a yoke^[a];^(H)
    by his hands they were woven together.
They have been hung on my neck,
    and the Lord has sapped my strength.
He has given me into the hands^(I)
    of those I cannot withstand.

¹⁵“The Lord has rejected
    all the warriors in my midst;^(J)
he has summoned an army^(K) against me
    to^[b] crush my young men.^(L)
In his winepress^(M) the Lord has trampled^(N)
    Virgin Daughter^(O) Judah.

¹⁶“This is why I weep
    and my eyes overflow with tears.^(P)
No one is near to comfort^(Q) me,
    no one to restore my spirit.
My children are destitute
    because the enemy has prevailed.”^(R)

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Footnotes

Lamentations 1:14 Most Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint He kept watch over my sins
Lamentations 1:15 Or has set a time for me / when he will

Lamentations 3:46-50

New International Version

⁴⁶“All our enemies have opened their mouths
    wide^(A) against us.^(B)
⁴⁷We have suffered terror and pitfalls,^(C)
    ruin and destruction.^(D)”
⁴⁸Streams of tears^(E) flow from my eyes^(F)
    because my people are destroyed.^(G)

⁴⁹My eyes will flow unceasingly,
without relief,^(H)
⁵⁰until the Lord looks down
from heaven and sees.^(I)

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Jeremiah 50:4

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⁴“In those days, at that time,”
declares the Lord,
“the people of Israel and the people of Judah together^(A)
will go in tears^(B) to seek^(C) the Lord their God.

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Jeremiah 50:4 in all English translations

Luke 7:36-50

New International Version

Jesus Anointed by a Sinful Woman^(A)^(B)

³⁶When one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, he went to the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table. ³⁷A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, so she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume. ³⁸As she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them.

³⁹When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet,^(C) he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is—that she is a sinner.”

⁴⁰Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to tell you.”

“Tell me, teacher,” he said.

⁴¹“Two people owed money to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii,^[a] and the other fifty. ⁴²Neither of them had the money to pay him back, so he forgave the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?”

⁴³Simon replied, “I suppose the one who had the bigger debt forgiven.”

“You have judged correctly,” Jesus said.

⁴⁴Then he turned toward the woman and said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I came into your house. You did not give me any water for my feet,^(D) but she wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. ⁴⁵You did not give me a kiss,^(E) but this woman, from the time I entered, has not stopped kissing my feet. ⁴⁶You did not put oil on my head,^(F) but she has poured perfume on my feet. ⁴⁷Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven—as her great love has shown. But whoever has been forgiven little loves little.”