Therefore I said:
“Look away from me;
    (A)let me weep bitter tears;
do not labor to comfort me
    concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

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[a] (A)Oh that my head were waters,
    and my eyes a fountain of tears,
that I might weep day and night
    for the slain of (B)the daughter of my people!

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:1 Ch 8:23 in Hebrew

18 (A)“A voice was heard in Ramah,
    weeping and loud lamentation,
Rachel weeping for her children;
    she refused to be comforted, because they (B)are no more.”

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(A)For this I will lament and wail;
    I will go (B)stripped and naked;
I will make lamentation (C)like the jackals,
    and mourning (D)like the ostriches.

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15 Thus says the Lord:
(A)“A voice is heard in (B)Ramah,
    lamentation and bitter weeping.
(C)Rachel is weeping for her children;
    she refuses to be comforted for her children,
    (D)because they are no more.”

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17 But if you will not listen,
    (A)my soul will weep in secret for your pride;
my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears,
    because the Lord's flock has been taken captive.

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(A)In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord;
    in (B)the night my (C)hand is stretched out without wearying;
    my soul (D)refuses to be comforted.

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Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem

41 (A)And when he drew near and saw the city, (B)he wept over it,

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75 And Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, (A)“Before the rooster crows, you will (B)deny me three times.” And he went out and wept bitterly.

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Jeremiah Grieves for His People

18 My joy is gone; grief is upon me;[a]
    (A)my heart is sick within me.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 8:18 Compare Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

26 O daughter of my people, (A)put on sackcloth,
    and (B)roll in ashes;
(C)make mourning as for an only son,
    most bitter lamentation,
for suddenly the destroyer
    will come upon us.

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Anguish over Judah's Desolation

19 (A)My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain!
    Oh the walls of my heart!
My heart is beating wildly;
    I cannot keep silent,
for I hear the sound of the trumpet,
    the alarm of war.

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Behold, their heroes cry in the streets;
    (A)the envoys of peace weep bitterly.

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in the streets they wear sackcloth;
    on the housetops and in the squares
    everyone wails and melts in tears.

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20 She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi;[a] call me (A)Mara,[b] for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. 21 (B)I went away full, and the Lord has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi, when the Lord has testified against me and the Almighty has brought calamity upon me?”

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 1:20 Naomi means pleasant
  2. Ruth 1:20 Mara means bitter

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