Isaiah 22:4
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4 Therefore I said, “Look away from me,
(A)I will weep bitterly;
Do not labor to comfort me
Because of the plundering of the daughter of my people.”
Jeremiah 9:1
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Disobedience Brings God’s Judgment
9 Oh, (A)that my head were waters,
And my eyes a fountain of tears,
That I might weep day and night
For the slain of the daughter of my people!
Matthew 2:18
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18 “A (A)voice was heard in Ramah,
Lamentation, weeping, and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children,
Refusing to be comforted,
Because they are no more.”
Micah 1:8
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Mourning for Israel and Judah
8 Therefore I will wail and howl,
I will go stripped and naked;
(A)I will make a wailing like the jackals
And a mourning like the ostriches,
Jeremiah 31:15
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Mercy on Ephraim
15 Thus says the Lord:
(A)“A voice was heard in (B)Ramah,
Lamentation and bitter (C)weeping,
Rachel weeping for her children,
Refusing to be comforted for her children,
Because (D)they are no more.”
Psalm 77:2
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2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord;
My hand was stretched out in the night without ceasing;
My soul refused to be comforted.
Luke 19:41
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Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem
41 Now as He drew near, He saw the city and (A)wept over it,
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Luke 1:2
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2 just as those who (A)from the beginning were (B)eyewitnesses and ministers of the word (C)delivered them to us,
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Matthew 26:75
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75 And Peter remembered the word of Jesus who had said to him, (A)“Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” So he went out and wept bitterly.
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Jeremiah 13:17
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17 But if you will not hear it,
My soul will (A)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.
Jeremiah 8:18
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The Prophet Mourns for the People
18 I would comfort myself in sorrow;
My heart is faint in me.
Jeremiah 6:26
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26 O daughter of my people,
(A)Dress in sackcloth
(B)And roll about in ashes!
(C)Make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation;
For the plunderer will suddenly come upon us.
Jeremiah 4:19
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Sorrow for the Doomed Nation
19 O my (A)soul, my soul!
I am pained in my very heart!
My heart makes a noise in me;
I cannot hold my peace,
Because you have heard, O my soul,
The sound of the trumpet,
The alarm of war.
Isaiah 33:7
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7 Surely their valiant ones shall cry outside,
(A)The ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.
Isaiah 15:3
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3 In their streets they will clothe themselves with sackcloth;
On the tops of their houses
And in their streets
Everyone will wail, (A)weeping bitterly.
Ruth 1:20-21
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20 But she said to them, “Do not call me [a]Naomi; call me [b]Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. 21 I went out full, (A)and the Lord has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the Lord has testified against me, and [c]the Almighty has afflicted me?”
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