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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16 (A)I hear, and (B)my body trembles;
    my lips quiver at the sound;
(C)rottenness enters into my bones;
    my legs tremble beneath me.
Yet (D)I will quietly wait for the day of trouble
    to come upon people who invade us.

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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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11 Therefore (A)my inner parts moan like a lyre for Moab,
    and my inmost self for Kir-hareseth.

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10 “I will take up weeping and wailing for the mountains,
    and a lamentation for (A)the pastures of the wilderness,
(B)because they are laid waste so that no one passes through,
    and the lowing of cattle is not heard;
(C)both the birds of the air and the beasts
    have fled and are gone.

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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

Therefore my loins are filled with anguish;
    (A)pangs have seized me,
    like the pangs of a woman in labor;
I am bowed down so that I cannot hear;
    I am dismayed so that I cannot see.

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19 (A)my little children, (B)for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ (C)is formed in you!

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that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For (A)I could wish that I myself were (B)accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers,[a] my kinsmen (C)according to the flesh.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:3 Or brothers and sisters

27 And (A)I, Daniel, was overcome and lay sick for some days. Then I rose and went about the king's business, but I was appalled by the vision (B)and did not understand it.

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Daniel's Vision Interpreted

15 “As for me, Daniel, my spirit within me[a] was anxious, and (A)the visions of my head alarmed me.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 7:15 Aramaic within its sheath

48 (A)my eyes flow with rivers of tears
    because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

49 (B)“My eyes will flow without ceasing,
    without respite,
50 (C)until the Lord from heaven
    looks down and sees;
51 my eyes cause me grief
    at the fate of all the daughters of my city.

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My heart cries out for Moab;
    her fugitives flee to Zoar,
    to (A)Eglath-shelishiyah.
For at the (B)ascent of Luhith
    they go up weeping;
on the road to (C)Horonaim
    they raise a cry of destruction;

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Return, O my soul, to your (A)rest;
    for the Lord has (B)dealt bountifully with you.

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10 Brothers,[a] my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 10:1 Or Brothers and sisters

Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem

41 (A)And when he drew near and saw the city, (B)he wept over it, 42 saying, (C)“Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now (D)they are hidden from your eyes.

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15 (A)A day of wrath is that day,
    a day of distress and anguish,
a day of (B)ruin and devastation,
    (C)a day of darkness and gloom,
(D)a day of clouds and thick darkness,
16     (E)a day of trumpet blast and battle cry
(F)against the fortified cities
    and against the lofty battlements.

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(A)Is a trumpet blown in a city,
    and the people are not afraid?
(B)Does disaster come to a city,
    unless the Lord has done it?

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28 “Here is the end of the matter. (A)As for me, Daniel, my (B)thoughts greatly alarmed me, (C)and my color changed, but (D)I kept the matter in my heart.”

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11 (A)My eyes are spent with weeping;
    (B)my stomach churns;
(C)my bile is poured out to the ground
    (D)because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
(E)because infants and babies (F)faint
    in the streets of the city.

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16 “For these things (A)I weep;
    my eyes flow with tears;
for (B)a comforter is far from me,
    one to (C)revive my spirit;
my children are desolate,
    for the enemy has prevailed.”

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31 (A)Therefore I wail for Moab;
    I cry out for all Moab;
    for the men of (B)Kir-hareseth I mourn.
32 More than for (C)Jazer I weep for you,
    (D)O vine of (E)Sibmah!
(F)Your branches passed over the sea,
    reached to the Sea of (G)Jazer;
on your summer fruits and your grapes
    the destroyer has fallen.

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Lying Prophets

Concerning the prophets:

(A)My heart is broken within me;
    (B)all my bones shake;
I am like a drunken man,
    like a man overcome by wine,
because of the Lord
    and because of his holy words.

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If I say, “I will not mention him,
    or speak any more in his name,”
(A)there is in my heart as it were a burning fire
    shut up in my bones,
and (B)I am weary with holding it in,
    and I cannot.

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17 “You shall say to them this word:
(A)‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day,
    and let them not cease,
for the virgin (B)daughter of my people is shattered with a great wound,
    (C)with a very grievous blow.
18 (D)If I go out into the field,
    behold, those pierced by the sword!
(E)And if I enter the city,
    behold, the diseases of famine!
(F)For both prophet and priest ply their trade through the land
    and have no knowledge.’”

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