21 (A)For the hurt of the daughter of my people I am hurt.
I am (B)mourning;
Astonishment has taken hold of me.

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17 “Therefore you shall say this word to them:

(A)‘Let my eyes flow with tears night and day,
And let them not cease;
(B)For the virgin daughter of my people
Has been broken with a mighty stroke, with a very severe blow.

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10 She is empty, desolate, and waste!
The heart melts, and the knees shake;
Much pain is in every side,
And all their faces [a]are drained of color.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 2:10 LXX, Tg., Vg. gather blackness; Joel 2:6

Before them the people writhe in pain;
(A)All faces [a]are drained of color.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 2:6 LXX, Tg., Vg. gather blackness

Israel’s Rejection of Christ

I (A)tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, (B)that I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart. For (C)I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my [a]countrymen according to the flesh,

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:3 Or relatives

Disobedience Brings God’s Judgment

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!

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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.

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For there those who carried us away captive asked of us a song,
And those who (A)plundered us requested mirth,
Saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

How shall we sing the Lord’s song
In a foreign land?
If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
Let my right hand forget its skill!
If I do not remember you,
Let my (B)tongue cling to the roof of my mouth—
If I do not exalt Jerusalem
Above my chief joy.

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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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16 As for me, (A)I have not hurried away from being a shepherd who follows You,
Nor have I desired the woeful day;
You know what came out of my lips;
It was right there before You.

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and said to the king, (A)“May the king live forever! Why should my face not be sad, when (B)the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates are burned with (C)fire?”

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