Lamentations 1:16
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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.”
Lamentations 1:2
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2 (A)She weeps bitterly in the night,
with tears on her cheeks;
(B)among all her lovers
she has (C)none to comfort her;
(D)all her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
they have become her enemies.
Lamentations 3:48-49
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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,
Jeremiah 14:17
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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.
Jeremiah 13:17
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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.
Romans 9:1-3
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God's Sovereign Choice
9 (A)I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit— 2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3 For (B)I could wish that I myself were (C)accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers,[a] my kinsmen (D)according to the flesh.
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- Romans 9:3 Or brothers and sisters
Luke 19:41-44
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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. 43 For (E)the days will come upon you, when your enemies (F)will set up a barricade around you and (G)surround you and hem you in on every side 44 (H)and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And (I)they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know (J)the time of your (K)visitation.”
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Hosea 9:12
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12 (A)Even if they bring up children,
I will bereave them till none is left.
(B)Woe to them
when (C)I depart from them!
Lamentations 4:2-10
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2 The precious sons of Zion,
worth their weight in (A)fine gold,
how they are regarded as (B)earthen pots,
the work of a potter's hands!
3 Even jackals offer the breast;
they nurse their young;
but the daughter of my people has become cruel,
like the ostriches in the wilderness.
4 The tongue of the nursing infant (C)sticks
to the roof of its mouth for thirst;
(D)the children beg for food,
but no one gives to them.
5 Those who once feasted on delicacies
perish in the streets;
(E)those who were brought up in purple
embrace ash heaps.
6 (F)For the chastisement[a] of the daughter of my people has been greater
than the punishment[b] of Sodom,
(G)which was overthrown in a moment,
and no hands were wrung for her.[c]
7 Her princes were purer than snow,
whiter than milk;
their bodies were more ruddy than coral,
the beauty of their form[d] was like sapphire.[e]
8 (H)Now their face is blacker than soot;
they are not recognized in the streets;
their skin has shriveled on their bones;
it has become as dry as wood.
9 Happier were the victims of the sword
than the victims of hunger,
who wasted away, pierced
by lack of the fruits of the field.
10 (I)The hands of (J)compassionate women
(K)have boiled their own children;
(L)they became their food
during the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 4:6 Or iniquity
- Lamentations 4:6 Or sin
- Lamentations 4:6 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
- Lamentations 4:7 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
- Lamentations 4:7 Hebrew lapis lazuli
Lamentations 2:20-22
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20 Look, O Lord, and see!
(A)With whom have you dealt thus?
(B)Should women eat the fruit of their womb,
the children of (C)their tender care?
Should (D)priest and prophet be killed
in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21 In the dust of the streets
(E)lie the young and the old;
(F)my young women and my young men
have fallen by the sword;
(G)you have killed them in the day of your anger,
slaughtering (H)without pity.
22 You summoned as if to (I)a festival day
(J)my terrors on every side,
(K)and on the day of the anger of the Lord
no one escaped or survived;
(L)those whom I held and raised
my enemy destroyed.
Lamentations 1:9
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9 Her uncleanness was (A)in her skirts;
(B)she took no thought of her future;[a]
therefore her fall is terrible;
(C)she has no comforter.
“O Lord, behold my affliction,
for the enemy has (D)triumphed!”
Footnotes
- Lamentations 1:9 Or end
Lamentations 1:5-6
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5 (A)Her foes have become the head;
her (B)enemies prosper,
because (C)the Lord has afflicted her
(D)for the multitude of her transgressions;
(E)her children have gone away,
captives before the foe.
6 From the daughter of Zion
all her majesty has departed.
Her princes have become like deer
(F)that find no pasture;
they fled without strength
before the pursuer.
Jeremiah 9:21
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21 For death has come up into our windows;
it has entered our palaces,
(A)cutting off the children from the streets
and the young men from the squares.
Jeremiah 9:10
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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.
Jeremiah 9:1
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9 [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!
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 9:1 Ch 8:23 in Hebrew
Ecclesiastes 4:1
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Evil Under the Sun
4 (A)Again I (B)saw all (C)the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had (D)no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them.
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Psalm 119:136
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