Lamentations 2:11
New King James Version
11 (A)My eyes fail with tears,
My [a]heart is troubled;
(B)My [b]bile is poured on the ground
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
Because (C)the children and the infants
Faint in the streets of the city.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 2:11 Lit. inward parts
- Lamentations 2:11 Lit. liver
Lamentations 1:20
New King James Version
20 “See, O Lord, that I am in distress;
My (A)soul[a] is troubled;
My heart is overturned within me,
For I have been very rebellious.
(B)Outside the sword bereaves,
At home it is like death.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 1:20 Lit. inward parts
Lamentations 1:16
New King James Version
16 “For these things I weep;
My eye, (A)my eye overflows with water;
Because the comforter, who should restore my life,
Is far from me.
My children are desolate
Because the enemy prevailed.”
Job 16:13
New King James Version
13 His archers surround me.
He pierces my [a]heart and does not pity;
He pours out my gall on the ground.
Footnotes
- Job 16:13 Lit. kidneys
Lamentations 3:48-51
New King James Version
48 (A)My eyes overflow with rivers of water
For the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 (B)My eyes flow and do not cease,
Without interruption,
50 Till the Lord from heaven
(C)Looks down and sees.
51 My eyes bring suffering to my soul
Because of all the daughters of my city.
Jeremiah 4:19
New King James Version
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 22:4
New King James Version
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.”
Psalm 22:14
New King James Version
14 I am poured out like water,
(A)And all My bones are out of joint;
My heart is like wax;
It has melted [a]within Me.
Footnotes
- Psalm 22:14 Lit. in the midst of My bowels
Psalm 6:7
New King James Version
7 (A)My eye wastes away because of grief;
It grows old because of all my enemies.
Luke 23:29
New King James Version
29 (A)For indeed the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, wombs that never bore, and breasts which never nursed!’
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Lamentations 4:9-10
New King James Version
9 Those slain by the sword are better off
Than those who die of hunger;
For these (A)pine away,
Stricken for lack of the fruits of the (B)field.
10 The hands of the (C)compassionate women
Have [a]cooked their (D)own children;
They became (E)food for them
In the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 4:10 boiled
Lamentations 4:3-4
New King James Version
3 Even the jackals present their breasts
To nurse their young;
But the daughter of my people is cruel,
(A)Like ostriches in the wilderness.
4 The tongue of the infant clings
To the roof of its mouth for thirst;
(B)The young children ask for bread,
But no one breaks it for them.
Lamentations 2:19-20
New King James Version
19 “Arise, (A)cry out in the night,
At the beginning of the watches;
(B)Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord.
Lift your hands toward Him
For the life of your young children,
Who faint from hunger (C)at the head of every street.”
20 “See, O Lord, and consider!
To whom have You done this?
(D)Should the women eat their offspring,
The children [a]they have cuddled?
Should the priest and prophet be slain
In the sanctuary of the Lord?
Footnotes
- Lamentations 2:20 Vg. a span long
Jeremiah 44:7
New King James Version
7 “Now therefore, thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Why do you commit this great evil (A)against yourselves, to cut off from you man and woman, child and infant, out of Judah, leaving none to remain,
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Jeremiah 14:17
New King James Version
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.
Jeremiah 8:19-9:1
New King James Version
19 Listen! The voice,
The cry of the daughter of my people
From (A)a far country:
“Is not the Lord in Zion?
Is not her King in her?”
“Why have they provoked Me to anger
With their carved images—
With foreign idols?”
20 “The harvest is past,
The summer is ended,
And we are not saved!”
21 (B)For the hurt of the daughter of my people I am hurt.
I am (C)mourning;
Astonishment has taken hold of me.
22 Is there no (D)balm in Gilead,
Is there no physician there?
Why then is there no recovery
For the health of the daughter of my people?
Disobedience Brings God’s Judgment
9 Oh, (E)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!
Psalm 69:3
New King James Version
Psalm 31:9
New King James Version
9 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble;
(A)My eye wastes away with grief,
Yes, my soul and my [a]body!
Footnotes
- Psalm 31:9 Lit. belly
1 Samuel 30:4
New King James Version
4 Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voices and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
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Isaiah 38:14
New King James Version
14 Like a crane or a swallow, so I chattered;
(A)I mourned like a dove;
My eyes fail from looking upward.
O [a]Lord, I am oppressed;
[b]Undertake for me!
Footnotes
- Isaiah 38:14 So with Bg.; MT, DSS Lord
- Isaiah 38:14 Be my surety
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