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Lamentations 1:2
She weeps bitterly during the night, with tears on her cheeks. There is no one to offer her comfort, not one from all her lovers. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.
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Lamentations 3:48-49
My eyes flow with streams of tears because of the destruction of my dear people.My eyes overflow unceasingly, without end,
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Lamentations 2:18
The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. Wall of Daughter Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief and your eyes no rest.
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Jeremiah 13:17
But if you will not listen, my innermost being will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, for the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.
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Lamentations 2:11
My eyes are worn out from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief because of the destruction of my dear people, because infants and nursing babies faint in the streets of the city.
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Jeremiah 14:17
You are to speak this word to them: Let my eyes overflow with tears; day and night may they not stop, for my dearest people have been destroyed by a crushing blow, an extremely severe wound.
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Lamentations 1:5-6
Her adversaries have become her masters; her enemies are at ease, for the LORD has made her suffer because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the adversary.All the splendor has vanished from Daughter Zion. Her leaders are like stags that find no pasture; they stumble away exhausted before the hunter.
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Luke 19:41-44
As he approached and saw the city, he wept for it,saying,“ If you knew this day what would bring peace— but now it is hidden from your eyes.For the days will come on you when your enemies will build a barricade around you, surround you, and hem you in on every side.They will crush you and your children among you to the ground, and they will not leave one stone on another in your midst, because you did not recognize the time when God visited you.”
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Ecclesiastes 4:1
Again, I observed all the acts of oppression being done under the sun. Look at the tears of those who are oppressed; they have no one to comfort them. Power is with those who oppress them; they have no one to comfort them.
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Psalms 119:136
My eyes pour out streams of tears because people do not follow your instruction.
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Lamentations 4:2-10
Zion’s precious children— once worth their weight in pure gold— how they are regarded as clay jars, the work of a potter’s hands!Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but my dear people have become cruel like ostriches in the wilderness.The nursing baby’s tongue clings to the roof of his mouth from thirst. Infants beg for food, but no one gives them any.Those who used to eat delicacies are destitute in the streets; those who were reared in purple garments huddle in trash heaps.The punishment of my dear people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in an instant without a hand laid on it.Her dignitaries were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than coral, their appearance like lapis lazuli.Now they appear darker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become dry like wood.Those slain by the sword are better off than those slain by hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children; they became their food during the destruction of my dear people.
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Lamentations 1:9
Her uncleanness stains her skirts. She never considered her end. Her downfall was astonishing; there was no one to comfort her. LORD, look on my affliction, for the enemy boasts.
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Hosea 9:12
Even if they raise children, I will bereave them of each one. Yes, woe to them when I depart from them!
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Jeremiah 9:21
for Death has climbed through our windows; it has entered our fortresses, cutting off children from the streets, young men from the squares.
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Psalms 69:20
Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I waited for sympathy, but there was none; for comforters, but found no one.
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Lamentations 2:20-22
LORD, look and consider to whom you have done this. Should women eat their own children, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?Both young and old are lying on the ground in the streets. My young women and young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of your anger, slaughtering without compassion.You summon those who terrorize me on every side, as if for an appointed festival day; on the day of the LORD’s anger no one escaped or survived. My enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.
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Romans 9:1-3
I speak the truth in Christ— I am not lying; my conscience testifies to me through the Holy Spirit—that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the benefit of my brothers and sisters, my own flesh and blood.
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Jeremiah 9:10
I will raise weeping and a lament over the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness grazing land, for they have been so scorched that no one passes through. The sound of cattle is no longer heard. From the birds of the sky to the animals, everything has fled— they have gone away.
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Jeremiah 9:1
If my head were a flowing spring, my eyes a fountain of tears, I would weep day and night over the slain of my dear people.