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Lamentations 1:16
“ For these things I weep; My eye, 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.”
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Job 16:13
His archers surround me. He pierces my heart and does not pity; He pours out my gall on the ground.
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Lamentations 1:20
“ See, O Lord, that I am in distress; My soul is troubled; My heart is overturned within me, For I have been very rebellious. Outside the sword bereaves, At home it is like death.
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Isaiah 22:4
Therefore I said,“ Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; Do not labor to comfort me Because of the plundering of the daughter of my people.”
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Psalms 22:14
I am poured out like water, And all My bones are out of joint; My heart is like wax; It has melted within Me.
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Jeremiah 4:19
O my 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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Psalms 6:7
My eye wastes away because of grief; It grows old because of all my enemies.
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Lamentations 3:48-51
My eyes overflow with rivers of water For the destruction of the daughter of my people.My eyes flow and do not cease, Without interruption,Till the Lord from heaven Looks down and sees.My eyes bring suffering to my soul Because of all the daughters of my city.
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Lamentations 4:9-10
Those slain by the sword are better off Than those who die of hunger; For these pine away, Stricken for lack of the fruits of the field.The hands of the compassionate women Have cooked their own children; They became food for them In the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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Lamentations 2:19-20
“ Arise, cry out in the night, At the beginning of the watches; 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 at the head of every street.”“ See, O Lord, and consider! To whom have You done this? Should the women eat their offspring, The children they have cuddled? Should the priest and prophet be slain In the sanctuary of the Lord?
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Jeremiah 44:7
“ Now therefore, thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel:‘ Why do you commit this great evil against yourselves, to cut off from you man and woman, child and infant, out of Judah, leaving none to remain,
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1 Samuel 30 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
Like a crane or a swallow, so I chattered; I mourned like a dove; My eyes fail from looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; Undertake for me!
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Lamentations 4:3-4
Even the jackals present their breasts To nurse their young; But the daughter of my people is cruel, Like ostriches in the wilderness.The tongue of the infant clings To the roof of its mouth for thirst; The young children ask for bread, But no one breaks it for them.
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Jeremiah 8:19-9:1
Listen! The voice, The cry of the daughter of my people From 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?”“ The harvest is past, The summer is ended, And we are not saved!”For the hurt of the daughter of my people I am hurt. I am mourning; Astonishment has taken hold of me.Is there no balm in Gilead, Is there no physician there? Why then is there no recovery For the health of the daughter of my people?Oh, 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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Psalms 31:9
Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; My eye wastes away with grief, Yes, my soul and my body!
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Luke 23:29
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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Psalms 69:3
I am weary with my crying; My throat is dry; My eyes fail while I wait for my God.
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Jeremiah 14:17
“ Therefore you shall say this word to them:‘ Let my eyes flow with tears night and day, And let them not cease; For the virgin daughter of my people Has been broken with a mighty stroke, with a very severe blow.