Bible Cross References
I weep
Lamentations 1:2
All night long she cries; tears run down her cheeks. Of all her former friends, not one is left to comfort her. Her allies have betrayed her and are all against her now.
Lamentations 1:9
Her uncleanness was easily seen, but she showed no concern for her fate. Her downfall was terrible; no one can comfort her. Her enemies have won, and she cries to the LORD for mercy.
Lamentations 2:11
My eyes are worn out with weeping; my soul is in anguish. I am exhausted with grief at the destruction of my people. Children and babies are fainting in the streets of the city.
Lamentations 2:18
O Jerusalem, let your very walls cry out to the Lord! Let your tears flow like rivers night and day; Wear yourself out with weeping and grief !
Lamentations 3:48
My eyes flow with rivers of tears at the destruction of my people.
Lamentations 3:49
"My tears will pour out in a ceaseless stream
Psalm 119:136
My tears pour down like a river, because people do not obey your law.
Jeremiah 9:1
I wish my head were a well of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I could cry day and night for my people who have been killed.
Jeremiah 9:10
I said, "I will mourn for the mountains and weep for the pastures, because they have dried up, and no one travels through them. The sound of livestock is no longer heard; birds and wild animals have fled and gone."
Jeremiah 13:17
If you will not listen, I will cry in secret because of your pride; I will cry bitterly, and my tears will flow because the LORD's people have been taken away as captives.
Jeremiah 14:17
The LORD commanded me to tell the people about my sorrow and to say: "May my eyes flow with tears day and night, may I never stop weeping, for my people are deeply wounded and are badly hurt.
Luke 19:41-44
41
He came closer to the city, and when he saw it, he wept over it,
42
saying, "If you only knew today what is needed for peace! But now you cannot see it!
43
The time will come when your enemies will surround you with barricades, blockade you, and close in on you from every side.
44
They will completely destroy you and the people within your walls; not a single stone will they leave in its place, because you did not recognize the time when God came to save you!"
Romans 9:1-3
1
I am speaking the truth; I belong to Christ and I do not lie. My conscience, ruled by the Holy Spirit, also assures me that I am not lying
2
when I say how great is my sorrow, how endless the pain in my heart
3
for my people, my own flesh and blood! For their sake I could wish that I myself were under God's curse and separated from Christ.
relieve
Hosea 9:12
But even if they did bring up children, I would take them away and not leave one alive. When I abandon these people, terrible things will happen to them."
my children
Lamentations 1:5
Her enemies succeeded; they hold her in their power. The LORD has made her suffer for all her many sins; Her children have been captured and taken away.
Lamentations 1:6
The splendor of Jerusalem is a thing of the past. Her leaders are like deer that are weak from hunger, Whose strength is almost gone as they flee from the hunters.
Lamentations 2:20-22
20
Look, O LORD! Why are you punishing us like this? Women are eating the bodies of the children they loved! Priests and prophets are being killed in the Temple itself !
21
Young and old alike lie dead in the streets, Young men and women, killed by enemy swords. You slaughtered them without mercy on the day of your anger.
22
You invited my enemies to hold a carnival of terror all around me, And no one could escape on that day of your anger. They murdered my children, whom I had raised and loved.
Lamentations 4:2-10
2
Zion's young people were as precious to us as gold, but now they are treated like common clay pots.
3
Even a mother wolf will nurse her cubs, but my people are like ostriches, cruel to their young.
4
They let their babies die of hunger and thirst; children are begging for food that no one will give them.
5
People who once ate the finest foods die starving in the streets; those raised in luxury are pawing through garbage for food.
6
My people have been punished even more than the inhabitants of Sodom, which met a sudden downfall at the hands of God.
7
Our princes were undefiled and pure as snow, vigorous and strong, glowing with health.
8
Now they lie unknown in the streets, their faces blackened in death; their skin, dry as wood, has shriveled on their bones.
9
Those who died in the war were better off than those who died later, who starved slowly to death, with no food to keep them alive.
10
The disaster that came to my people brought horror; loving mothers boiled their own children for food.
Jeremiah 9:21
Death has come in through our windows and entered our palaces; it has cut down the children in the streets and the young men in the marketplaces.