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Lamentations 1:16
“ For all these things I weep; tears flow down my cheeks. No one is here to comfort me; any who might encourage me are far away. My children have no future, for the enemy has conquered us.”
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Job 16:13
and now his archers surround me. His arrows pierce me without mercy. The ground is wet with my blood.
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Lamentations 1:20
“ Lord, see my anguish! My heart is broken and my soul despairs, for I have rebelled against you. In the streets the sword kills, and at home there is only death.
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Isaiah 22:4
That’s why I said,“ Leave me alone to weep; do not try to comfort me. Let me cry for my people as I watch them being destroyed.”
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Psalms 22:14
My life is poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax, melting within me.
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Jeremiah 4:19
My heart, my heart— I writhe in pain! My heart pounds within me! I cannot be still. For I have heard the blast of enemy trumpets and the roar of their battle cries.
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Psalms 6:7
My vision is blurred by grief; my eyes are worn out because of all my enemies.
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Lamentations 3:48-51
Tears stream from my eyes because of the destruction of my people!My tears flow endlessly; they will not stopuntil the Lord looks down from heaven and sees.My heart is breaking over the fate of all the women of Jerusalem.
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Lamentations 4:9-10
Those killed by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger. Starving, they waste away for lack of food from the fields.Tenderhearted women have cooked their own children. They have eaten them to survive the siege.
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Lamentations 2:19-20
Rise during the night and cry out. Pour out your hearts like water to the Lord. Lift up your hands to him in prayer, pleading for your children, for in every street they are faint with hunger.“ O Lord, think about this! Should you treat your own people this way? Should mothers eat their own children, those they once bounced on their knees? Should priests and prophets be killed within the Lord’s Temple?
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Jeremiah 44:7
“ And now the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, asks you: Why are you destroying yourselves? For not one of you will survive— not a man, woman, or child among you who has come here from Judah, not even the babies in your arms.
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1 Samuel 30 4
they wept until they could weep no more.
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Isaiah 38:14
Delirious, I chattered like a swallow or a crane, and then I moaned like a mourning dove. My eyes grew tired of looking to heaven for help. I am in trouble, Lord. Help me!”
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Lamentations 4:3-4
Even the jackals feed their young, but not my people Israel. They ignore their children’s cries, like ostriches in the desert.The parched tongues of their little ones stick to the roofs of their mouths in thirst. The children cry for bread, but no one has any to give them.
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Jeremiah 8:19-9:1
Listen to the weeping of my people; it can be heard all across the land.“ Has the Lord abandoned Jerusalem?” the people ask.“ Is her King no longer there?”“ Oh, why have they provoked my anger with their carved idols and their worthless foreign gods?” says the Lord.“ The harvest is finished, and the summer is gone,” the people cry,“ yet we are not saved!”I hurt with the hurt of my people. I mourn and am overcome with grief.Is there no medicine in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why is there no healing for the wounds of my people?If only my head were a pool of water and my eyes a fountain of tears, I would weep day and night for all my people who have been slaughtered.
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Psalms 31:9
Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am in distress. Tears blur my eyes. My body and soul are withering away.
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Luke 23:29
For the days are coming when they will say,‘ Fortunate indeed are the women who are childless, the wombs that have not borne a child and the breasts that have never nursed.’
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Psalms 69:3
I am exhausted from crying for help; my throat is parched. My eyes are swollen with weeping, waiting for my God to help me.
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Jeremiah 14:17
Now, Jeremiah, say this to them:“ Night and day my eyes overflow with tears. I cannot stop weeping, for my virgin daughter— my precious people— has been struck down and lies mortally wounded.