Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

Relieve

General references

Bible References

I weep

Lamentations 1:2
ב BetShe weeps aloud 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.
Lamentations 2:11
כ KafMy 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 children and infants faint
in the streets of the city.
Lamentations 3:48
My eyes flow with streams of tears
because of the destruction of my dear people.
Psalm 119:136
My eyes pour out streams of tears
because people do not follow Your instruction.
Jeremiah 9:1
If my head were a spring of water,
my eyes a fountain of tears,
I would weep day and night
over the slain of my dear people.
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.
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 the virgin daughter of my people
has been destroyed by a great disaster,
an extremely severe wound.
Luke 19:41
As He approached and saw the city, He wept over it,
Romans 9:1
I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience is testifying to me with the Holy Spirit

Relieve

Hosea 9:12
Even if they raise children,
I will bereave them of each one.
Yes, woe to them when I depart from them!

My children

Lamentations 1:5
ה HeHer 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.
Lamentations 2:20
ר ReshLord, look and consider
who You have done this to.
Should women eat their own children,
the infants they have nurtured?
Should priests and prophets
be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?
Lamentations 4:2
ב BetZion’s precious people—
once worth their weight in pure gold
how they are regarded as clay jars,
the work of a potter’s hands!
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.

General references

John 11:35
Jesus wept.

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