Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

Bible References

Eyes

Lamentations 1:16
“For these things I weep;
My eyes run down with water;
Because far from me is a comforter,
One who restores my soul.
My children are desolate
Because the enemy has prevailed.”
Lamentations 3:48
My eyes run down with streams of water
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
1 Samuel 30:4
Then David and the people who were with him lifted their voices and wept until there was no strength in them to weep.
Psalm 6:7
My eye has wasted away with grief;
It has become old because of all my adversaries.
Psalm 31:9
Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress;
My eye is wasted away from grief, my soul and my body also.
Psalm 69:3
I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched;
My eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Isaiah 38:14
Like a swallow, like a crane, so I twitter;
I moan like a dove;
My eyes look wistfully to the heights;
O Lord, I am oppressed, be my security.

My bowels

Lamentations 1:20
“See, O Lord, for I am in distress;
My spirit is greatly troubled;
My heart is overturned within me,
For I have been very rebellious.
In the street the sword slays;
In the house it is like death.
Jeremiah 4:19
My soul, my soul! I am in anguish! Oh, my heart!
My heart is pounding in me;
I cannot be silent,
Because you have heard, O my soul,
The sound of the trumpet,
The alarm of war.

My liver

Job 16:13
“His arrows surround me.
Without mercy He splits my kidneys open;
He pours out my gall on the ground.
Psalm 22:14
I am poured out like water,
And all my bones are out of joint;
My heart is like wax;
It is melted within me.

For

Lamentations 4:10
The hands of compassionate women
Boiled their own children;
They became food for them
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Isaiah 22:4
Therefore I say, “Turn your eyes away from me,
Let me weep bitterly,
Do not try to comfort me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
Jeremiah 8:19
Behold, listen! The cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land:
“Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King not within her?”
“Why have they provoked Me with their graven images, with foreign idols?”
Jeremiah 9:1
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!
Jeremiah 14:17
“You will say this word to them,
Let my eyes flow down with tears night and day,
And let them not cease;
For the virgin daughter of my people has been crushed with a mighty blow,
With a sorely infected wound.

Because

Lamentations 2:19
“Arise, cry aloud in the night
At the beginning of the night watches;
Pour out your heart like water
Before the presence of the Lord;
Lift up your hands to Him
For the life of your little ones
Who are faint because of hunger
At the head of every street.”
Lamentations 4:3
Even jackals offer the breast,
They nurse their young;
But the daughter of my people has become cruel
Like ostriches in the wilderness.
Luke 23:29
For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’

General references

Job 30:27
I am seething within and cannot relax;
Days of affliction confront me.
Jeremiah 51:22
And with you I shatter man and woman,
And with you I shatter old man and youth,
And with you I shatter young man and virgin,
Lamentations 3:48
My eyes run down with streams of water
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.