Lamentations 1:16 Cross References
Lamentations 1:16
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."
Lamentations 1:2
- She sobs through the night; tears stream down her cheeks. Among all her lovers, there is no one left to help her. All her friends have betrayed her; they are now her enemies.
Lamentations 2:11
- I have cried until the tears no longer come. My heart is broken, my spirit poured out, as I see what has happened to my people. Little children and tiny babies are fainting and dying in the streets.
Jeremiah 13:17
- And if you still refuse to listen, I will weep alone because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears because the LORD's flock will be led away into exile.
Lamentations 2:18
- Cry aloud before the Lord, O walls of Jerusalem! Let your tears flow like a river. Give yourselves no rest from weeping day or night.
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 run through with a sword and lies mortally wounded on the ground.
Lamentations 3:48
- Streams of tears flow from my eyes because of the destruction of my people!
- My tears flow down endlessly. They will not stop
Psalms 119:136
- Rivers of tears gush from my eyes because people disobey your law.
Hosea 9:12
- Even if your children do survive to grow up, I will take them from you. It will be a terrible day when I turn away and leave you alone.
Lamentations 1:9
- She defiled herself with immorality with no thought of the punishment that would follow. Now she lies in the gutter with no one to lift her out. "LORD, see my deep misery," she cries. "The enemy has triumphed."
Jeremiah 9:1
- Oh, that my eyes were a fountain of tears; I would weep forever! I would sob day and night for all my people who have been slaughtered.
Jeremiah 9:21
- For death has crept in through our windows and has entered our mansions. It has killed off the flower of our youth: Children no longer play in the streets, and young men no longer gather in the squares.
Ecclesiastes 4:1
- Again I observed all the oppression that takes place in our world. I saw the tears of the oppressed, with no one to comfort them. The oppressors have great power, and the victims are helpless.
Psalms 69:20
- Their insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. If only one person would show some pity; if only one would turn and comfort me.
Luke 19:41
- But as they came closer to Jerusalem and Jesus saw the city ahead, he began to cry.
- "I wish that even today you would find the way of peace. But now it is too late, and peace is hidden from you.
- Before long your enemies will build ramparts against your walls and encircle you and close in on you.
- They will crush you to the ground, and your children with you. Your enemies will not leave a single stone in place, because you have rejected the opportunity God offered you."
Lamentations 1:5
- Her oppressors have become her masters, and her enemies prosper, for the LORD has punished Jerusalem for her many sins. Her children have been captured and taken away to distant lands.
- All the beauty and majesty of Jerusalem are gone. Her princes are like starving deer searching for pasture, too weak to run from the pursuing enemy.
Jeremiah 9:10
- I will weep for the mountains and wail for the desert pastures. For they are desolate and empty of life; the lowing of cattle is heard no more; the birds and wild animals all have fled.
Romans 9:1
- In the presence of Christ, I speak with utter truthfulness--I do not lie--and my conscience and the Holy Spirit confirm that what I am saying is true.
- My heart is filled with bitter sorrow and unending grief
- for my people, my Jewish brothers and sisters. I would be willing to be forever cursed--cut off from Christ!--if that would save them.
Lamentations 2:20
- "O LORD, think about this!" Jerusalem cries. "You are doing this to your own people! Should mothers eat their little children, those they once bounced on their knees? Should priests and prophets die within the Lord's Temple?
- "See them lying in the streets--young and old, boys and girls, killed by the swords of the enemy. You have killed them in your anger, slaughtering them without mercy.
- "You have invited terrors from all around as though you were calling them to a day of feasting. In the day of the LORD's anger, no one has escaped or survived. The enemy has killed all the children I bore and raised."
Lamentations 4:2
- See how the precious children of Jerusalem, worth their weight in gold, are now treated like pots of clay.
- Even the jackals feed their young, but not my people Israel. They ignore their children's cries, like the ostriches of the desert.
- The parched tongues of their little ones stick with thirst to the roofs of their mouths. The children cry for bread, but no one has any to give them.
- The people who once ate only the richest foods now beg in the streets for anything they can get. Those who once lived in palaces now search the garbage pits for food.
- The guilt of my people is greater than that of Sodom, where utter disaster struck in a moment with no one to help them.