Jeremiah 8:21
For the destruction of the daughter of my people I am broken: I am dressed in the clothing of grief; fear has taken me in its grip.
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Jeremiah 8:21
For the destruction of the daughter of my people I am broken: I am dressed in the clothing of grief; fear has taken me in its grip.
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Ezra 9:3
And hearing this, with signs of grief and pulling out the hair of my head and my chin, I took my seat on the earth deeply troubled.
Nehemiah 1:4
Then, after hearing these words, for some days I gave myself up to weeping and sorrow, seated on the earth; and taking no food I made prayer to the God of heaven,
Isaiah 62:1
Because of Zion I will not keep quiet, and because of Jerusalem I will take no rest, till her righteousness goes out like the shining of the sun, and her salvation like a burning light.
Lamentations 2:13
What example am I to give you? what comparison am I to make for you, O daughter of Jerusalem? what am I to make equal to you, so that I may give you comfort, O virgin daughter of Zion? for your destruction is great like the sea: who is able to make you well?
Lamentations 4:3
Even the beasts of the waste land have full breasts, they give milk to their young ones: the daughter of my people has become cruel like the ostriches in the waste land.
Lamentations 4:10
The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Micah 1:8
For this I will be full of sorrow and give cries of grief; I will go uncovered and unclothed: I will give cries of grief like the jackals and will be in sorrow like the ostriches.
Luke 13:34
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who were sent to her! again and again would I have taken your children to myself, as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, but you would not!
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Psalms 35:14
My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead.
Psalms 38:6
I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.
Jeremiah 4:28
The earth will be weeping for this, and the heavens on high will be black: because I have said it, and I will not go back from it; it is my purpose, and it will not be changed.
Jeremiah 15:5
For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? and who will have sorrow for you? or who will go out of his way to see how you are?
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Psalms 119:83
For I have become like a wine-skin black with smoke; but I still keep the memory of your rules.
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Song of Solomon 1:5
I am dark, but fair of form, O daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
Song of Solomon 1:6
Let not your eyes be turned on me, because I am dark, because I was looked on by the sun; my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vine-gardens; but my vine-garden I have not kept.
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Jeremiah 4:20
News is given of destruction on destruction; all the land is made waste: suddenly my tents, straight away my curtains, are made waste.
Jeremiah 6:24
The news of it has come to our ears; our hands have become feeble: trouble has come on us and pain, like the pain of a woman in childbirth.
Jeremiah 6:26
O daughter of my people, put on haircloth, rolling yourself in the dust: give yourself to sorrow, as for an only son, with most bitter cries of grief; for he who makes waste will come on us suddenly.
Jeremiah 8:8
How is it that you say, We are wise and the law of the Lord is with us? But see, the false pen of the scribes has made it false.
Jeremiah 8:11
And they have made little of the wounds of the daughter of Zion, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
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