Lamentations 1:16
“For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.”
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Lamentations 1:16
“For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.”
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Job 42:11
Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, came to him and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.
Isaiah 51:18
There is no one to guide her among all the sons to whom she has given birth; and there is no one who takes her by the hand among all the sons whom she has brought up.
Lamentations 2:13
What shall I testify to you? What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is as big as the sea. Who can heal you?
Amos 7:2
When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, “Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
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Psalms 6:7
My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.
Psalms 31:9
Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
Psalms 69:3
I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.
Psalms 77:2
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.
Psalms 102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,
Lamentations 3:50
until Yahweh looks down, and sees from heaven.
Lamentations 3:51
My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
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Jeremiah 9:19
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, ‘How we are ruined! We are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’ ”
Jeremiah 9:21
For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.
Lamentations 1:1
How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave!
Lamentations 1:11
All her people sigh. They seek bread. They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh their soul. “Look, Yahweh, and see, for I have become despised.”
Lamentations 2:20
“Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Should the women eat their offspring, the children that they held and bounced on their knees? Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Lamentations 4:4
The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst. The young children ask bread, and no one breaks it for them.
Lamentations 4:5
Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.
Lamentations 5:18
for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk on it.
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Luke 2:25
Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.
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Luke 19:42
saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.
Luke 19:44
and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”
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