Isaiah 22:4
4Therefore I said:“Look away from me;
alet me weep bitter tears;
do not labor to comfort me
concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
Jeremiah 8:19
19Behold, the cry of the daughter of my peoplefrom bthe length and breadth of the land:
“Is the Lord not in Zion?
cIs her King not in her?”
d“Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images
and with their foreign idols?”
Jeremiah 9:1
1 ▼▼Ch 8:23 in Hebrew
fOh that my head were waters,and my eyes a fountain of tears,
that I might weep day and night
for the slain of gthe daughter of my people!
Jeremiah 9:7
7 Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts:“Behold, hI will refine them and itest them,
for what else can I do, jbecause of my people?
Jeremiah 14:17
17 “You shall say to them this word:k‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day,
and let them not cease,
for the virgin ldaughter of my people is shattered with a great wound,
mwith a very grievous blow.
Lamentations 2:11
11 nMy eyes are spent with weeping;omy stomach churns;
pmy bile is poured out to the ground
qbecause of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
rbecause infants and babies sfaint
in the streets of the city.
Lamentations 3:48
48 tmy eyes flow with rivers of tearsbecause of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 4:3
3 Even jackals offer the breast;they nurse their young;
but the daughter of my people has become cruel,
like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Lamentations 4:6
6 uFor the chastisement ▼▼Or iniquity
of the daughter of my people has been greaterthan the punishment ▼
▼Or sin
of Sodom,xwhich was overthrown in a moment,
and no hands were wrung for her. ▼
▼The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Lamentations 4:10
10 zThe hands of aacompassionate womenabhave boiled their own children;
acthey became their food
during the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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