Jeremiah 4:19

Anguish over Judah’s Desolation

19 ^aMy anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain!
Oh the walls of my heart!
My heart is beating wildly;
I cannot keep silent,
for I hear the sound of the trumpet,
the alarm of war.

Jeremiah 4:31

31For I heard ^ba cry as of a woman in labor,
anguish as of one giving birth to her first child,
the cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath,
^cstretching out her hands,
“Woe is me! I am fainting before murderers.”

Jeremiah 8:21

21For the wound of ^dthe daughter of my people is my heart wounded;
^eI mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me.

Jeremiah 9:1

1 ▼

▼Ch 8:23 in Hebrew

^gOh that my head were waters,
and my eyes a fountain of tears,
that I might weep day and night
for the slain of ^hthe daughter of my people!

Jeremiah 17:13

13O Lord, ⁱthe hope of Israel,
^jall who forsake you shall be put to shame;
those who turn away from you ▼

▼Hebrew me

^lshall be written in the earth,
for ^mthey have forsaken ⁿthe Lord, the fountain of living water.

Lamentations 1:2

2 ^oShe weeps bitterly in the night,
with tears on her cheeks;
^pamong all her lovers
she has ^qnone to comfort her;
^rall her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
they have become her enemies.

Lamentations 1:12-22

12 “Is it nothing to you, all ^syou who pass by?
^tLook and see
if there is any sorrow like my sorrow,
which was brought upon me,
which ^uthe Lord inflicted
on ^vthe day of his fierce anger.
13 “From on high he ^wsent fire;
into my bones ▼

▼Septuagint; Hebrew  bones and

he made it descend;
^yhe spread a net for my feet;
he turned me back;
^zhe has left me stunned,
faint all the day long.
14 “My transgressions were bound ▼

▼The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

into ^aba yoke;
by his hand they were fastened together;
they were set upon my neck;
he caused my strength to fail;
the Lord gave me into the hands
of those whom I cannot withstand.
15 “The Lord rejected
all my mighty men in my midst;
he summoned an assembly against me
to crush my young men;
^acthe Lord has trodden as in a winepress
the virgin daughter of Judah.
16 “For these things ^adI weep;
my eyes flow with tears;
for ^aea comforter is far from me,
one to ^afrevive my spirit;
my children are desolate,
for the enemy has prevailed.”
17 ^agZion stretches out her hands,
but ^ahthere is none to comfort her;
the Lord has commanded against Jacob
that his neighbors should be his foes;
Jerusalem has become
a filthy thing among them.
18 ^ai“The Lord is in the right,
^ajfor I have rebelled against his word;
but hear, all you peoples,
and see my suffering;
^akmy young women and my young men
have gone into captivity.
19 “I called to ^almy lovers,
but they deceived me;
my priests and elders
perished in the city,
while ^amthey sought food
to revive their strength.
20 “Look, O Lord, for I am in distress;
^anmy stomach churns;
my heart is wrung within me,
because I have been very rebellious.
^aoIn the street the sword bereaves;
in the house it is like death.
21 “They heard ▼

▼Septuagint, Syriac Hear

^aqmy groaning,
yet ^arthere is no one to comfort me.
All my enemies have heard of my trouble;
^asthey are glad that you have done it.
You have brought ▼

▼Syriac Bring

the day you announced;
^aunow let them be as I am.
22 ^av“Let all their evildoing come before you,
and deal with them
as ^awyou have dealt with me
because of all my transgressions;
for ^axmy groans are many,
and ^aymy heart is faint.”

Lamentations 2:11-22

11 ^azMy eyes are spent with weeping;
^bamy stomach churns;
^bbmy bile is poured out to the ground
^bcbecause of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
^bdbecause infants and babies ^befaint
in the streets of the city.
12 They cry to their mothers,
^bf“Where is bread and wine?”
^bgas they faint like a wounded man
in the streets of the city,
as their life is poured out
on their mothers’ bosom.
13 What can I say for you, ^bhto what compare you,
O daughter of Jerusalem?
^biWhat can I liken to you, that I may comfort you,
O virgin daughter of Zion?
^bjFor your ruin is vast as the sea;
who can heal you?
14 ^bkYour prophets have seen for you
false and deceptive visions;
^blthey have not exposed your iniquity
to ^bmrestore your fortunes,
^bnbut have seen for you ^booracles
that are false and misleading.
15 All who pass along the way
clap their hands at you;
^bpthey hiss and wag their heads
at the daughter of Jerusalem:
“Is this the city that was called
^bqthe perfection of beauty,
^brthe joy of all the earth?”
16 ^bsAll your enemies
rail against you;
they hiss, they gnash their teeth,
they cry: “We ^bthave swallowed her!
Ah, this is the day we longed for;
now we have it; ^buwe see it!”
17 The Lord has done what he purposed;
he has carried out ^bvhis word,
which he commanded ^bwlong ago;
^bxhe has thrown down ^bywithout pity;
^bzhe has made the enemy rejoice over you
and exalted the ^camight of your foes.
18 Their heart cried to the Lord.
O ^cbwall of the daughter of Zion,
^cclet tears stream down like a torrent
^cdday and night!
^ceGive yourself no rest,
^cfyour eyes no respite!
19 “Arise, ^cgcry out in the night,
at the beginning of the night watches!
^chPour out your heart like water
before the presence of the Lord!
^ciLift your hands to him
for the lives of your children,
^cjwho faint for hunger
at the head of every street.”
20 Look, O Lord, and see!
^ckWith whom have you dealt thus?
^clShould women eat the fruit of their womb,
the children of ^cmtheir tender care?
Should ^cnpriest and prophet be killed
in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21 In the dust of the streets
^colie the young and the old;
^cpmy young women and my young men
have fallen by the sword;
^cqyou have killed them in the day of your anger,
slaughtering ^crwithout pity.
22 You summoned as if to ^csa festival day
^ctmy terrors on every side,
^cuand on the day of the anger of the Lord
no one escaped or survived;
^cvthose whom I held and raised
my enemy destroyed.

Lamentations 3:48

48 ^cwmy eyes flow with rivers of tears
because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.