Jer 8:21, Lam 2:9, 4:8-9, 5:10, Joe 2:6 | ESV | STEP | For the wound of the daughter of my people is my heart wounded ; I mourn , and dismay has taken hold on me.

Jeremiah 8:21

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

Lamentations 2:9

9 Her gates have sunk into the ground;
^che has ruined ^dand broken her bars;
^eher king and princes are among the nations;
the law is no more,
and ^fher prophets find
no vision from the Lord.

Lamentations 4:8-9

8 ^gNow their face is blacker than soot;
they are not recognized in the streets;
their skin has shriveled on their bones;
it has become as dry as wood.
9 Happier were the victims of the sword
than the victims of hunger,
who wasted away, pierced
by lack of the fruits of the field.

Lamentations 5:10

10 ^hOur skin is hot as an oven
with ⁱthe burning heat of famine.

Joel 2:6

6 Before them peoples are in anguish;
^jall faces grow pale.