Job 19:21, Psa 69:20, Isa 51:19, Jer 16:5, 21:7, Lam 1:12-16, 2:15-16 | ESV | STEP | Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends , for the hand of God has touched me!

19 ^gThese two things have happened to you—
who will console you?—
devastation and destruction, famine and sword;
who will comfort you? ^{▼▼Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Masoretic Text how shall I comfort you}

Jeremiah 16:5

5 “For thus says the Lord: ⁱDo not enter the house of mourning, or go to lament or grieve for them, for I have taken away my peace from this people, my steadfast love and mercy, declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 21:7

7 Afterward, declares the Lord, ^jI will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people in this city who survive the pestilence, sword, and famine into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of their enemies, into the hand of those who seek their lives. He shall strike them down with the edge of the sword. ^kHe shall not pity them or spare them or have compassion.’

Lamentations 1:12-16

12 “Is it nothing to you, all ^lyou who pass by?
^mLook and see
if there is any sorrow like my sorrow,
which was brought upon me,
which ⁿthe Lord inflicted
on ^othe day of his fierce anger.
13 “From on high he ^psent fire;
into my bones ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew bones and} he made it descend;
^rhe spread a net for my feet;
he turned me back;
^she has left me stunned,
faint all the day long.
14 “My transgressions were bound ^{▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain} into ^ua 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;
^vthe Lord has trodden as in a winepress
the virgin daughter of Judah.
16 “For these things ^wI weep;
my eyes flow with tears;
for ^xa comforter is far from me,
one to ^yrevive my spirit;
my children are desolate,
for the enemy has prevailed.”

Lamentations 2:15-16

15 All who pass along the way
clap their hands at you;
^zthey hiss and wag their heads
at the daughter of Jerusalem:
“Is this the city that was called
^aathe perfection of beauty,
^abthe joy of all the earth?”
16 ^acAll your enemies
rail against you;
they hiss, they gnash their teeth,
they cry: “We ^adhave swallowed her!
Ah, this is the day we longed for;
now we have it; ^aewe see it!”