Jeremiah 15:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem, or who will bemoan you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Or who will bemoan you? Or who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ For who will have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who will bemoan thee? or who will turn aside to ask of thy welfare?

Common English Bible

⁵ Who will pity you, Jerusalem? Who will shed tears over you? Who will stop and ask how you’re doing?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ For who will take pity on you, O Jerusalem? Or who will feel sorrow for you? Or who will go to prayer for the sake of your peace?

Jeremiah 15:5 Cross References

Isaiah 51:19

These two things have befallen you —who will grieve with you?— devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will comfort you?

Nahum 3:7

Then all who see you will shrink from you and say, “Nineveh is devastated; who will bemoan her?” Where shall I seek comforters for you?

Jeremiah 21:7

Afterward, says the Lord, I will give King Zedekiah of Judah and his servants and the people in this city—those who survive the pestilence, sword, and famine—into the hands of King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, into the hands of their enemies, into the hands of those who seek their lives. He shall strike them down with the edge of the sword; he shall not pity them or spare them or have compassion.

Psalm 69:20

Insults have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

Jeremiah 16:5

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

Jeremiah 13:14

And I will dash them one against another, parents and children together, says the Lord. I will not pity or spare or have compassion when I destroy them.

Job 19:21

Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!

1 Samuel 25:5

So David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, “Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name.

1 Samuel 17:22

David left the things in charge of the keeper of the baggage, ran to the ranks, and went and greeted his brothers.

1 Samuel 10:4

They will greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you shall accept from them.

Judges 18:15

So they turned in that direction and came to the house of the young Levite at the home of Micah and greeted him.

Exodus 18:7

So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law; he bowed down and kissed him; each asked after the other’s welfare, and they went into the tent.

Lamentations 1:17

Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her; the Lord has commanded against Jacob that his neighbors should become his foes; Jerusalem has become a filthy thing among them.