Jeremiah 15:5 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ For who shall have pity on thee, O Jerusalem? Or who shall bemoan thee? Or who shall go to pray for thy peace?

Jeremiah 15:5 Cross References

Job 19:21

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

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.

Exodus 18:7

Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and did obeisance and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare, and went into the tent.

Isaiah 51:19

These two things have befallen you— who will condole with you?— devastation and destruction, famine and sword; who will comfort you?

Jeremiah 13:14

And I will dash them one against another, fathers and sons together, says the Lord. I will not pity or spare or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.’ ”

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 21:7

Afterward, says the Lord, I 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 Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of their enemies, into the hand of those who seek their lives. He shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not pity them, or spare them, or have compassion.’

Lamentations 1:17

Zion stretches out her hands, but there 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.

Nahum 3:7

And all who look on you will shrink from you and say, Wasted is Nineveh; who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for her?

Judges 18:15

And they turned aside thither, and came to the house of the young Levite, at the home of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.

1 Samuel 10:4

And they will greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you shall accept from their hand.

1 Samuel 17:22

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

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.