Genesis 21:16

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And she went her way, and sat over against him a great way off as far as a bow can carry. For she said: I will not see the boy die. And sitting over against, she lifted up her voice and wept.

Cross References

Isaiah 49:15

Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the son of her womb? And if she should forget, yet will not I forget thee.

1 Kings 3:26

But the woman whose child was alive said to the king (for her bowels were moved upon her child): I beseech thee, my lord, give her the child alive, and do not kill it. But the other said: Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.

Luke 15:20

And rising up he came to his father. And when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and running to him fell upon his neck, and kissed him.

Zechariah 12:10

And I will pour out upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace, and of prayers: and they shall look upon me, whom they have pierced: and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for an only son, and they shall grieve over him, as the manner is to grieve for the death of the firstborn.

1 Samuel 30:4

David and the people that were with him lifted up their voices, and wept till they had no more tears.

1 Samuel 24:16

Be the Lord judge; and judge between me and thee; and see, and judge my cause; and deliver me out of thy hand.

Ruth 1:9

May he grant you to find rest in the houses of the husbands which you shall take. And she kissed them. And they lifted up their voice and began to weep,

Judges 2:4

And when the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the children of Israel, they lifted up their voice, and wept.

Genesis 44:34

For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I be a witness of the calamity that will oppress my father.

Genesis 29:11

And having watered the flock, he kissed her: and lifting up his voice, wept.

Genesis 27:38

And Esac said to him: Hast thou only one blessing, father? I beseech thee, bless me also. And when he wept with a loud cry,

Genesis 21:15

And when the water in the bottle was spent, she cast the boy under one of the trees that were there.

1 Kings 17:12

And she answered: As the Lord thy God liveth, I have no bread, but only a handful of meal in a pot, and a little oil in a cruse. Behold, I am gathering two sticks that I may go in and dress it, for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

Jeremiah 6:26

Gird thee with sackcloth, O daughter of my people, and sprinkle thee with ashes: make thee mourning as for an only son, a bitter lamentation, because the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.

Amos 8:10

And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation: and I will bring up sackcloth upon every back of yours, and baldness upon every head: and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the latter end thereof as a bitter day.