Lamentations 1:2

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She cries bitterly through the night, tears rolling down her cheeks. Despite all her many lovers, no one comes to comfort her. Betrayed by all her friends, they are now her enemies.

Cross References

Job 6:15

My brothers have acted as deceptively as a desert stream, rushing waters in the desert that vanish.

Job 7:3

I've been given months of emptiness and nights of misery.

Psalm 126:5

Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy!

Psalm 31:11

I am ridiculed by my enemies, particularly by my neighbors. My friends dread meeting me; people who see me in the street run the other way.

Psalm 6:6

My groaning has exhausted me. Every night I soak my bed with my crying; I drench my couch with my tears.

Psalm 69:21

Instead they gave me bitter herbs to eat and vinegar to drink.

Proverbs 19:7

If a poor man's relatives can't stand him, how much more will his friends avoid him! He tries to talk with them but they don't listen.

Jeremiah 13:17

But if you refuse to listen, I will weep secretly inside because of your pride. My tears pour down because the Lord's flock has been captured.

Jeremiah 2:25

You don't have to run around barefoot or have your throat go dry. But you reply, “No, it's impossible! I'm in love with foreign gods—I must go to them.”

Jeremiah 3:1

If a man divorces his wife and she goes and marries someone else, could he ever go back to her? Wouldn't the country be made totally unclean by this? But you have done worse by prostituting yourselves with many lovers, and now you want to come back to me? declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 30:14

All your lovers have forgotten about you; they don't bother looking for you anymore, because I have beaten you as if I were your enemy, the discipline of a cruel person, because of how wicked you are, because of your many sins.

Jeremiah 4:30

You, Jerusalem, now desolate, what are you going to do? Even though you dress in scarlet clothes, and put on gold jewelry, and paint your eyes with makeup, all your dressing-up is pointless! Your lovers hate you; they want to kill you!

Jeremiah 9:1

How I wish my head was a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! Then I would weep day and night over all my people who have been killed.

Lamentations 1:19

I called out for help to my lovers, but they betrayed me. My priests and elders starved to death in the city as they tried to find food to keep themselves alive.

Lamentations 1:21

People hear me groaning, but no one comes to comfort me. All my enemies have heard about the bad things that have happened to me, and they're delighted that it was you who did it. Please bring about the day of judgment that you promised so they can end up like me.

Lamentations 1:9

Her uncleanness contaminates her skirts. She didn't think about what would happen. Her fall was a shock, and no one was there to comfort her. “Please, Lord, see how much I'm suffering, because the enemy has won!” she says.

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are worn out from crying; inside I am in turmoil. I'm sick and exhausted over the destruction of Jerusalem, the daughter of my people, because children and infants are fainting in the city streets.

Ezekiel 16:37

I'm going to bring together all the lovers you went to bed with, whether you loved them or hated them, and I will have them gather from everywhere around and I will strip you as they watch so they will see you totally naked.

Hosea 2:7

When she runs after her lovers she won't catch up with them; she'll look for them but she won't find them. Then she'll say, ‘Let me go back to my former husband, because it was better for me then than now.’

Micah 7:5

Don't trust a neighbor, don't rely on a friend. Watch what you say even to the one who lies in your arms.

Revelation 17:13

They have one agreed purpose: to give their power and authority to the beast.

Revelation 17:16

The ten horns that you saw and the beast will detest the prostitute, and will take away everything she has and strip her naked, eat her flesh and burn her to ashes.