Lamentations 2:11

God's Word

My eyes are worn out with tears. My stomach is churning. My heart is poured out on the ground because of the destruction of my people. Little children and infants faint in the city streets.

Cross References

Job 16:13

and his archers surrounded me. He slashes open my kidneys without mercy and spills my blood on the ground.

Job 30:27

My insides are churning and won’t calm down. Days of misery are ahead of me.

Psalm 119:82

My eyes have become strained from looking for your promise. I ask, “When will you comfort me?”

Psalm 22:14

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It has melted within me.

Psalm 31:9

Have pity on me, O Lord, because I am in distress. My eyes, my soul, and my body waste away from grief.

Psalm 38:8

I am numb and completely devastated. I roar because my heart’s in turmoil.

Psalm 6:7

My eyes blur from grief. They fail because of my enemies.

Psalm 69:3

I am exhausted from crying for help. My throat is hoarse. My eyes are strained ⌞from⌟ looking for my God.

Isaiah 22:4

That is why I say, “Turn away from me so that I can cry bitterly. Don’t try to comfort me because of the destruction brought on my people.”

Isaiah 38:14

I chirped like swallows and cranes. I cooed like doves. My eyes were tired from looking up to heaven. I’ve suffered miserably, O Lord! Please help me!

Isaiah 51:20

Your children have fainted. They lie sleeping at every street corner. They are like an antelope caught in a net. They experience the anger of the Lord, the fury of your God.

Jeremiah 14:17

“Say this to them: ‘My eyes flow with tears day and night without stopping because my dear people will suffer massive destruction. It will be a very serious blow.’ ”

Jeremiah 4:19

My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain. My heart is beating wildly! My heart is pounding! I can’t keep quiet because I hear a ram’s horn sounding the alarm for war.

Jeremiah 44:7

Now, this is what the Lord God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Why do you bring this terrible disaster on yourselves? Why do you keep destroying men, women, children, and babies from Judah until none are left?

Jeremiah 8:19

The cry from my dear people comes from a distant land: “Isn’t the Lord in Zion? Isn’t Zion’s king still there?” They make me furious with their idols, with their foreign gods.

Lamentations 1:11

All the people are groaning as they beg for bread. They trade their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. ‘O Lord, look and see how despised I am!’ ”

Lamentations 1:16

I’m crying because of ⌞all⌟ these things. My eyes—my eyes flow with tears. No one can give me the comfort I need to keep me alive. Everyone is too far away from me. My children are devastated because my enemies have won.”

Lamentations 1:20

“O Lord, see the distress I’m in! My stomach is churning. My heart is pounding because I’ve been very bitter. In the streets swords kill my children. Inside the houses it’s like death.

Lamentations 5:17

This is why we feel sick. This is why our eyes see less and less.

Luke 23:29

The time is coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the women who couldn’t get pregnant, who couldn’t give birth, and who couldn’t nurse a child.’

1 Samuel 30:4

Then David and his men cried loudly until they didn’t have the strength to cry anymore.