Lamentations 3:51

Good News Translation

My heart is grieved when I see what has happened to the women of the city.

Cross References

Genesis 44:34

How can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I cannot bear to see this disaster come upon my father.”

Jeremiah 11:22

So the Lord Almighty said, “I will punish them! Their young men will be killed in war; their children will die of starvation.

Jeremiah 14:16

The people to whom they have said these things will be killed in the same way. Their bodies will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem, and there will be no one to bury them. This will happen to all of them—including their wives, their sons, and their daughters. I will make them pay for their wickedness.”

Jeremiah 14:18

When I go out in the fields, I see the bodies of men killed in war; when I go into the towns, I see people starving to death. Prophets and priests carry on their work, but they don't know what they are doing.”

Jeremiah 19:9

The enemy will surround the city and try to kill its people. The siege will be so terrible that the people inside the city will eat one another and even their own children.”

Lamentations 1:18

“But the Lord is just, for I have disobeyed him. Listen to me, people everywhere; look at me in my pain. My young men and women have been taken away captive.

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are worn out with weeping; my soul is in anguish. I am exhausted with grief at the destruction of my people. Children and babies are fainting in the streets of the city.

Lamentations 2:21

Young and old alike lie dead in the streets, Young men and women, killed by enemy swords. You slaughtered them without mercy on the day of your anger.

Lamentations 3:50

Until the Lord looks down from heaven and sees us.

Lamentations 3:52

“I was trapped like a bird by enemies who had no cause to hate me.

Lamentations 5:11

Our wives have been raped on Mount Zion itself; in every Judean village our daughters have been forced to submit.