Lamentations 3:51

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

My eyes make me sad, when I see what happened to the young women in my city.

Cross References

Lamentations 5:11

The enemy raped the women of Zion. They raped the women in the cities of Judah.

Lamentations 2:21

Young men and old men lie on the ground in the streets of the city. My young women and young men have been killed by the sword. You killed them on the day of your anger. You killed them without mercy!

Lamentations 1:18

Now Jerusalem says, “I refused to listen to the Lord, so he is right for doing these things. So listen, all you people! Look at my pain! My young women and men have gone into captivity.

Jeremiah 19:9

The enemy will bring its army around the city. That army will not let people go out to get food, so the people in the city will begin to starve. They will become so hungry that they will eat the bodies of their own sons and daughters, and then they will begin to eat each other.’

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go into the country, I see the bodies of those killed in war. If I go into the city, I see people sick from hunger. The priests and prophets continue their work, but they don’t understand what is happening.’”

Jeremiah 14:16

And the people they spoke to will be thrown into the streets. The people will die from hunger and war. I will punish them, and no one will be there to bury them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters.

Jeremiah 11:22

I, the Lord All-Powerful, promise that I will soon punish those people. Their young men will die in war. Their sons and daughters will die from hunger.

Genesis 44:34

I cannot go back to my father if the boy is not with me. I am very afraid of what would happen to my father.”

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are worn out with tears, and my insides are upset. My heart feels like it has been poured on the ground; I feel this way because of the destruction of my people. Children and babies are fainting in the public squares of the city.

Lamentations 3:50

I will continue to cry until you look down and see us, Lord! I will continue to cry until you see us from heaven.

Lamentations 3:52

For no reason, my enemies hunted me like a bird.