Genesis 21:16

Modern English Version

Then she went and sat down across from him at a distance of about a bowshot, for she said to herself, “Let me not see the death of the child.” She sat across from him, and lifted up her voice and wept.

Cross References

Genesis 21:15

When the water in the skin was gone, she placed the child under one of the shrubs.

Genesis 27:38

And Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father!” Then Esau lifted up his voice and wept.

Genesis 29:11

Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.

Genesis 44:34

For how can I go up to my father if the boy is not with me, lest perhaps I see the evil that would find my father?”

1 Kings 17:12

She said, “As the Lord your God lives, I do not have bread, but only a handful of meal in a barrel and a little oil in a jar. I am gathering two sticks, that I can go in and make it for me and my son, so we may eat it and die.”

1 Kings 3:26

Then the woman whose child was the living one spoke to the king, for she yearned with compassion for her son, and she said, “O my lord, give her the living child, and do not kill it.” But the other said, “Let it be neither mine nor yours and divide it.”

Esther 8:6

For how am I able to watch the evil that will unfold against my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?”

Isaiah 49:15

Can a woman forget her nursing child, and have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget.

Jeremiah 6:26

O daughter of my people, gird yourself with sackcloth and wallow in ashes. Mourn as for an only son, a most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.

Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into dirges; I will put sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only child, and its end like a bitter day.

Zechariah 12:10

And I will pour out on the house of David and over those dwelling in Jerusalem a spirit of favor and supplication so that they look to Me, whom they have pierced through. And they will mourn over him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly over him as a firstborn.

Luke 15:20

So he arose and came to his father. “But while he was yet far away, his father saw him and was moved with compassion, and ran and embraced his neck and kissed him.

Judges 2:4

When the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the Israelites, the people raised their voices and wept aloud.

Ruth 1:9

May the Lord grant that you each find rest in the house of another husband.” Then she kissed them, and they raised their voices and wept aloud.

1 Samuel 24:16

When David finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, “Is this your voice, my son David?” And Saul lifted up his voice and wept.

1 Samuel 30:4

So David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no strength in them to weep.