Lamentations 1:16

Modern English Version

For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears; for the comforter, who should relieve my soul, is far from me. My children are desolate for the enemy has prevailed.

Cross References

Lamentations 1:2

She weeps sorely in the night, her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they have become her enemies.

Lamentations 2:18

Their heart cried to the Lord: O wall of the daughter of Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night; give yourself no rest, your eyes no respite!

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes fail with tears, my spirit is greatly troubled; my bile is poured on the ground because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

Jeremiah 14:17

Therefore you will say this word to them: Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people has been broken with a great blow, with a very infected wound.

Jeremiah 13:17

But if you will not listen to it, my soul will weep in secret places for your pride; and my eyes will weep sorely and run down with tears, because the flock of the Lord is carried away captive.

Psalm 119:136

Rivers of water run down from my eyes, because they keep not Your law.

Hosea 9:12

Though they bring up their children, I will bereave them until none are left. Woe to them indeed, when I depart from them!

Lamentations 1:9

Her uncleanness is in her skirts; she took no thought of her future; therefore her fall is astounding; she has no comforter. “O  Lord, look upon my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!”

Jeremiah 9:21

“For death has come up into our windows; and has entered our palaces, to cut off the children from the streets, and the young men from the squares.”

Jeremiah 9:10

For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up so that no one can pass through them; nor can men hear the lowing of the cattle. Both the fowl of the heavens and the beast have fled; they are gone.

Jeremiah 9:1

Oh, that my head were waters and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again I turned and observed all types of oppression that are done under the sun: Behold, the tears of the oppressed, and no one was there to comfort them. There was force from the hand of the oppressors, and no one was there to comfort them.

Psalm 69:20

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.

Jeremiah 8:18

My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.

Psalm 106:42

Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their power.

Isaiah 54:11

O afflicted one, tossed with tempest and not comforted, behold, I will lay your stones with fair colors and lay your foundations with sapphires.

Jeremiah 15:5

For who shall have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Or who shall bemoan you? Or who shall go aside to ask how you are doing?