1 Samuel 1:10

New American Bible - revised edition

In her bitterness she prayed to the Lord, weeping freely,

Cross References

Genesis 30:1

When Rachel saw that she had not borne children to Jacob, she became envious of her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children or I shall die!”

Genesis 50:10

When they arrived at Goren-ha-atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they held there a very great and solemn memorial service; and Joseph observed seven days of mourning for his father.

2 Samuel 13:36

No sooner had he finished speaking than the king’s sons came in, weeping aloud. The king, too, and all his servants wept very bitterly.

2 Samuel 17:8

And he went on to say: “You know that your father and his men are warriors, and that they are as fierce as a bear in the wild robbed of her cubs. Moreover, since your father is a skilled fighter, he will not spend the night with the army.

2 Kings 20:3

“Ah, Lord, remember how faithfully and wholeheartedly I conducted myself in your presence, doing what was good in your sight!” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Job 7:11

My own utterance I will not restrain; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 9:18

He would not allow me to draw breath, but might fill me with bitter griefs.

Psalm 50:15

Then call on me on the day of distress; I will rescue you, and you shall honor me.”

Psalm 91:15

He will call upon me and I will answer; I will be with him in distress; I will deliver him and give him honor.

Proverbs 14:10

The heart knows its own bitterness, and its joy no stranger shares.

Isaiah 38:15

What am I to say or tell him? He is the one who has done it! All my sleep has fled, because of the bitterness of my soul.

Isaiah 54:6

The Lord calls you back, like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, A wife married in youth and then cast off, says your God.

Jeremiah 13:17

If you do not listen to this in your pride, I will weep many tears in secret; My eyes will run with tears for the Lord’s flock, led away to exile.

Jeremiah 22:10

Do not weep for him who is dead, nor mourn for him! Weep rather for him who is going away; never again to see the land of his birth.

Lamentations 3:15

He has sated me with bitterness, filled me with wormwood.

Luke 22:44

He was in such agony and he prayed so fervently that his sweat became like drops of blood falling on the ground.]

Hebrews 5:7

In the days when he was in the flesh, he offered prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.

Judges 21:2

So the people went to Bethel and remained there before God until evening, raising their voices in bitter weeping.

Ruth 1:20

But she said to them, “Do not call me Naomi [‘Sweet’]. Call me Mara [‘Bitter’], for the Almighty has made my life very bitter.

1 Samuel 1:11

and made this vow: “O Lord of hosts, if you look with pity on the hardship of your servant, if you remember me and do not forget me, if you give your handmaid a male child, I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life. No razor shall ever touch his head.”

1 Samuel 1:9

Hannah rose after one such meal at Shiloh, and presented herself before the Lord; at the time Eli the priest was sitting on a chair near the doorpost of the Lord’s temple.