1 Samuel 1:8

New American Bible - revised edition

Elkanah, her husband, would say to her: “Hannah, why are you weeping? Why are you not eating? Why are you so miserable? Am I not better for you than ten sons?” Hannah’s Prayer.

Cross References

2 Kings 8:12

and Hazael asked, “Why are you weeping, my lord?” Elisha replied, “Because I know the evil that you will inflict upon the Israelites. You will burn their fortresses, you will slay their youth with the sword, you will dash their little children to pieces, you will rip open their pregnant women.”

Job 6:14

A friend owes kindness to one in despair, though he has forsaken the fear of the Almighty.

Psalm 43:4

That I may come to the altar of God, to God, my joy, my delight. Then I will praise you with the harp, O God, my God.

Isaiah 54:1

Raise a glad cry, you barren one who never bore a child, break forth in jubilant song, you who have never been in labor, For more numerous are the children of the deserted wife than the children of her who has a husband, says the Lord.

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.

John 20:13

And they said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken my Lord, and I don’t know where they laid him.”

John 20:15

Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?” She thought it was the gardener and said to him, “Sir, if you carried him away, tell me where you laid him, and I will take him.”

1 Thessalonians 5:14

We urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, cheer the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient with all.

Ruth 4:15

He will restore your life and be the support of your old age, for his mother is the daughter-in-law who loves you. She is worth more to you than seven sons!”

1 Samuel 1:7

Year after year, when she went up to the house of the Lord, Peninnah would provoke her, and Hannah would weep and refuse to eat.