Genesis 21:16

New American Bible - revised edition

and then went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away; for she said to herself, “I cannot watch the child die.” As she sat opposite him, she wept aloud.

Cross References

Genesis 21:15

the water in the skin was used up. So she put the child down under one of the bushes,

Genesis 27:38

But Esau said to his father, “Have you only one blessing, father? Bless me too, father!” and Esau wept aloud.

Genesis 29:11

Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.

Genesis 44:34

How could I go back to my father if the boy were not with me? I could not bear to see the anguish that would overcome my father.”

1 Kings 17:12

She said, “As the Lord, your God, lives, I have nothing baked; there is only a handful of flour in my jar and a little oil in my jug. Just now I was collecting a few sticks, to go in and prepare something for myself and my son; when we have eaten it, we shall die.”

1 Kings 3:26

The woman whose son was alive, because she was stirred with compassion for her son, said to the king, “Please, my lord, give her the living baby—do not kill it!” But the other said, “It shall be neither mine nor yours. Cut it in two!”

Isaiah 49:15

Can a mother forget her infant, be without tenderness for the child of her womb? Even should she forget, I will never forget you.

Jeremiah 6:26

Daughter of my people, dress in sackcloth, roll in the ashes. Mourn as for an only child with bitter wailing: “How suddenly the destroyer comes upon us!”

Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into dirges. I will cover the loins of all with sackcloth and make every head bald. I will make it like the time of mourning for an only child, and its outcome like a day of bitter weeping.

Zechariah 12:10

I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of mercy and supplication, so that when they look on him whom they have thrust through, they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and they will grieve for him as one grieves over a firstborn. Catalogue of Mourners.

Luke 15:20

So he got up and went back to his father. While he was still a long way off, his father caught sight of him, and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him and kissed him.

Judges 2:4

When the messenger of the Lord had spoken these things to all the Israelites, the people wept aloud.

Ruth 1:9

May the Lord guide each of you to find a husband and a home in which you will be at rest.” She kissed them good-bye, but they wept aloud,

1 Samuel 24:16

The Lord will be the judge to decide between us. May the Lord see this, defend my cause, and give me justice against you!” Saul’s Remorse.

1 Samuel 30:4

Then David and those who were with him wept aloud until they could weep no more.