Jeremiah 14:17

New American Bible - revised edition

Speak to them this word: Let my eyes stream with tears night and day, without rest, Over the great destruction which overwhelms the virgin daughter of my people, over her incurable wound.

Cross References

2 Kings 19:21

This is the word the Lord has spoken concerning him: She despises you, laughs you to scorn, the virgin daughter Zion! Behind you she wags her head, daughter Jerusalem.

Psalm 119:136

My eyes shed streams of tears because your law is not observed.

Psalm 39:10

I am silent and do not open my mouth because you are the one who did this.

Isaiah 37:22

This is the word the Lord has spoken concerning him: She despises you, laughs you to scorn, the virgin daughter Zion; Behind you she wags her head, daughter Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 10:19

Woe is me! I am undone, my wound is beyond healing. Yet I had thought: if I make light of my sickness, I can bear it.

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 18:13

Therefore thus says the Lord: Ask among the nations— who has ever heard the like? Truly horrible things virgin Israel has done!

Jeremiah 8:18

My joy is gone, grief is upon me, my heart is sick.

Jeremiah 8:21

I am broken by the injury of the daughter of my people. I am in mourning; horror has seized me.

Jeremiah 9:1

Oh, that I had in the wilderness a travelers’ lodging! That I might leave my people and depart from them. They are all adulterers, a band of traitors.

Jeremiah 9:18

The sound of the dirge is heard from Zion: We are ruined and greatly ashamed; We have left the land, given up our dwellings!

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are spent with tears, my stomach churns; My bile is poured out on the ground at the brokenness of the daughter of my people, As children and infants collapse in the streets of the town.

Lamentations 2:13

To what can I compare you—to what can I liken you— O daughter Jerusalem? What example can I give in order to comfort you, virgin daughter Zion? For your breach is vast as the sea; who could heal you?

Lamentations 2:18

Cry out to the Lord from your heart, wall of daughter Zion! Let your tears flow like a torrent day and night; Give yourself no rest, no relief for your eyes.

Amos 5:2

She is fallen, to rise no more, virgin Israel; She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.

Micah 6:13

I have begun to strike you with devastation because of your sins.