Lamentations 1:16

New American Bible - revised edition

For these things I weep—My eyes! My eyes! They stream with tears! How far from me is anyone to comfort, anyone to restore my life. My children are desolate; the enemy has prevailed.”

Cross References

Psalm 106:42

Their enemies oppressed them, kept them under subjection.

Psalm 119:136

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

Psalm 69:20

You know my reproach, my shame, my disgrace; before you stand all my foes.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again I saw all the oppressions that take place under the sun: the tears of the victims with none to comfort them! From the hand of their oppressors comes violence, and there is none to comfort them!

Isaiah 54:11

O afflicted one, storm-battered and unconsoled, I lay your pavements in carnelians, your foundations in sapphires;

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 14:17

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.

Jeremiah 15:5

Who will pity you, Jerusalem, who will grieve for you? Who will stop to ask about your welfare?

Jeremiah 8:18

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

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 9:10

I will turn Jerusalem into a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals; The cities of Judah I will make a waste, where no one dwells.

Jeremiah 9:21

Corpses shall fall like dung in the open field, Like sheaves behind the harvester, with no one to gather them.

Lamentations 1:2

She weeps incessantly in the night, her cheeks damp with tears. She has no one to comfort her from all her lovers; Her friends have all betrayed her, and become her enemies.

Lamentations 1:9

Her uncleanness is on her skirt; she has no thought of her future. Her downfall is astonishing, with no one to comfort her. “Look, O Lord, at my misery; how the enemy triumphs!”

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 2:18

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.

Hosea 9:12

Even though they bring up their children, I will make them childless, until no one is left. Indeed, woe to them when I turn away from them!