Lamentations 1:2

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

Job 6:15

My companions are undependable as a wadi, as watercourses that run dry in the wadies;

Job 7:3

So I have been assigned months of futility, and troubled nights have been counted off for me.

Psalm 126:5

Those who sow in tears will reap with cries of joy.

Psalm 31:11

My life is worn out by sorrow, and my years by sighing. My strength fails in my affliction; my bones are wearing down.

Psalm 6:6

For in death there is no remembrance of you. Who praises you in Sheol?

Psalm 69:21

Insult has broken my heart, and I despair; I looked for compassion, but there was none, for comforters, but found none.

Proverbs 19:7

All the kin of the poor despise them; how much more do their friends shun them!

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 2:25

Stop wearing out your feet and parching your throat! But you say, “No use! No! How I love these strangers, after them I must go.”

Jeremiah 3:1

If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and then becomes the wife of another, Can she return to the first? Would not this land be wholly defiled? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers, and yet you would return to me!—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 30:14

All your lovers have forgotten you, they do not seek you out. I struck you as an enemy would strike, punishing you cruelly.

Jeremiah 4:30

You now who are doomed, what are you doing dressing in purple, bedecking yourself with gold, Enlarging your eyes with kohl? You beautify yourself in vain! Your lovers reject you, they seek your life.

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.

Lamentations 1:19

I cried out to my lovers, but they failed me. My priests and my elders perished in the city; How desperately they searched for food, to save their lives!

Lamentations 1:21

Hear how I am groaning; there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies hear of my misery and rejoice over what you have done. Bring on the day you proclaimed, and let them become like me!

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.

Ezekiel 16:37

therefore, I will now gather together all your lovers with whom you found pleasure, both those you loved and those you hated; I will gather them against you from all sides and expose you naked for them to see.

Hosea 2:7

Yes, their mother has prostituted herself; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, “I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.”

Micah 7:5

Put no faith in a friend, do not trust a companion; With her who lies in your embrace watch what you say.

Revelation 17:13

They are of one mind and will give their power and authority to the beast.

Revelation 17:16

The ten horns that you saw and the beast will hate the harlot; they will leave her desolate and naked; they will eat her flesh and consume her with fire.