Lamentations 3:51

New English Translation

What my eyes see grieves me – all the suffering of the daughters in my city. צ (Tsade)

Cross References

Genesis 44:34

For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see my father’s pain.”

Jeremiah 11:22

So the Lord who rules over all said, “I will surely punish them! Their young men will be killed in battle. Their sons and daughters will die of starvation.

Jeremiah 14:16

The people to whom they are prophesying will die through war and famine. Their bodies will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem and there will be no one to bury them. This will happen to the men and their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out on them the destruction they deserve.”

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go out into the countryside, I see those who have been killed in battle. If I go into the city, I see those who are sick because of starvation. For both prophet and priest go about their own business in the land without having any real understanding.’”

Jeremiah 19:9

I will reduce the people of this city to desperate straits during the siege imposed on it by their enemies who are seeking to kill them. I will make them so desperate that they will eat the flesh of their own sons and daughters and the flesh of one another.”’”

Lamentations 1:18

The Lord is right to judge me! Yes, I rebelled against his commands. Please listen, all you nations, and look at my suffering! My young women and men have gone into exile. ק (Qof)

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are worn out from weeping; my stomach is in knots. My heart is poured out on the ground due to the destruction of my helpless people; children and infants faint in the town squares. ל (Lamed)

Lamentations 2:21

The young boys and old men lie dead on the ground in the streets. My young women and my young men have fallen by the sword. You killed them when you were angry; you slaughtered them without mercy. ת (Tav)

Lamentations 3:50

until the Lord looks down from heaven and sees what has happened.

Lamentations 3:52

For no good reason my enemies hunted me down like a bird.

Lamentations 5:11

They raped women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.