Lamentations 2:11

New International Version

My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within; my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are destroyed, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

Cross References

Job 16:13

his archers surround me. Without pity, he pierces my kidneys and spills my gall on the ground.

Job 30:27

The churning inside me never stops; days of suffering confront me.

Psalm 119:82

My eyes fail, looking for your promise; I say, “When will you comfort me?”

Psalm 22:14

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted within me.

Psalm 31:9

Be merciful to me, Lord, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and body with grief.

Psalm 38:8

I am feeble and utterly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.

Psalm 6:7

My eyes grow weak with sorrow; they fail because of all my foes.

Psalm 69:3

I am worn out calling for help; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

Isaiah 22:4

Therefore I said, “Turn away from me; let me weep bitterly. Do not try to console me over the destruction of my people.”

Isaiah 38:14

I cried like a swift or thrush, I moaned like a mourning dove. My eyes grew weak as I looked to the heavens. I am being threatened; Lord, come to my aid!”

Isaiah 51:20

Your children have fainted; they lie at every street corner, like antelope caught in a net. They are filled with the wrath of the Lord, with the rebuke of your God.

Jeremiah 14:17

“Speak this word to them: “ ‘Let my eyes overflow with tears night and day without ceasing; for the Virgin Daughter, my people, has suffered a grievous wound, a crushing blow.

Jeremiah 4:19

Oh, my anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain. Oh, the agony of my heart! My heart pounds within me, I cannot keep silent. For I have heard the sound of the trumpet; I have heard the battle cry.

Jeremiah 44:7

“Now this is what the Lord God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Why bring such great disaster on yourselves by cutting off from Judah the men and women, the children and infants, and so leave yourselves without a remnant?

Jeremiah 8:19

Listen to the cry of my people from a land far away: “Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they aroused my anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?”

Lamentations 1:11

All her people groan as they search for bread; they barter their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. “Look, Lord, and consider, for I am despised.”

Lamentations 1:16

“This is why I weep and my eyes overflow with tears. No one is near to comfort me, no one to restore my spirit. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.”

Lamentations 1:20

“See, Lord, how distressed I am! I am in torment within, and in my heart I am disturbed, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is only death.

Lamentations 5:17

Because of this our hearts are faint, because of these things our eyes grow dim

Luke 23:29

For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’

1 Samuel 30:4

So David and his men wept aloud until they had no strength left to weep.