Lamentations 2:11

New Living Translation

I have cried until the tears no longer come; my heart is broken. My spirit is poured out in agony as I see the desperate plight of my people. Little children and tiny babies are fainting and dying in the streets.

Cross References

Job 16:13

and now his archers surround me. His arrows pierce me without mercy. The ground is wet with my blood.

Job 30:27

My heart is troubled and restless. Days of suffering torment me.

Psalm 119:82

My eyes are straining to see your promises come true. When will you comfort me?

Psalm 22:14

My life is poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax, melting within me.

Psalm 31:9

Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am in distress. Tears blur my eyes. My body and soul are withering away.

Psalm 38:8

I am exhausted and completely crushed. My groans come from an anguished heart.

Psalm 6:7

My vision is blurred by grief; my eyes are worn out because of all my enemies.

Psalm 69:3

I am exhausted from crying for help; my throat is parched. My eyes are swollen with weeping, waiting for my God to help me.

Isaiah 22:4

That’s why I said, “Leave me alone to weep; do not try to comfort me. Let me cry for my people as I watch them being destroyed.”

Isaiah 38:14

Delirious, I chattered like a swallow or a crane, and then I moaned like a mourning dove. My eyes grew tired of looking to heaven for help. I am in trouble, Lord. Help me!”

Isaiah 51:20

For your children have fainted and lie in the streets, helpless as antelopes caught in a net. The Lord has poured out his fury; God has rebuked them.

Jeremiah 14:17

Now, Jeremiah, say this to them: “Night and day my eyes overflow with tears. I cannot stop weeping, for my virgin daughter—my precious people— has been struck down and lies mortally wounded.

Jeremiah 4:19

My heart, my heart—I writhe in pain! My heart pounds within me! I cannot be still. For I have heard the blast of enemy trumpets and the roar of their battle cries.

Jeremiah 44:7

“And now the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, asks you: Why are you destroying yourselves? For not one of you will survive—not a man, woman, or child among you who has come here from Judah, not even the babies in your arms.

Jeremiah 8:19

Listen to the weeping of my people; it can be heard all across the land. “Has the Lord abandoned Jerusalem?” the people ask. “Is her King no longer there?” “Oh, why have they provoked my anger with their carved idols and their worthless foreign gods?” says the Lord.

Lamentations 1:11

Her people groan as they search for bread. They have sold their treasures for food to stay alive. “O Lord, look,” she mourns, “and see how I am despised.

Lamentations 1:16

“For all these things I weep; tears flow down my cheeks. No one is here to comfort me; any who might encourage me are far away. My children have no future, for the enemy has conquered us.”

Lamentations 1:20

“Lord, see my anguish! My heart is broken and my soul despairs, for I have rebelled against you. In the streets the sword kills, and at home there is only death.

Lamentations 5:17

Our hearts are sick and weary, and our eyes grow dim with tears.

Luke 23:29

For the days are coming when they will say, ‘Fortunate indeed are the women who are childless, the wombs that have not borne a child and the breasts that have never nursed.’

1 Samuel 30:4

they wept until they could weep no more.