Lamentations 3:51

New Living Translation

My heart is breaking over the fate of all the women of Jerusalem.

Cross References

Genesis 44:34

For how can I return to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see the anguish this would cause my father!”

Jeremiah 11:22

So this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says about them: “I will punish them! Their young men will die in battle, and their boys and girls will starve to death.

Jeremiah 14:16

As for the people to whom they prophesy—their bodies will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and war. There will be no one left to bury them. Husbands, wives, sons, and daughters—all will be gone. For I will pour out their own wickedness on them.

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go out into the fields, I see the bodies of people slaughtered by the enemy. If I walk the city streets, I see people who have died of starvation. The prophets and priests continue with their work, but they don’t know what they’re doing.”

Jeremiah 19:9

I will see to it that your enemies lay siege to the city until all the food is gone. Then those trapped inside will eat their own sons and daughters and friends. They will be driven to utter despair.’

Lamentations 1:18

“The Lord is right,” Jerusalem says, “for I rebelled against him. Listen, people everywhere; look upon my anguish and despair, for my sons and daughters have been taken captive to distant lands.

Lamentations 2:11

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.

Lamentations 2:21

“See them lying in the streets— young and old, boys and girls, killed by the swords of the enemy. You have killed them in your anger, slaughtering them without mercy.

Lamentations 3:50

until the Lord looks down from heaven and sees.

Lamentations 3:52

My enemies, whom I have never harmed, hunted me down like a bird.

Lamentations 5:11

Our enemies rape the women in Jerusalem and the young girls in all the towns of Judah.