Lamentations 3:51

The Passion Translation

My heart is so grieved over Jerusalem, the daughter of my people.

Cross References

Lamentations 5:11

Our enemies violated Zion’s women and young girls in the towns of Judah.

Lamentations 2:21

“Both children and the elderly alike are lying dead in the dusty streets. My young men and maidens have both fallen by the sword. You have killed them on the day of your anger; you slaughtered them without mercy.

Lamentations 1:18

“Yahweh is just to judge, for I have rebelled against his word. Listen, everyone, and see my sorrow; my maidens and young men have gone into captivity.

Jeremiah 19:9

I will cause their bloodthirsty enemies to lay siege to their city and cause them great suffering. They will become so desperate that they will become cannibals, eating their neighbors and even their own children.’

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go into the countryside— there they lie, slain by the sword. If I enter the city— there they lie, sick and starving. Both prophet and priest wander throughout the land, with no revelation to share.’ ”

Jeremiah 14:16

And those who foolishly believed these prophecies will meet the same end. They will all die from war and food shortages, along with their wives and sons and daughters. Their bodies will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem, with no one to bury them. For I will bring evil to them as they have been evil.”

Jeremiah 11:22

So Yahweh, Commander of Angel Armies, said, “Listen, I will punish them. The young men will die in battle, their sons and their daughters will die by food shortages,

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes have no tears left, and my stomach is tied in knots. My heart is spilled out into the dirt over the destruction of the daughter of my people. Little toddlers and children collapse in the streets of the city.

Lamentations 3:50

until Yahweh looks down from heaven and sees how much we suffer.

Lamentations 3:52

My enemies, who hate me for no reason, have trapped me like a bird.