Lamentations 1:16

The Scriptures 2009

“This is why I weep. My eye, my eye is running down with water, Because the comforter, Who could bring back my life, Has been far from me. My children are stunned, For the enemy has prevailed.”

Cross References

Psalm 106:42

And their enemies oppressed them, And they were humbled under their hand.

Psalm 119:136

Streams of water have run down from my eyes, Because they did not guard Your Torah.

Psalm 69:20

Reproach has broken my heart and I am sick; I looked for sympathy, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Then I looked again at all the oppression that is done under the sun: And see! The tears of the oppressed, but they have no comforter; and power on the side of their oppressors, but they have no comforter.

Isaiah 54:11

“O you afflicted one, tossed with storm, and not comforted, see, I am setting your stones in antimony, and shall lay your foundations with sapphires,

Jeremiah 13:17

And if you do not listen, my being shall weep in secret for your pride, and my eyes bitterly weep and run down with tears, because the flock of יהוה shall be taken captive.

Jeremiah 14:17

“And you shall say this word to them, ‘Let my eyes flow with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the maiden daughter of my people has been crushed with a mighty blow, with a very severe wound.

Jeremiah 15:5

“For who has compassion on you, O Yerushalayim? And who mourns for you? And who turns aside to ask how you are doing?

Jeremiah 8:18

When in grief I would seek comfort; my heart is sick within me.

Jeremiah 9:1

Oh, that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, and I would weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

Jeremiah 9:10

“I shall take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they have been burned up, without any passing over, nor has the voice of cattle been heard. Both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled, they have gone.

Jeremiah 9:21

For death has come through our windows, has entered our palaces, cutting off the children from the streets, and the young men from the squares.

Lamentations 1:2

She weeps bitterly at night, And her tears are upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no comforter for her. All her friends have betrayed her, They have become her enemies.

Lamentations 1:9

Her uncleanness is in her skirts. She did not keep in mind her latter end, And has gone down appallingly, There was no one to comfort her. “See, O יהוה, my affliction, For the enemy has made himself great!”

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are spent with tears, My inward parts ferment, My bile has been poured on the ground Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, As children and the infants languish In the streets of the city.

Lamentations 2:18

Their heart cried out to יהוה, “O wall of the daughter of Tsiyon, Let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no numbness, Let your eyes have no rest.

Hosea 9:12

“Though they bring up their children, I shall make them childless, without man. For it is woe to them when I turn away from them!