“Have pity on me my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
Jeremiah 15:5 - Tree of Life Version “Who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Or who will grieve for you? Or who will turn aside to ask about your welfare? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Or who will bemoan you? Or who will turn aside to ask about your welfare? American Standard Version (1901) For who will have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who will bemoan thee? or who will turn aside to ask of thy welfare? Common English Bible Who will pity you, Jerusalem? Who will shed tears over you? Who will stop and ask how you’re doing? Catholic Public Domain Version For who will take pity on you, O Jerusalem? Or who will feel sorrow for you? Or who will go to prayer for the sake of your peace? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For who shall have pity on thee, O Jerusalem? Or who shall bemoan thee? Or who shall go to pray for thy peace? |
“Have pity on me my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
You know my reproach, my shame, my disgrace. All my adversaries are before You.
So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, then bowed down and kissed him. They asked each other about their welfare, and went into the tent.
These two things have befallen you —who will mourn for you?— devastation and destruction, famine and the sword. How will I comfort you?
And I will smash them against each other, even fathers and sons,’ says Adonai. ‘I will show no pity, nor regret, nor compassion, to keep Me from destroying them.’”
For thus says Adonai: “Do not enter a house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them. For I have taken away My shalom from this people”—it is a declaration of Adonai—“as well as My mercy and compassion.
“Then afterward,” declares Adonai, “I will deliver King Zedekiah of Judah and his servants, as well as the people—those surviving in this city from the pestilence, the sword and the famine—into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, into the hand of their foes, yes, into the hand of those who seek their life. So he will smite them with the edge of the sword; he will not spare them, nor have pity or compassion.”
Zion spreads out her hands— there is no one to comfort her. Adonai has decreed against Jacob. Those surrounding him have become his foes; Jerusalem has become niddah in their eyes.
So it will be that all who see you will recoil from you and say, “Nineveh has been ravaged! Who will lament for her?” Where will I find comforters for you?
So they turned aside there and came to the house of the young Levite at Micah’s house, and asked him about his welfare.
Then they will greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you will receive from their hand.
Then David left his baggage in the care of the baggage keeper, and ran to the battle line and entered to check out his brothers’ welfare.
So David dispatched ten young men, and said to the young men, “Go up to Carmel, and when you reach Nabal, greet him in my name.