Jeremiah 10:19
“Woe to me because of my [spiritual] brokenness!” [says Jeremiah, speaking for the nation.]
“My wound is incurable.”
But I said, “Surely this sickness and suffering and grief are mine,
And I must bear it.”
Micah 7:9
I will bear the indignation and wrath of the Lord
Because I have sinned against Him,
Until He pleads my case and executes judgment for me.
He will bring me out to the light,
And I will behold His [amazing] righteousness and His remarkable deliverance.
Jeremiah 4:31
For I heard a cry like a woman in labor,
The anguish as of one giving birth to her first child,
The cry of the Daughter of Zion (Jerusalem), who gasps for breath,
Who stretches out her hands, saying,
“Woe is me [my judgment comes]! I faint [in fear] before the murderers.”
Jeremiah 14:17
“Therefore [Jeremiah] you will say this word to them,
‘Let my eyes flow with tears night and day,
And let them never cease;
For the virgin daughter of my people has been crushed with a great blow,
With a very serious and severely infected wound.
Psalm 39:9
“I am mute, I do not open my mouth,
Because it is You who has done it.
Psalm 77:10
And I said, “This is my grief,
That the right hand of the Most High has changed [and His lovingkindness is withheld].”
Isaiah 8:17
And I will wait for the Lord who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob; and I will look eagerly for Him.
Jeremiah 4:19
My soul, my soul! I writhe in anguish and pain! Oh, the walls of my heart!
My heart is pounding and throbbing within me;
I cannot be silent,
For you have heard, O my soul,
The sound of the trumpet,
The alarm of war.
Jeremiah 8:21
For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I (Jeremiah) am broken;
I mourn, anxiety has gripped me.
Jeremiah 9:1
And my eyes a fountain of tears,
That I might weep day and night
For the slain of the daughter of my people!
Jeremiah 17:13
O Lord, the hope of Israel,
All who abandon You will be shamed.
Those who turn away on earth will be written down,
Because they have abandoned the Lord, the fountain of living waters.
Lamentations 1:2
She weeps bitterly in the night
And her tears are [constantly] on her cheeks;
Among all her lovers (political allies)
She has no one to comfort her.
All her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
They have become her enemies.
Lamentations 1:12-22
“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass this way?
Look and see if there is any pain like my pain
Which was severely dealt out to me,
Which the Lord has inflicted [on me] on the day of His fierce anger.
Lamentations 2:11-22
My eyes fail because of tears [mourns Jeremiah],
My spirit is deeply disturbed;
My heart is poured out on the earth [in grief]
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people [Jerusalem],
When little ones and infants faint
In the streets of the city.
Lamentations 3:18-21
So I say, “My strength has perished
And so has my hope and expectation from the Lord.”
Lamentations 3:39-40
Why should any living mortal, or any man,
Complain [of punishment] in view of his sins?
Lamentations 3:48
My eyes overflow with streams of tears
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people (Jerusalem).
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“I am mute, I do not open my mouth,
Because it is You who has done it.
And I said, “This is my grief,
That the right hand of the Most High has changed [and His lovingkindness is withheld].”
So I say, “My strength has perished
And so has my hope and expectation from the Lord.”
I will bear the indignation and wrath of the Lord
Because I have sinned against Him,
Until He pleads my case and executes judgment for me.
He will bring me out to the light,
And I will behold His [amazing] righteousness and His remarkable deliverance.