Thematic Bible: Of solicitude over sinners


Thematic Bible



Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for a period of three years I did not cease to admonish each one with tears.


He who goes to and fro weeping, carrying his bag of seed,
Shall indeed come again with a shout of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.

Therefore I say, “Turn your eyes away from me,
Let me weep bitterly,
Do not try to comfort me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

Oh that my head were waters
And my eyes a fountain of tears,
That I might weep day and night
For the slain of the daughter of my people!

“You will say this word to them,
Let my eyes flow down with tears night and day,
And let them not cease;
For the virgin daughter of my people has been crushed with a mighty blow,
With a sorely infected wound.


But if you will not listen to it,
My soul will sob in secret for such pride;
And my eyes will bitterly weep
And flow down with tears,
Because the flock of the Lord has been taken captive.

“Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us,
That our eyes may shed tears
And our eyelids flow with water.


You have fed them with the bread of tears,
And You have made them to drink tears in large measure.


I am weary with my sighing;
Every night I make my bed swim,
I dissolve my couch with my tears.

“Therefore my harp is turned to mourning,
And my flute to the sound of those who weep.

For I have eaten ashes like bread
And mingled my drink with weeping

“My face is flushed from weeping,
And deep darkness is on my eyelids,

Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry;
Do not be silent at my tears;
For I am a stranger with You,
A sojourner like all my fathers.

My tears have been my food day and night,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”