1 Samuel 1:8

Her husband Elkanah said to her: Hannah, why are you weeping? Why are you not eating? Why is your heart troubled? Am I not more to you than ten sons?

Ruth 4:15

He will be a giver of new life to you. He will be your comforter when you are old, because your daughter-in-law, who in her love for you is better than seven sons, has given birth to him.

2 Samuel 12:16-17

David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and lay on the ground all night.

2 Kings 8:12

Why are you crying? Hazael asked. Because I know the horrible things you will do against the people of Israel, Elisha answered. You will burn their fortresses, slaughter their finest young men, batter their children to death, and rip open their pregnant women.

Job 6:14

A despairing man should have the devotion of his friends, even though he forsakes his reverence for the Almighty.

Psalm 43:4

I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy. Upon the lyre I will praise you, O God, my God.

Isaiah 54:1

Sing joyfully, O barren woman, you who never bore a child! Burst into song and shout for joy, you who were never in labor! More are the children of the desolate woman than of the woman, who has a husband, proclaims Jehovah.

Isaiah 54:6

Jehovah will call you back as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit; a wife, who married young, only to be rejected, says your God.

John 20:13

Woman why do you weep, they asked? She told them: They have taken my Lord and I do not know where they laid him.

John 20:15

Jesus said to her: Woman, why do you weep? Who are you looking for? She thought he was the gardener. She said: Sir, if you have carried him somewhere else tell me where you laid him and I will take him away.

1 Thessalonians 5:14

We ask you brothers to warn the unruly and comfort the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient with all men.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?

Bible References

Why weepest

2 Samuel 12:16
David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and lay on the ground all night.
2 Kings 8:12
Why are you crying? Hazael asked. Because I know the horrible things you will do against the people of Israel, Elisha answered. You will burn their fortresses, slaughter their finest young men, batter their children to death, and rip open their pregnant women.
Job 6:14
A despairing man should have the devotion of his friends, even though he forsakes his reverence for the Almighty.
John 20:13
Woman why do you weep, they asked? She told them: They have taken my Lord and I do not know where they laid him.
1 Thessalonians 5:14
We ask you brothers to warn the unruly and comfort the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient with all men.

Am not

Ruth 4:15
He will be a giver of new life to you. He will be your comforter when you are old, because your daughter-in-law, who in her love for you is better than seven sons, has given birth to him.
Psalm 43:4
I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy. Upon the lyre I will praise you, O God, my God.
Isaiah 54:1
Sing joyfully, O barren woman, you who never bore a child! Burst into song and shout for joy, you who were never in labor! More are the children of the desolate woman than of the woman, who has a husband, proclaims Jehovah.