Deuteronomy 28:32

Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and yearn for them continually; but there will be nothing you can do.

Deuteronomy 28:41

You shall have sons and daughters but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.

2 Chronicles 29:9

For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

Joel 3:6

and sold the sons of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their territory,

Numbers 21:29

Woe to you, O Moab!
You are ruined, O people of Chemosh!
He has given his sons as fugitives,
And his daughters into captivity,
To an Amorite king, Sihon.

Deuteronomy 28:18

Cursed shall be the offspring of your body and the produce of your ground, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.

Deuteronomy 28:65

Among those nations you shall find no rest, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul.

Nehemiah 5:2-5

For there were those who said, “We, our sons and our daughters are many; therefore let us get grain that we may eat and live.”

Job 11:20

“But the eyes of the wicked will fail,
And there will be no escape for them;
And their hope is to breathe their last.”

Job 17:5

“He who informs against friends for a share of the spoil,
The eyes of his children also will languish.

Psalm 69:3

I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched;
My eyes fail while I wait for my God.

Psalm 119:82

My eyes fail with longing for Your word,
While I say, “When will You comfort me?”

Psalm 119:123

My eyes fail with longing for Your salvation
And for Your righteous word.

Isaiah 38:14

Like a swallow, like a crane, so I twitter;
I moan like a dove;
My eyes look wistfully to the heights;
O Lord, I am oppressed, be my security.

Jeremiah 15:7-9

“I will winnow them with a winnowing fork
At the gates of the land;
I will bereave them of children, I will destroy My people;
They did not repent of their ways.

Jeremiah 16:2-4

“You shall not take a wife for yourself nor have sons or daughters in this place.”

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes fail because of tears,
My spirit is greatly troubled;
My heart is poured out on the earth
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
When little ones and infants faint
In the streets of the city.

Lamentations 4:17

Yet our eyes failed,
Looking for help was useless;
In our watching we have watched
For a nation that could not save.

Lamentations 5:17

Because of this our heart is faint,
Because of these things our eyes are dim;

Ezekiel 24:25

‘As for you, son of man, will it not be on the day when I take from them their stronghold, the joy of their pride, the desire of their eyes and their heart’s delight, their sons and their daughters,

Amos 5:27

Therefore, I will make you go into exile beyond Damascus,” says the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts.

Micah 4:10

Writhe and labor to give birth,
Daughter of Zion,
Like a woman in childbirth;
For now you will go out of the city,
Dwell in the field,
And go to Babylon.
There you will be rescued;
There the Lord will redeem you
From the hand of your enemies.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.

General references

Bible References

Sons

Deuteronomy 28:18
Cursed shall be the offspring of your body and the produce of your ground, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.
Numbers 21:29
Woe to you, O Moab!
You are ruined, O people of Chemosh!
He has given his sons as fugitives,
And his daughters into captivity,
To an Amorite king, Sihon.
2 Chronicles 29:9
For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
Nehemiah 5:2
For there were those who said, “We, our sons and our daughters are many; therefore let us get grain that we may eat and live.”
Jeremiah 15:7
“I will winnow them with a winnowing fork
At the gates of the land;
I will bereave them of children, I will destroy My people;
They did not repent of their ways.
Jeremiah 16:2
“You shall not take a wife for yourself nor have sons or daughters in this place.”
Ezekiel 24:25
‘As for you, son of man, will it not be on the day when I take from them their stronghold, the joy of their pride, the desire of their eyes and their heart’s delight, their sons and their daughters,
Joel 3:6
and sold the sons of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their territory,
Amos 5:27
Therefore, I will make you go into exile beyond Damascus,” says the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts.
Micah 4:10
Writhe and labor to give birth,
Daughter of Zion,
Like a woman in childbirth;
For now you will go out of the city,
Dwell in the field,
And go to Babylon.
There you will be rescued;
There the Lord will redeem you
From the hand of your enemies.

Fail

Deuteronomy 28:65
Among those nations you shall find no rest, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul.
Job 11:20
“But the eyes of the wicked will fail,
And there will be no escape for them;
And their hope is to breathe their last.”
Job 17:5
“He who informs against friends for a share of the spoil,
The eyes of his children also will languish.
Psalm 69:3
I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched;
My eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Psalm 119:82
My eyes fail with longing for Your word,
While I say, “When will You comfort me?”
Isaiah 38:14
Like a swallow, like a crane, so I twitter;
I moan like a dove;
My eyes look wistfully to the heights;
O Lord, I am oppressed, be my security.
Lamentations 2:11
My eyes fail because of tears,
My spirit is greatly troubled;
My heart is poured out on the earth
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
When little ones and infants faint
In the streets of the city.
Lamentations 4:17
Yet our eyes failed,
Looking for help was useless;
In our watching we have watched
For a nation that could not save.
Lamentations 5:17
Because of this our heart is faint,
Because of these things our eyes are dim;

General references

Isaiah 65:21
“They will build houses and inhabit them;
They will also plant vineyards and eat their fruit.