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 fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, the offspring of thy kine, and the increase of thy sheep.
Numbers 21:29
Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, people of Chemosh: He gave his sons that had escaped, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon the king of the Amorites.
2 Chronicles 29:9
And 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
And there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many, and we must procure corn that we may eat and live.
Jeremiah 15:7
And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave of children and destroy my people: they have not returned from their ways.
Jeremiah 16:2
Thou shalt not take thee a wife, and thou shalt not have sons nor daughters in this place.
Ezekiel 24:25
And thou, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereunto they lift up their soul, their sons and their daughters,
Joel 3:6
and the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the children of the Greeks, that ye might remove them far from their border.
Amos 5:27
and I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith Jehovah, whose name is the God of hosts.
Micah 4:10
Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon: there shalt thou be delivered; there Jehovah will redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.

Fail

Deuteronomy 28:65
And among these nations shalt thou have no rest, neither shall the sole of thy foot have a resting-place, and Jehovah shall give thee there a trembling heart, languishing of the eyes, and pining of the soul.
Job 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and all refuge shall vanish from them, and their hope shall be the breathing out of life.
Job 17:5
He that betrayeth friends for a prey even the eyes of his children shall fail.
Psalm 69:3
I am weary with my crying, my throat is parched; mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Psalm 119:82
Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
Isaiah 38:14
Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter; I mourned as a dove; mine eyes failed with looking upward: Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Lamentations 2:11
Mine eyes are consumed with tears, my bowels are troubled; my liver is poured upon the earth, because of the ruin of the daughter of my people; because infant and suckling swoon in the streets of the city.
Lamentations 4:17
Our eyes still failed for our vain help; in our watching, we have watched for a nation that did not save.
Lamentations 5:17
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,

General references

Isaiah 65:21
And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof: