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.
Sons
Fail
General references
Bible References
Sons
Deuteronomy 28:18
Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.
Numbers 21:29
Woe to you, O Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh! He has made his sons fugitives, and his daughters captives, 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, "With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive."
Jeremiah 15:7
I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them; I have destroyed my people; they did not turn from their ways.
Jeremiah 16:2
"You shall not take a wife, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place.
Ezekiel 24:25
"As for you, son of man, surely on the day when I take from them their stronghold, their joy and glory, the delight of their eyes and their soul's desire, and also their sons and daughters,
Joel 3:6
You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border.
Amos 5:27
and I will send you into exile beyond Damascus," says the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts.
Micah 4:10
Writhe and groan, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor, for now you shall go out from the city and dwell in the open country; you shall go to Babylon. There you shall be rescued; there the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.
Fail
Deuteronomy 28:65
And among these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and a languishing soul.
Job 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last."
Job 17:5
He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property-- the eyes of his children will fail.
Psalm 69:3
I am weary with my crying out; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.
Psalm 119:82
My eyes long for your promise; I ask, "When will you comfort me?"
Isaiah 38:14
Like a swallow or a crane I chirp; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my pledge of safety!
Lamentations 2:11
My eyes are spent with weeping; my stomach churns; my bile is poured out to the ground because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and babies faint in the streets of the city.
Lamentations 4:17
Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; in our watching we watched for a nation which could not save.
Lamentations 5:17
For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim,
General references
Isaiah 65:21
They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.