Genesis 21:16

Then she went and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I can’t bear to watch the boy die!” So as she sat nearby, she wept loudly.

Genesis 27:38

Esau said to his father, “Do you only have one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!” And Esau wept loudly.

Genesis 29:11

Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept loudly.

Genesis 44:34

For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the grief that would overwhelm my father.”

Judges 2:4

When the Angel of the Lord had spoken these words to all the Israelites, the people wept loudly.

Ruth 1:9

May the Lord enable each of you to find security in the house of your new husband.” She kissed them, and they wept loudly.

1 Samuel 24:16

When David finished saying these things to him, Saul replied, “Is that your voice, David my son?” Then Saul wept aloud

1 Samuel 30:4

David and the troops with him wept loudly until they had no strength left to weep.

The woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she felt great compassion for her son. “My lord, give her the living baby,” she said, “but please don’t have him killed!”

But the other one said, “He will not be mine or yours. Cut him in two!”

Esther 8:6

For how could I bear to see the disaster that would come on my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my relatives?”

Isaiah 49:15

“Can a woman forget her nursing child,
or lack compassion for the child of her womb?
Even if these forget,
yet I will not forget you.

Zechariah 12:10

“Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the house of David and the residents of Jerusalem, and they will look at Me whom they pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly for Him as one weeps for a firstborn.

Luke 15:20

So he got up and went to his father. But while the son was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him.

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Genesis 21:16

And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.

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For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the grief that would overwhelm my father.”

The woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she felt great compassion

for her son. “My lord, give her the living baby,” she said, “but please don’t have him killed!”

But the other one said, “He will not be mine or yours. Cut him in two!”