Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.

Bible References

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Ruth 1:20
She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
Jeremiah 4:19
My soul, my soul! I am in anguish! Oh, my heart!
My heart is pounding in me;
I cannot be silent,
Because you have heard, O my soul,
The sound of the trumpet,
The alarm of war.
Jeremiah 9:1
Oh that my head were waters
And my eyes a fountain of tears,
That I might weep day and night
For the slain of the daughter of my people!
Jeremiah 13:17
But if you will not listen to it,
My soul will sob in secret for such pride;
And my eyes will bitterly weep
And flow down with tears,
Because the flock of the Lord has been taken captive.
Luke 1:2
just as they were handed down to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word,

Weep bitterly

Isaiah 33:7
Behold, their brave men cry in the streets,
The ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.
Jeremiah 6:26
O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth
And roll in ashes;
Mourn as for an only son,
A lamentation most bitter.
For suddenly the destroyer
Will come upon us.
Micah 1:8
Because of this I must lament and wail,
I must go barefoot and naked;
I must make a lament like the jackals
And a mourning like the ostriches.
Matthew 26:75
And Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said, Before a rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” And he went out and wept bitterly.

Labour

Psalm 77:2
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord;
In the night my hand was stretched out without weariness;
My soul refused to be comforted.
Jeremiah 8:18
My sorrow is beyond healing,
My heart is faint within me!
Jeremiah 31:15
Thus says the Lord,
A voice is heard in Ramah,
Lamentation and bitter weeping.
Rachel is weeping for her children;
She refuses to be comforted for her children,
Because they are no more.”
Matthew 2:18
A voice was heard in Ramah,
Weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children;
And she refused to be comforted,
Because they were no more.”

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