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: Do not call me Naomi (meaning pleasant). Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life bitter.
Jeremiah 4:19
O my anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain. My heart pounds in side of me. My heart is pounding! I cannot keep quiet because I hear a ram's horn sounding the alarm for war.
Jeremiah 9:1
Oh that my head were waters and my eyes a fountain of tears. Then I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Jeremiah 13:17
If you will not listen, I will cry secretly over your arrogance. I will cry bitterly, and my eyes will flow with tears because Jehovah's flock will be taken captive.
Luke 1:2
They received testimony from those who were eyewitnesses from the beginning. Ministers of God's word delivered it to us.

Weep bitterly

Isaiah 33:7
Their brave men cry aloud in the streets; the messengers (ambassadors) of peace weep bitterly.
Jeremiah 6:26
O 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
I [Micah] will lament and wail. I will go barefoot and naked. I will make a howling like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.
Matthew 26:75
Peter remembered what Jesus told him: Before the rooster crows you will deny me three times. He went out and wept bitterly.

Labour

Psalm 77:2
In the day of my trouble I sought Jehovah. My hand was stretched out in the night, and did not get tired. I refused to be comforted.
Jeremiah 8:18
My sorrow is beyond healing, my heart is faint within me!
Jeremiah 31:15
This is what Jehovah says: 'A sound is heard in Ramah, the sound of crying in bitter grief. Rachel is crying for her children. She refuses to be comforted, because they are dead.'
Matthew 2:18
A sound was heard in Ramah, the sound of crying in bitter grief. Rachel is weeping for her children. She would not be comforted, because they were dead.