Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.

Bible References

The hurt

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 14:17
And thou shall say this word to them: Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease. For the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.
Jeremiah 17:16
As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd after thee, nor have I desired the woeful day. Thou know. That which came out of my lips was before thy face.
Nehemiah 2:3
And I said to the king, Let the king live forever. Why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchers, lays waste, and the gates of it are consumed with fire?
Psalm 137:3
For there those who led us captive required of us songs, and those who wasted us, mirth, [saying], Sing for us one of the songs of Zion.
Luke 19:41
And when he came near, having seen the city, he wept over it,
Romans 9:1
I say the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience testifying to me in the Holy Spirit,

I am

Song of Songs 1:5
I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
Joel 2:6
At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces have grown pale.
Nahum 2:10
She is empty, and void, and waste. And the heart melts, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all have grown pale.