Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
I weep
Relieve
General references
Bible References
I weep
Lamentations 1:2
Bitterly she cries in the night, as tears stream down her cheeks. No one consoles her of all her friends. All her neighbors have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.
Lamentations 2:11
My eyes are worn out from crying, my insides are churning, My emotions pour out in grief because my people are destroyed Children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
Lamentations 3:48
My eyes run with rivers of tears over the destruction of my cherished people.
Psalm 119:136
My eyes shed rivers of tears, when others do not obey your instruction. Tsade
Jeremiah 9:1
"Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears, for then I would cry day and night for those of my people who have been killed.
Jeremiah 13:17
If you don't listen, I'll cry secretly because of your pride. My eyes will cry bitterly, flowing tears, because the LORD's flock has been taken captive.
Jeremiah 14:17
"And deliver this message to them: "Let tears run down my face, night and day, and don't let them stop, because my virgin daughter my people will be broken with a powerful blow, with a severe wound.
Luke 19:41
When he came closer and saw the city, he began to grieve over it:
Romans 9:1
I am telling the truth because I belong to the Messiah I am not lying, and my conscience confirms it by means of the Holy Spirit.
Relieve
Hosea 9:12
Even if they rear their children, I will, in turn, make them childless in fact, woe to them when I turn away from them!
My children
Lamentations 1:5
Her adversaries dominate her, her enemies prosper. For the LORD has made her suffer because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away, taken into captivity in the presence of the enemy.
Lamentations 2:20
Look, LORD, and take note: To whom have you done this? Should women eat their offspring, the children they have cuddled? Should priests and prophets be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Lamentations 4:2
Though the precious people of Zion were like fine gold, how they are valued like clay vessels, the handiwork of a potter!
Jeremiah 9:21
For death comes up through our windows; it has come into our palaces to eliminate children from the streets and young men from the town squares.
General references
John 11:35
Jesus burst into tears.