Lamentations 1:20

The Desolate City

¹⁹ I sent for my lovers, but they were false to me. My priests and my responsible men are dying. They look for food to give them new life. ²⁰ “See, O Lord, for I am in distress;
My spirit is greatly troubled;
My heart is overturned within me,
For I have been very rebellious.
In the street the sword slays;
In the house it is like death.
²¹ Listen to the voice of my grief. I have no comforter. All my enemies have news of my troubles. They are glad because you did it. Let the day come when they will be like me.

In Me

Soul is Troubled

Bowels Are Troubled

Heart Is Troubled

Jehovah

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes fail from weeping. I am in torment. My heart is pulled out of me to the ground because my people are destroyed. Because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.

Deuteronomy 32:25

Outside the sword will bereave. Inside terror shall destroy both young man and virgin, babies and old man with gray hair.

Isaiah 16:11

That is why my heart mourns for Moab like a harp. I mourn for Kir Hareseth.

Ezekiel 7:15

Outside are swords and inside are plagues and famines. He who is in a field will die in battle. He who is in the city will be devoured by famines and plagues.

Job 30:27

I am seething within and cannot relax! Days of affliction confront me.

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.

Leviticus 26:40-42

However if they confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors and the treacherous things they did to oppose me,

1 Kings 8:47-50

If they come to their senses and are sorry for what they have done, and plead with you in the land where they are captives, saying: We have sinned. We have done wrong. We have been wicked.

Job 33:27

He comes to men and says: 'I sinned, and perverted what was right, but I did not get what I deserved.'

Psalm 22:14

I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart has melted within me like wax (I am weak).

Psalm 51:3-4

I admit my transgressions. My sin is always in front of me.

Proverbs 28:13

The man who covers his sins will not be blessed; but whoever confesses and leaves them will have mercy.

Isaiah 38:14

I cry like a swallow (swift). I mourn like a dove. My eyes are red from looking to you, Jehovah. I am terribly abused. Please come and help me.

Jeremiah 2:35

After all this you say: 'I am innocent. God will turn his anger from me. For I have not sinned.'

Jeremiah 3:13

Admit that you have done wrong! You have rebelled against Jehovah your God. You have given yourself to foreign gods under every large tree. You have not obeyed me,' says Jehovah.

Jeremiah 9:21-22

Death has come through our windows and entered our palaces. Death has cut down the children in the streets and the young men in the market places.

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go to the field, I see those killed because of war. If I go to the city, I see those sick because of famine. Prophets and priests wander through a land they have not heard of.'

Jeremiah 31:20

Ephraim, O Ephraim my dear delightful son! Indeed, as often as I have spoken against him, I certainly still remember him. My heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him, declares Jehovah.

Jeremiah 48:36

My heart cries sadly for Moab like a flute playing a funeral song. It cries like a flute for the people from Kir Hareseth. The money they made has all been taken away.

Lamentations 1:9

In her skirts were her unclean ways. She did not think of the future. Her fall has been a wonder. She has no comforter: See her sorrow, O Jehovah, for the enemy is lifted up.

Lamentations 1:11

Her people are sighing and looking for bread. They have given their desired things for something to eat to give them life. See, O Jehovah, and take note. She has become a thing of shame.

Lamentations 1:18

Jehovah is upright. I have rebelled against him. Listen all you people and see my pain. My virgins and my young men are taken away as prisoners.

Lamentations 4:9-10

Those killed by the sword are better off than those who died of starvation. For these die slowly and waste away from lack of food from the field.

Hosea 11:8

How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I treat you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is changed within me. All my compassion is aroused.

Habakkuk 3:16

I heard and my body trembled! My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness entered into my bones and I tremble. I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the people who invade us.

Luke 15:18-19

I will go to my father and say: 'Father I have sinned against God and against you.

Luke 18:13-14

But the tax collector stood far away and would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven. He beat his breast, saying: God, be merciful to me a sinner.