Lamentations 1:7
Jerusalem remembers her time of affliction and misery; all her valued belongings of days gone by, when her people fell into enemy hands, with no one to help her, and her enemies stared at her, mocking her downfall.
Psalm 42:4
These things I will recall as I pour out my troubles within me: I used to go with the crowd in a procession to the house of God, accompanied with shouts of joy and thanksgiving.
Psalm 77:5-9
I thought of ancient times, considering years long past.
Psalm 79:4
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and a derision to those around us.
Deuteronomy 4:7-8
For what great nation has a god so near like the LORD our God whenever we call on him?
Deuteronomy 4:34-37
Or has any god ever taken for himself one nation out from another nation with testings, signs, wonders, wars, awesome power, and magnificent, terrifying deeds as the LORD your God did in Egypt before your eyes?
Deuteronomy 8:7-9
because the LORD your God is bringing you to a good land a land with rivers and deep springs flowing to the valleys and hills.
Job 29:2-1
"I wish I could go back to how things were a few months ago; when God used to watch over me,
Psalm 77:3
I remember God, and I groan; I meditate, while my spirit grows faint. Interlude
Psalm 137:3-4
for it was there that our captors asked us for songs and our torturers demanded joy from us, "Sing us one of the songs about Zion!"
Psalm 147:19-20
He declares his words to Jacob, his statutes and decrees to Israel.
Isaiah 5:1-4
I will sing for my beloved my love-song concerning his vineyard: "The one I love had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
Jeremiah 37:7
"This is what the LORD God of Israel says: "This is what you are to say to the king of Judah who sent you to me to inquire of me, "Look, Pharaoh's army that has come to help will go back to its own land of Egypt,
Lamentations 2:15-16
Everyone who passes by on the road shake their fists at you. They hiss and shake their heads at cherished Jerusalem: "Is this the city men used to call "The Perfection of Beauty,' and "The Joy of the Entire Earth'"?
Lamentations 4:17
Our eyes failed, searching in vain for hope; we kept watching and looking for a nation that would not help.
Hosea 2:7
She will pursue her lovers, but she won't catch up with them. She will seek them, but she won't find them. Then she will say, "I'll go back and return to my first husband, because it was better for me then than now.'
Micah 4:11
"Now many nations have gathered against you, saying, "Let her be defiled,' and "Let's look down on Zion.'
Luke 15:17
"Then he came to his senses and said, "How many of my father's hired men have more food than they can eat, and here I am starving to death!
Luke 16:25
"But Abraham said, "My child, remember that during your lifetime you received blessings, while Lazarus received hardships. But now he is being comforted here, while you suffer.