Lamentations 1:7
Jerusalem remembers in her days of sorrow and of her wanderings, all the desired things that were hers in the past. When her people were captive to the power of her adversary she had no helper. Her attackers desired her and made fun of her in her destruction.
Psalm 42:4
I remember these things and I pour out my heart within me. I used to go along with the crowd and lead them in procession to the house of God, with the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.
Psalm 77:5-9
I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
Psalm 79:4
We have become a disgrace to our neighbors, an object of ridicule and contempt to those around us.
Deuteronomy 4:7-8
What great nation is there, who has God so near to them? For we call on Jehovah our God for all things!
Deuteronomy 4:34-37
Has God attempted to take a nation from the middle of another nation? Has he done this by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by great terrors? Yes, and by the use of his great power! Jehovah your God did all this for you in Egypt before your very eyes!
Deuteronomy 8:7-9
Jehovah your God will lead you into a good land. It is a land with rivers that do not dry up. Springs and underground streams flow through the valleys and the hills.
Job 29:2-1
Oh, that I were as in months past, as in the days when God watched over me;
Psalm 77:3
I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed.
Psalm 137:3-4
It was there that those who had captured us demanded that we sing. Those who guarded us wanted us to entertain them. They said: Sing a song from Zion for us!
Psalm 147:19-20
He speaks his word to Jacob, his laws and judgments to Israel.
Isaiah 5:1-4
Let me sing to my loved one a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard: My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hill.
Jeremiah 37:7
This is what Jehovah the God of Israel says: 'Say this to the king of Judah, who sent you to get advice from me: Pharaoh's army has come out to help you. But it will go back to Egypt, its own land.
Lamentations 2:15-16
All who go by make a noise with their hands at you. They make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem. They say: Is this the town that was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?
Lamentations 4:17
Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help. We watch for a nation unable to give salvation.
Hosea 2:7
She will follow after her lovers but she will not reach them. She will seek them, but will not find them! She will say: 'I will return to my first husband for it was better for me then.'
Micah 4:11
Many nations are assembled against you! They say: 'Let her be defiled, and let us gloat over it.'
Luke 15:17
Finally it dawned on him, my father's hired workers have more than they can eat and I am about to starve!
Luke 16:25
Abraham said: Remember, my son, in your lifetime you were given good things, while Lazarus got all the bad things. Now he is enjoying himself while you are in torment.