Lamentations 2:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

Eyes

Isaiah 38:14

My bowels

Lamentations 1:20

Jeremiah 4:19

My liver

Job 16:13

Psalm 22:14

For

Jeremiah 14:17

Because

Lamentations 2:19

Lamentations 4:3

Luke 23:29

General references

Job 30:27

Jeremiah 51:22

Lamentations 3:48

Bible References

Eyes

For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water; Because the comforter that should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy hath prevailed.

Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

Mine eye wasteth away because of grief; It waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.

Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, yea , my soul and my body.

I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.

My bowels

Behold, O Jehovah; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I cannot hold my peace; because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

My liver

His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.

I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.

For

The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Therefore said I, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: is not Jehovah in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with foreign vanities?

Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

And thou shalt say this word unto them, Let mine 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.

Because

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.

Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

For behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the breasts that never gave suck.

General references

My heart is troubled, and resteth not; Days of affliction are come upon me.

and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and him that rideth therein; and with thee will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces the old man and the youth; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the virgin;

Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.