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.
My bowels
My liver
General references
Bible References
Eyes
Lamentations 1:16
For these I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who could refresh my soul is far from me. My sons are desolated because the enemy prevails.
Lamentations 3:48
Streams of water run down my eye for the ruin of the daughter of my people.
1 Samuel 30:4
And David and the people with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
Psalm 6:7
My eye is dim because of grief; it wastes away because of all my enemies.
Psalm 31:9
Have mercy on me, O Jehovah, for I am in trouble; my eye has become old with grief, my soul and my belly.
Psalm 69:3
I am weary from my crying; my throat is dried; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Isaiah 38:14
Like a twittering swallow, so I chatter; I mourn as a dove; my eyes look weakly to the heights. O Jehovah, I am pressed down; be surety for me.
My bowels
Lamentations 1:20
Behold, O Jehovah, for I am in trouble; my inward parts ferment; my heart is turned within me, for I have grievously rebelled. On the outside the sword bereaves; in the house it is as death.
Jeremiah 4:19
My bowels, my bowels! I convulse in pain. O walls of my heart! My heart is restless within me; I cannot be silent because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the ram's horn, the alarm of war.
My liver
Job 16:13
His archers hem me in; He splits my inward parts, and does not spare; He pours out my gall on the ground.
Psalm 22:14
I am poured out like water, and all My bones are spread apart; My heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of My bowels.
For
Lamentations 4:10
The hands of the pitying women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the ruin of the daughter of my people.
Isaiah 22:4
Therefore I said, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly; do not hurry to comfort me because of the ruin of the daughter of my people.
Jeremiah 8:19
Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people, from a far country. Is not Jehovah in Zion? Is not her King in her? Why have they provoked Me with their graven images, with foreign vanities?
Jeremiah 9:1
Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Jeremiah 14:17
And you shall speak this word to them: Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and do not let them cease. For the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great break, with a very grievous blow.
Because
Lamentations 2:19
Arise, cry out in the night. At the beginning of the watches, pour out your heart like water before the face of Jehovah. Lift up your hands toward Him for the life of your children who are faint for hunger in the head of every street.
Lamentations 4:3
Even the jackals draw out the breast; they suckle their young ones. The daughter of my people is cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Luke 23:29
For behold, the days are coming in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts which did not suckle.
General references
Job 30:27
My bowels boiled, and did not rest; the days of trouble confront me.
Jeremiah 51:22
Also with you I will shatter man and woman; and with you I will shatter old and young; and with you I will shatter the young man and the girl.
Lamentations 3:48
Streams of water run down my eye for the ruin of the daughter of my people.