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 things I weep. My eye streams with water because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me. My children are desolate because the enemy is strong.
Lamentations 3:48
Rivers of water run down from my eyes because pf the destruction of the daughter of my people.
1 Samuel 30:4
David and his men cried loudly until they did not have the strength to cry anymore.
Psalm 6:7
My eyes grow weak with sorrow. I am weak because of all my foes.
Psalm 31:9
Be gracious to me, O Jehovah, because I am in distress. My eyes, my life, and my body waste away with grief.
Psalm 69:3
I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
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.
My bowels
Lamentations 1:20
See, O Jehovah, I am in trouble. The inmost parts of my body are deeply moved. My heart is turned in me for I have been rebellious. Outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.
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.
My liver
Job 16:13
His arrows surround me. Without mercy he splits my kidneys open. He pours out my gall on the ground.
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).
For
Lamentations 4:10
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Isaiah 22:4
I said: Turn away from me. Let me weep bitterly. Do not try to console me over the destruction of my people.
Jeremiah 8:19
Behold, listen! The cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land: Is Jehovah not in Zion? Is her King not within her? Why have they provoked me with their graven images, with foreign idols?
Jeremiah 9:1
Oh that my head were waters and my eyes a fountain of tears. Then I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Jeremiah 14:17
Say this to them: 'My eyes flow with tears day and night without stopping because my dear people will suffer massive destruction. It will be a very serious blow.
Because
Lamentations 2:19
Rise up! Cry out in the night at the beginning of the night watches. Let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of Jehovah. Lift up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down starving in every street.
Lamentations 4:3
Even the jackals of the wasteland have full breasts and give milk to their young ones. The daughter of my people has become cruel like the ostriches in the wasteland.
Luke 23:29
The days are coming when they will say blessed are the barren those without children and the breasts that never nursed.
General references
Job 30:27
I am seething within and cannot relax! Days of affliction confront me.
Jeremiah 51:22
I will use you to crush men and women. I will use you to crush the old and the young. I will use you to crush young men and women.
Lamentations 3:48
Rivers of water run down from my eyes because pf the destruction of the daughter of my people.