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.

Bible References

Eyes

Lamentations 1:16
For these I am weeping, My eye, my eye, is running down with waters, For, far from me hath been a comforter, Refreshing my soul, My sons have been desolate, For mighty hath been an enemy.
Lamentations 3:48
Rivulets of water go down my eye, For the destruction of the daughter of my people.
1 Samuel 30:4
And David lifteth up -- and the people who are with him -- their voice and weep, till that they have no power to weep.
Psalm 6:7
Old from provocation is mine eye, It is old because of all mine adversaries,
Psalm 31:9
Favour me, O Jehovah, for distress is to me, Mine eye, my soul, and my body Have become old by provocation.
Psalm 69:3
I have been wearied with my calling, Burnt hath been my throat, Consumed have been mine eyes, waiting for my God.
Isaiah 38:14
As a crane -- a swallow -- so I chatter, I mourn as a dove, Drawn up have been mine eyes on high, O Jehovah, oppression is on me, be my surety.

My bowels

Lamentations 1:20
See, O Jehovah, for distress is to me, My bowels have been troubled, Turned hath been my heart in my midst, For I have greatly provoked, From without bereaved hath the sword, In the house it is as death.
Jeremiah 4:19
My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at the walls of my heart, Make a noise for me doth My heart, I am not silent, For the voice of a trumpet I have heard, O my soul -- a shout of battle!

My liver

Job 16:13
Go round against me do his archers. He splitteth my reins, and spareth not, He poureth out to the earth my gall.
Psalm 22:14
As waters I have been poured out, And separated themselves have all my bones, My heart hath been like wax, It is melted in the midst of my bowels.

For

Lamentations 4:10
The hands of merciful women have boiled their own children, They have been for food to them, In the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Isaiah 22:4
Therefore I said, 'Look ye from me, I am bitter in my weeping, Haste not to comfort me, For the destruction of the daughter of my people.'
Jeremiah 8:19
Lo, the voice of a cry of the daughter of my people from a land afar off, Is Jehovah not in Zion? is her king not in her? Wherefore have they provoked Me with their graven images, With the vanities of a foreigner?
Jeremiah 9:1
Who doth make my head waters, And mine eye a fountain of tears? And I weep by day and by night, For the wounded of the daughter of my people.
Jeremiah 14:17
And thou hast said unto them this word: Tears come down mine eyes night and day, And they do not cease, For, with a great breach, Broken hath been the virgin daughter of my people, A very grievous stroke.

Because

Lamentations 2:19
Arise, cry aloud in the night, At the beginning of the watches. Pour out as water thy heart, Over against the face of the Lord, Lift up unto Him thy hands, for the soul of thine infants, Who are feeble with hunger at the head of all out-places.
Lamentations 4:3
Even dragons have drawn out the breast, They have suckled their young ones, The daughter of my people is become cruel, Like the ostriches in a wilderness.
Luke 23:29
for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck;

General references

Job 30:27
My bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, Gone before me have days of affliction.
Jeremiah 51:22
And I have broken in pieces by thee man and woman, And I have broken in pieces by thee old and young, And I have broken in pieces by thee young man and virgin,
Lamentations 3:48
Rivulets of water go down my eye, For the destruction of the daughter of my people.