Lamentations 2:18

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Lamentations 2:18

Their heart cried out to the Lord,
“O wall of the daughter of Zion,
Let your tears run down like a river day and night;
Give yourself no relief,
Let your eyes have no rest.

Psalm 119:145

Qoph.
I cried with all my heart; answer me, O Lord!
I will observe Your statutes.

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!

Lamentations 1:16

“For these things I weep;
My eyes run down with water;
Because far from me is a comforter,
One who restores my soul.
My children are desolate
Because the enemy has prevailed.”

The Lord determined to destroy
The wall of the daughter of Zion.
He has stretched out a line,
He has not restrained His hand from destroying,
And He has caused rampart and wall to lament;
They have languished together.

Psalm 119:136

My eyes shed streams of water,
Because they do not keep Your law.

Lamentations 1:2

She weeps bitterly in the night
And her tears are on her cheeks;
She has none to comfort her
Among all her lovers.
All her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
They have become her enemies.

Lamentations 3:48-49

My eyes run down with streams of water
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Hosea 7:14

And they do not cry to Me from their heart
When they wail on their beds;
For the sake of grain and new wine they assemble themselves,
They turn away from Me.

Habakkuk 2:11

“Surely the stone will cry out from the wall,
And the rafter will answer it from the framework.

Isaiah 26:16-17

O Lord, they sought You in distress;
They could only whisper a prayer,
Your chastening was upon them.

Jeremiah 4:31

For I heard a cry as of a woman in labor,
The anguish as of one giving birth to her first child,
The cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath,
Stretching out her hands, saying,
“Ah, woe is me, for I faint before murderers.”

Jeremiah 9:17-18

Thus says the Lord of hosts,
“Consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come;
And send for the wailing women, that they may come!

Jeremiah 13:17

But if you will not listen to it,
My soul will sob in secret for such pride;
And my eyes will bitterly weep
And flow down with tears,
Because the flock of the Lord has been taken captive.

Jeremiah 14:17

“You will say this word to them,
‘Let my eyes flow down with tears night and day,
And let them not cease;
For the virgin daughter of my people has been crushed with a mighty blow,
With a sorely infected wound.

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Summary

Lamentations 2:18

Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.

Heart

Psalm 119:145

Isaiah 26:16

Hosea 7:14

O wall

Lamentations 2:8

Habakkuk 2:11

Let tears

Jeremiah 14:17

General references

Lamentations 3:48

Bible References

Heart

Qoph.
I cried with all my heart; answer me, O Lord!
I will observe Your statutes.

O Lord, they sought You in distress;
They could only whisper a prayer,
Your chastening was upon them.

And they do not cry to Me from their heart
When they wail on their beds;
For the sake of grain and new wine they

assemble themselves,

They turn away from Me.

O wall

The Lord

determined to destroy

The wall of the daughter of Zion.
He has stretched out a line,
He has not restrained His hand from destroying,
And He has caused rampart and wall to lament;
They have languished together.

“Surely the stone will cry out from the wall,
And the rafter will answer it from the framework.

Let tears

She weeps bitterly in the night
And her tears are on her cheeks;
She has none to comfort her
Among all her lovers.
All her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
They have become her enemies.

eyes run down with streams of water

Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

My eyes shed streams of water,
Because they do not keep Your law.

For I heard a cry as of a woman in labor,
The anguish as of one giving birth to her first child,
The cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath,

Stretching out her hands, saying,

“Ah, woe is me, for I faint before murderers.”

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!

But if you will not listen to it,
My soul will sob in secret for such pride;
And my eyes will bitterly weep
And flow down with tears,
Because the flock of the Lord has been taken captive.

General references

eyes run down with streams of water

Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.