Thematic Bible: Over jerusalem
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Jeremiah » The prophet » Lamentations of » Over jerusalem
If only my head was a stream of waters and my eyes fountains of weeping, so that I might go on weeping day and night for the dead of the daughter of my people!
O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you? For a voice is sounding from Dan, giving out evil from the hills of Ephraim: Make this come to the minds of the nations, make a statement openly against Jerusalem, that attackers are coming from a far country and their voices will be loud against the towns of Judah. read more.
Like keepers of a field they are against her on every side; because she has been fighting against me, says the Lord. Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.
Like keepers of a field they are against her on every side; because she has been fighting against me, says the Lord. Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.
Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble. The voice of the cry of the daughter of my people comes from a far land: Is the Lord not in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they made me angry with their images and their strange gods which are no gods? The grain-cutting is past, the summer is ended, and no salvation has come to us. read more.
For the destruction of the daughter of my people I am broken: I am dressed in the clothing of grief; fear has taken me in its grip.
For the destruction of the daughter of my people I am broken: I am dressed in the clothing of grief; fear has taken me in its grip.
Sorrow is mine for I am wounded! my wound may not be made well; and I said, Cruel is my disease, I may not be free from it. My tent is pulled down and all my cords are broken: my children have gone from me, and they are not: no longer is there anyone to give help in stretching out my tent and hanging up my curtains. For the keepers of the sheep have become like beasts, not looking to the Lord for directions: so they have not done wisely and all their flocks have been put to flight. read more.
News is going about, see, it is coming, a great shaking is coming from the north country, so that the towns of Judah may be made waste and become the living-place of jackals.
News is going about, see, it is coming, a great shaking is coming from the north country, so that the towns of Judah may be made waste and become the living-place of jackals.
Weeping » Instances of » Of jesus » Over jerusalem
And when he got near and saw the town, he was overcome with weeping for it,