'Dear' in the Bible
My days have slipped by;my plans have been ruined,even the things dear to my heart.
Therefore I said,“Look away from me! Let me weep bitterly!Do not try to comfort meabout the destruction of my dear people.”
Our holy and beautiful temple,where our fathers praised You,has been burned with fire,and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.
“At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, ‘A searing wind blows from the barren heights in the wilderness on the way to My dear people. It comes not to winnow or to sift;
My dear people, dress yourselves in sackclothand roll in the dust.Mourn as you would for an only son,a bitter lament,for suddenly the destroyer will come on us.
They have treated superficially the brokennessof My dear people,claiming, ‘Peace, peace,’when there is no peace.
Listen—the cry of my dear peoplefrom a far away land,“Is the Lord no longer in Zion,her King not within her?”Why have they provoked me to angerwith their carved images,with their worthless foreign idols?
I am broken by the brokennessof my dear people.I mourn; horror has taken hold of me.
Is there no balm in Gilead?Is there no physician there?So why has the healing of my dear peoplenot come about? >
If my head were a spring of water,my eyes a fountain of tears,I would weep day and nightover the slain of my dear people.
Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts says:I am about to refine them and test them,for what else can I dobecause of My dear people?
כ KafMy eyes are worn out from weeping;I am churning within.My heart is poured out in griefbecause of the destruction of my dear people,because children and infants faintin the streets of the city.
My eyes flow with streams of tearsbecause of the destruction of my dear people.
ג GimelEven jackals offer their breaststo nurse their young,but my dear people have become cruellike ostriches in the wilderness.
ו VavThe punishment of my dear peopleis greater than that of Sodom,which was overthrown in an instantwithout a hand laid on it.
י YodThe hands of compassionate womenhave cooked their own children;they became their foodduring the destruction of my dear people.