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Lamentations 1:16
I weep because of these things; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to keep me alive. My children are desolate because the enemy has prevailed.
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Job 16:13
His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and pours my bile on the ground.
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Lamentations 1:20
Lord, see how I am in distress. I am churning within; my heart is broken, for I have been very rebellious. Outside, the sword takes the children; inside, there is death.
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Isaiah 22:4
Therefore I said,“ Look away from me! Let me weep bitterly! Do not try to comfort me about the destruction of my dear people.”
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Psalms 22:14
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed; my heart is like wax, melting within me.
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Jeremiah 4:19
My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in agony! Oh, the pain in my heart! My heart pounds; I cannot be silent. For you, my soul, have heard the sound of the ram’s horn— the shout of battle.
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Psalms 6:7
My eyes are swollen from grief; they grow old because of all my enemies.
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Lamentations 3:48-51
My eyes flow with streams of tears because of the destruction of my dear people.My eyes overflow unceasingly, without end,until the Lord looks down from heaven and sees.My eyes bring me grief because of the fate of all the women in my city.
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Lamentations 4:9-10
Those slain by the sword are better off than those slain by hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children; they became their food during the destruction of my dear people.
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Lamentations 2:19-20
Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water before the Lord’s presence. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.Lord, look and consider who You have done this to. Should women eat their own children, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?
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Jeremiah 44:7
“ So now, this is what the Lord, the God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves? You are cutting off man and woman, child and infant from Judah, leaving yourselves without a remnant.
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1 Samuel 30 4
David and the troops with him wept loudly until they had no strength left to weep.
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Isaiah 38:14
I chirp like a swallow or a crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed; support me.
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Lamentations 4:3-4
Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but my dear people have become cruel like ostriches in the wilderness.The nursing infant’s tongue clings to the roof of his mouth from thirst. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.
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Jeremiah 8:19-9:1
Listen— the cry of my dear people from a far away land,“ Is the Lord no longer in Zion, her King not within her?” Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?Harvest has passed, summer has ended, but we have not been saved.I am broken by the brokenness of 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 people not come about?If my head were a spring of water, my eyes a fountain of tears, I would weep day and night over the slain of my dear people.
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Psalms 31:9
Be gracious to me, Lord, because I am in distress; my eyes are worn out from angry sorrow— my whole being as well.
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Luke 23:29
Look, the days are coming when they will say,‘ The women without children, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed, are fortunate!’
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Psalms 69:3
I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
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Jeremiah 14:17
You are to speak this word to them: Let my eyes overflow with tears; day and night may they not stop, for the virgin daughter of my people has been destroyed by a great disaster, an extremely severe wound.
