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Lamentations 1:16
I weep because of these things; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one in sight who can comfort me or encourage me. My children are desolated because an enemy has prevailed.פ( Pe)
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Job 16:13
his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.
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Lamentations 1:20
Look, O Lord! I am distressed; my stomach is in knots! My heart is pounding inside me. Yes, I was terribly rebellious! Out in the street the sword bereaves a mother of her children; Inside the house death is present.ש( Sin/ Shin)
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Isaiah 22:4
So I say:“ Don’t look at me! I am weeping bitterly. Don’t try to console me concerning the destruction of my defenseless people.”
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Psalms 22:14
My strength drains away like water; all my bones are dislocated; my heart is like wax; it melts away inside me.
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Jeremiah 4:19
I said,“ Oh, the feeling in the pit of my stomach! I writhe in anguish. Oh, the pain in my heart! My heart pounds within me. I cannot keep silent. For I hear the sound of the trumpet; the sound of the battle cry pierces my soul!
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Psalms 6:7
My eyes grow dim from suffering; they grow weak because of all my enemies.
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Lamentations 3:48-51
Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.ע( Ayin)Tears flow from my eyes and will not stop; there will be no breakuntil the LORD looks down from heaven and sees what has happened.What my eyes see grieves me– all the suffering of the daughters in my city.צ( Tsade)
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Lamentations 4:9-10
Those who died by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, those who waste away, struck down from lack of food.י( Yod)The hands of tenderhearted women cooked their own children, who became their food, when my people were destroyed.כ( Kaf)
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Lamentations 2:19-20
Get up! Cry out in the night when the night watches start! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord! Lift up your hands to him for your children’s lives; they are fainting at every street corner.ר( Resh)Look, O Lord! Consider! Whom have you ever afflicted like this? Should women eat their offspring, their healthy infants? Should priest and prophet be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?ש( Sin/ Shin)
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Jeremiah 44:7
“ So now the LORD, the God who rules over all, the God of Israel, asks,‘ Why will you do such great harm to yourselves? Why should every man, woman, child, and baby of yours be destroyed from the midst of Judah? Why should you leave yourselves without a remnant?
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1 Samuel 30 4
Then David and the men who were with him wept loudly until they could weep no more.
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Isaiah 38:14
Like a swallow or a thrush I chirp, I coo like a dove; my eyes grow tired from looking up to the sky. O sovereign master, I am oppressed; help me!
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Lamentations 4:3-4
Even the jackals nurse their young at their breast, but my people are cruel, like ostriches in the desert.ד( Dalet)The infant’s tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth due to thirst; little children beg for bread, but no one gives them even a morsel.ה( He)
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Jeremiah 8:19-9:1
I hear my dear people crying out throughout the length and breadth of the land. They are crying,‘ Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her divine King no longer there?’” The LORD answers,“ Why then do they provoke me to anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?”“ They cry,‘ Harvest time has come and gone, and the summer is over, and still we have not been delivered.’My heart is crushed because my dear people are being crushed. I go about crying and grieving. I am overwhelmed with dismay.There is still medicinal ointment available in Gilead! There is still a physician there! Why then have my dear people not been restored to health?( 8: 23) I wish that my head were a well full of water and my eyes were a fountain full of tears! If they were, I could cry day and night for those of my dear people who have been killed.
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Psalms 31:9
Have mercy on me, for I am in distress! My eyes grow dim from suffering. I have lost my strength.
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Luke 23:29
For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say,‘ Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!’
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Psalms 69:3
I am exhausted from shouting for help; my throat is sore; my eyes grow tired of looking for my God.
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Jeremiah 14:17
“ Tell these people this, Jeremiah:‘ My eyes overflow with tears day and night without ceasing. For my people, my dear children, have suffered a crushing blow. They have suffered a serious wound.
