Lamentations 2:18

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Lamentations 2:16–20 · Berean Standard Bible

16 All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!”

17 The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.

18 The hearts of the people cry 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, and your eyes no rest.

19 Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.

20 Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 119:145

I call with all my heart; answer me, O LORD! I will obey Your statutes.

Isaiah 26:16

O LORD, they sought You in their distress; when You disciplined them, they poured out a quiet prayer.

Isaiah 26:17

As a woman with child about to give birth writhes and cries out in pain, so were we in Your presence, O LORD.

Hosea 7:14

They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.

Lamentations 2:8

The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away.

Habakkuk 2:11

For the stones will cry out from the wall, and the rafters will echo it from the woodwork.

Lamentations 1:2

She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.

Lamentations 1:16

For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.

Lamentations 3:48

Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Lamentations 3:49

My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief,

Psalms 119:136

My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.

Jeremiah 4:31

For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child— the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the murderers!”

Jeremiah 9:1

Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.

Jeremiah 9:17

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.

Jeremiah 9:18

Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.

Jeremiah 13:17

But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.

Jeremiah 14:17

You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.