Lam.1.16

Lamentations 1:16

KJV

For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

How Lonely Lies the City!

Cross References

Psalm 69:20

KJV Jesus

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

The Waters Are up to My Neck

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Lilies.” Of David.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

KJV

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

The Evil of Oppression

Jeremiah 8:18

KJV

¶ When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

Jeremiah Weeps for His People

Jeremiah 14:17

KJV GOD

¶ Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.

Drought, Famine, Sword, and Plague

Lamentations 1:2

KJV

She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

How Lonely Lies the City!

Lamentations 2:11

KJV

Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

God’s Anger over Jerusalem

Lamentations 2:18

KJV

Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.

God’s Anger over Jerusalem

Lamentations 3:48

KJV

Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

God’s Justice

Lamentations 3:49

KJV

Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,