Jeremiah 15:5

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Who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will turn aside to ask how you are?

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  • Isa 51:19 : 19 These double calamities have come upon you—destruction and devastation, famine and sword. Who will console you?
  • Nah 3:7 : 7 Everyone who sees you will flee from you, saying, 'Nineveh is devastated! Who will mourn for her? Where can I find anyone to comfort you?'
  • Jer 21:7 : 7 Afterward, declares the LORD, I will hand over Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials, the people, and those remaining in this city from the plague, the sword, and the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those seeking their lives. He will strike them down with the edge of the sword without pity, without sparing, and without mercy.
  • Ps 69:20 : 20 You know my reproach, my shame, and my disgrace; all my adversaries are before you.
  • Lam 1:12-16 : 12 "Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which was brought upon me, which the LORD inflicted on the day of his fierce anger. 13 From on high he sent fire; it burns in my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long. 14 My transgressions were bound into a yoke; by his hands they were fastened together. They were laid on my neck; he has made my strength fail. The Lord has given me into the hands of those I cannot withstand. 15 The Lord has rejected all my mighty men in my midst; he summoned an assembly against me to crush my young men. Like in a winepress, the Lord has trodden the virgin daughter of Judah. 16 "Because of these things I weep; my eyes, my eyes flow with tears. No one is near to comfort me, no one to restore my spirit. My children are desolate because the enemy has prevailed."
  • Lam 2:15-16 : 15 All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, 'Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?' 16 All your enemies open their mouths against you; they hiss and grind their teeth, saying, 'We have swallowed her up. Surely this is the day we hoped for; we have found it, we have seen it.'
  • Jer 13:14 : 14 And I will shatter them, one against another, fathers and sons together,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will show no pity, no compassion, and no mercy to prevent their destruction.’
  • Jer 16:5 : 5 For this is what the LORD says: Do not enter a house of mourning. Do not go to lament or console them, for I have withdrawn My peace from this people, declares the LORD, as well as My lovingkindness and compassion.
  • Exod 18:7 : 7 So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, bowed down, and kissed him. They greeted each other and went into the tent.
  • Judg 18:15 : 15 So they turned aside there and went to the house of the young Levite, at Micah's house, and asked him how he was doing.
  • 1 Sam 10:4 : 4 They will greet you kindly and offer you two loaves of bread, which you are to accept from their hands.
  • 1 Sam 17:22 : 22 David left his supplies in the care of the keeper of supplies, ran to the battle lines, and asked his brothers how they were.
  • 1 Sam 25:5 : 5 David sent ten young men and instructed them, "Go to Carmel, find Nabal, and greet him on my behalf.
  • Job 19:21 : 21 Have pity on me, have pity on me, my friends, because the hand of God has struck me.

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  • 6'You have rejected Me,' declares the LORD. 'You keep going backward. So I have stretched out My hand against you and destroyed you; I am tired of relenting.'

  • 8Be warned, Jerusalem, or I will become alienated from you and make you a desolation, a land uninhabited.

  • Isa 51:18-19
    2 verses
    77%

    18There is no one to guide her among all the sons she has borne, and no one to take her by the hand among all the sons she has raised.

    19These double calamities have come upon you—destruction and devastation, famine and sword. Who will console you?

  • 13What can I say on your behalf? To what can I compare you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What can I liken you to, so that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? Your wound is as vast as the sea—who can heal you?

  • 19Have You utterly rejected Judah? Does Your soul loathe Zion? Why have You struck us so that we cannot be healed? We hoped for peace, but no good has come; for a time of healing, but there was only terror.

  • 4I will make them an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of Manasseh son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.

  • 12"Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which was brought upon me, which the LORD inflicted on the day of his fierce anger.

  • Lam 1:16-17
    2 verses
    75%

    16"Because of these things I weep; my eyes, my eyes flow with tears. No one is near to comfort me, no one to restore my spirit. My children are desolate because the enemy has prevailed."

    17Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed for Jacob that his neighbors become his foes; Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

  • 8Many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, 'Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?'

  • 7Everyone who sees you will flee from you, saying, 'Nineveh is devastated! Who will mourn for her? Where can I find anyone to comfort you?'

  • 15Why do you cry out over your injury? Your pain is incurable. Because of your great guilt and many sins, I have done these things to you.

  • Lam 1:7-9
    3 verses
    74%

    7In the days of her affliction and wandering, Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the enemy, there was no one to help her. Her enemies saw her and mocked her downfall.

    8Jerusalem has sinned greatly and so has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.

    9Her uncleanness clings to her skirts; she did not consider her future. Her fall was astounding; there was no one to comfort her. "Look, LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed."

  • 2Judah mourns, and her gates languish; they sit on the ground in mourning, and the cry of Jerusalem rises up.

  • 19O people of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you.

  • 15All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, 'Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?'

  • 3What will you do on the day of punishment, when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth?

  • 15Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, with no one passing through, I will make you an everlasting pride, a joy of all generations.

  • 6For I will no longer show pity to the people of the land,' declares the LORD. 'I will give everyone into the hands of their neighbors and their king. They will crush the land, and I will not deliver them from their power.'

  • 1Roam through the streets of Jerusalem, look and understand, search in her squares. If you find one person who acts justly and seeks truth, I will forgive the city.

  • 35Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem from my hand?'

  • 4Therefore I said, 'Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly. Do not try to comfort me concerning the destruction of my people.'

  • 9For her wound is incurable; it has even reached Judah. It has reached the gates of my people, even to Jerusalem itself.

  • 17For I will restore you to health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they have called you an outcast, saying, 'This is Zion; no one cares for her.'

  • Jer 7:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16As for you, do not pray for this people, do not raise a cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with me, for I will not listen to you.

    17Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

  • 17You are to speak this word to them: 'Let my eyes flow with tears night and day without ceasing, for the virgin daughter of my people has suffered a great shattering—a crushing blow, a grievous wound.'

  • 9"This is what the LORD says: 'In this way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

  • 14Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will your wicked thoughts lodge within you?

  • 1How lonely sits the city, once so full of people! She has become like a widow, great among the nations, a princess among the provinces, now a slave.

  • 5Why then has this people, Jerusalem, turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold tightly to deceit; they refuse to return.

  • Jer 30:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12This is what the LORD says: Your wound is incurable; your injury is beyond healing.

    13There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your wound, no healing for you.

  • 14As for you, do not pray for this people or lift up a cry or petition for them, for I will not listen to them when they cry out to me because of their disaster.

  • 29Cut off your hair and throw it away, and raise a lament on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and abandoned the generation of his wrath.

  • 10Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her, all you who love her; join in her joy, all you who mourn over her.

  • 5For this is what the LORD says: Do not enter a house of mourning. Do not go to lament or console them, for I have withdrawn My peace from this people, declares the LORD, as well as My lovingkindness and compassion.

  • 10I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the towns of Judah desolate, without inhabitants.

  • 16O Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, let Your anger and wrath turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain. For because of our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors, Jerusalem and Your people have become an object of scorn to all those around us.

  • 19Listen to the cry of my people from a land far away: 'Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King no longer there?' Why have they provoked me to anger with their idols, with their worthless foreign gods?

  • 10When you tell these people all these words, they will ask you, 'Why has the LORD declared such a great calamity against us? What is our guilt? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?'

  • 9Why do you now cry aloud? Is there no king among you? Has your counselor perished, that pain seizes you like a woman in labor?

  • 4The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to her appointed festivals. All her gates are desolate; her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she is in bitter anguish.

  • 2Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: You have seen all the disaster I brought upon Jerusalem and upon all the cities of Judah. Look, they are a ruin today, without anyone living there.

  • 1Listen to this word that I am raising against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel.

  • 17But if you will not listen, my soul will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will weep bitterly and overflow with tears, for the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.

  • 12Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple will become a high place overgrown with thickets.