Isaiah 22:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

Therefore I said, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, do not labor to comfort me, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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  • Jer 9:1 : 1 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
  • Mic 1:8 : 8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the jackals, and mourning as the ostriches.
  • Matt 2:18 : 18 In Ramah there was a voice heard, lamentation, weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they were no more.
  • Matt 26:75 : 75 And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said to him, Before the rooster crows, you shall deny me three times. And he went out, and wept bitterly.
  • Luke 1:2 : 2 Just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word delivered them to us,
  • Luke 19:41 : 41 And when he came near, he saw the city and wept over it,
  • Ruth 1:20-21 : 20 And she said to them, Do not call me Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. 21 I went out full, and the LORD has brought me back empty: why then call me Naomi, seeing the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?
  • Ps 77:2 : 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord; my hand was stretched out in the night and did not rest; my soul refused to be comforted.
  • Isa 15:3 : 3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth; on the tops of their houses and in their streets, everyone shall wail, weeping abundantly.
  • Isa 33:7 : 7 Behold, their brave ones cry aloud; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.
  • Jer 4:19 : 19 My heart, my heart! I am pained at my very heart; my heart makes a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
  • Jer 6:26 : 26 O daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make lamentation, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.
  • Jer 8:18 : 18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint within me.
  • Jer 13:17 : 17 But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and my eye shall weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock is taken captive.
  • Jer 31:15 : 15 Thus says the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.

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    17Therefore, you shall speak this word to them: 'Let my eyes flow 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.'

  • Lam 1:16-18
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    81%

    16For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

    17Zion spreads forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD has commanded concerning Jacob that his adversaries should be all around him: Jerusalem is like a menstruous woman among them.

    18The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

  • Lam 3:48-49
    2 verses
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    48My eye pours out rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

    49My eye flows ceaselessly, without intermission,

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    79%

    26O daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make lamentation, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.

  • Lam 2:11
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    11My eyes fail with tears, my heart is troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

  • Lam 1:11-12
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    11All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for food to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider, for I have become vile.

    12Is it nothing to you, all you that pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is done to me, with which the LORD has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

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    5For it is a day of trouble and of trampling down and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls and crying to the mountains.

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    78%

    1Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

  • Jer 8:18-19
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    77%

    18When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint within me.

    19Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of those who dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? Is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images and strange idols?

  • Jer 8:21
    77%

    21For the hurt of the daughter of my people, I am hurt; I am in mourning; astonishment has taken hold of me.

  • Jer 9:18-20
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    18And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

    19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, 'How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.'

    20Yet hear the word of the LORD, O you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.

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    19These two things have come upon you; who shall feel sorry for you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort you?

  • Jer 4:31
    77%

    31For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labor, and the anguish as of her that brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewails herself, that spreads her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

  • Jer 10:19-20
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    19Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.

    20My tent is ruined, and all my cords are broken: my children have gone from me, and they are no more: there is no one to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

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    75%

    9The women of my people you have cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children you have taken away my glory forever.

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    1How does the city sit solitary, that was full of people! How has she become like a widow! She who was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, has become a tributary!

    2She weeps bitterly in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she has none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they have become her enemies.

  • Lam 2:18
    75%

    18Their heart cried to the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give yourself no rest; let not the apple of your eye cease.

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    75%

    20Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is ruined: suddenly my tents are ruined, and my curtains in a moment.

  • Lam 4:6
    74%

    6For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.

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    4The ways of Zion mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

  • Mic 4:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9Now why do you cry out aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished? For pangs have taken you like a woman in labor.

    10Be in pain and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor. For now you shall go forth out of the city, and you shall dwell in the field, and you shall go even to Babylon; there you shall be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem you from the hand of your enemies.

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    74%

    20Reproach has 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.

  • Isa 22:12
    73%

    12And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth.

  • Jer 13:17
    73%

    17But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and my eye shall weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock is taken captive.

  • Ezek 24:16
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    16Son of man, behold, I take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, nor shall your tears run down.

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    73%

    13What can I witness for you? what can I liken to you, O daughter of Jerusalem? what can I compare to you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? for your ruin is vast like the sea: who can heal you?

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    3All your rulers have fled together, they are captured by the archers: all who are found in you are captured together, who have fled from afar.

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    8For this gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.

  • Isa 21:3
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    3Therefore my loins are filled with pain; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labor. I was bent over when I heard it; I was dismayed when I saw it.

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    22You have called as on a solemn day my terrors all around, so that in the day of the Lord's anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have nurtured and brought up my enemy has consumed.

  • Mic 1:8
    72%

    8Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the jackals, and mourning as the ostriches.