Jeremiah 4:19

The prophet cries out in deep anguish at the alarm of war he sees coming. It matters because it reveals the broken heart of a true prophet over his people's doom.

Cross-references · 36

• Hab 3:16I heard and trembled within; my lips quivered at the sound. Decay entered my bones; I trembled where I stood. Yet I must wait patiently for the day of distress to come upon the people who invade us.
• Isa 22:4Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
• Isa 16:11Therefore my heart laments for Moab like a harp, my inmost being for Kir-heres.
• Jer 9:1Oh, 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.
• Jer 9:10I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.
• Isa 21:3Therefore my body is filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am bewildered to hear, I am dismayed to see.
• Dan 7:15I, Daniel, was grieved in my spirit, and the visions in my mind alarmed me.
• Rom 9:2–3I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
• Ps 116:7Return to your rest, O my soul, for the LORD has been good to you.
• Isa 15:5My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.
• Dan 8:27I, Daniel, was exhausted and lay ill for days. Then I got up and went about the king’s business. I was confounded by the vision; it was beyond understanding.
• Lam 3:48–51Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.
• Gal 4:19My children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,
• Zeph 1:15–16That day will be a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,
• Lam 2:11My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
• Jer 20:9If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.
• Ps 42:5–6Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.
• Ps 119:53Rage has taken hold of me because of the wicked who reject Your law.
• Ps 119:136My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.
• Jer 14:17–18You 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.
• Dan 7:28Thus ends the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts troubled me greatly, and my face turned pale. But I kept the matter to myself.”
• Ps 103:1Of David. Bless the LORD, O my soul; all that is within me, bless His holy name.
• Jer 4:21How long must I see the signal flag and hear the sound of the horn?
• Jer 13:17But 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.
• Ps 146:1Hallelujah! Praise the LORD, O my soul.
• Ps 16:2I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing.”
• Lam 1:16For 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.
• Gen 49:6May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen on a whim.
• Jer 23:9As for the prophets: My heart is broken within me, and all my bones tremble. I have become like a drunkard, like a man overcome by wine, because of the LORD, because of His holy words.
• Amos 3:6If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?
• Jer 48:31–32Therefore I will wail for Moab; I will cry out for all of Moab; I will moan for the men of Kir-heres.
• Rom 10:1Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is for their salvation.
• Luke 19:41–42As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it
• Judg 5:21The River Kishon swept them away, the ancient river, the River Kishon. March on, O my soul, in strength!
• Num 10:9When you enter into battle in your land against an adversary who attacks you, sound short blasts on the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the LORD your God and saved from your enemies.
• Jer 4:5Announce in Judah, proclaim in Jerusalem, and say: “Blow the ram’s horn throughout the land. Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves and let us flee to the fortified cities.’

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