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 my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.
• Isa 22:4Therefore I said, “Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
• Isa 16:11Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.
• Jer 9:1Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
• Jer 9:10I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burned up, so that no one passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the livestock. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled. They are gone.
• Isa 21:3Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have taken hold on me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I so am dismayed that I can’t see.
• Dan 7:15As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved within my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.
• Rom 9:2–3that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
• Ps 116:7Return to your rest, my soul, for Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you.
• Isa 15:5My heart cries out for Moab! Her nobles flee to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for they go up by the ascent of Luhith with weeping; for on the way to Horonaim, they raise up a cry of destruction.
• Dan 8:27I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick certain days; then I rose up, and did the king’s business: and I wondered at the vision, but no one understood it.
• Lam 3:48–51My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
• Gal 4:19My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you —
• Zeph 1:15–16That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,
• Lam 2:11My eyes fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.
• Jer 20:9If I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I can’t.
• Ps 42:5–6Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.
• Ps 119:53Indignation has taken hold on me, because of the wicked who forsake your law.
• Ps 119:136Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don’t observe your law. TZADI
• Jer 14:17–18“You shall say this word to them, “‘Let my 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 wound.
• Dan 7:28Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my face was changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.
• Ps 103:1By David. Praise Yahweh, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name!
• Jer 4:21How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
• Jer 13:17But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride; and my eye shall weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh’s flock is taken captive.
• Ps 146:1Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh, my soul.
• Ps 16:2My soul, you have said to Yahweh, “You are my Lord. Apart from you I have no good thing.”
• Lam 1:16“For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.”
• Gen 49:6My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.
• Jer 23:9Concerning the prophets: My heart within me is broken. All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of his holy words.
• Amos 3:6Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and Yahweh hasn’t done it?
• Jer 48:31–32Therefore I will wail for Moab. Yes, I will cry out for all Moab. They shall mourn for the men of Kir Heres.
• Rom 10:1Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.
• Luke 19:41–42When he came near, he saw the city and wept over it,
• Judg 5:21The river Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. My soul, march on with strength.
• Num 10:9When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. Then you will be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.
• Jer 4:5Declare in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, ‘Blow the trumpet in the land!’ Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves! Let us go into the fortified cities!’

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