Jeremiah 45:3

Baruch laments that the Lord has added sorrow to his pain and that he finds no rest in his groaning. His complaint voices the weariness of serving God in dark times.

Cross-references · 26

• 2 Cor 4:16For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
• Gal 6:9And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
• 2 Cor 4:1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
• Lam 3:32But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
• Num 11:11–15And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?
• Heb 12:3–5For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
• Jer 15:10–21Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
• Ps 120:5Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
• Job 23:2Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
• Gen 37:34–35And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
• 2 Th 3:13But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
• Ps 27:13I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
• Ps 42:7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
• Ps 77:3–4I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
• Lam 3:1–19I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
• Ps 6:6I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
• Lam 1:22Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
• Josh 7:7–9And Joshua said, Alas, O LORD God, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!
• Prov 24:10If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
• Gen 42:36–38And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
• Lam 1:13From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
• Jer 8:18When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
• Ps 69:3I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
• Jer 20:7–18O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.
• Jer 9:1Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
• Job 16:11–13God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

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