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 4:16Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
• Gal 6:9Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.
• 2 Cor 4:1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.
• Lam 3:32For though he cause grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
• Num 11:11–15Moses said to Yahweh, “Why have you treated with your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?
• Heb 12:3–5For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
• Jer 15:10–21Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet everyone of them curses me.
• Ps 120:5Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
• Job 23:2“Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
• Gen 37:34–35Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
• 2 Th 3:13But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing well.
• Ps 27:13I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.
• Ps 42:7Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
• Ps 77:3–4I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.
• Lam 3:1–19I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
• Ps 6:6I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.
• Lam 1:22“Let all their wickedness come before you; Do to them as you have done to me for all my transgressions. For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
• Josh 7:7–9Joshua said, “Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan!
• Prov 24:10If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.
• Gen 42:36–38Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”
• Lam 1:13“From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and faint all day long.
• Jer 8:18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
• Ps 69:3I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
• Jer 20:7–18Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded; you are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughing-stock all day. Every one mocks me.
• 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!
• Job 16:11–13God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

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