Lamentations 2:11

The poet weeps until his eyes fail because children and infants faint in the streets. It voices the narrator's personal anguish over the city's suffering.

Cross-references · 19

• Lam 1:20“See, Yahweh; for I am in distress. My heart is troubled. My heart is turned within me, for I have grievously rebelled. Abroad the sword bereaves. At home it is like death.
• Jer 4:19My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I can’t hold my peace; because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
• 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.”
• Job 16:13His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.
• Luke 23:29For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’
• Ps 6:7My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.
• 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.
• Lam 3:48–51My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
• Ps 22:14I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.
• Ps 31:9Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
• Lam 4:9–10Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.
• Lam 4:3–4Even the jackals draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: But the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
• Lam 2:19–20Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.
• Jer 44:7“Therefore now Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Why do you commit great evil against your own souls, to cut off from yourselves man and woman, infant and nursing child out of the middle of Judah, to leave yourselves no one remaining;
• 1 Sam 30:4Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more power to weep.
• Jer 14:17“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.
• Jer 8:19Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: “Isn’t Yahweh in Zion? Isn’t her King in her?” “Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign vanities?”
• Ps 69:3I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
• Isa 38:14I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”

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