Lamentations 3:51 Cross References - NSB

⁵¹ My eyes bring me pain because of all the daughters of my town.

³⁴ »How can I face my father if Benjamin is not with me? I could not bear to see my father in such sorrow.«

³ When David and his men came to Zikleg they found it completely destroyed by fire. Their wives, sons, and daughters had been taken captive. ⁴ David and his men cried loudly until they did not have the strength to cry anymore.

¹⁹ O my anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain. My heart pounds in side of me. My heart is pounding! I cannot keep quiet because I hear a ram's horn sounding the alarm for war. ²⁰ Destruction upon destruction is proclaimed. The whole land is ruined. My tents are suddenly destroyed. Their curtains are torn in an instant. ²¹ How long must I see the battle flag and hear the sound of rams' horns?

²² This is what Jehovah of Hosts says: »I am going to punish them. The young men will die by the sword because of war. Their sons and daughters will die by famine.

¹⁶ »‘The people to whom they prophesy will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem. They will be victims of famines and wars. No one will bury them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters. I will pour on them the destruction that they deserve.’

¹⁸ »‘If I go to the field, I see those killed because of war. If I go to the city, I see those sick because of famine. Prophets and priests wander through a land they have not heard of.’«

⁹ »I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life will cause them.«’

¹⁸ »Jehovah is upright. I have rebelled against him. Listen all you people and see my pain. My virgins and my young men are taken away as prisoners.

²¹ Both young and old lie dead in the streets. Enemy swords kill young men and women. You slaughtered them without mercy on the day of your anger.

¹¹ They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.

⁴¹ When he came close to the city he wept over it. ⁴² He said: »If you only knew today the things needed to bring peace! But they are hidden from your eyes. ⁴³ »The time is coming when your enemies will surround you and blockade you with a rampart (wall) on all sides. They will close in on you. ⁴⁴ »They will knock you and your children down to the ground. They will not leave one stone upon another. What’s more you do not know when this visit will take place.«