Lamentations 3:5–36

Lamentations 3:5Cross-references · 7 ranked passages

1. Lamentations 3:19Rank 1

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   ¹⁹Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

2. Jeremiah 23:15Rank 2

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   ¹⁵Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.

3. Job 19:8Rank 3

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   ⁸He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

4. Jeremiah 8:14Rank 4

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   ¹⁴Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.

5. Jeremiah 9:15Rank 5

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   ¹⁵Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

6. Lamentations 3:7–9Rank 6

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   ⁷He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

   ⁸Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

   ⁹He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

7. Psalms 69:21Rank 7

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   ²¹They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Lamentations 3:6Cross-references · 3 ranked passages

1. Psalms 88:5–6Rank 1

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   ⁵Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

   ⁶Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

2. Psalms 143:3Rank 2

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   ³For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

3. Psalms 143:7Rank 3

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   ⁷Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

Lamentations 3:7Cross-references · 10 ranked passages

1. Job 19:8Rank 1

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   ⁸He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

2. Job 3:23Rank 2

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   ²³Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

3. Hosea 2:6Rank 3

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   ⁶¶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

4. Jeremiah 38:6Rank 4

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   ⁶Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.

5. Jeremiah 40:4Rank 5

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   ⁴And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which were upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee: but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land is before thee: whither it seemeth good and convenient for thee to go, thither go.

6. Lamentations 1:14Rank 6

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   ¹⁴The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.

7. Psalms 88:8Rank 7

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   ⁸Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

8. Daniel 9:12Rank 8

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   ¹²And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.

9. Lamentations 3:9Rank 9

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   ⁹He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

10. Lamentations 5:5Rank 10

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    ⁵Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

Lamentations 3:8Cross-references · 7 ranked passages

1. Job 30:20Rank 1

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   ²⁰I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

2. Psalms 22:2Rank 2

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   ²O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

3. Job 19:7Rank 3

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   ⁷Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

4. Lamentations 3:44Rank 4

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   ⁴⁴Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.

5. Matthew 27:46Rank 5

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   ⁴⁶And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

6. Habakkuk 1:2Rank 6

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   ²O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!

7. Psalms 80:4Rank 7

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   ⁴O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

Lamentations 3:9Cross-references · 4 ranked passages

1. Isaiah 63:17Rank 1

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   ¹⁷¶ O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

2. Hosea 2:6Rank 2

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   ⁶¶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

3. Isaiah 30:28Rank 3

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   ²⁸And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.

4. Lamentations 3:11Rank 4

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   ¹¹He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

Lamentations 3:10Cross-references · 8 ranked passages

1. Amos 5:18–20Rank 1

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   ¹⁸Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.

   ¹⁹As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

   ²⁰Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

2. Hosea 13:7–8Rank 2

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   ⁷Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them:

   ⁸I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.

3. Hosea 5:14Rank 3

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   ¹⁴For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.

4. Hosea 6:1Rank 4

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   ¹COME, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

5. Isaiah 38:13Rank 5

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   ¹³I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

6. Job 10:16Rank 6

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   ¹⁶For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

7. Psalms 10:9Rank 7

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   ⁹He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

8. Psalms 17:12Rank 8

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   ¹²Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

Lamentations 3:11Cross-references · 17 ranked passages

1. Hosea 6:1Rank 1

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   ¹COME, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

2. Job 16:12–13Rank 2

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   ¹²I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

   ¹³His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

3. Lamentations 1:13Rank 3

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   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.

4. Daniel 2:40–44Rank 4

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   ⁴⁰And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.

   ⁴¹And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.

   ⁴²And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.

   ⁴³And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

   ⁴⁴And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

5. Daniel 7:23Rank 5

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   ²³Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.

6. Isaiah 3:26Rank 6

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   ²⁶And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.

7. Jeremiah 19:8Rank 7

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   ⁸And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

8. Jeremiah 32:43Rank 8

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   ⁴³And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

9. Jeremiah 5:6Rank 9

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   ⁶Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.

10. Jeremiah 51:20–22Rank 10

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    ²⁰Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;

    ²¹And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;

    ²²With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;

11. Jeremiah 6:8Rank 11

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    ⁸Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.

12. Jeremiah 9:10–11Rank 12

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    ¹⁰For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.

    ¹¹And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

13. Job 16:7Rank 13

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    ⁷But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

14. Matthew 23:38Rank 14

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    ³⁸Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

15. Micah 5:8Rank 15

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    ⁸¶ And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.

16. Psalms 50:22Rank 16

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    ²²Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

17. Revelation 18:19Rank 17

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    ¹⁹And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

Lamentations 3:12Cross-references · 6 ranked passages

1. Psalms 38:2Rank 1

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   ²For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

2. Job 7:20Rank 2

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   ²⁰I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

3. Job 6:4Rank 3

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   ⁴For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

4. Lamentations 2:4Rank 4

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   ⁴He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.

5. Psalms 7:12–13Rank 5

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   ¹²If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

   ¹³He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

6. Job 16:12–13Rank 6

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   ¹²I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

   ¹³His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

Lamentations 3:13Cross-references · 3 ranked passages

1. Job 6:4Rank 1

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   ⁴For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

2. Deuteronomy 32:23Rank 2

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   ²³I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.

3. Job 41:28Rank 3

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   ²⁸The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.

Lamentations 3:14Cross-references · 14 ranked passages

1. Jeremiah 20:7Rank 1

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   ⁷¶ O 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.

2. Lamentations 3:63Rank 2

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   ⁶³Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.

3. Psalms 22:6–7Rank 3

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   ⁶But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

   ⁷All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

4. 1 Corinthians 4:9–13Rank 4

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   ⁹For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.

   ¹⁰We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.

   ¹¹Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;

   ¹²And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:

   ¹³Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.

5. Jeremiah 48:27Rank 5

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   ²⁷For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.

6. Job 30:1–9Rank 6

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   ¹BUT now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

   ²Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

   ³For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

   ⁴Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

   ⁵They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

   ⁶To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

   ⁷Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

   ⁸They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

   ⁹And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

7. Matthew 27:39–44Rank 7

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   ³⁹¶ And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,

   ⁴⁰And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.

   ⁴¹Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said,

   ⁴²He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.

   ⁴³He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.

   ⁴⁴The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.

8. Nehemiah 4:2–4Rank 8

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   ²And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?

   ³Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.

   ⁴Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:

9. Psalms 123:3–4Rank 9

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   ³Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

   ⁴Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

10. Psalms 137:3Rank 10

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    ³For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

11. Psalms 35:15–16Rank 11

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    ¹⁵But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

    ¹⁶With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

12. Psalms 44:13Rank 12

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    ¹³Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

13. Psalms 69:11–12Rank 13

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    ¹¹I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.

    ¹²They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

14. Psalms 79:4Rank 14

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    ⁴We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

Lamentations 3:15Cross-references · 9 ranked passages

1. Jeremiah 9:15Rank 1

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   ¹⁵Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

2. Isaiah 51:17–22Rank 2

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   ¹⁷¶ Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.

   ¹⁸There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.

   ¹⁹These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?

   ²⁰Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God.

   ²¹¶ Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

   ²²Thus saith thy Lord the Lord, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:

3. Jeremiah 23:15Rank 3

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   ¹⁵Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.

4. Jeremiah 25:15–18Rank 4

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   ¹⁵¶ For thus saith the Lord God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.

   ¹⁶And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.

   ¹⁷Then took I the cup at the Lord’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the Lord had sent me:

   ¹⁸To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;

5. Jeremiah 25:27Rank 5

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   ²⁷Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

6. Job 9:18Rank 6

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   ¹⁸He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.

7. Lamentations 3:19Rank 7

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   ¹⁹Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

8. Psalms 60:3Rank 8

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   ³Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

9. Ruth 1:20Rank 9

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   ²⁰And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

Lamentations 3:16Cross-references · 10 ranked passages

1. Proverbs 20:17Rank 1

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   ¹⁷Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

2. Jeremiah 6:26Rank 2

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   ²⁶¶ O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.

3. Psalms 3:7Rank 3

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   ⁷Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.

4. Psalms 58:6Rank 4

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   ⁶Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.

5. Job 2:8Rank 5

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   ⁸And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.

6. Job 4:10Rank 6

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   ¹⁰The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

7. Jonah 3:6Rank 7

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   ⁶For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

8. Luke 11:11Rank 8

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   ¹¹If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

9. Matthew 7:9Rank 9

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   ⁹Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?

10. Psalms 102:9Rank 10

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    ⁹For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

Lamentations 3:17Cross-references · 12 ranked passages

1. Isaiah 59:11Rank 1

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   ¹¹We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

2. Genesis 41:30Rank 2

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   ³⁰And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;

3. Isaiah 38:17Rank 3

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   ¹⁷Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

4. Isaiah 54:10Rank 4

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   ¹⁰For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.

5. Jeremiah 14:19Rank 5

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   ¹⁹Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

6. Jeremiah 16:5Rank 6

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   ⁵For thus saith the Lord, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the Lord, even lovingkindness and mercies.

7. Jeremiah 20:14–18Rank 7

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   ¹⁴¶ Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

   ¹⁵Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.

   ¹⁶And let that man be as the cities which the Lord overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;

   ¹⁷Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.

   ¹⁸Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

8. Jeremiah 8:15Rank 8

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   ¹⁵We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!

9. Job 7:7Rank 9

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   ⁷O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.

10. Lamentations 1:16Rank 10

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    ¹⁶For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

11. Psalms 119:155Rank 11

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    ¹⁵⁵Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.

12. Zechariah 8:10Rank 12

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    ¹⁰For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.

Lamentations 3:18Cross-references · 6 ranked passages

1. Job 17:15Rank 1

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   ¹⁵And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

2. 1 Samuel 27:1Rank 2

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   ¹AND David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.

3. Ezekiel 37:11Rank 3

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   ¹¹¶ Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.

4. Job 6:11Rank 4

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   ¹¹What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?

5. Psalms 116:11Rank 5

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   ¹¹I said in my haste, All men are liars.

6. Psalms 31:22Rank 6

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   ²²For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

Lamentations 3:19Cross-references · 8 ranked passages

1. Lamentations 3:15Rank 1

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   ¹⁵He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

2. Lamentations 3:5Rank 2

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   ⁵He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

3. Jeremiah 9:15Rank 3

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   ¹⁵Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

4. Job 7:7Rank 4

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   ⁷O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.

5. Nehemiah 9:32Rank 5

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   ³²Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.

6. Psalms 132:1Rank 6

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   ¹LORD, remember David, and all his afflictions:

7. Psalms 89:47Rank 7

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   ⁴⁷Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

8. Psalms 89:50Rank 8

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   ⁵⁰Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;

Lamentations 3:20Cross-references · 6 ranked passages

1. Psalms 42:11Rank 1

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   ¹¹Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

2. Psalms 42:5–6Rank 2

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   ⁵Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

   ⁶O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

3. Job 21:6Rank 3

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   ⁶Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.

4. Psalms 43:5Rank 4

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   ⁵Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

5. Psalms 146:8Rank 5

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   ⁸The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind: the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down: the Lord loveth the righteous:

6. Psalms 44:25Rank 6

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   ²⁵For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

Lamentations 3:21Cross-references · 5 ranked passages

1. Habakkuk 2:3Rank 1

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   ³For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

2. Psalms 130:7Rank 2

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   ⁷Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.

3. Psalms 77:7–11Rank 3

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   ⁷Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?

   ⁸Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?

   ⁹Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

   ¹⁰And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.

   ¹¹I will remember the works of the Lord: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.

4. Lamentations 3:24–29Rank 4

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   ²⁴The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

   ²⁵The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

   ²⁶It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.

   ²⁷It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

   ²⁸He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.

   ²⁹He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

5. Psalms 119:81Rank 5

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   ⁸¹My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.

Lamentations 3:22Cross-references · 13 ranked passages

1. Psalms 86:15Rank 1

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   ¹⁵But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

2. Luke 1:50Rank 2

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   ⁵⁰And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.

3. Nehemiah 9:31Rank 3

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   ³¹Nevertheless for thy great mercies’ sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.

4. Micah 7:18–19Rank 4

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   ¹⁸Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.

   ¹⁹He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

5. Malachi 3:6Rank 5

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   ⁶For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

6. Psalms 78:38Rank 6

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   ³⁸But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

7. Psalms 106:45Rank 7

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   ⁴⁵And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

8. Psalms 77:8Rank 8

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   ⁸Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?

9. Ezekiel 20:8–9Rank 9

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   ⁸But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

   ⁹But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.

10. Ezra 9:8–9Rank 10

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    ⁸And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

    ⁹For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

11. Ezra 9:13–15Rank 11

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    ¹³And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this;

    ¹⁴Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping?

    ¹⁵O Lord God of Israel, thou art righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.

12. Ezekiel 20:21–22Rank 12

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    ²¹Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

    ²²Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.

13. Ezekiel 20:13–14Rank 13

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    ¹³But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

    ¹⁴But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.

Lamentations 3:23Cross-references · 11 ranked passages

1. Hebrews 10:23Rank 1

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   ²³Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)

2. Psalms 30:5Rank 2

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   ⁵For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

3. Isaiah 33:2Rank 3

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   ²O Lord, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

4. Psalms 36:5Rank 4

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   ⁵Thy mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.

5. Psalms 89:33Rank 5

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   ³³Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.

6. Zephaniah 3:5Rank 6

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   ⁵The just Lord is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.

7. Exodus 34:6Rank 7

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   ⁶And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

8. Psalms 146:6Rank 8

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   ⁶Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:

9. Hebrews 6:18Rank 9

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   ¹⁸That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

10. Titus 1:2Rank 10

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    ²In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

11. Psalms 89:1–2Rank 11

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    ¹I WILL sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.

    ²For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.

Lamentations 3:24Cross-references · 19 ranked passages

1. Psalms 73:26Rank 1

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   ²⁶My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

2. Psalms 16:5Rank 2

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   ⁵The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.

3. Psalms 142:5Rank 3

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   ⁵I cried unto thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.

4. Lamentations 3:21Rank 4

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   ²¹This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

5. Psalms 33:18Rank 5

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   ¹⁸Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;

6. Jeremiah 51:19Rank 6

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   ¹⁹The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the Lord of hosts is his name.

7. Job 13:15Rank 7

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   ¹⁵Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

8. Psalms 31:24Rank 8

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   ²⁴Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.

9. Psalms 62:8Rank 9

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   ⁸Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.

10. 1 Chronicles 5:20Rank 10

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    ²⁰And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him.

11. 1 Peter 1:21Rank 11

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    ²¹Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

12. 1 Samuel 30:6Rank 12

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    ⁶And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.

13. Jeremiah 10:16Rank 13

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    ¹⁶The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The Lord of hosts is his name.

14. Psalms 130:7Rank 14

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    ⁷Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.

15. Psalms 42:11Rank 15

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    ¹¹Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

16. Psalms 43:5Rank 16

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    ⁵Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

17. Psalms 84:12Rank 17

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    ¹²O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

18. Romans 15:12Rank 18

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    ¹²And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust.

19. Psalms 119:57Rank 19

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    ⁵⁷Thou art my portion, O Lord: I have said that I would keep thy words.

Lamentations 3:25Cross-references · 32 ranked passages

1. Micah 7:7–8Rank 1

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   ⁷Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

   ⁸¶ Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me.

2. Isaiah 40:31Rank 2

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   ³¹But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

3. Psalms 130:5–6Rank 3

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   ⁵I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.

   ⁶My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.

4. Lamentations 3:26Rank 4

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   ²⁶It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.

5. Psalms 37:34Rank 5

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   ³⁴Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.

6. Psalms 27:14Rank 6

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   ¹⁴Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.

7. Psalms 40:1–5Rank 7

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   ¹I WAITED patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

   ²He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

   ³And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.

   ⁴Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

   ⁵Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

8. Psalms 37:7Rank 8

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   ⁷Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

9. Isaiah 25:9Rank 9

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   ⁹¶ And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

10. Isaiah 30:18Rank 10

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    ¹⁸¶ And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the Lord is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.

11. James 5:7Rank 11

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    ⁷Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

12. Hosea 10:12Rank 12

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    ¹²Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

13. Isaiah 64:4Rank 13

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    ⁴For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.

14. Psalms 27:8Rank 14

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    ⁸When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek.

15. 2 Chronicles 31:21Rank 15

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    ²¹And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

16. Psalms 39:7Rank 16

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    ⁷And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.

17. 1 Chronicles 28:9Rank 17

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    ⁹¶ And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

18. 2 Chronicles 15:2Rank 18

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    ²And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The Lord is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

19. Isaiah 55:6Rank 19

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    ⁶¶ Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:

20. Psalms 25:8Rank 20

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    ⁸Good and upright is the Lord: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.

21. 1 Thessalonians 1:10Rank 21

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    ¹⁰And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

22. Genesis 49:18Rank 22

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    ¹⁸I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord.

23. Psalms 119:2Rank 23

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    ²Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.

24. Psalms 105:3Rank 24

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    ³Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.

25. Psalms 61:1Rank 25

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    ¹HEAR my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.

26. Psalms 61:5Rank 26

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    ⁵For thou, O God, hast heard my vows: thou hast given me the heritage of those that fear thy name.

27. Psalms 22:26Rank 27

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    ²⁶The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the Lord that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

28. 2 Chronicles 19:3Rank 28

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    ³Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.

29. 2 Chronicles 30:19Rank 29

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    ¹⁹That prepareth his heart to seek God, the Lord God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.

30. Isaiah 26:9Rank 30

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    ⁹With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

31. Zephaniah 3:8Rank 31

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    ⁸¶ Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the Lord, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

32. Psalms 69:32Rank 32

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    ³²The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.

Lamentations 3:26Cross-references · 18 ranked passages

1. Psalms 37:7Rank 1

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   ⁷Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

2. Psalms 37:34Rank 2

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   ³⁴Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.

3. Psalms 130:5Rank 3

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   ⁵I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.

4. Genesis 49:18Rank 4

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   ¹⁸I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord.

5. Hebrews 10:35Rank 5

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   ³⁵Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.

6. 1 Peter 1:13Rank 6

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   ¹³Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

7. Hebrews 3:14Rank 7

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   ¹⁴For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

8. Isaiah 30:15Rank 8

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   ¹⁵For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.

9. Psalms 119:166Rank 9

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   ¹⁶⁶Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.

10. 2 Chronicles 20:17Rank 10

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    ¹⁷Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the Lord with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the Lord will be with you.

11. Psalms 119:174Rank 11

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    ¹⁷⁴I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my delight.

12. Psalms 52:9Rank 12

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    ⁹I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.

13. Psalms 54:6Rank 13

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    ⁶I will freely sacrifice unto thee: I will praise thy name, O Lord; for it is good.

14. Galatians 4:18Rank 14

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    ¹⁸But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.

15. Isaiah 30:7Rank 15

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    ⁷For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.

16. Psalms 73:28Rank 16

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    ²⁸But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all thy works.

17. Psalms 92:1Rank 17

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    ¹IT is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:

18. Exodus 14:13Rank 18

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    ¹³¶ And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.

Lamentations 3:27Cross-references · 6 ranked passages

1. Ecclesiastes 12:1Rank 1

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   ¹REMEMBER now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

2. Matthew 11:29–30Rank 2

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   ²⁹Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

   ³⁰For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

3. Psalms 119:71Rank 3

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   ⁷¹It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

4. Psalms 94:12Rank 4

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   ¹²Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law;

5. Hebrews 12:5–12Rank 5

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   ⁵And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

   ⁶For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

   ⁷If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

   ⁸But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

   ⁹Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

   ¹⁰For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

   ¹¹Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

   ¹²Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

6. Psalms 90:12Rank 6

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   ¹²So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Lamentations 3:28Cross-references · 4 ranked passages

1. Jeremiah 15:17Rank 1

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   ¹⁷I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.

2. Lamentations 2:10Rank 2

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   ¹⁰The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

3. Psalms 102:7Rank 3

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   ⁷I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.

4. Psalms 39:9Rank 4

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   ⁹I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.

Lamentations 3:29Cross-references · 11 ranked passages

1. Job 40:4Rank 1

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   ⁴Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

2. 2 Chronicles 33:12Rank 2

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   ¹²And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

3. Ezekiel 16:63Rank 3

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   ⁶³That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God.

4. Jeremiah 31:17Rank 4

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   ¹⁷And there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord, that thy children shall come again to their own border.

5. Job 42:5–6Rank 5

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   ⁵I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

   ⁶Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

6. Joel 2:14Rank 6

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   ¹⁴Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the Lord your God?

7. Jonah 3:9Rank 7

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   ⁹Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

8. Luke 15:18–19Rank 8

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   ¹⁸I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,

   ¹⁹And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

9. Luke 18:13Rank 9

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   ¹³And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.

10. Romans 3:19Rank 10

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    ¹⁹Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

11. Zephaniah 2:3Rank 11

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    ³Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord’s anger.

Lamentations 3:30Cross-references · 10 ranked passages

1. Isaiah 50:6Rank 1

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   ⁶I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

2. Job 16:10Rank 2

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   ¹⁰They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

3. Matthew 26:67Rank 3

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   ⁶⁷Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,

4. Matthew 5:39Rank 4

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   ³⁹But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

5. 2 Corinthians 11:20Rank 5

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   ²⁰For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.

6. Luke 6:29Rank 6

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   ²⁹And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not to take thy coat also.

7. Micah 5:1Rank 7

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   ¹NOW gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

8. Psalms 123:3Rank 8

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   ³Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

9. Psalms 69:20Rank 9

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   ²⁰Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

10. Psalms 69:9Rank 10

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    ⁹For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

Lamentations 3:31Cross-references · 11 ranked passages

1. Psalms 94:14Rank 1

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   ¹⁴For the Lord will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

2. Psalms 103:8–10Rank 2

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   ⁸The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

   ⁹He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.

   ¹⁰He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

3. Psalms 77:7Rank 3

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   ⁷Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?

4. Isaiah 54:7–10Rank 4

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   ⁷For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.

   ⁸In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer.

   ⁹For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.

   ¹⁰For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.

5. 1 Samuel 12:22Rank 5

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   ²²For the Lord will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake: because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people.

6. Isaiah 57:16Rank 6

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   ¹⁶For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.

7. Jeremiah 32:40Rank 7

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   ⁴⁰And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.

8. Jeremiah 31:37Rank 8

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   ³⁷Thus saith the Lord; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the Lord.

9. Jeremiah 33:24Rank 9

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   ²⁴Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the Lord hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

10. Micah 7:18Rank 10

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    ¹⁸Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.

11. Romans 11:1–6Rank 11

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    ¹I SAY then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

    ²God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,

    ³Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

    ⁴But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.

    ⁵Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

    ⁶And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

Lamentations 3:32Cross-references · 12 ranked passages

1. Psalms 78:38Rank 1

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   ³⁸But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

2. Psalms 30:5Rank 2

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   ⁵For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

3. Psalms 103:11Rank 3

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   ¹¹For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.

4. Exodus 3:7Rank 4

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   ⁷¶ And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

5. Hosea 11:8Rank 5

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   ⁸How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.

6. Judges 10:16Rank 6

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   ¹⁶And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the Lord: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

7. Psalms 106:43–45Rank 7

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   ⁴³Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

   ⁴⁴Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:

   ⁴⁵And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

8. Jeremiah 31:20Rank 8

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   ²⁰Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.

9. Luke 15:20Rank 9

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   ²⁰And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

10. 2 Kings 13:23Rank 10

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    ²³And the Lord was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.

11. Lamentations 3:22Rank 11

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    ²²¶ It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

12. Exodus 2:23Rank 12

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    ²³¶ And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

Lamentations 3:33Cross-references · 4 ranked passages

1. Ezekiel 33:11Rank 1

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   ¹¹Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

2. Ezekiel 18:32Rank 2

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   ³²For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.

3. Hebrews 12:9–10Rank 3

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   ⁹Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

   ¹⁰For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

4. Isaiah 28:21Rank 4

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   ²¹For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

Lamentations 3:34Cross-references · 10 ranked passages

1. Zechariah 9:11–12Rank 1

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   ¹¹As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.

   ¹²¶ Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;

2. Isaiah 51:22–23Rank 2

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   ²²Thus saith thy Lord the Lord, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:

   ²³But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

3. Isaiah 49:9Rank 3

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   ⁹That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.

4. Jeremiah 51:33–36Rank 4

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   ³³For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.

   ³⁴Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.

   ³⁵The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.

   ³⁶Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

5. Psalms 102:20Rank 5

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   ²⁰To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;

6. Psalms 69:33Rank 6

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   ³³For the Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

7. Isaiah 14:17Rank 7

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   ¹⁷That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

8. Psalms 79:11Rank 8

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   ¹¹Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;

9. Jeremiah 50:17Rank 9

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   ¹⁷¶ Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.

10. Jeremiah 50:33–34Rank 10

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    ³³¶ Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.

    ³⁴Their Redeemer is strong; the Lord of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

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Lamentations 3:36Cross-references · 4 ranked passages

1. Isaiah 59:15Rank 1

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   ¹⁵Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

2. Habakkuk 1:13Rank 2

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   ¹³Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?

3. 2 Samuel 11:27Rank 3

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   ²⁷And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.

4. Jeremiah 22:3Rank 4

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   ³Thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.