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Lam 2:11 — Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

eyes		Lam 1:16; Lam 3:48-51; 1Sa 30:4; Psa 6:7; Psa 31:9; Psa 69:3; Isa 38:14
my bowels		Lam 1:20; Jer 4:19
my liver		Job 16:13; Psa 22:14
for		Lam 4:10; Isa 22:4; Jer 8:19-22; Jer 9:1; Jer 14:17
because		Lam 2:19,20; Lam 4:3,4,9,10; Luk 23:29
swoon		or, faint.

Correlating Passages

eyes

	Lam 1:16	For 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.
	Lam 3:48	Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
	Lam 3:49	Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
	Lam 3:50	Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
	Lam 3:51	Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
	1Sa 30:4	Then David and the people that [were] with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
	Psa 6:7	Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
	Psa 31:9	Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, [yea], my soul and my belly.
	Psa 69:3	I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
	Isa 38:14	Like a crane [or] a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail [with looking] upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

my bowels

	Lam 1:20	Behold, O LORD; for I [am] in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home [there is] as death.
	Jer 4:19	My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

my liver

	Job 16:13	His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
	Psa 22:14	I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

for

	Lam 4:10	The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
	Isa 22:4	Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
	Jer 8:19	Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: [Is] not the LORD in Zion? [is] not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, [and] with strange vanities?
	Jer 8:20	The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
	Jer 8:21	For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
	Jer 8:22	[Is there] no balm in Gilead; [is there] no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
	Jer 9:1	Oh 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!
	Jer 14:17	Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine 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 blow.

because

	Lam 2:19	Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
	Lam 2:20	Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, [and] children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
	Lam 4:3	Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people [is become] cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
	Lam 4:4	The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, [and] no man breaketh [it] unto them.
	Lam 4:9	[They that be] slain with the sword are better than [they that be] slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for [want of] the fruits of the field.
	Lam 4:10	The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
	Luk 23:29	For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed [are] the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.

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Scott, Thomas. "Lamentations 2:11," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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