I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:
You have taken my soul from the power of death, keeping my eyes from weeping, and my feet from falling.
Because of the crushing of the poor and the weeping of those in need, now will I come to his help, says the Lord; I will give him the salvation which he is desiring.
Those who put in seed with weeping will get in the grain with cries of joy.
Though a man may go out weeping, taking his vessel of seed with him; he will come again in joy, with the corded stems of grain in his arms.
By the rivers of Babylon we were seated, weeping at the memory of Zion,
For his wrath is only for a minute; in his grace there is life; weeping may be for a night, but joy comes in the morning.
My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.
I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.
Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.
The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes.
Go from me, all you workers of evil; for the Lord has given ear to the voice of my weeping.
My bitter weeping, and my going without food, were turned to my shame.
Their priests were put to death by the sword, and their widows made no weeping for them.
You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.
And the traders of the earth are weeping and crying over her, because no man has any more desire for their goods,
The traders in these things, by which their wealth was increased, will be watching far off for fear of her punishment, weeping and crying;
And they put dust on their heads, and were sad, weeping and crying, and saying, Sorrow, sorrow for the great town, in which was increased the wealth of all who had their ships on the sea because of her great stores! for in one hour she is made waste.
As she gave glory to herself, and became more evil in her ways, in the same measure give her pain and weeping: for she says in her heart, I am seated here a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see sorrow.
And the kings of the earth, who made themselves unclean with her, and in her company gave themselves up to evil, will be weeping and crying over her, when they see the smoke of her burning,
And he will put an end to all their weeping; and there will be no more death, or sorrow, or crying, or pain; for the first things have come to an end.
For we are conscious that all living things are weeping and sorrowing in pain together till now.
Then again they were weeping; and Orpah gave her mother-in-law a kiss, but Ruth would not be parted from her.
May the Lord give you rest in the houses of your husbands. Then she gave them a kiss; and they were weeping bitterly.
And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son.
In that day there will be a great weeping in Jerusalem, like the weeping of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
And the land will give itself to weeping, every family separately; the family of David by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of Nathan by themselves, and their wives by themselves;
And to say to the priests of the house of the Lord of armies and to the prophets, Am I to go on weeping in the fifth month, separating myself as I have done in past years?
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